Blog Break 1: Capitol Watch Series by The Montana Review
Shortly after Governor Gianforte was elected, The Montana Review posted an online series written by MacKenzie Dexter in 2021 and updated in December 2022. Just Facts MT is taking a spring break and sharing the Capitol Watch series with updated financials in future blogs.
Here is a direct link to Part 1: Early Years
In the coming months, the Montana State Legislature will convene under a Republican Administration for the first time in 16 years. Governor Greg Gianforte will sit at the leadership helm of the new administration where he will take charge of making public policy for the 1,069,000 people happy to call Montana’s rows of cobalt mountains and wide sky home.
Before Gianforte became a political leader in Montana, holding a seat in Congress after building a number of prosperous high-tech businesses, he was an all-American boy in the outer suburbs of the city of Philadelphia.
The New Governor's Pennsylvania Roots
Born in San Diego, California to Frank Gianforte and Dale Douglass Gianforte on April 17, 1961, Greg Gianforte spent most of his childhood in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, one of many strands of suburbs laced around Philadelphia. A community sprung from colonial America, King of Prussia is now home to one of the largest shopping malls in the country.
Gianforte left quite a legacy in sports and school government at Upper Merion Area High School (UMAHS) before moving on to Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. In New Jersey, he was involved in successful software company start-ups until 1995 when he brought his family to Montana, a place Gianforte says he grew to love after visiting Big Sky Country on a school trip as a young man.
While many Montanans have heard the story of the Bozeman tech entrepreneur-turned-politician before, the deeper story of his life and its fine details have usually been lacking… Continuing reading Part 1: Early Years
Source: The All-American Roots of Montana’s New Governor: Greg Gianforte’s Early Years
