| LC control no. | n 95114131 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tauscher, Ellen O. |
| Variant(s) | O'Kane, Ellen, 1951-2019 |
| Birth date | 1951-11-15 |
| Death date | 2019-04-29 |
| Place of birth | Newark (N.J.) Newark (N.J.) |
| Place of death | Palo Alto (Calif.) Stanford (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Child care services Investment banking United States--Politics and government Arms control Security, International |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House United States. Department of State New York Stock Exchange Child Care Registry |
| Profession or occupation | Investment bankers Legislators Public officers International relations specialists |
| Found in | The childcare sourcebook, c1996: CIP t.p. (Ellen O. Tauscher) Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher WWW home page, viewed 12-12-02 (represents 10th Distr., Calif.; author of The childcare sourcebook) Congressional directory website (107th Congress), viewed 03-24-04 (Ellen Tauscher; b. Nov. 15, 1951; represents 13th Distr., Calif.) Washington post WWW site, viewed May 1, 2019 (Ellen Tauscher, a moderate California Democrat who helped blaze a trail for women in finance and was elected to seven terms in the U.S. House, then resigned in 2009 to join the State Department as a senior arms-control adviser to President Barack Obama, died April 29 [2019] in Palo Alto, Calif. She was 67. A former investment banker and stockbroker, Ms. Tauscher was one of the first women to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. Ms. Tauscher formed the ChildCare Registry to help parents research the backgrounds of care providers. Elected to the House in 1996, she represented an eastern swath of San Francisco suburbs. As undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, she was credited with playing a key role in arms-reduction talks with Russia. In February 2012, she took a newly created part-time position, serving for several months as the State Department's special envoy for strategic stability and missile defense. Ellen O'Kane was born in Newark on Nov. 15, 1951. Her marriages to William Tauscher and James Cieslak ended in divorce) Biographical directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, viewed May 1, 2019 (TAUSCHER, Ellen O'Kane, a Representative from California; born in Newark, Essex County, N.J., November 15, 1951; B.S., Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J., 1974; investment banker, New York Stock Exchange, 1977-1979; founder, Child Care Registry, Inc., 1992; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses until her resignation on June 26, 2009 (January 3, 1997-June 26, 2009); Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, U. S. Department of State, 2009-2012; Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense, U. S. Department of State, 2012; died on April 29, 2019, in Stanford, Calif.) |
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