# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-nelson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:14:05.403Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-nelson"
name: "Thomas Nelson"
slug: "thomas-nelson"
description: "Thomas Nelson Jr. was a Founding Father of the United States, general in the Revolutionary War, member of the Continental Congress, and a Virginia planter. In addition to serving many terms in the Virginia General Assembly, he twice represented Virginia in the Congress, where he signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Fellow Virginia legislators elected him to serve as the commonwealth's governor in 1781, the same year he fought as a brigadier general in the siege of Yorktown, the final major battle of the war."
tagline: "4th Governor of Virginia 1738-1789"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Nelson_(1700s).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1738-12-26"
deathDate: "1789-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.85
  momentum:             1.258637709772952
  historical:           13.61544933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Thomas Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "توماس نيلسون الابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توماس نلسون جر."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_Jr."
    title: "Thomas Nelson Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_junior"
    title: "Thomas Nelson junior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_Jr."
    title: "Thomas Nelson Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_Jr."
    title: "Thomas Nelson Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توماس نلسون جونیور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_junior"
    title: "Thomas Nelson junior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A1_%D7%A0%D7%9C%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%9F"
    title: "תומאס נלסון הבן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_Jr."
    title: "Thomas Nelson Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A2"
    title: "トマス・ネルソン・ジュニア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nelson"
    title: "Thomas Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nelson"
    title: "Thomas Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_Jr."
    title: "Thomas Nelson Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Нельсон, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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