# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-r-hitt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:28:05.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-r-hitt"
name: "Robert R. Hitt"
slug: "robert-r-hitt"
description: "Robert Roberts Hitt was an American diplomat and Republican politician from Illinois. He served briefly as assistant secretary of state in the short-lived administration of James A. Garfield but resigned alongside Secretary of State James G. Blaine after Garfield's assassination in 1881. He returned to Washington to represent Northwestern Illinois in the United States House of Representatives from 1882 to his death. After 1885, he was the senior Republican on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which he chaired from 1889 to 1891 and 1895 until his death in 1906."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_R._Hitt%2C_from-_The_Biographical_record_of_Ogle_County%2C_Illinois_(IA_biographicalreco01sjcl)_(page_16_crop)_(3x4a).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1834-01-16"
deathDate: "1906-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.69
  momentum:             0.3571428571428572
  historical:           6.341685333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Robert R. Hitt"
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    title: "روبيرت آر. هيت"
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    title: "روبرت آر. هیت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert R. Hitt"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Hitt"
    title: "Robert R. Hitt"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Hitt"
    title: "Robert R. Hitt"
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    title: "ロバート・ヒット"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump