Richard Cordray

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Richard Adams Cordray (born May 3, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician who served from 2021 to 2024 as chief operating officer of Federal Student Aid in the U.S. Department of Education. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2012 to 2017 as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and previously as Ohio attorney general, solicitor general, and state treasurer. Cordray was the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Ohio gubernatorial election. Cordray was raised near Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from Michigan State University before studying at Brasenose College, Oxford, as a Marshall Scholar. He later earned a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review. Cordray was a five-time Jeopardy! champion in 1987. Cordray was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1990. After redistricting, he unsuccessfully sought election to the U.S. House of Representatives in...

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