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Clay Higgins

Politician

Clay Higgins 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	Clay Higgins · Клей Хіггінс · קליי היגינס · كلاي هيغينز · クレイ・ヒギンズ · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Glen Clay Higgins · Higgins, Clay · クレイ・ヒギンズ				[sources]
Birth date	1961-08-24				[sources]
Place of birth	New Orleans				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Clay				[sources]
Last name	Higgins				[sources]
Phone	+12022252031				[sources]
Political association	Republican Party				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	clayhiggins.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q25849505				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2017-2019) · House of Representatives (member, 2019-) · deputy · member of the United States House of Representatives (2017-2019) · member of the United States House of Representatives (2019-2021) · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Covington High School · Louisiana State University (1979-1983)				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician and reserve law enforcement officer

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2021-01-03	2023-01-03

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

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 Categories384,808

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

Global · Wikidata · 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 Politically Exposed Persons275,396

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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

Wikidata355,697

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 OpenSanctions552,160

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-7c0753398e9e9f201be571b1273e1f0fff7171c2 · evpo-6dd9f110-a892-484f-8917-ddbae4c2ed43

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