# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-short
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:29:39.421Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-short"
name: "William Short"
slug: "william-short"
description: "William Short, a Virginia-born lawyer who disagreed with slavery, became an American diplomat during the first two decades of his country's existence before moving to Philadelphia and becoming a successful financier and philanthropist. Thomas Jefferson, later the third President of the United States, was a lifelong mentor and friend. In a 1789 letter, Jefferson referred to Short as his \"adoptive son,\" Short served as Jefferson's private secretary when the latter was a peace commissioner in France, and remained in Europe to take on several other diplomatic posts, including as the U.S.'s chargé d'affaires in France during the French Revolution (1789–92), America's fiscal agent in Europe (1790-1794), as America's Minister to the Netherlands (1792), as a treaty commissioner to Spain, and had a recess appointment as Ambassador to Russia in 1808 but never physically assumed the post."
tagline: "1759–1849 Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when he was ambassador in Paris, from 1786 to 1789, later ambassador"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_William_Short.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1759"
deathDate: "1849-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.39
  momentum:             16.2945820081781
  historical:           6.781213333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_(%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82)"
    title: "Шорт, Уильям (дипломат)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Short"
    title: "William Short"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Short_(American_ambassador)"
    title: "William Short (American ambassador)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Short"
    title: "William Short"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Short"
    title: "William Short"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88_(%E5%A4%96%E4%BA%A4%E5%AE%98)"
    title: "ウィリアム・ショート (外交官)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Short"
    title: "William Short"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6127439"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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