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Christopher John Dodd

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Christopher John Dodd 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	Chris Dodd · Christopher Dodd · Christopher John Dodd · Кристофер Додд · Крістофер Додд · 6 more...				[sources]
Other name	Chris Dodd · Christopher J Dodd · Christopher J. Dodd · Christopher John Dodd · Christophorus Ioannes Dodd · 10 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Dodd · 克里斯托弗·多德				[sources]
Birth date	1944-05-27				[sources]
Place of birth	Willimantic				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Chris · Christopher · John				[sources]
Last name	Dodd				[sources]
Website	chrisdodd.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q319111				[sources]
Position	Senate (member, 2005-2007) · Senate (member, 2007-2009) · Senate (member, 2009-2011) · United States senator (1981-1983) · United States senator (1983-1985) · 19 more...				[sources]
Education	Georgetown Preparatory School (-1962) · Providence College (-1966) · University of Louisville · University of Louisville School of Law (-1972)				[sources]
Religion	Catholic Church				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-10-17	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American lawyer and politician (born 1944)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-08-07

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 senator	2007-01-06	2009-01-03
United States senator	2009-01-06

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories376,025

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

Wikidata · non-official source

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,168

A list of US citizens under personal sanctions by the Russian Federation.

Russia · MFA

Every Politician58,326

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata349,826

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,410

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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