Manuel F. Cohen (October 9, 1912 – June 16, 1977) served as chairman of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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between 1964 and 1969 and also served as a member from 1961 to 1969.
Born in
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
, he was a graduate of
Brooklyn College (B.S. 1933).
During his tenure, the breadth of the prohibitions against
insider trading, which had been developed earlier under Chairman
William L. Cary William Lucius Cary (1910–1983) served as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1961 and 1964.
Chairman Cary graduated from Yale University in 1931 and later served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the for ...
, grew substantially as the
SEC began to bring the key cases that developed the theories of
insider trading on which the SEC relies today.
His daughter Susan Cohen married future
United States federal judge
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Paul D. Borman in 1964.
References
External links
32nd Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission- THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION ON AUDITORS' RESPONSIBILITIES, Manuel F. Cohen (March 8, 1977)
Brooklyn College alumni
Members of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
People from Brooklyn
1912 births
1977 deaths
Kennedy administration personnel
Lyndon B. Johnson administration personnel
Nixon administration personnel
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