18 Facts About Bart Chilton

Bartholomew Hamilton Chilton was an American civil servant.

Bart Chilton was Commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2007 to 2014.

Bart Chilton was the author of the investment fraud book, Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists Are Ripping Off America.

Bart Chilton exposed manipulation practices in commodities markets and went on record as wanting to prosecute violations of law, which he believed had taken place in the silver market.

Bart Chilton was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and grew up in Ogden Dunes, Indiana.

Bart Chilton's great-great-grandfather was William Parish Chilton and his great-great-uncle was Thomas Chilton, who both served in government.

Bart Chilton began attending Purdue University in 1979, majoring in political science and communications but left one semester before graduating to work on Democratic Party 1984 political campaigns.

Bart Chilton worked in the US House of Representatives from 1985 to 1995, where he was legislative director for three members of Congress and was the executive director of the Congressional Rural Caucus.

Bart Chilton later worked in the executive branch during the Bill Clinton and George W Bush administrations, where he became the deputy chief of staff to US Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman and served as a liaison to the US Department of Agriculture.

Bart Chilton was one of the five CFTC commissioners from August 2007, when he was confirmed by the US Senate after having been nominated by President Bush.

Bart Chilton was the chairman of the CFTC's Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee.

Bart Chilton was re-nominated by President Barack Obama and re-confirmed by the Senate in 2009.

Bart Chilton had one of the senior investigators from the CFTC's enforcement division contact Maguire.

Bart Chilton believed violations of law have taken place in the silver futures market and said he wanted to see prosecutions.

In July 2013, Bart Chilton replaced outgoing Commissioner Jill Sommers as Chair of the Global Markets Advisory Committee.

Bart Chilton joined RT America in 2018 as host of Russian network's financial television show Boom Bust.

Bart Chilton died from complications of pancreatic cancer on April 27,2019, at a hospital in Washington, DC.

Bart Chilton was married to Sherry Daggett Bart Chilton, and in his last years lived in Gulf Breeze, Florida.