# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-david-upshaw
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:53:04.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-david-upshaw"
name: "William David Upshaw"
slug: "william-david-upshaw"
description: "William David Upshaw served eight years in Congress (1919–1927), where he was such a strong proponent of the temperance movement that he became known as the \"driest of the drys.\" In Congress, Upshaw was a staunch defender of the Ku Klux Klan, which was founded in his congressional district, and lost reelection because of major KKK scandals in the mid-1920s. In 1932, he ran for President of the United States on the Prohibition Party ticket, finishing the race in fifth place."
tagline: "American politician (1866-1952)"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1866-10-15"
deathDate: "1952-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.479050666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William D. Upshaw"
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    title: "ویلیام داوید اوپشاو"
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    title: "William D. Upshaw"
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    title: "Ուիլյամ Ապշոու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BF%D1%88%D0%BE%D1%83%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Апшоу, Уильям"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump