Craig Roberts Stapleton (born 1945) is an American diplomat and businessman. He served as Ambassador to France and the Czech Republic during the administrations of President

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Biography

Early life

Craig Stapleton was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Katherine Histed Hall and Benjamin Franklin Stapleton Jr. His grandfather, Benjamin F. Stapleton, was a politician who served five terms as mayor of

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. He received his secondary school education at Phillips Exeter Academy and a B.A. (magna cum laude) from

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. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. His wife, Dorothy Walker Stapleton, is a

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of former

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George H. W. Bush.

Career

Stapleton served as President of Marsh and McLennan Real Estate Advisors of New York from 1982 until 2001. From 1989 to 1998 Stapleton co-owned the Texas Rangers

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team with

. He has served on the board of directors for several companies including Allegheny Properties,

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, TB Woods, Winston Partners and Abercrombie & Fitch. In July 2009, he became a co-owner of the

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. Under George H.W. Bush, Stapleton sat on the Board of the

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. During the first administration of George W. Bush he served as Ambassador to the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

. In 2004, he was the

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State Chairman for the Bush- Cheney reelection campaign. From 2005-2009 he was Ambassador to France. Stapleton is a Senior Advisor to Stone Point Capital and a Director of Tenax Aerospace. He serves on the boards of the Vaclav Havel Foundation, the American Friends of Compiegne, the United Way Tocqueville of France, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, the World War I Centennial Commission, and the Trust for the National Mall. He is a Trustee of the American University in Paris, the CERGE-EI Foundation, and the Fishback Foundation. He has served on the Visiting Committee for Harvard College Athletics and the Committee on University Resources and Athletics.

Personal life

He and his wife live in North Palm Beach, Florida and have two adult children; his son

Walker Stapleton Walker Stapleton (born April 15, 1974) is an American politician who served two terms as Colorado's State Treasurer from 2011 to 2019. Stapleton was the Republican nominee for Governor of Colorado in the 2018 election, which he lost to Democrat J ...

was elected

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in 2010.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stapleton, Craig Roberts Living people 1945 births Ambassadors of the United States to the Czech Republic Ambassadors of the United States to France Ambassadors of the United States to Monaco American real estate businesspeople Bush family Connecticut Republicans Harvard Business School alumni People from Greenwich, Connecticut Phillips Exeter Academy alumni 21st-century American diplomats