# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-joseph-pickard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:36:54.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-joseph-pickard"
name: "Thomas Joseph Pickard"
slug: "thomas-joseph-pickard"
description: "Thomas Joseph Pickard is an American lawyer who served as the acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 71 days in the summer of 2001 following the resignation of Director Louis Freeh. He is the longest serving and one of only two Democrats to have ever led the FBI in the 115-year history of the organization, the other being James B. Adams who served as acting director for seven days in February of 1978."
tagline: "Director of the FBI"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pickard-lg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1950-01-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.388665333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Pickard"
    title: "Thomas J. Pickard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Pickard"
    title: "Thomas J. Pickard"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%AC%DB%8C._%D9%BE%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thomas J. Pickard"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465084"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump