# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-alexander-alger
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:36:28.067Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russell-alexander-alger"
name: "Russell Alexander Alger"
slug: "russell-alexander-alger"
description: "Russell Alexander Alger was an American politician and businessman. He served as the 20th governor of Michigan, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of War. Impoverished as a child, Alger accumulated wealth throughout his life and died a respected businessman. He was at various points an army officer, a financier, lumber baron, and railroad owner. He was supposedly a distant relation of author Horatio Alger, who often wrote about such \"rags to riches\" tales."
tagline: "Union Army general (1836-1907)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Russell_Alexander_Alger_by_The_Detroit_Publishing_Co._-_retouched_from_older_copy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1836-02-27"
deathDate: "1907-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.46
  momentum:             2.115384615384615
  historical:           13.58625333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/tt0239423/"
    handle:    "tt0239423"
sources:
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    title: "Russell A. Alger"
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    title: "Russell A. Alger"
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    title: "ラッセル・アレクサンダー・アルジャー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Russell A. Alger"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump