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Bernie Sanders

Politician

Bernie Sanders 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	Bernard Sanders · Bernie Sanders · Bērnijs Sanderss · Μπέρνι Σάντερς · Берни Сандерс · 15 more...				[sources]
Alias	Bernard "Bernie" Sanders · Bernard Sanders · Bernardus Sanders · Berni Sanders · Bernie Sanders · 38 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Bernie · Sanders · バーニー・サンダーズ · 伯纳德·桑德斯 · 샌더스				[sources]
Birth date	1941-09-08				[sources]
Place of birth	Brooklyn				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Bernard · Bernie				[sources]
Last name	Sanders				[sources]
Phone	+12022245141				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	sanders.senate.gov · berniesanders.com · berniesanders.com · facebook.com · twitter.com · 2 more...				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q359442				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2005-2007) · Mayor of Burlington, Vermont (1981-1989) · Senate (member, 2007-2009) · Senate (member, 2009-2011) · Senate (member, 2011-2013) · 21 more...				[sources]
Education	Bachelor of Arts · Brooklyn College (1959-1960) · James Madison High School (1954-1958) · University of Chicago (-1964)				[sources]
Religion	Judaism				[sources]
Ethnicity	Jewish people				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

United States Senator from Vermont since 2007

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-12-06

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Jane O'Meara Sanders Close Associate	spouse	1988-05-28	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2005-01-06	2007-01-03
United States senator	2009-01-06

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Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Carina Driscoll Politician	child · father · stepdaughter	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,064

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,144

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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

US Members of the Congress1,334

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

United States · Congress

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,388

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,755

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-5c3936e1-b15d-4ced-b3e3-7db097a32d6b · evpo-be2c04a8-a31f-4860-b8c9-de90112bdf01 · us-congress-b79111245bd716dfbbb123a9eb881d0e8e299d16

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