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Bill Foster

Politician

Bill Foster 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	Bill Foster · Билл Фостер · Білл Фостер · ביל פוסטר · بيل فوستر · 5 more...				[sources]
Other name	Bill W. Foster · Foster, Bill · George William Foster · Билл Фостер · ביל פוסטר · 4 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1955-10-07				[sources]
Place of birth	Madison				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Bill				[sources]
Last name	Foster				[sources]
Phone	+12022253515				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	foster.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q2903389				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · House of Representatives (member, 2009-2011) · House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · House of Representatives (member, 2015-2017) · House of Representatives (member, 2017-2019) · 10 more...				[sources]
Education	Harvard University (-1984) · James Madison Memorial High School · University of Wisconsin–Madison (-1975)				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

politician, physicist

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-02-19

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2015-01-06	2017-01-03
United States representative	2017-01-03

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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 Persons in Relevant Categories360,005

Category-based imports 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 Politically Exposed Persons276,039

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 OpenSanctions551,207

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,862

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-9b081db7ea756ce43dbe431b31dfacd595dc7e7f · evpo-2a9ab841-5962-4a87-91bf-35d544704f01

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