# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-polk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:46:30.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-polk"
name: "William Polk"
slug: "william-polk"
description: "Colonel William Polk was a North Carolina banker, educational administrator, political leader, renowned Continental officer in the War for American Independence, and survivor of the 1777/1778 encampment at Valley Forge."
tagline: "American politician and military officer (9 July 1758 – 14 January 1834)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ec/WilliamPolkColonel.jpg/330px-WilliamPolkColonel.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1758-07-09"
deathDate: "1834-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.65
  momentum:             12.28915662650602
  historical:           1.548669333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Polk_(colonel)"
    title: "William Polk (colonel)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8016984"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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