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Xavier Becerra

Person of interest · Politician

Xavier Becerra is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Xavier Becerra · Хав'єр Бесерра · Хавьер Бесерра · חוויאר ביסרה · زاویر بکرا · 6 more...				[sources]
Alias	Becerra, Xavier · Xaverius Becerra · Хав'єр Бесерра · زاویر بکرا · ハビエア・ベセラ · 1 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Becerra · ザビエル・ベセラ · ハビエル・ベセラ · ハーヴィエア・ビセラ				[sources]
Birth date	1958-01-26				[sources]
Place of birth	Sacramento				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Xavier				[sources]
Last name	Becerra				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	becerra.house.gov · facebook.com · oag.ca.gov · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1855840				[sources]
Position	Attorney General of California (2017-2021) · Democratic Caucus Chairman of the United States House of Representatives (2013-2017) · Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman of the United States House of Representatives (2009-2013) · House of Representatives (member, 2005-2007) · House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · 21 more...				[sources]
Education	C. K. McClatchy High School · Stanford Law School (-1984) · Stanford University (-1980) · University of Salamanca				[sources]
Religion	Catholicism				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

25th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-03-06

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Carolina Reyes Close Associate	spouse	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2017-01-03	2017-01-24
United States representative

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Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

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 Persons in Relevant Categories384,936

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,140

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

United States · Congress

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,411

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata355,710

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,304

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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