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John Cornyn

Judge · Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

John Cornyn 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	Džons Kornins · John Cornyn · John Cornyn III · Τζον Κόρνιν · Джон Корнин · 6 more...				[sources]
Other name	Cornyn, John · John Cornyn III · Джон Корнин · Корнин, Джон · ג'ון קורנין · 4 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Cornyn · 柯寧				[sources]
Birth date	1952-02-02				[sources]
Place of birth	Houston				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	John				[sources]
Last name	Cornyn				[sources]
Phone	+12022242934				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · johncornyn.com · twitter.com · twitter.com · www.cornyn.senate.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q719568				[sources]
Position	District Judge (1984-1990) · Senate (member, 2005-2007) · Senate (member, 2007-2009) · Senate (member, 2009-2011) · Senate (member, 2011-2013) · 21 more...				[sources]
Education	American School in Japan · Kilgore College · Master of Laws · Oliver Wendell Holmes High School · St. Mary's University School of Law (-1977) · 2 more...				[sources]
Religion	Church of Christ · United Church of Christ				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician and attorney (born 1952)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-02-09

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 senator	2015-01-06	2017-01-03
United States senator	2017-01-03

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Data sources

Iran Sanctions List405

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

Iran · MFA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,560

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

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

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories359,481

Category-based imports 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

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

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,631

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,036

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

Source data IDs: evpo-66f7cd3c-55ce-4891-b500-23cf2ab645e4 · us-congress-3eeb3302612ab72571b025d01ce2cd632e12fa33 · ir-san-564d1b0288ae70962f5b8bc652f51128d69288c8 · ru-mfa-1c4c7439d03acbb425067d097ff4be595686bd0f

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