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Louie Gohmert

Judge · Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Louie Gohmert 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	Louie Gohmert · Louis Buller Gohmert Jr. · Луи ГОМЕРТ · Луї Гомерт · לואי גומרט · 5 more...				[sources]
Other name	Gohmert, Louie · Louie Gohmert Jr. · Louis Buller Gohmert Jr · Louis Buller Gohmert Jr. · Louis Gohmert Jr. · 6 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Gohmert				[sources]
Birth date	1953-08-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Pittsburg				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Louie				[sources]
Last name	Gohmert				[sources]
Phone	+12022253035				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	gohmert.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q532647				[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) · 14 more...				[sources]
Education	Baylor Law School · Baylor University (-1977) · Mount Pleasant High School (-1971) · Texas A&M University (-1975)				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

United States Representative from Texas

— 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	2015-01-06	2017-01-03
United States representative	2021-01-03

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Data sources

Every Politician57,893

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Global · MySociety · 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 Categories359,914

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,928

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,333

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

United States · Congress

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,743

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,778

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ru-mfa-293d1402a422d8ae46aec2e053df22f06d47aa69 · us-congress-25d63b62626717ec750468c6a8a8b135f71eabfb · evpo-9768b0dd-dcfe-4225-87ee-5e75c93260da

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