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Vern Buchanan

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Vern Buchanan 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	Vern Buchanan · Vernon Gale Buchanan · Верн Б'юкенен · Вернон БЬЮКЕНЕН · ורן ביוקנן · 4 more...				[sources]
Other name	Buchanan, Vern · Vernon G Buchanan · Vernon Gale Buchanan · ورن بوچنن · バーン・ブキャナン · 1 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1951-05-08				[sources]
Place of birth	Detroit				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Vern				[sources]
Last name	Buchanan				[sources]
Phone	+12022255015				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	buchanan.house.gov · buchanan.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q2517229				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · House of Representatives (member, 2009-2011) · House of Representatives (member, 2011-2013) · House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · House of Representatives (member, 2015-2017) · 11 more...				[sources]
Education	Cleary University (-1975) · University of Detroit Mercy (-1986)				[sources]
Religion	Christianity				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-10-21	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

U.S. Representative from Florida

— 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	2015-01-06	2017-01-03
United States representative	2023

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Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
James Buchanan Politician	child · father	-	-

Data sources

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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,417

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 Categories376,089

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

External databases

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Wikidata349,947

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,094

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-ca2903934b5a6cdffaec6ebfc874912750e31f01 · evpo-0addafe9-841c-4e05-a45d-19caacfb2dff · ru-mfa-aa2649bf50480193c4feca8d45195c788f5e61af

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