# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-b-franklin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:43:46.832Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-b-franklin"
name: "William B. Franklin"
slug: "william-b-franklin"
description: "William Buel Franklin was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He rose to the rank of a corps commander in the Army of the Potomac, fighting in several notable battles in the eastern theater of the American Civil War. He also distinguished himself as a civil engineer before and after the war."
tagline: "Union Army general (1823–1903)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_B._Franklin_enh.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1823-02-27"
deathDate: "1903-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1888667992047715
  historical:           10.50356666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William B. Franklin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump