Corey Stapleton
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| Secretary of State of Montana | |
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Assumed office January 2, 2017 |
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| Governor | Steve Bullock |
| Preceded by | Linda McCulloch |
| Member of the Montana Senate from the 27th district |
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In office January 2001 – January 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Bruce Crippen |
| Succeeded by | Gary Branae |
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September 17, 1967 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Terry Stapleton |
| Education | United States Naval Academy (BS) |
| Website | Campaign website |
Corey Stapleton (born September 17, 1967) is the Secretary of State of Montana. He is a Republican and was a Montana State Senator from 2001 to 2009.
Stapleton was born in Seattle, Washington. He was adopted as an infant and lived in Idaho Falls, Idaho until age 2 and then moved to Great Falls, Montana in 1969. His parents are Toby and Avis Stapleton. His father is a retired architect and colonel in the Army reserve from Lewistown, Montana. Mother was a teacher of home economics, from Livingston, Montana.
Stapleton enlisted in the United States Navy’s Nuclear Power Program through the Delayed Entry Program at the end of his junior year of high school, and went to boot camp in Orlando, Florida, the following year after graduation in 1986.
In Orlando, Stapleton earned the Honor Recruit award in his boot camp company. Nominated by the Secretary of the Navy, he attended the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, Rhode Island. Serving as battalion adjutant and earning the Most Inspirational Wrestler Award, he entered the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Stapleton earned a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering. He served as a Surface Warfare Officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and the Aegis cruiser USS Hué City (CG-66). He voluntarily resigned his naval commission in 1997 to work in Billings, Montana, as a financial advisor.
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