Ellen Tauscher

Ellen O'Kane exchanger ( * November 15, 1951 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American politician. Between 1997 and 2009, she represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 2009 to 2012 she was responsible in the State Department of the United States Under Secretary of State for arms control and international security.

Career

Ellen Tauscher visited to 1974 Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Then they went into the banking industry. Between 1977 and 1979 she worked for the New York Stock Exchange. She was also active in the field of child welfare and founded in 1992, the Child Care Registry, Inc. Politically, she joined the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1996 was exchanger in the tenth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of William P. Baker on January 3, 1997. After six elections could remain until her resignation on 26 June 2009 at the Congress. In her time as a Congressman, the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Initially, they supported the Iraq war. Later she changed her mind and demanded the withdrawal of American troops.

Exchanger resignation took place after their appointment to the Foreign Ministry, headed by Hillary Clinton. There she was between 2009 and 2012 as the successor of John Rood Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs. Since February 2012 she is responsible in the State Department as Special Ambassador for strategic stability and missile defense. Ellen Tauscher is divorced and remarried since 2009. She has a daughter born in 1991.