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Michael Oxley

Also Known As Mike 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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
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
Classification
Field of Law
Commercial and Business Law 1
Gender
Male 1
Role
Role (category)
Lawyer 1
Role (category)
Politician 1
Connections

In Legal System

Legislated within the federal common law system of the United States, the same nationality-jurisdiction convention already used for John Marshall.

Source Mike Oxley (Wikipedia)

Works Attributed

House sponsor.

Source Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
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1. Mike Oxley (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    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)
  • In Legal System: Common Law
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Wikipedia)
Works Attributed: Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)View the Source
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