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Clarence William Nelson

Person of interest · Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Clarence William Nelson 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	Bill Nelson · Clarence William Nelson · Μπιλ Νέλσον · Бил Нелсон · Бил Нелсън · 11 more...				[sources]
Other name	Clarence Gulielmus Nelson · Clarence Nelson · Clarence W. Nelson · Clarence William Nelson · Clarence William Nelson II · 16 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Nelson · クラレンス・ウィリアム・ネルソン				[sources]
Birth date	1942-09-29				[sources]
Place of birth	Miami				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States of America				[sources]
Country	United States of America				[sources]
Citizenship	United States of America				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Bill				[sources]
Last name	Nelson				[sources]
Website	billnelson.senate.gov · twitter.com · www.billnelson.senate.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q358437				[sources]
Position	Administrator of NASA (2021-) · Florida State Treasurer/Insurance Commissioner/Fire Marshal (1995-2001) · Senate (member, 2005-2007) · Senate (member, 2007-2009) · Senate (member, 2009-2011) · 23 more...				[sources]
Education	Bachelor of Arts · Melbourne High School (-1960) · University of Florida · University of Virginia · University of Virginia School of Law (-1968) · 2 more...				[sources]
Religion	Episcopal Church · Presbyterianism				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-09-08	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician and attorney (born 1942)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-03-23

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	2009-01-06	2011-01-03
United States senator	2007-01-06

Data sources

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,168

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

Russia · MFA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,106

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

Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician58,336

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

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,745

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

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata349,078

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions547,039

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-11ad053ddab6819213473240c58ecf95504848b3 · evpo-460e722d-e6bd-4a1f-8fbe-aef53ab0145a · ru-mfa-e14ccac76cc3f098e04918837d208767924a35f9 · evpo-9c4a81c7-44bf-4e0d-bce7-683fdb21191e

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