# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-collins-whitney
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:16:55.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-collins-whitney"
name: "William Collins Whitney"
slug: "william-collins-whitney"
description: "William Collins Whitney was an American political leader and financier and a prominent member of the Whitney family. He served as Secretary of the Navy in the first administration of President Grover Cleveland from 1885 through 1889. A conservative reformer, he was considered a Bourbon Democrat."
tagline: "American politician, financier; United States Secretary of the Navy (1841-1904)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Collins_Whitney_by_Charles_Milton_Bell_c1892.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1841-07-05"
deathDate: "1904-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.088201398110596
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 110
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill