# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-steiger
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:46:17.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-steiger"
name: "Sam Steiger"
slug: "sam-steiger"
description: "Samuel Steiger was an American politician, journalist, political pundit. He served five terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, two terms in the Arizona State Senate, and one term as mayor of Prescott, Arizona. Steiger also made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate, served as a special assistant to Arizona Governor Evan Mecham, and hosted political talk shows on both radio and television. Despite these accomplishments, Steiger is best known for two incidents: one, while he was a sitting congressman, was the 1975 killing of two burros; the second was painting a crosswalk between Prescott's courthouse and nearby Whiskey Row."
tagline: "American politician and media personality (1929–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Steiger.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1929-03-10"
deathDate: "2012-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.69
  momentum:             15.38339222614841
  historical:           5.277754666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Steiger"
    title: "Sam Steiger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سام ستيجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "سام ایستئیجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9D_%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%92%D7%A8"
    title: "סם סטייגר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Steiger"
    title: "Sam Steiger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Steiger"
    title: "Sam Steiger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2216645"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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