Richard Cordray

Cordray represents a kind of public service that rarely gets applause: building institutions for people with little leverage. A Marshall Scholar who studied at Oxford, he became the founding director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, standing up an entire agency meant to shield ordinary borrowers from predatory finance. Being the first to run something is harder than inheriting it, and he did that after stints as Ohio's attorney general, solicitor general, and treasurer. Later he steered the vast federal student aid operation. He reads to me as a substance-over-spectacle operator, the sort who quietly designs the rules that protect the weaker side. I find that easy to trust.

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Name (English)

Richard Cordray

Name (Japanese)

リチャード・コードレイ

Reading

りちゃーど・こーどれい

Born

May 3, 1959 (age 67)

Origin

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Occupation

lawyer / politician / treasurer / jurist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Boar

High school

Grove City High School

University

Brasenose College

Awards & achievements

• Marshall Scholarship

• Official sitehttps://cordrayforohio.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/RichCordray
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Cordray
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2032949

Tags

• Ohio
• lawyer
• politician
• treasurer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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