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28th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
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| Assumed office August 3, 2005 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | William H. Donaldson |
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| In office January 3, 1989 – August 2, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Badham |
| Succeeded by | John Campbell |
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| Born | October 16, 1952 Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Rebecca Gernhardt Cox |
Charles Christopher Cox (born October 16, 1952, in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) has served as Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since August 3, 2005. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (commonly known as the SEC) is an independent agency of the United States government which holds primary responsibility Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. William Henry Donaldson (born June 2, 1931 in Buffalo, New York, USA was the 27th Chairman of the U The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. California's 48th congressional district is located in Orange County in Southern California, and includes the cities of Aliso Viejo, Dana Point Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Robert Edward Badham ( June 9, 1929 &ndash October 21, 2005) was an American Politician. For other persons of the same name see John Campbell. John Bayard Taylor Campbell III (born July 19 1955, in Los Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Saint Paul ( abbreviated St Paul) is the capital and second most populous city in the U Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Saint Paul ( abbreviated St Paul) is the capital and second most populous city in the U The US Securities and Exchange Commission (commonly known as the SEC) is an independent agency of the United States government which holds primary responsibility Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He had served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from January 25, 1989 to August 2, 2005, representing a district in southern California. The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. Events 41 - After a night of negotiation Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. He resigned from Congress to become chairman of the SEC.
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Pre-congressional career
After graduating from Saint Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights, Minnesota in 1970, Cox earned his B.A. at the University of Southern California in 1973, following an accelerated three-year course. Saint Thomas Academy (abbr St Thomas Academy or STA) originally known as Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary, and formerly known as Saint Thomas Military Mendota Heights is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly In 1977 he earned both an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines Harvard Business School ( HBS) is a renowned Business school in the United States Juris Doctor (abbreviated JD or JD, from the Latin, Teacher of Law) is a first professional graduate degree and Professional Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional Graduate schools of Harvard University. The Harvard Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. During the second term of Ronald Reagan from 1986 to 1988, he served in the White House as Senior Associate Counsel to the President. See also Executive Office of the President of the United States The White House, formerly known as the Executive Mansion, is the Official residence
From 1977 to 1986, Cox was first an associate and then partner with the international law firm of Latham & Watkins. Latham & Watkins LLP is a prominent global law firm It is one of the largest law firms in the world currently employing more than 2100 attorneys in the US Europe the Middle East At the time of his retirement in 1986 he was the Partner in Charge of the Corporate Department in the Orange County office, and served as a member of the firm's national management. Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States.
In 1984, Cox co-founded Context Corporation, which produced daily English reproductions of the leading state-controlled newspaper in the Soviet Union, Pravda. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Pravda (Правда "The Truth" was a leading Newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the The publication was used chiefly by U. S. universities and U. S. government agencies, and was eventually distributed to customers in 26 countries around the world. The company had no connection to the Soviet government.
In 1982–83, Cox took a leave of absence from Latham & Watkins to teach federal income tax at Harvard Business School. Latham & Watkins LLP is a prominent global law firm It is one of the largest law firms in the world currently employing more than 2100 attorneys in the US Europe the Middle East Harvard Business School ( HBS) is a renowned Business school in the United States
Congressional career
Cox was elected to Congress in 1988 from what was then California's 40th District. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. He was reelected eight more times from this Orange County-based district, which was renumbered as the 47th District in 1993 and the 48th District in 2003. Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
For 10 of his 17 years in the Congress, from 1995 to 2005, Cox served in the House Majority Leadership as Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, the fifth-ranking elected leadership position (behind the Speaker, the Majority Leader, the Majority Whip, and the Chair of the House Republican Conference). The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer&mdashor speaker &mdashof the United States House of Representatives. Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives are elected by their respective parties in a closed-door (private Caucus. A whip in the United States House of Representatives is a member of the party leadership who comes second in line after the party's Floor leader, which The House Republican Conference is an organization for Republicans in the United States House of Representatives. He was Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and also Chairman of the Select Committee on U. The US House Committee on Homeland Security is a Standing committee of the United States House of Representatives, the Lower house of Congress S. National Security that produced the Cox report, an indictment of Chinese espionage and of security failures at several U. The Report of the Select Committee on US National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, commonly known as the Cox Report Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES S. national laboratories. The United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and Technology Centers are a system of facilities and laboratories overseen by the United States Department of Energy
When Congress established the Bipartisan Study Group on Enhancing Multilateral Export Controls through federal legislation in 1999, Cox was tapped as co-chairman. The group published a unanimous report in 2001 recommending wholesale modernization of U. S. export controls. [1] In 1994 he was appointed by President Clinton to the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, which in 1995 published a unanimous report warning that the nation cannot continue to allow entitlement programs to consume a rapidly increasing share of the federal budget. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States [2] Cox also served as Chairman of the Select Committee on Homeland Security (the predecessor to the permanent House Committee); Chairman of the Task Force on Capital Markets; and Chairman of the Task Force on Budget Process Reform.
Among Cox's notable legislative successes is the Internet Tax Freedom Act, a 1998 law prohibiting federal, state, and local government taxation of Internet access and banning Internet-only levies such as email taxes, bit taxes, and bandwidth taxes. The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act was a United States law authored by Representative Chris Cox and Senator Ron Wyden, and signed From the inception of the Internet until the late 1990s the Internet was free of regulation by government in the United States at all levels and also free of any specially With U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) as his chief co-sponsor, Cox authored legislation in 1997 to privatize the National Helium Reserve, which was then $1. The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. Barnett "Barney" Frank (born March 31, 1940) is an American Politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives The National Helium Reserve, also known as the Federal Helium Reserve, is a strategic reserve of the United States holding over a billion cubic feet of Helium 4 billion in debt to taxpayers. As of 2004, this was the third-largest privatization in U. Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of business from the Public sector (government to the Private sector (business S. history, surpassing the value of the 1988 Conrail privatization. Consolidated Rail Corporation, also known as Conrail, began operations on April 1, 1976 as a federally funded takeover of the major railroad Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of business from the Public sector (government to the Private sector (business Cox also wrote the only law that was enacted over President Bill Clinton's veto, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, aimed at protecting investors from fraudulent and extortionate lawsuits. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States The United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA implemented several substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws
In 1989, Polish President Lech Wałęsa joined Cox in a Washington ceremony marking the enactment of Cox's legislation establishing the Polish-American Enterprise Fund. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Together with the Baltic-American Enterprise Fund, the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund, and seven other enterprise funds in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the Cox legislation, incorporated in the Support Eastern European Democracy (SEED) Act, matched U. Eastern Europe is a general term that refers to the Geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the European continent. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 S. foreign aid with venture capital in the newly free countries of the former Warsaw Pact. The Warsaw Pact (see Nomenclature) was an organization of Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe.
Personal information
In 1978, Cox was paralyzed from the waist down following a serious off-road Jeep accident in the rainforest on the Hawaiʻian island of Molokaʻi. Paralysed redirects here For other uses see xx Paralysed (disambiguation Paralysis is the complete loss of Muscle function Jeep is an Automobile Marque (and registered trademark of Chrysler. The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the Molokai (also Molokai) is an Island in the Hawaiian archipelago. He eventually regained the ability to walk, but wore a harness of steel bars and leather straps for six months. He still has two metal screws in his back, and according to a 2005 Fortune magazine profile, “has been in pain every day for the past 27 years. Fortune is a Global Business Magazine published by Time Inc's Fortune|Money Group ”[3] Since he can't sit for extended periods of time, he has a special desk that allows him to work while standing.
Cox's sister, 11 months younger, died on Easter Sunday as the family was preparing to go to church. She had been standing behind the family station wagon as Cox's father backed the car out of the driveway. He didn't see her, and she was struck by the car and killed. [4]
As a contestant on the NBC-TV show Password Plus!, Cox won $5,000. Password Plus and Super Password are American Game shows that were revivals of the original CBS and ABC game [5] His two-day appearance in the 1980s was recently re-broadcast by the Game Show Network.
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References
- ^ http://www.stimson.org/exportcontrol/pdf/finalreport.pdf
- ^ United States: Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. Speculation abounded over potential nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States by George W The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress is a Biographical dictionary of all present and former members of the United States Congress as Final report; with reform proposals and additional views of commissioners, J. Robert Kerrey and John C. Danforth, co-chairs. Washington, DC : Supt. of Docs. (1995), Library of Congress Control Number 95143407.
- ^ Fortune, "The Stock Cop", Dec. 26, 2005
- ^ Id.
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External links
- Official Biography — SEC Website
- Christopher Cox Sworn in as SEC Chairman — SEC Press Release
- President Bush Nominates Congressman Cox as SEC Chairman — White House Press Release
- Speeches and Statements as SEC Chairman
- The changes I've seen — Farewell letter by Chris Cox in the Orange County Register
- Congressional
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
- Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
- Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
- Issue positions and quotes at On The Issues
- Staff salary data at LegiStorm. A news release, media release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded Communication directed at members of the News See also Executive Office of the President of the United States The White House, formerly known as the Executive Mansion, is the Official residence A news release, media release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded Communication directed at members of the News The Orange County Register is a daily Newspaper published in Santa Ana, California. The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress is a Biographical dictionary of all present and former members of the United States Congress as The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D The Federal Election Commission (or FEC) is an independent regulatory agency that was founded in 1975 by the United States Congress to regulate the The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP is a nonpartisan research group based in Washington D com
| United States House of Representatives | ||
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| Preceded by Robert Badham |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 40th District 1989–1993 |
Succeeded by Jerry Lewis |
| Preceded by New District |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 47th District 1993–2003 |
Succeeded by Loretta Sanchez |
| Preceded by Darrell Issa |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 48th District 2003–2005 |
Succeeded by John Campbell |
| Government offices | ||
| Preceded by William H. Donaldson |
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair 2005–Present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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