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Pete Sessions

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Pete Sessions 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	Pete Sessions · Піт Сешнс · פיט סשנס · بيت سيشنز · پته سشنز · 4 more...				[sources]
Alias	Peter Anderson Sessions · Peter Sessions · Petrus Sessions · Sessions, Pete · Піт Сешнс · 4 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Sessions				[sources]
Birth date	1955-03-22				[sources]
Place of birth	Waco				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Anderson · Pete				[sources]
Last name	Sessions				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · sessions.house.gov · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q437852				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2005-2007) · House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · House of Representatives (member, 2009-2011) · House of Representatives (member, 2011-2013) · House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Southwestern University · Winston Churchill High School				[sources]
Religion	Methodism				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-01	Last processed	2025-12-01	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Iran	Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2007-01-06	2009-01-03
United States representative	2017-01-03

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Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
William S. Sessions Politician	child · father	-	-

Data sources

US Members of the Congress1,335

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

United States · Congress

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories198,578

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Iran Sanctions List405

Individuals and entities in the sanctions list of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Iran · MFA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,825

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician57,742

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 OpenSanctions516,108

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata386,636

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-63cc3fe0d46dc82b01ffa9f33c94c651de5847e8 · evpo-aa200953-7d7a-4872-839d-4ee2fdf0bc83 · ir-san-65faf478b7a4620fb462b9d8b6cb644f94619500

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