Ohio Republican Party Chairman Robert Bennett urged Montgomery to run for the job of state auditor.
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He won the general election in November 2006 by defeating Ohio State Auditor Betty Montgomery, a former attorney general.
Cordray, who served under then-Attorney General Lee Fisher until Betty Montgomery won the position in 1994, argued a technical criminal case on Halloween day in 1993 when the post was created.