# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-trufant-foster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:56:41.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-trufant-foster"
name: "William Trufant Foster"
slug: "william-trufant-foster"
description: "William Trufant Foster was an American educator and economist, whose theories were especially influential in the 1920s. He was the first president of Reed College."
tagline: "American economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Trufant_Foster.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1879-01-18"
deathDate: "1950-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.403852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ويليام فوستر (اقتصادى)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump