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Jerry Weller

Politician

Jerry Weller is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Jerry Weller · جيرى ويلر · جيري ويلر · ჯერი უელერი · 제리 웰러				[sources]
Alias	Gerald C. Weller · Weller, Gerald				[sources]
Birth date	1957-07-07				[sources]
Place of birth	Streator				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Gerald · Jerry				[sources]
Last name	Weller				[sources]
Middle name	C.				[sources]
Political association	Republican Party				[sources]
Website	www.house.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q740636				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2005-2007) · House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · bureaucrat · member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1988-1994) · member of the United States House of Representatives (1995-1997) · 7 more...				[sources]
Education	Joliet Junior College (-1976) · University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign · University of Illinois system (-1979) · primary school (-1975)				[sources]
Religion	Evangelical and Reformed Church				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-11	Last processed	2026-01-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician (born 1957)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2026-01-11

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Zury Ríos Politician	spouse	2004	2019

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the United States House of Representatives	2007	2009
member of the United States House of Representatives

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,016

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions540,249

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata335,220

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-7cbf3d87-bf7e-47ec-825f-15779b38a696 · us-congress-da9caaa3ada0e93362c6230eb72049c545848814

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