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Michael Oxley

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United States Representative for Ohio 4th congressional district from 1981 to 2007, a former FBI agent who chaired the House Financial Services Committee from 2001. In 2002, following the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals, he was the House sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, cosponsored in the Senate by Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes, which overhauled corporate financial reporting and auditor oversight in the United States.

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Role
Lawmaker (United States Representative from Ohio, 1981 to 2007; chairman, House Financial Services Committee); co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 1
Nationality / Jurisdiction
United States; federal securities and corporate-governance law 1
Born
1944 1
Birthplace
Findlay, Ohio, United States 1
Died
2016 1
Place of Death
McLean, Virginia, United States 1
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Legislated within the federal common law system of the United States, the same nationality-jurisdiction convention already used for John Marshall.

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1. Mike Oxley (Wikipedia)
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Wikipedia)
Works Attributed: Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)View the Source
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