# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rush-d-holt-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:45:50.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rush-d-holt-jr"
name: "Rush D. Holt, Jr."
slug: "rush-d-holt-jr"
description: "Rush Dew Holt Jr. is an American scientist and politician who served as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1999 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party and son of former West Virginia U.S. Senator Rush D. Holt Sr. He worked as a professor of public policy and physics, and during his tenure in Congress he was one of two physicists and the only Quaker there."
tagline: "American scientist and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rep_Holt_Official_Headshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.98758865248227
  historical:           8.986073333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Rush Holt"
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    title: "راش دى هولت الابن"
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    title: "راش دی. هولت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_D._Holt_Jr."
    title: "Rush D. Holt Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Holt_Jr."
    title: "Rush Holt Jr."
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    title: "راش دی. هولت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rush D. Holt, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_D._Holt%2C_Jr."
    title: "Rush D. Holt, Jr."
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    title: "Холт, Раш"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump