# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-l-dayton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:56:13.532Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-l-dayton"
name: "William L. Dayton"
slug: "william-l-dayton"
description: "William Lewis Dayton was an American politician, active first in the Whig Party and later in the Republican Party. In the 1856 presidential election, he became the first Republican vice-presidential nominee when nominated alongside John C. Frémont. The Republican Party lost that campaign. During the American Civil War, Dayton served as the United States Ambassador to France, a position in which he worked to prevent French recognition of the Confederate States of America."
tagline: "American politician (1807–1864)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_L._Dayton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1807-02-17"
deathDate: "1864-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.1067615658362989
  historical:           11.36400533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump