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Brian Higgins

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Brian Higgins 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	Brian Higgins · Brian Michael Higgins · Брайан Хиггинс · Браян Хіггінс · בריאן היגינס · 6 more...				[sources]
Other name	Brian M Higgins · Brian M. Higgins · Brian Michael Higgins · Higgins, Brian · Брайан Хиггинс · 5 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Higgins				[sources]
Birth date	1959-10-06				[sources]
Place of birth	Buffalo				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Brian				[sources]
Last name	Higgins				[sources]
Phone	+12022253306				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	higgins.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q505581				[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) · 16 more...				[sources]
Education	Buffalo State University (-1984) · Buffalo State University (-1985) · John F. Kennedy School of Government (-1996) · South Park High School				[sources]
Religion	Catholic Church				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

U.S. Representative from New York

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

Relationships

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

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2011-01-06	2013-01-03
United States representative	2015-01-06

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Data sources

Every Politician57,893

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,144

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,169

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

Russia · MFA

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories363,068

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,334

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

United States · Congress

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,777

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata335,609

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-47fdbfba592a51de952c2c1f9d8e075882f86ae4 · evpo-c38ccc7a-db52-44a3-8362-9f9583d480a1 · ru-mfa-e600d53f835c80528cd4dfd11db8e919028dee0c

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