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John Boozman

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

John Boozman 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 Boozman · John Nichols Boozman · Τζον Μπούζμαν · Джон БУЗМАН · Джон Бузмен · 7 more...				[sources]
Other name	Boozman, John · Ioannes Boozman · John N Boozman · John Nichols Boozman · Τζον Μπούζμαν · 10 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Boozman · ジョン・ブーズマン				[sources]
Birth date	1950-12-10				[sources]
Place of birth	Shreveport				[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	Boozman				[sources]
Phone	+12022244843				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	www.boozman.senate.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1344707				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2005-2007) · House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · House of Representatives (member, 2009-2011) · Senate (member, 2011-2013) · Senate (member, 2013-2015) · 20 more...				[sources]
Education	Northside High School · Southern College of Optometry (-1977) · University of Arkansas (1969-1972)				[sources]
Religion	Southern Baptist Convention				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician and optometrist (born 1950)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-08-13

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Iran	Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs		-	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
費伊·博茲曼 Politician	sibling	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2005-01-06	2007-01-03
United States senator	2017-01-03

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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 Persons275,228

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Iran Sanctions List405

Individuals and entities in the sanctions list of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Iran · MFA

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 Categories359,660

Category-based imports 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

External databases

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Wikidata334,043

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 OpenSanctions550,493

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ir-san-ceb834e08880903d2296c47c7dcb99878695592c · evpo-d5f0dd2c-fc84-490c-9413-2a60588b2af2 · us-congress-5aa23e9e360bacf24efd9777571b02a0ca380a9f · ru-mfa-1a724f3d270ae2b438f6efa2cd7f0b13ecfbf9f8 · evpo-38ad0989-16d2-460d-9450-56025a4e178b

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