Mike Oxley

Mike Oxley
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 4th district
In office July 15, 1981 – January 3, 2007
Preceded by	Tennyson Guyer
Succeeded by	Jim Jordan
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 82nd district
In office January 3, 1973 – July 15, 1981
Preceded by	Robert Wilhelm
Succeeded by	Chuck Earl
Personal details
Born	February 11, 1944 (1944-02-11) (age 67) Findlay, Ohio
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Miami University Ohio State University
Occupation	FBI Agent
Religion	Lutheran

Michael Garver "Mike" Oxley (born February 11, 1944) is an American politician of the Republican party who served as a U.S. representative from the 4th congressional district of Ohio.

A member of the Lutheran church, Oxley was born in Findlay, Ohio and received a bachelor of arts degree from Miami University in 1966 and a law degree from Ohio State University in 1969. He is a member of the Alpha chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity at Miami.

From 1969 to 1972, Oxley worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and became active in the Ohio Republican Party, serving as a delegate numerous times in the 1970s. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981.

Oxley was elected a U.S. representative in 1981 in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of U.S. Representative Tennyson Guyer. Oxley began serving at this post in 1981 (97th Congress).^[1]

He served as the chairman of the Committee on Financial Services, and was House sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which enacted "sweeping post-Enron regulations of publicly traded companies."^[2] He was also the house sponsor of a 2006 bill that condemned media outlets that had published information on a covert financial surveillance system.^[3]

After facing the most difficult reelection campaign of his career in 2004, winning 59% of the vote, against Democrat Ben Konop, Oxley announced his retirement from Congress on November 1, 2005, effective at the end of his term in 2007. He was succeeded by Republican Jim Jordan.

Post-Congressional career

Following his retirement from Congress, Oxley became a lobbyist for NASDAQ, and a partner at the law firm of Baker Hostetler in Washington D.C..^[2] He is now a lobbyist for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the "self-regulatory body of the securities industry."^[4]

References

1. ^ Republican squeaks by in 4th District Congressional Race
2. ^ ^{a b} Carney, Timothy (2010-01-11) Regulate your way to riches: Michael Oxley, Washington Examiner
3. ^ House GOP Chastises Media
4. ^ Carney, Timothy (2011-03-22) Regulate your way to riches: Oxley's new big client, Washington Examiner

External links

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Interview on The BusinessMakers Show.

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Tennyson Guyer	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 4th congressional district June 25, 1981 — January 3, 2007	Succeeded by Jim Jordan
Political offices
Preceded by Jim Leach Iowa	Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee 2001–2007	Succeeded by Barney Frank Massachusetts

Persondata
Name	Oxley, Michael Garver
Alternative names
Short description	Ohio politician
Date of birth	February 11, 1944
Place of birth	Findlay, Ohio
Date of death	living
Place of death