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Richard Cordray is an American Democratic Party politician, who is serving as the Director of the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which officially began operating in July 2011. Prior to his appointment in January 2012, Cordray served as the Attorney General of Ohio. On July 17, 2011, President Barack Obama announced he would nominate Cordray to lead the United States...  MORE

Richard Cordray is an American Democratic Party politician, who is serving as the Director of the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which officially began operating in July 2011. Prior to his appointment in January 2012, Cordray served as the Attorney General of Ohio. On July 17, 2011, President Barack Obama announced he would nominate Cordray to lead the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. On January 4, 2012, the White House announced that it would make a recess appointment of Cordray to the post. Cordray was elected Attorney General of Ohio in November 2008 to fill the remainder of the unexpired term ending January 2011. On November 2, 2010, Cordray lost his bid for re-election to former Lt. Governor and U.S. Senator Mike DeWine. Prior to his Attorney General position, Cordray served as the Ohio State Treasurer and as treasurer of Franklin County, Ohio. He has also previously served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives and as the first Ohio state solicitor. Cordray was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, 1981–83. Later, he was editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review and subsequently served as a law clerk for Judge Robert Bork on the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia Circuit, and after that, Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1987 he became an undefeated five-time Jeopardy! champion. LESS