# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-russell-houck
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:15:01.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-russell-houck"
name: "William Russell Houck"
slug: "william-russell-houck"
description: "William Russell Houck was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Jackson from 1984 to 2003 in the U.S. in Jackson, Mississippi. He was previously an auxiliary bishop there from 1979 to 1984."
tagline: "American Roman Catholic priest and bishop (1926-2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Coat_of_arms_of_William_Russell_Houck.svg/330px-Coat_of_arms_of_William_Russell_Houck.svg.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1926-07-26"
deathDate: "2016-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.028222730739893
  historical:           7.002844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Houck"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Russell_Houck"
    title: "William Russell Houck"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Russell_Houck"
    title: "William Russell Houck"
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    title: "William Russell Houck"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Russell_Houck"
    title: "William Russell Houck"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump