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Jeff Sessions

Politician

Jeff Sessions 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	Ceff Seşns · Jeff Sessions · Jefferson Sessions · Τζεφ Σέσιονς · Џеф Сешнс · 11 more...				[sources]
Alias	Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III · Jefferson Beauregard Sessions · Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III · Jefferson Sessions · Sessions, Jefferson · 17 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Sessions · 傑夫·塞申斯				[sources]
Birth date	1946-12-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Hybart · Selma				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Beauregard · Jeff · Jefferson				[sources]
Last name	Sessions				[sources]
Political association	Republican Party				[sources]
Website	www.sessions.senate.gov · facebook.com · jeffsessions.com · twitter.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q358443				[sources]
Position	Attorney General of Alabama (1995-1997) · Senate (member, 2005-2007) · Senate (member, 2007-2009) · Senate (member, 2009-2011) · Senate (member, 2011-2013) · 16 more...				[sources]
Education	Huntingdon College (1965-1969) · University of Alabama · University of Alabama School of Law (-1973) · Wilcox Central High School · primary school				[sources]
Religion	Methodism				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-02-23	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician and lawyer (born 1946)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-22

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Mary Blackshear Close Associate	spouse	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States senator	2015	2017

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Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons271,230

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,122

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,320

Current and recent members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States · Congress

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,644

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions503,469

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,870

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

Source data IDs: us-congress-4fc18ebaab794d3a86bd0275a27d9899ddf5c9ff · evpo-2fdbbff7-046c-43b5-9cfc-801f15a3b8bf

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