# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-southerland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:03:15.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-southerland"
name: "Steve Southerland"
slug: "steve-southerland"
description: "William Steve Southerland II is an American businessman, lobbyist and former Republican Party politician who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015. The district includes most of the eastern Florida Panhandle, from Panama City to the state capital, Tallahassee. He was narrowly defeated for re-election in 2014 by Democrat Gwen Graham, becoming one of only two incumbent House Republicans to lose a general election that year, along with Lee Terry of Nebraska."
tagline: "American politician; Congressman from Florida's 2nd district"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_Southerland%2C_Official_Portrait%2C_112th_Congress.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1965-10-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.33
  momentum:             2.584615384615386
  historical:           5.481390666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001186"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Southerland"
    title: "Steve Southerland"
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    title: "ستيڤ سوثيرلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "استیو ساوثرلند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Southerland"
    title: "Steve Southerland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Southerland_(Florida_politician)"
    title: "Steve Southerland (Florida politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "استیو ساوثرلند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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