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Mark Sanford

Politician

Mark Sanford 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	Mark Sanford · Марк Сенфорд · Марк Сэнфорд · Մարկ Սենֆորդ · مارك سانفورد · 4 more...				[sources]
Alias	Marcus Sanford · Marshall C. Sanford · Marshall C. Sanford Jr · Marshall C. Sanford, Jr. · Marshall Clement "Mark" Sanford · 15 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1960-05-28				[sources]
Place of birth	Fort Lauderdale				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Clement · Mark · Marshall				[sources]
Last name	Sanford · Сэнфорд				[sources]
Political association	Republican Party				[sources]
Website	sanford.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q11669				[sources]
Position	Governor of South Carolina (2003-2011) · House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · House of Representatives (member, 2015-2017) · House of Representatives (member, 2017-2019) · member of the United States House of Representatives (1995-1997) · 6 more...				[sources]
Education	Furman University (-1983) · University of Virginia (-1988) · University of Virginia Darden School of Business				[sources]
Religion	Episcopal Church				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician (born 1960)

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2013-05-15	2015-01-03
United States representative

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Jenny Sanford Politician	spouse	-	-

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 Categories384,936

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

External databases

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

Wikidata355,710

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: evpo-89cb0052-6f6d-4781-9da1-7af3a42e1ec5 · us-congress-e488478c066330c46eb2c7a08b9e27d1825884fb

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