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Peter Schoomaker

Military · Politician · Close Associate · Counter-sanctioned entity

Peter Schoomaker 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	Peter J. Schoomaker · Peter Jan Schoomaker · Peter Schoomaker · Питер Шумейкер · Пітер Шумайкер · 5 more...				[sources]
Other name	Шумейкер, Питер				[sources]
Weak alias	Schoomaker · ピーター・シューメーカー · 彼得·斯库梅克				[sources]
Birth date	1946-02-12				[sources]
Place of birth	Detroit				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	United States of America				[sources]
Citizenship	United States of America				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Jan · Peter				[sources]
Last name	Schoomaker				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1362004				[sources]
Position	Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 2007 · Chief of Staff of the United States Army (2003-2007)				[sources]
Education	Central Michigan University · East Lansing High School · National War College (-1989) · United States Army Command and General Staff College (-1982) · University of Wyoming (1969)				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-07-02	First seen	2023-09-27

Descriptions

Chief of Staff of the United States Army

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-09-28

Relationships

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

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Chief of Staff of the United States Army	2003-08-01	2007-04-10

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Eric Schoomaker Politician	sibling	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,072

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

Wikidata · non-official source

Iran Sanctions List405

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

Iran · MFA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,915

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

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions544,702

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata351,596

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

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ir-san-70789975f455080d1d64118503b053782a9f2a08

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