Paul R. Carey; Clinton Advisor and SEC Commissioner

Paul R. Carey, 38, a Securities and Exchange commissioner who was previously a key aide to President Clinton, died Thursday of endocrine cancer at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.

Carey was an investment banker before joining the Clinton-Gore campaign as a fund-raiser in 1991. As congressional liaison for Clinton, Carey specialized in finance and banking issues. He also helped shepherd nominees through the Senate confirmation process and offered advice to the president on judicial appointments.

Named by Clinton to the SEC in 1997, Carey became the commission's point man with Congress on the privatization of Social Security.

One of 14 children of former New York Gov. Hugh Carey and his wife Helen Owen Carey, Paul Carey graduated from Colgate University.