The 2018 Ohio gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next governor of Ohio, concurrently with the election of Ohio's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections t
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Richard Adams Cordray 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 Democrati
2018 Ohio gubernatorial election
…and former U.S. senator Mike DeWine, while Democrats nominated former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director and former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray. This was the second contest between DeWine and Cordray, following the 2010 attorney general election, which DeWine won, 47.5% to 46.3%. In 2018, DeWine…
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Cordray campaigning for Barack Obama on October 13, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio
President Obama announcing the nomination of Cordray as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on July 18, 2011