President Obama has tapped Richard Cordray to head the nascent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), leaving everyone wondering, “Who’s Richard Cordray?”

Obama’s pick has a low national profile, but he has a long political history in his native Ohio, where’s he’s been a faithful Democrat. Before becoming the state attorney general in 2009, Cordray was Ohio’s state treasurer, state solicitor and a Democrat member of the Ohio House of Representatives.