# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sophonisba-breckinridge
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:31:13.433Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sophonisba-breckinridge"
name: "Sophonisba Breckinridge"
slug: "sophonisba-breckinridge"
description: "Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge was an American activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science and economics then the J.D. at the University of Chicago, and to pass the Kentucky bar. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent her as a delegate to the 7th Pan-American Conference in Uruguay, making her the first woman to represent the U.S. government at an international conference. She led the process of creating the academic professional discipline and degree for social work. She had romantic relationships with Marion Talbot and Edith Abbott."
tagline: "American lawyer, social reformer, social scientist and civil rights activist (1866-1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sophonisba_P._Breckenridge.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1866-04-01"
deathDate: "1948-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.76674133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "სოფონისბა ბრეკინრიჯი"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump