# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-franklin
# Generated: 2026-09-03T12:24:14.189Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-franklin"
name: "William Franklin"
slug: "william-franklin"
description: "William Franklin was an American-born attorney, soldier, politician, and colonial administrator. He was the acknowledged extra-marital son of Benjamin Franklin. William Franklin was the last colonial Governor of New Jersey (1763–1776), and a steadfast British Empire Loyalist throughout the American Revolutionary War. In contrast, his father Benjamin was, in later life, one of the most prominent of the Patriot leaders of the American Revolution and a Founding Father of the United States."
tagline: "American soldier, attorney, and colonial administrator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Franklin_painting_attributed_to_Mather_Brown.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1730-02-22"
deathDate: "1813-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.62
  momentum:             7.337989895190909
  historical:           5.974554666666667
  currentAttention:     40.16958134605193
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin"
    title: "William Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin"
    title: "William Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ویلیام فرانکلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%BB%89%C2%B7%E5%AF%8C%E5%85%B0%E5%85%8B%E6%9E%97"
    title: "威廉·富兰克林"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin_(politico)"
    title: "William Franklin (politico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin"
    title: "William Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4020008"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump