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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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RoleLawmaker (United States Representative from Ohio, 1981 to 2007; chairman, House Financial Services Committee); co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 1 Nationality / JurisdictionUnited States; federal securities and corporate-governance law 1 BirthplaceFindlay, Ohio, United States 1 Place of DeathMcLean, Virginia, United States 1 Classification
Field of LawCommercial and Business Law 1 Role
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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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House sponsor.
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Michael Garver Oxley (February 11, 1944, January 1, 2016) was an American Republican politician and attorney who served as a U.S. representative from the 4th congressional district of Ohio.
- co-sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (financial/securities regulation)
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