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Sanford Bishop

Politician

Sanford Bishop 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	Sanford Bishop · Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. · Сенфорд Бішоп · סנפורד בישופ · سانفورد بيشوب · 5 more...				[sources]
Other name	Bishop, Sanford · Sanford Bishop · Sanford Bishop, Jr. · Sanford Bishop, Junior · سنفورد بیشاپ · 1 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Bishop · 桑福德·畢曉普				[sources]
Birth date	1947-02-04				[sources]
Place of birth	Mobile				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Sanford				[sources]
Last name	Bishop				[sources]
Middle name	D.				[sources]
Phone	+12022253631				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	bishop.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q983428				[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) · 21 more...				[sources]
Education	Central High School (-1964) · Emory University School of Law (-1971) · Morehouse College (-1968)				[sources]
Religion	Baptists				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-03	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	2015-01-06	2017-01-03
United States representative	2013-01-06

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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 Persons in Relevant Categories359,660

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,228

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,493

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,043

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-10e8bca9-5930-49f4-9c84-4c0398962d77 · us-congress-9104f2cbc96910c594d80baf02c67efc26d5a80b

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