# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-preston-johnston
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:49:30.535Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-preston-johnston"
name: "William Preston Johnston"
slug: "william-preston-johnston"
description: "William Preston Johnston was a lawyer, scholar, poet, and Confederate soldier. He was the son and biographer of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston. He was a president of Louisiana State University and the first president of Tulane University from 1884 in the same year that the school was renamed from the University of Louisiana."
tagline: "American writer and Confederate Army soldier (1831–1899)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Preston_Johnston%2C_first_president_of_Tulane_university.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1831-01-05"
deathDate: "1899-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.42
  momentum:             0.8799999999999999
  historical:           2.409792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ويليام برستون جونستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Preston_Johnston"
    title: "William Preston Johnston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8017071"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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