# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-lowndes-yancey
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:22:38.935Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-lowndes-yancey"
name: "William Lowndes Yancey"
slug: "william-lowndes-yancey"
description: "William Lowndes Yancey was an American politician in the Antebellum South. As an influential \"Fire-Eater\", he defended slavery and urged Southerners to secede from the Union in response to Northern antislavery agitation."
tagline: "American politician (1814-1863)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WilliamLowndesYancey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1814-08-10"
deathDate: "1863-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.82
  momentum:             1.103047895500726
  historical:           5.494206666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Lowndes Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام لونديس يانسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ویلیام لووندز یانسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowndes_Yancey"
    title: "William Lowndes Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Yancey"
    title: "William L. Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowndes_Yancey"
    title: "William Lowndes Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q645216"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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