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Shelley Moore Capito

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Shelley Moore Capito 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	Shelley Moore Capito · Shelley Mooreová Capitová · Shelley Wellons Moore Capito · Šellija Mūra Kapito · Σέλλι Μουρ Καπίτων · 10 more...				[sources]
Alias	Capito, Shelley · Capito, Shelley Moore · Shelley Capito · Shelley Wellons Moore · Shelley Wellons Moore Capito · 9 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	シェリー・M・カピト · シェリー・ムーア・キャピト				[sources]
Birth date	1953-11-26				[sources]
Place of birth	Glen Dale				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Shelley				[sources]
Last name	Capito				[sources]
Middle name	Moore				[sources]
Phone	+12022246472				[sources]
Political association	Republican Party				[sources]
Title	Mrs.				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · twitter.com · www.capito.senate.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q459618				[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) · 18 more...				[sources]
Education	Duke University (-1975) · University of Virginia (-1976) · University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development				[sources]
Religion	Presbyterianism				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

United States Senator from West Virginia

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

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Russia	Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации		-	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Arch A. Moore Politician	father	-	-
Shelley Riley Moore Politician	mother	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2009-01-06	2011-01-03
United States senator	2023-01-03

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Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Riley Moore Politician	paternal aunt · relative	-	-
Moore Capito Politician	child · mother	-	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,166

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

Russia · MFA

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,936

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

Global · Wikidata · 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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,647

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata355,710

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,358

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-aebd85ddd2302d9d8b163b193c59f74f05765aa0 · evpo-e3c60f34-7d1b-4c08-8c3b-aa6257b656cf · ru-mfa-09017657ca0cdc1436504eeb1b3302c46fea18a1 · evpo-b1b92431-97a7-4289-8968-9bca3a9a2b1d

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