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Tom Cotton

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Tom Cotton 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	Tom Cotton · Toms Kotons · Τομ Κότον · Том Коттон · טום קוטון · 6 more...				[sources]
Other name	Cotton, Tom · Thomas B. Cotton · Thomas Bryant "Tom" Cotton · Thomas Bryant Cotton · Thomas Cotton · 12 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	汤姆·布赖恩特·科顿				[sources]
Birth date	1977-05-13				[sources]
Place of birth	Dardanelle				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Bryant · Thomas · Tom				[sources]
Last name	Cotton				[sources]
Phone	+12022242353				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	cotton.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com · twitter.com · www.cotton.senate.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q3090307				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · Senate (member, 2015-2017) · Senate (member, 2017-2019) · Senate (member, 2019-) · United States senator (2015-2017) · 6 more...				[sources]
Education	Claremont Graduate University (1998-1999) · Dardanelle High School (-1995) · Harvard College (-1998) · Harvard Law School (-2002)				[sources]
Religion	Methodism				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

US Senator

— China Sanctions Research non-official source, 2024-05-22

American politician and army officer (born 1977)

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

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
China	Ministry of Foreign Affairs		2020-08-10	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States senator	2021	2023
United States senator	2015

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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 Politically Exposed Persons275,214

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

China Sanctions Research218

Individuals and organisations targeted by the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, Counter-Measures List and the Unreliable Entities List (UEL).

China · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories358,661

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,591

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,072

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-f79a5cccee2779a7c87038778f90574ac69b4700 · evpo-d7bfdfde-86cd-4da5-99d5-5c560561d7cc · evpo-be5e7cf4-4106-4057-9a1f-f0bfd58318ca

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