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John Kerry

Person of interest · Diplomat · PEP · Politician · Close Associate

John Kerry 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	Con Kerri · Džons Kerijs · John F. Kerry · John Kerry · Τζον Κέρι · 17 more...				[sources]
Alias	Con Kerri · Džons Kerijs · Iohannes Kerry · John F Kerry · John F. Kerry Copito · 31 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Kerry · ジョン・フォーブス・ケリー · 克里				[sources]
Birth date	1943-12-11				[sources]
Place of birth	Aurora				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Forbes · John				[sources]
Last name	Kerry				[sources]
Middle name	FORBES				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.johnkerry.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q22316				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1983-1985) · Senate (member, 2005-2007) · Senate (member, 2007-2009) · Senate (member, 2009-2011) · Senate (member, 2011-2013) · 19 more...				[sources]
Education	Boston College Law School (-1976) · Fessenden School · Jonathan Edwards College · St. Albans School · St. Paul's School (-1962) · 2 more...				[sources]
Religion	Catholicism				[sources]
Last change	2026-03-29	Last processed	2026-03-29	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician and diplomat (born 1943)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-02-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Rosemary Forbes Kerry Close Associate	mother	-	-
Vanessa Kerry Close Associate	child	-	-

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

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Cameron Kerry PEP	sibling	-	-
Teresa Heinz Kerry PEP	spouse	1995-05-26

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,414

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,321

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

United States · Congress

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

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

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata328,063

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 OpenSanctions500,331

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-e6d1ede4-fe76-4b96-b912-abd27ae4dbd7 · us-congress-9085298aa08e7e5ad743654543b4504e79a48937

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