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Brenda Lawrence

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Brenda Lawrence 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	Brenda L. Lawrence · Brenda Lawrence · Brenda Lulenar Lawrence · Бренда Лоуренс · ברנדה לורנס · 5 more...				[sources]
Alias	Brenda Lawrence · Brenda Lulenar Lawrence · Lawrence, Brenda · برندا لارنس · ブレンダ・ローレンス · 1 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1954-10-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Detroit				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Brenda				[sources]
Last name	Lawrence				[sources]
Middle name	L.				[sources]
Phone	+12022255802				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Party				[sources]
Title	Mrs.				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · lawrence.house.gov · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q4960712				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2015-2017) · House of Representatives (member, 2017-2019) · House of Representatives (member, 2019-) · mayor (2001-2014) · member (1992-1996) · 6 more...				[sources]
Education	Central Michigan University (-2005) · Pershing High School · University of Detroit Mercy				[sources]
Ethnicity	African Americans				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician (born 1954)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-03-24

Relationships

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

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the United States House of Representatives	-	-
member of the United States House of Representatives	2017	2019

Data sources

US Members of the Congress1,319

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

United States · Congress

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,600

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,922

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,166

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

Russia · MFA

External databases

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Wikidata334,541

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 OpenSanctions526,218

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-c827eb72375b959b4a238ecb3d7ad49907de1462 · evpo-8515aa1f-07cb-4e1a-887a-9175ec850866 · ru-mfa-1086c6901eb2e47b451b1a2eb12921d2cc9fe887

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