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Hal Stratton was appointed chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2002 by President Bush. Stratton's current term expires in October of 2006.
Stratton, an Oklahoma native, is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Oklahoma Law School. He served in the New Mexico House of Representatives from 1979 to 1986, where he was on the Judiciary Committee and the Energy and Natural Resources Commission. He was the attorney general of New Mexico from 1987 to 1990.
Stratton helped organize a group called Lawyers for Bush in 2000 in New Mexico. The same year, he co-founded the Rio Grande Foundation, an organization that promotes "limited government, free markets and individual responsibility," according to several news stories about it. He severed ties after being nominated to the CPSC.
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Sources
- Official CPSC Biography
- Thomson Hine
- Warning: Gas Generators Can Kill - article in St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 15, 2005
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