# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wade-hampton-iii
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:31:21.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wade-hampton-iii"
name: "Wade Hampton III"
slug: "wade-hampton-iii"
description: "Wade Hampton III was an American politician from South Carolina. He was a prominent member of one of the richest families in the antebellum Southern United States, owning thousands of acres of cotton land in South Carolina and Mississippi, as well as thousands of slaves. He became a senior general in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. He also had a career as a leading Democratic Party politician in state and national affairs."
tagline: "American politician (1818-1902)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wade_Hampton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1818-03-28"
deathDate: "1902-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump