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Brad Ashford

Judge · Politician

Brad Ashford 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	Brad Ashford · בראד אשפורד · براد أشفورد · براد اشفورد · ブラッド・アシュフォード · 1 more...				[sources]
Alias	Ashford, Brad · John Bradley Ashford · ブラッド・アシュフォード · 布拉德·阿什福德				[sources]
Birth date	1949-11-10				[sources]
Place of birth	Omaha				[sources]
Death date	2022-04-19				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Brad				[sources]
Last name	Ashford				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Party · Republican Party				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	bradashfordforcongress.com · ashford.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q4953782				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2015-2017) · Nebraska State Senator (1987-1995) · Nebraska State Senator (2007-2015) · member of the United States House of Representatives (2015-2017)				[sources]
Education	Colgate University (-1971) · Creighton University School of Law (-1974) · Westside High School (-1967)				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-02-14	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician (1949–2022)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-03-16

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Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the United States House of Representatives	-	-
member of the United States House of Representatives	2015	2017

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,644

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,320

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United States · Congress

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Wikidata333,870

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions503,383

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-35a337a8-fca9-459b-927a-d106ecb2724e · us-congress-91bd71ed736656ab1c1caaeb64078d65379c2a3e

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