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Ruben Gallego

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Ruben Gallego 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	Ruben Gallego · Ruben Marinelarena Gallego · Рубен ГАЛЬЕГО · Рубен Галлего · Рубен Маринеларена Гальего · 7 more...				[sources]
Other name	Gallego, Ruben · Ruben Marinelarena · Ruben Marinelarena Gallego · Ruben Mariñelarena · Rubén Gallego · 9 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	ルーベン・ガイエーゴ				[sources]
Birth date	1979-11-20				[sources]
Place of birth	Chicago				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Ruben				[sources]
Last name	Gallego · Mariñelarena				[sources]
Phone	+12022254065				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · gallegoforarizona.com · gallegoforarizona.com · rubengallego.house.gov · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16218474				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2015-2017) · House of Representatives (member, 2017-2019) · House of Representatives (member, 2019-) · United States senator (2025-) · delegate (2008) · 8 more...				[sources]
Education	Evergreen Park Community High School District 231 · Harvard University (1998-2004)				[sources]
Religion	Catholicism				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician (born 1979)

— 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	2021

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Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Kate Gallego Politician	spouse	2010	2017

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,560

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

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories359,481

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

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

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,631

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,036

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: evpo-71f3d01d-755b-47e8-b308-eb19da07156d · us-congress-a9dccea0c173d1c190038be28f7a29db62748fc3 · ru-mfa-d70e2e2894b63af62114af2c9924a18b29e95d74

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