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John Garamendi

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

John Garamendi 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	John Garamendi · John Raymond Garamendi · Джон ГАРАМЕНДИ · Джон Гараменді · ג'ון גרמנדי · 4 more...				[sources]
Other name	Garamendi, John · John Raymond Garamendi · جان گارمندی · ジョン・ガラメンディ · 約翰·加拉門迪				[sources]
Weak alias	Garamendi				[sources]
Birth date	1945-01-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Camp Blanding				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	John				[sources]
Last name	Garamendi				[sources]
Phone	+12022251880				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	garamendi.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1340268				[sources]
Position	California Insurance Commissioner (1991-1995) · California Insurance Commissioner (2003-2007) · House of Representatives (member, 2009-2011) · House of Representatives (member, 2011-2013) · House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · 16 more...				[sources]
Education	Haas School of Business · Harvard Business School (-1970) · Harvard University · University of California, Berkeley (-1966)				[sources]
Last change	2025-11-05	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

U.S. Representative from California

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

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Russia	Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2017-01-03	2019-01-03
United States representative	2011-01-06

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Data sources

Every Politician57,893

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,153

Profiles of politically exposed persons 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

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories361,573

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,334

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

United States · Congress

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,775

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata335,470

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ru-mfa-1bc147f394cf33bd168c967fbfe386cd9219f216 · us-congress-d6ba4391ff3b8827df0041ad608a0da22f7e6f6a · evpo-d878b8a4-f868-4c88-b69d-eb58e361a90e

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