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Ben Cardin

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Ben Cardin 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	Ben Cardin · Benas Cardinas · Benjamin L. Cardin · Benjamin Louis Cardin · Bens Cardins · 12 more...				[sources]
Alias	Ben Cardin · Benjamin Cardin · Benjamin L. Cardin · Benjamin Louis "Ben" Cardin · Benjamin Louis Cardin · 13 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Cardin · ベンジャミン・カーディン · ベン・カルダン				[sources]
Birth date	1943-10-05				[sources]
Place of birth	Baltimore				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Ben · Benjamin				[sources]
Last name	Cardin				[sources]
Phone	+12022244524				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Party				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	cardin.senate.gov · bencardin.com · facebook.com · twitter.com · www.cardin.senate.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q723295				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2005-2007) · Senate (member, 2007-2009) · Senate (member, 2009-2011) · Senate (member, 2011-2013) · Senate (member, 2013-2015) · 26 more...				[sources]
Education	Baltimore City College (-1961) · University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (-1967) · University of Maryland, Baltimore · University of Pittsburgh (-1964)				[sources]
Religion	Judaism				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-04	Last processed	2026-01-04	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American lawyer and former politician (born 1943)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-09-19

Relationships

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

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Meyer Cardin Politician	father	-	-
Jon S. Cardin Politician	fraternal nephew · paternal uncle · relative	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2005	2007
United States senator	2015

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Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,319

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

United States · Congress

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,166

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

Russia · MFA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,647

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,358

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata343,483

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: ru-mfa-7630af20b527e62d4ebca75ed498613e97356ff6 · evpo-6827ee7c-f7c0-4bca-940d-936c4fb8c817 · us-congress-c5fcaf6e7108865e74010386c93b4801aaa82779 · evpo-211e6af3-3bde-44d7-83d0-d5d661d7ba26

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