Search OpenSanctions

Christopher Shays

Politician

Christopher Shays is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Chris Shays · Christopher Shays · כריס שייס · كريس شايس · کریس شایس · 2 more...				[sources]
Other name	Chris Shays · Christopher Hunter Shays · Shays, Chris · Shays, Christopher · 克里斯·謝斯 · 1 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1945-10-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Stamford				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States of America				[sources]
Country	United States of America				[sources]
Citizenship	United States of America				[sources]
First name	CHRISTOPHER · Christopher				[sources]
Last name	SHAYS · Shays				[sources]
Website	www.house.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1086964				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2005-2007) · House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1975-1987) · member of the United States House of Representatives (1987-1989) · member of the United States House of Representatives (1987-2009) · 10 more...				[sources]
Education	Darien High School (-1964) · Principia College (-1968) · Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service · Stern School of Business (-1974) · The Principia				[sources]
Religion	Christian Science				[sources]
Last change	2025-04-03	Last processed	2025-04-09	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the United States House of Representatives	2005	2007
member of the United States House of Representatives	2007-01-06	2009-01-03
member of the United States House of Representatives	2005-01-06	2007-01-03
member of the United States House of Representatives	2007	2009

Data sources

Every Politician58,501

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories460,153

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,256

Current and recent members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States of America · Congress

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata429,227

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-ed32a632-68d2-44ec-97a3-6fe58b4f5f77 · us-congress-059760926ae39e505f1a5a27b48839a78b6258ab

For experts: raw data explorer

Factsheet Descriptions Data sources

OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.

Use the API License in bulk