# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rufus-w-peckham
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:23:15.677Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rufus-w-peckham"
name: "Rufus W. Peckham"
slug: "rufus-w-peckham"
description: "Rufus W. Peckham was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1896 to 1909, and is the most recent Democratic nominee approved by a Republican-majority Senate. He was known for his strong use of substantive due process to invalidate regulations of business and property. Peckham's namesake father was also a lawyer and judge, and a U.S. Representative. His older brother, Wheeler Hazard Peckham (1833–1905), was one of the lawyers who prosecuted William M. Tweed and a failed nominee to the Supreme Court."
tagline: "US Supreme Court justice from 1896 to 1909"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rufus_W._Peckham_cph.3b30513.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1838-11-08"
deathDate: "1909-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.92
  momentum:             5.338983050847459
  historical:           6.353565333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Rufus Wheeler Peckham"
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    title: "روفوس دبليو. بيكهام"
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    title: "روفوس دبليو. بيكهام"
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    title: "روفوس دبلیو. پکهام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Wheeler_Peckham_(Richter)"
    title: "Rufus Wheeler Peckham (Richter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_W._Peckham"
    title: "Rufus W. Peckham"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%A4%D7%A7%D7%94%D7%90%D7%9D"
    title: "רופוס פקהאם"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump