# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-j-howell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:58:47.581Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-j-howell"
name: "Thomas J. Howell"
slug: "thomas-j-howell"
description: "Thomas Jefferson Howell was an American botanist. Howell is considered one of the top three self-taught botanists of his era for the Pacific Northwest, the other two being Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf and William Conklin Cusick."
tagline: "American botanist (1842-1912)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1842-10-08"
deathDate: "1912-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Thomas Jefferson Howell"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump