# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-s-james
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:38:46.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-s-james"
name: "Robert S. James"
slug: "robert-s-james"
description: "Rev. Robert Salle James was an American Baptist minister and one of the founders of William Jewell College in 1849 in Liberty, Missouri. He was the father of the outlaws Frank and Jesse James."
tagline: "American minister; founder of William Jewell College; father of Frank and Jesse James (1818–1850)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Sallee_James.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1818-07-17"
deathDate: "1850-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.89
  momentum:             10.41231445849368
  historical:           1.601517333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._James"
    title: "Robert S. James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7349474"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations