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Jim McGovern

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Jim McGovern is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	James P. McGovern · James Patrick McGovern · Jim McGovern · Джеймс Макговерн · Джим Макговерн · 6 more...				[sources]
Other name	James McGovern · James Patrick McGovern · Jim McGovern · McGovern, James · Джим Макговерн · 4 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	McGovern				[sources]
Birth date	1959-11-20				[sources]
Place of birth	Worcester				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	James				[sources]
Last name	McGovern				[sources]
Middle name	P.				[sources]
Phone	+12022256101				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	mcgovern.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1337459				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2005-2007) · House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · House of Representatives (member, 2009-2011) · House of Representatives (member, 2011-2013) · House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · 17 more...				[sources]
Education	American University (-1981) · Worcester Academy				[sources]
Religion	Catholicism				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

美国马萨诸塞州民主党联邦众议员吉姆·麦戈文

— China Sanctions Research non-official source, 2024-11-01

United States Representative from Massachusetts

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

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
China	-		2024-07-31	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2013-01-06	2015-01-03
United States representative	2007-01-06

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Data sources

Every Politician57,893

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 Politically Exposed Persons275,214

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,333

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

United States · Congress

China Sanctions Research218

Individuals and organisations targeted by the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, Counter-Measures List and the Unreliable Entities List (UEL).

China · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories358,709

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,169

A list of US citizens under personal sanctions by the Russian Federation.

Russia · MFA

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,591

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,072

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

Source data IDs: us-congress-8530d7760747a668e9d4f75142293320ac3c5e7d · ru-mfa-be0e58bc04eb63a77cdad4a1a66004dfa128abc9 · evpo-a9d0abc8-c7a5-4236-8b93-3934867172a1 · cn-sanc-05b87bf7d16b09a7a8fb3da03ab3f37c749c14a3

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