She was a leader of her party’s centrist wing and helped negotiate the New START accord with Russia.
By Harrison Smith Harrison Smith Obituary writer Email Bio Follow April 30 at 2:19 PM Ellen Tauscher, a moderate California Democrat who was elected to seven terms in the U.S. House, then resigned in 2009 to join the State Department as a senior arms-control adviser to President Barack Obama, died April 29 at a hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. She was 67.
A former investment banker and stockbroker, Ms. Tauscher was elected to the House in 1996, representing an eastern swath of San Francisco suburbs. She said she drew on her Wall Street experience to cut deals, often across the aisle, and developed a reputation for bipartisanship, eventually serving as chairwoman of the centrist New Democrat Coalition.
She chaired the armed services committee’s strategic forces subcommittee and, after the Democrats took control of the House in 2006, often served as Speaker pro tempore, presiding over contentious debates on climate change, covert wiretapping and the 2008 financial bailout. Ms. Tauscher was elected to seven terms in the U.S. House. As undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, she was credited with playing a key role in arms-reduction talks with Russia, which culminated with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in 2010.
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