# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-fielding-ogburn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:16:45.461Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/william-fielding-ogburn"
name: "William Fielding Ogburn"
slug: "william-fielding-ogburn"
description: "William Fielding Ogburn was an American sociologist who was born in Butler, Georgia and died in Tallahassee, Florida. He was also a statistician and an educator. Ogburn received his B.A. degree from Mercer University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. He was a professor of sociology at Columbia from 1919 until 1927, when he became chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago."
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birthDate: "1886-06-29"
deathDate: "1959-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump