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Blake Farenthold

Politician

Blake Farenthold 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	Blake Farenthold · بلاك فارينثولد · بلیک فرنتهولد · ブレイク・フェアレントホルド · 布雷克·法蘭索德 · 1 more...				[sources]
Alias	Farenthold, Blake · Randolph Blake Farenthold · بلیک فرنتهولد · ブレイク・フェアレントホルド · 布雷克·法蘭索德 · 2 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Farenthold				[sources]
Birth date	1961-12-12				[sources]
Place of birth	Corpus Christi				[sources]
Death date	2025-06-20				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Blake				[sources]
Last name	Farenthold				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	blake.com · farenthold.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q881255				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2011-2013) · House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · House of Representatives (member, 2015-2017) · House of Representatives (member, 2017-2018) · member of the United States House of Representatives · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Incarnate Word Academy (-1980) · St. Mary's University School of Law (-1989) · University of Texas at Austin (-1985)				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician (1961-2025)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-06-29

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2015	2017
United States representative	2015-01-06

Data sources

US Members of the Congress1,334

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Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,845

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Every Politician57,893

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,602

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata354,031

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-e65d01da195ccc9753c364c01519d1450a0b0e7f · evpo-e58167a6-502f-4085-8da3-57706f37d10f

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