# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-brannan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:08:09.979Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-brannan"
name: "Samuel Brannan"
slug: "samuel-brannan"
description: "Samuel S. Brannan was an American settler, businessman, journalist, and prominent member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who founded the California Star, the first newspaper in San Francisco, California. He is also considered the first to publicize the California Gold Rush and was California's first millionaire. He used the profits from his stores to buy large tracts of real estate. He helped form the first vigilance committee in San Francisco and was disfellowshiped from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of his actions within the vigilance committee. Brannan's wife divorced him, requiring him to liquidate much of his real estate to pay her half of their shared assets. He died poor and in relative obscurity."
tagline: "American politician (1819–1889)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_Brannan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1819-03-02"
deathDate: "1889-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.22067466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump