# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-m-pierce
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:20:33.804Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-m-pierce"
name: "Walter M. Pierce"
slug: "walter-m-pierce"
description: "Walter Marcus Pierce was an American politician, a Democrat, who served as the 17th governor of Oregon and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 2nd congressional district. A native of Illinois, he served in the Oregon State Senate before the governorship, and again after leaving the U.S. House. Pierce was an anti-Catholic supporter of compulsory public education and signed a law banning parochial schools, resulting in lawsuits and the United States Supreme Court case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters. He was also a eugenicist and supported Prohibition. He advocated unsuccessfully for a state income tax and vehicle license fee."
tagline: "American politician (1861-1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_M._Pierce%2C_Governor_of_Oregon_-_The_Oregana_-_1926_yearbook_of_the_University_of_Oregon_(page_26_crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1861-05-30"
deathDate: "1954-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.621621621621621
  historical:           7.879806666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  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