Federal Trade Commission

Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) U.S. antitrust law through the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly.

Other organisations that promote consumer protection include government organisations and self-regulating business organisations such as consumer protection agencies and organisations, the Federal Trade Commission in America and Better Business Bureaus in America, Canada, England, etc.

It is headquartered in the Federal Trade Commission Building in Washington, D.C.

The Federal Trade Commission Building is a federal building which serves as the headquarters of the Federal Trade Commission.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 established the Federal Trade Commission.

The new Federal Trade Commission would absorb the staff and duties of Bureau of Corporations, previously established under the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903.

The Bureau of Corporations, predecessor to the Federal Trade Commission, was created as an investigatory agency within the Department of Commerce and Labor in the United States.

Rohit Chopra is an American consumer advocate and a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission.

Joseph Simons is an American attorney currently serving as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.

Trusts and trust-busting were significant political concerns during the Progressive Era.

Many of today's U.S. regulatory agencies were created during these years, including the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.

Philip Elman (14 March 1918 – 30 November 1999) was an American lawyer at the United States Department of Justice and former member of the Federal Trade Commission.

Weinberger's entry into politics was as a California State Assemblyman from 1953 to 1959, and he would go on to serve as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Stephen J. Spingarn (1908–1984) was a mid-20th-century American lawyer and civil servant in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and (briefly) Dwight D. Eisenhower administrations, who last served as Special Counsel (1949) and Administrative Assistant to President Truman (1950) and lastly commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission (1950–1953) during transition to President Eisenhower.

The Federal Trade Commission Act was one of President Woodrow Wilson's major acts against trusts.

As the difficulty of banning all anti-competitive practices via legislation became clear, Wilson came to back legislation that would create a new agency, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to investigate antitrust violations and enforce antitrust laws independently of the Justice Department.

James Clifford "Jim" Miller III (born June 25, 1942, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former U.S. government official and economist who served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission between 1981 and 1985 and as Budget Director for President Ronald Reagan between 1985 and 1988.

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, he served one term as Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Christine A. Varney is an American lawyer, an internet policy and antitrust expert, and a data privacy advocate, who is most widely known as a former U.S. Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division for the Obama Administration, and as a Federal Trade Commissioner for the Clinton Administration.

Robert Pitofsky, (December 27, 1929 – October 6, 2018) was an American lawyer and politician who was the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission of the United States from April 11, 1995, to May 31, 2001.

John J. Carson was a 20th-century American politician who served in the Truman Administration as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission from 1949 to 1953.

Pamela LeDeyce Jones Harbour (born July 15, 1959) is an American lawyer and a former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), an agency of the United States Government.

Orson G. Swindle III (born March 8, 1937 in Thomasville, Georgia), a decorated Vietnam War prisoner of war, was a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission of the United States from December 18, 1997 to June 30, 2005.

Following the Supreme Court decisions against Standard Oil and American Tobacco in May 1911, the first version of a bill to establish a commission to regulate interstate trade was introduced on January 25, 1912, by Oklahoma congressman Dick Thompson Morgan.

He was once known as the "father of the Federal Trade Commission."

William Evan Kovacic was the Commissioner of the United States Federal Trade Commission from January 4, 2006 to October 3, 2011.

Jonathan David Leibowitz (born June 17, 1958) is an American lawyer who served as the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Deborah Platt Majoras is the former Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, appointed May 11, 2004, by President George W. Bush and sworn in on August 16, 2004.

As chairman of the Federal Trade Commission from 1977 to 1981 and a commissioner until 1984, he worked to strengthen the FTC's consumer protection powers.

John Thomas Rosch (October 4, 1939 – March 30, 2016) was an American lawyer and former Commissioner of the United States Federal Trade Commission (1/1/2006-1/11/2013).