# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-burnham-woods
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:25:09.090Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-burnham-woods"
name: "William Burnham Woods"
slug: "william-burnham-woods"
description: "William Burnham Woods was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. An appointee of President Rutherford B. Hayes, he served from 1881 until 1887. He wrote the majority opinion in United States v. Harris, involving the constitutionality of the Ku Klux Klan Act, and Presser v. Illinois, involving the application of the Second Amendment to the states; both cases adopted a narrow interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. He dissented rarely and wrote mostly uncontroversial opinions."
tagline: "Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Army general (1824–1887)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Burnham_Woods.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1824-08-03"
deathDate: "1887-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           7.215336000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  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