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Joe Wilson

Military · Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Joe Wilson 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	Joe Wilson · Τζο Γουίλσον · Джо Вілсон · Джо Уилсон · ג'ו וילסון · 7 more...				[sources]
Alias	Addison G. Wilson · Addison Graves "Joe" Wilson, Sr. · Addison Graves Wilson · Addison Graves Wilson Sr. · Wilson, Joe · 9 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Wilson				[sources]
Birth date	1947-07-31				[sources]
Place of birth	Charleston				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Joe				[sources]
Last name	Wilson				[sources]
Phone	+12022252452				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	joewilson.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q928855				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2005-2007) · House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · House of Representatives (member, 2009-2011) · House of Representatives (member, 2011-2013) · House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · 6 more...				[sources]
Education	University of South Carolina · Washington and Lee University				[sources]
Religion	Presbyterianism				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-01	Last processed	2025-12-01	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Republican United States House Representative from South Carolina

— 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	2023
United States representative	2019

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Data sources

Every Politician57,742

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 Persons276,793

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories198,546

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

US Members of the Congress1,334

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 OpenSanctions515,613

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata386,975

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-896ece9a-5d90-4ca5-83b8-b4969926a3c3 · ir-san-f57475e364278c97b545b37759d91c2d24fb182f · us-congress-f235f30e5752f4644f4ddfcede6220ff158bedb9

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