# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-b-washburn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:50:09.011Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-b-washburn"
name: "William B. Washburn"
slug: "william-b-washburn"
description: "William Barrett Washburn was an American businessman and politician from Massachusetts. Washburn served several terms in the United States House of Representatives (1863–71) and as the 28th governor of Massachusetts from 1872 to 1874, when he won election to the United States Senate in a special election to succeed the recently deceased Charles Sumner. A moderate Republican, Washburn only partially supported the Radical Republican agenda during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era that followed."
tagline: "American businessman and politician from Massachusetts (1820-1887)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hon._William_B._Washburn%2C_Mass_-_NARA_-_525638_(3x4a).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: "1820-01-31"
deathDate: "1887-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.03367003367003368
  historical:           10.27739466666667
  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