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

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Early life and career

Oxley was born in

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, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from

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in 1966 and a

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degree from

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in 1969. He was a member of the Alpha chapter of the

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fraternity at Miami. From 1969 to 1972, Oxley worked for the

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and became active in the Ohio Republican Party. He served in the

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from 1973 to 1981.

Congress

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 June 1981 in the

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. 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-

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regulations of publicly traded companies."Carney, Timothy (2010-01-11
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'' The Washington Examiner'' He was also the House sponsor of a 2006 bill that condemned media outlets that had published information on a covert financial surveillance system. Oxley announced his retirement from Congress on November 1, 2005, effective at the end of his term in 2007. He was succeeded by Republican

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Post-congressional career

Following his retirement from Congress, Oxley was named a nonexecutive vice chairman for

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, and a partner at the law firm of BakerHostetler in Washington, D.C. He later became a lobbyist for the

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, the "self-regulatory body of the securities industry." Oxley, a non-smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer around 2006, and became a member of the Lung Cancer Alliance board. He died in

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, on January 1, 2016, from the disease.

Honors

The Findlay

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is named for Oxley and the portion of U.S. Route 30 within Hancock County is designated "Congressman Michael G. Oxley Memorial Highway".

References

External links

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