54 Facts About Richard Cordray

Richard Adams Cordray was born on May 3,1959 and is an American lawyer and politician serving as the COO of Federal Student Aid in the United States Department of Education.

Richard Cordray served as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2012 to 2017.

Richard Cordray was the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio in 2018.

Richard Cordray was raised near Columbus, Ohio and attended Michigan State University.

Richard Cordray was a Marshall Scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford and then attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review.

Richard Cordray was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1990.

Richard Cordray was elected Franklin County treasurer in 2002 and reelected in 2004 before being elected Ohio State Treasurer in 2006.

Richard Cordray was elected Ohio Attorney General in November 2008 to fill the remainder of the term ending in January 2011.

In 2010, Richard Cordray lost his bid for reelection to former US Senator Mike DeWine.

Richard Cordray became Director of the CFPB via recess appointment in July 2011 and was confirmed by the Senate in 2013.

Richard Cordray left the agency in late 2017 to run for governor of Ohio, an election he lost to DeWine.

Richard Cordray was born in Columbus, Ohio, the middle child between brothers Frank Jr.

At Grove City High School, Richard Cordray became a champion on the high school quiz show In The Know and worked for minimum wage at McDonald's.

Richard Cordray graduated from high school in 1977 as co-valedictorian of his class.

Richard Cordray was a member of the Oxford University Men's Basketball Team and earned a Varsity Blue in 1983.

Richard Cordray began his career by clerking for Judge Robert Bork of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States.

From 1989 to at least 2000, Richard Cordray taught various courses at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and Georgetown University.

In 1990 Richard Cordray ran for an Ohio State House of Representatives seat, in the 33rd district, against six-term incumbent Republican Don Gilmore.

Unable to be elected in another district due to a one-year residency requirement, Richard Cordray opted not to run for reelection.

Richard Cordray's platform included federal spending cuts, term limits for Congress and a line-item veto for the president.

Richard Cordray, who had earlier worked for a summer in the office of the United States solicitor general, was the first Solicitor to be appointed, in September 1993.

Richard Cordray held the position until he resigned after Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher was defeated by Betty Montgomery in 1994.

Richard Cordray contested the Ku Klux Klan's right to erect a cross at the Ohio Statehouse after the state's Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board denied the Klan's request during the 1993 Christmas holiday.

Richard Cordray argued that the symbolic meaning of the cross was different from the Christmas tree and menorah, which the state permits.

The United States Supreme Court did not agree to hear arguments on the topic until a few weeks after Richard Cordray resigned from his solicitor general position.

Richard Cordray was granted a ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court that lower courts could not grant a stay of execution for a death row inmate.

In late 1996 Richard Cordray, who was in private practice at the time, was a leading contender and finalist for a United States attorney position during the second term of the Clinton administration, along with Kent Markus and Sharon Zealey.

Richard Cordray entered the US Senate elections in a race that began as a three-way contest for the Democratic nomination to oppose first-term Republican incumbent Mike DeWine.

Ohio Democratic party leaders believed Richard Cordray was better suited for an Ohio Supreme Court seat and urged him to drop out of the Senate race.

Richard Cordray was trailed by McMickle with 204,811 votes, Cordray with 200,157, and Radakovich with 69,002.

Richard Cordray was unopposed in the May 7,2002, primary election for the Democratic nomination as Franklin County treasurer.

Richard Cordray defeated Republican incumbent Wade Steen, who had been appointed in May 2001 to replace Bobbie M Hall.

Richard Cordray was the first Democrat to hold the position since 1977, and he assumed office on December 9,2002, instead of after January 1 because he was filling Hall's unexpired term.

Richard Cordray served as president of the Board of Revision and chair of the Budget Commission.

Richard Cordray defeated Republican nominee Sandra O'Brien for state treasurer in the 2006 election.

Richard Cordray succeeded Jennette Bradley in a near-statewide sweep by the Democratic Party.

Richard Cordray noted that when he assumed statewide office, Ohio was challenged with restoring public trust after the misdeeds of former Ohio Governor Bob Taft.

Richard Cordray announced his 2008 candidacy for Ohio state attorney general on June 11,2008.

Richard Cordray had a large financial advantage over his opponents, with approximately 30 times as much campaign financing as Crites.

Richard Cordray believes that Marsh was the organizing company for the illegal practices and noted that a trial could commence in 2011.

On November 2,2010, Richard Cordray lost his reelection bid to former US senator Mike DeWine by two points.

Richard Cordray was repeatedly mentioned as a potential 2014 candidate for governor of Ohio, but after being confirmed to a five-year term to head the CFPB, he declined to run.

On July 17,2011, Richard Cordray was selected over Warren as the head of the entire CFPB, but his nomination was immediately in jeopardy because 44 Senate Republicans had previously vowed to derail any nominee in order to push for a decentralized structure to the organization.

On July 21,2011, Senator Richard Cordray Shelby wrote an op-ed article for The Wall Street Journal affirming continued opposition to a centralized structure, noting that both the Securities Exchange Commission and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation had executive boards and that the CFPB should be no different.

Politico interpreted Shelby's statements as saying that Richard Cordray's nomination was "Dead on Arrival".

Republican groups including American Rising Squared and Congressman Jeb Hensarling filed complaints that Richard Cordray had violated the Hatch Act by considering a run for governor of Ohio while serving as the Director of the CFPB, but the United States Office of Special Counsel cleared Richard Cordray of any wrongdoing.

Richard Cordray has said that after President Trump was inaugurated, Trump and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney worked to undermine Richard Cordray and the CFPB.

On November 15,2017, Richard Cordray announced his resignation as director of the CFPB, sparking a legal dispute over who would succeed him as acting director.

On December 5,2017, Richard Cordray announced his candidacy for governor of Ohio in the 2018 election.

Richard Cordray won the Democratic primary on May 8,2018, and faced Republican challenger and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine in the general election.

On July 11,1992, Richard Cordray married Margaret "Peggy" Richard Cordray, a law professor at Capital University Law School.

Richard Cordray's father retired as an Orient Developmental Center program director for intellectually disabled residents after 43 years of service.

Richard Cordray was a social worker, teacher and founder of Ohio's first foster grandparent program for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Richard Cordray carried the Olympic Flame through Findlay, Ohio, as part of the nationwide torch relay to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia and has served as a member of the Advisory Board for the Friends of the Homeless and part of Al Gore's select group known as Leadership '98.