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Richard Blumenthal

Politician

Richard Blumenthal 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	Richard Blumenthal · Ρίτσαρντ Μπλούμενταλ · Ричард Блументал · Рычард Блументал · Річард Блюменталь · 9 more...				[sources]
Alias	Blumenthal, Richard · Dick Blumenthal · Ρίτσαρντ Μπλούμενταλ · Блументал, Ричард · Блюменталь, Ричард · 9 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	リチャード・ブルーメンソール · リチャード・ブルーメンタール · リチャード・ブルーメントール · 理查·布魯門薩爾 · 理查德·布卢门撒尔				[sources]
Birth date	1946-02-13				[sources]
Place of birth	Brooklyn				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Richard				[sources]
Last name	Blumenthal				[sources]
Phone	+12022242823				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Party				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · richardblumenthal.com · twitter.com · www.blumenthal.senate.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q2023708				[sources]
Position	Connecticut Attorney General (1991-2010) · Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1984-1987) · Senate (member, 2011-2013) · Senate (member, 2013-2015) · Senate (member, 2015-2017) · 14 more...				[sources]
Education	Harvard College (-1967) · Riverdale Country School · Trinity College · University of Cambridge (1967-1968) · Yale Law School (-1973)				[sources]
Religion	Judaism				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-18	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

United States Senator from Connecticut since 2011

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-12-15

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
David Blumenthal Close Associate	sibling · younger brother	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States senator	2019	2021
United States senator	2023

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Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Matt Blumenthal Politician	child · father	-	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,319

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

United States · Congress

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,945

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,576

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions525,917

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,491

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: us-congress-bb63bfd6ad5c10597d63eb90859e2976021d4999 · evpo-c1d19c22-316f-4864-bec2-3b924eb38cd4

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