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Hakeem Jeffries

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Hakeem Jeffries 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	Hakeem Jeffries · Hakeem S. Jeffries · Hakeem Sekou Jeffries · Hakim Jeffries · Hakim Sekou Jeffris · 12 more...				[sources]
Other name	H. J. · H. Jeffries · Hakeem Jeffries · Hakeem S. Jeffries · Hakeem Sekou Jeffries · 7 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	哈基姆·傑佛里斯 · 哈基姆·杰佛瑞				[sources]
Birth date	1970-08-04				[sources]
Place of birth	Brooklyn				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Hakeem				[sources]
Last name	Jeffries				[sources]
Middle name	S.				[sources]
Phone	+12022255936				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	jeffries.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q5640425				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · House of Representatives (member, 2015-2017) · House of Representatives (member, 2017-2019) · House of Representatives (member, 2019-) · Minority Leader of the U.S House of Representatives · 9 more...				[sources]
Education	Binghamton University (-1992) · Georgetown University (-1994) · Midwood High School · New York University (-1997) · New York University School of Law				[sources]
Religion	Baptists				[sources]
Source link	ballotpedia.org · www.congress.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician (born 1970)

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

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Iran	Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2021-01-03	2023-01-03

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Data sources

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,169

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

Russia · MFA

US Members of the Congress1,334

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

United States · Congress

Every Politician57,893

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 Persons276,151

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories361,573

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Iran Sanctions List405

Individuals and entities in the sanctions list of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Iran · MFA

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,700

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,854

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-c05d83bc-617c-4fe0-9c73-354cfeda75e9 · us-congress-c9262a4be01ec8cbc128514884bedb2ee99893c5 · ir-san-6dca5a6f1410692914a67ced21c9a9aa22cb6e49 · ru-mfa-50f4b215273e2ae56c6dcb52d1942fda1ed1a208

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