# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-leake
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:47:10.438Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-leake"
name: "Walter Leake"
slug: "walter-leake"
description: "Walter Daniel Leake was an American lawyer, planter and politician. After serving in the American Revolutionary War and in the Virginia House of Delegates, he moved to the Mississippi Territory where he became a judge, and after statehood a United States Senator from Mississippi (1817–1820), as a circuit court judge in 1821, and as third Governor of Mississippi (1822–1825). He was the first Governor of Mississippi to die in office. A relative, Walter D. Leake, served in the Virginia House of Delegates for many terms beginning in 1842 and also represented Goochland County in the Virginia Secession Convention long after this man's death."
tagline: "American politician (1762-1825)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Leake.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1762-05-25"
deathDate: "1825-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.872570666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Walter Leake"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "والتير لايكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Leake"
    title: "Walter Leake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Leake"
    title: "Walter Leake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر لیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%A8_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A7"
    title: "וולטר ליק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Leake"
    title: "Walter Leake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gualtherius_Leake"
    title: "Gualtherius Leake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Лик, Уолтер Дэниел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q359450"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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