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Bob Filner

Politician

Bob Filner 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	Bob Filner · בוב פילנר · بوب فيلنير · ボブ・フィルナー · 巴伯·費爾納 · 1 more...				[sources]
Alias	Filner, Bob · Robert Earl "Bob" Filner · Robert Earl Filner · Robert Filner · Robertus Filner · 4 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	鮑伯·菲爾納 · 鲍勃·菲尔纳				[sources]
Birth date	1942-09-04				[sources]
Place of birth	Pittsburgh				[sources]
Death date	2025-04-20				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Bob				[sources]
Last name	Filner				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.house.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q388356				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2005-2007) · House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · House of Representatives (member, 2009-2011) · House of Representatives (member, 2011-2012) · Mayor of San Diego (2012-2013) · 17 more...				[sources]
Education	Cornell University (-1963) · Cornell University (-1973) · Forest Hills High School (-1959) · University of Delaware (-1969)				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician (1942–2025)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-05-05

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2011-01-06	2012-12-03
United States representative

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

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 Congress1,319

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

United States · Congress

External databases

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Wikidata355,577

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,384

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-ebde035c66fff6a0c68fae38b5a1b6c04350d190 · evpo-f44dbf12-5e57-40a6-a793-380bf5cfbda2

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