# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-hays
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:01:56.234Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-hays"
name: "William Hays"
slug: "william-hays"
description: "William Hays was a career officer in the United States Army, serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War."
tagline: "Union army general (1819–1875)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WilliamHays.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1819-05-09"
deathDate: "1875-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.28
  momentum:             12.14285714285714
  historical:           2.409
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hays_(general)"
    title: "William Hays (general)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hays_(g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral)"
    title: "William Hays (général)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8011787"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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