# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-p-frye
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:39.752Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-p-frye"
name: "William P. Frye"
slug: "william-p-frye"
description: "William Pierce Frye was an American politician from Maine. A member of the Republican Party, Frye spent most of his political career as a legislator, serving in the Maine House of Representatives and then U.S. House of Representatives, before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served for 30 years before dying in office. Frye was a member of the Frye political family, and was the grandfather of Wallace H. White Jr., and the son of John March Frye. He was also a prominent member of the Peucinian Society tradition. To date, Frye is the longest serving Senator in Maine's history."
tagline: "American politician from Maine (1830–1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_P._Frye_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1830-09-02"
deathDate: "1911-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8135593220338984
  historical:           10.28963466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump