# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-holten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:53:45.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-holten"
name: "Samuel Holten"
slug: "samuel-holten"
description: "Samuel Holten was an American Founding Father, physician, jurist, and politician from Danvers, Massachusetts. Holten represented the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he signed the Articles of Confederation. After numerous roles at the state and national levels in the 1780s, Holten was elected to a term in U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1793 to 1794. He then was appointed judge in the local courts, a position he held for nearly two decades."
tagline: "American politician (1738-1816)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_Holten_(Massachusetts_Congressman).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1738-06-09"
deathDate: "1816-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.61
  momentum:             1.434108527131783
  historical:           5.477286666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ساموئل هولتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "صموئيل هولتن"
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    title: "سامويل هولتين"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%9F"
    title: "סמואל הולטן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Holten"
    title: "Samuel Holten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Holten"
    title: "Samuel Holten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1716923"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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