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Bennie Thompson

Person of interest · Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Bennie Thompson 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	Bennie G. Thompson · Bennie Gordon Thompson · Bennie Thompson · Μπένι Τόμσον · Бенни ТОМПСОН · 8 more...				[sources]
Other name	Bennie Gordon Thompson · Bennie Thompson · Thompson, Bennie · Гордон Томпсон · בני תומפסון · 3 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	本尼·汤普森 · 班尼·汤普森 · 班尼·湯普森				[sources]
Birth date	1948-01-28				[sources]
Place of birth	Bolton				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States of America				[sources]
Country	United States of America				[sources]
Citizenship	United States of America				[sources]
First name	Bennie · Gordon				[sources]
Last name	Thompson				[sources]
Middle name	G.				[sources]
Phone	+12022255876				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	benniethompson.house.gov · benniethompson.com · facebook.com · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q817877				[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) · 23 more...				[sources]
Education	Hinds County Agricultural High School · Jackson State University (-1972) · Tougaloo College (-1968)				[sources]
Religion	Methodism				[sources]
Last change	2025-05-16	Last processed	2025-06-11	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician (born 1948)

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

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Russia	Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the United States House of Representatives	2021-01-03	2023-01-03
member of the United States House of Representatives	-	-
member of the United States House of Representatives	2007-01-06	2009-01-03
member of the United States House of Representatives	2013-01-06	2015-01-03
member of the United States House of Representatives	2019-01-03	2021-01-03
member of the United States House of Representatives	2015-01-06	2017-01-03
member of the United States House of Representatives	2017-01-03	2019-01-03
member of the United States House of Representatives	2009-01-06	2011-01-03
member of the United States House of Representatives	2011-01-06	2013-01-03
member of the United States House of Representatives	2005-01-06	2007-01-03

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Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons280,457

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

Wikidata · non-official source

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,168

A list of US citizens under personal sanctions by the Russian Federation.

Russia · MFA

Every Politician58,493

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories372,803

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

Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,256

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

United States of America · Congress

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Wikidata349,699

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ru-mfa-d84ea67e1262859e724e3dfca8766ae4e03ab6ff · evpo-aa598e66-17cc-43df-971c-64b07577a0b4 · us-congress-3eee9ef5c1a9559f8fd3dbe0fa38a1a3330ebc18

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