Search OpenSanctions

Jim Matheson

Politician

Jim Matheson 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	Jim Matheson · جيم ماثيسون · جیم مثسن · چيم ماثيسون · 吉姆·馬特森				[sources]
Other name	Iacobus Matheson · James David Matheson · Matheson, Jim · جیم مثسن · 吉姆·馬特森				[sources]
Weak alias	Matheson				[sources]
Birth date	1960-03-21				[sources]
Place of birth	Salt Lake City				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Jim				[sources]
Last name	Matheson				[sources]
Website	www.house.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q946591				[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) · 8 more...				[sources]
Education	East High School · Harvard College (-1982) · University of California, Los Angeles (-1987)				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

United States Congressman from Utah

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Scott Matheson, Jr. Politician	sibling	-	-
Norma Matheson Close Associate	mother	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2007-01-06	2009-01-03
United States representative	2011

Data sources

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

US Members of the Congress1,334

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

United States · Congress

External databases

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

Wikidata335,468

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,775

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-6266cc72962e12eac50cc650a34b495a1ed09f96 · evpo-265ab06a-c973-43fe-a29c-58316c5d52a9

For experts: raw data explorer

Factsheet Descriptions Data sources

OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.

Use the API License in bulk