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Peter Welch

Politician

Peter Welch 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	Peter Welch · Πήτερ Γουέλς · Питер Уэлш · Пітер Велч · פיטר ולץ' · 5 more...				[sources]
Alias	Peter F. Welch · Peter Francis Welch · Petrus Welch · Welch, Peter · Питер Уэлш · 3 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1947-05-02				[sources]
Place of birth	Springfield				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Francis · Peter				[sources]
Last name	Welch				[sources]
Phone	+12022254115				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Party				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	welch.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com · welchforvermont.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1112656				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · House of Representatives (member, 2009-2011) · House of Representatives (member, 2011-2013) · House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · House of Representatives (member, 2015-2017) · 14 more...				[sources]
Education	College of the Holy Cross (-1969) · Pope Francis Preparatory School · University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (-1973)				[sources]
Religion	Catholicism				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

United States Senator from Vermont since 2023

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-12-30

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Margaret Cheney Politician	spouse	2009-01-02	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2013	2015
United States representative	2021

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Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,319

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

United States · Congress

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,647

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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

Wikidata343,483

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

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,358

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-ff1c33124c3bd4f443591cfc2bf9dc3ef42257bf · evpo-5cce4d89-431a-4915-9f0b-b1b1c80b6e5c

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