# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-k-sebastian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:07:00.035Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-k-sebastian"
name: "William K. Sebastian"
slug: "william-k-sebastian"
description: "William King Sebastian was an American politician, judge, and lawyer from Helena, Arkansas. He represented Arkansas as a United States Senator, from 1848 to 1861. Sebastian withdrew from the Senate at the start of the Civil War and was later formally expelled by the Senate. He took no active part in the Confederate government and was reinstated by a posthumous resolution in 1877."
tagline: "American politician (1812-1865)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WKSebastianCommons.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1812-06-12"
deathDate: "1865-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42
  momentum:             0.1179941002949852
  historical:           8.745681333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ویلیام کی. سباستین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William King Sebastian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Sebastian"
    title: "William K. Sebastian"
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    title: "ویلیام کی. سباستین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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