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Jim Cooper

Politician

Jim Cooper 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 Cooper · Джим Купер · ג'ים קופר · جيم كوبر · جیم کوپر · 4 more...				[sources]
Other name	Cooper, Jim · James Hayes Shofner Cooper · Джим Купер · ג'ים קופר · جيم كوبر · 4 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Cooper				[sources]
Birth date	1954-06-19				[sources]
Place of birth	Nashville				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	JAMES · Jim				[sources]
Last name	Cooper				[sources]
Middle name	H.				[sources]
Phone	+12022254311				[sources]
Website	cooper.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q973737				[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) · 20 more...				[sources]
Education	Groton School (-1972) · Harvard Law School (-1980) · Oriel College · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (-1975) · University of Oxford (-1977)				[sources]
Religion	Episcopal Church				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-10-21	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2013-01-06	2015-01-03
United States representative	2011-01-06

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Data sources

US Members of the Congress1,333

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United States · Congress

Every Politician57,893

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,442

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories376,104

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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Wikidata350,313

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,635

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-ffef45f5-5511-4a28-8444-59dc0e8c4541 · us-congress-b15c9e29904a818171b52442665dd897832e8a35

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