# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-l-borden
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:33:10.092Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-l-borden"
name: "William L. Borden"
slug: "william-l-borden"
description: "William Liscum Borden was an American lawyer and congressional staffer. As executive director of the United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy from 1949 to 1953, he became one of the most powerful people advocating for nuclear weapons development in the United States government. Borden is best known for having written a letter accusing physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer of being an agent of the Soviet Union, an accusation that led to the Oppenheimer security hearing of 1954."
tagline: "Staff Director of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in 1949"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/William_L_Borden_c_1954.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-02-06"
deathDate: "1985-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.739710666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Borden"
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    title: "وليام بوردن"
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    title: "William L. Borden"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Borden"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Borden"
    title: "William L. Borden"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58483334"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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