Ellen Tauscher

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Ellen Tauscher

Ellen O'Kane Tauscher (born November 15, 1951 in Newark , New Jersey , † April 29, 2019 in Stanford , California ) was an American politician . Between 1997 and 2009 she represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives . From 2009 to 2012 she was in the United States Department of State as United States Under Secretary of State responsible for arms control and international security.

Career

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

In the 1996 congressional election , Tauscher was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of California , where she succeeded William P. Baker on January 3, 1997 . After six re-elections, she could remain in Congress until her resignation on June 26, 2009 . During her time as Congresswoman, the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , the Iraq war and the military operation in Afghanistan fell . She originally supported the Iraq war. She later changed her mind and called for the withdrawal of American troops.

Tauscher's resignation came after her appointment to the State Department, headed by Hillary Clinton . She was there between 2009 and 2012 as the successor to John Rood Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs . Since February 2012 she was the special envoy for strategic stability and missile defense in the State Department . Ellen Tauscher was divorced and remarried in 2009. She has a daughter born in 1991.

Ellen Tauscher died in late April 2019 at the age of 67 years at a pneumonia .

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