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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (commonly known as the
SEC) is a United States government agency having primary responsibility for
enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities
industry/stock market. The SEC was created by section 4 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (now codified as and commonly referred to as the 1934
Act). In addition to the 1934 Act that created it, the SEC enforces the
Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment
Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and other statutes.
Christopher Cox is the current chairman of the SEC. He was appointed by
President George W. Bush.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.,
father of President John F. Kennedy, to serve as the first Chairman of the
SEC. For a full list of SEC chairs and commissioners, see: Securities and
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