# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-willing
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:02:00.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-willing"
name: "Thomas Willing"
slug: "thomas-willing"
description: "Thomas Willing was an American merchant, banker, and politician. He served as mayor of Philadelphia and as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress. He was also the first president of the Bank of North America and later of the First Bank of the United States. During his career, Willing amassed considerable wealth as a transatlantic merchant trading in \"wheat, sugar, rum, and occasionally enslaved Africans\". One account credits him with bankrolling the American Revolution.\nAnother describes him as the richest man in America around 1800."
tagline: "American politician (1731-1821)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Willing_by_John_Wollaston_(1706-1805).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1731-12-19"
deathDate: "1821-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.32
  momentum:             1.238532110091743
  historical:           14.4306
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump