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Decorated Navy SEAL who became the award-winning author and CEO of The Mission Continues, which was founded to support veterans and their families.

He was deployed four times on missions in the War on Terror. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star medals, among other decorations.

He published a book of essays and photographs about humanitarianism and a memoir of his days in the military service, which also laid out his personal philosophy.

He married wife Sheena Elise Chestnut in 2011.

He appeared on several news programs and on The Colbert Report, where he talked about his nonprofit organization and his intensive military training.

At 508 days, Greitens’s gubernatorial tenure is the 10th-shortest in Missouri history. Among elected governors, his tenure is the shortest of any Missouri governor since 1861, and the fourth-shortest overall (behind only Frederick Bates, Claiborne Fox Jackson, and Trusten Polk).

Missouri SB43, which brings standards for lawsuits in Missouri in line with 38 other states and the federal government. The bill requires the use of the “motivating factor” standard for employment discrimination cases. The “motivating factor” standard is used by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in analyzing claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Greitens was born on April 10, 1974, in St. Louis, Missouri, a son of Becky and Rob Greitens. He was raised in his mother’s Jewish faith; his father is Catholic. Greitens’s mother retired as an early childhood special education teacher in St. Ann, Missouri, for the Pattonville School District. His father, also retired, was an accountant in St. Louis for the Department of Agriculture. Greitens graduated from Parkway North High School. He grew up as a Democrat.

Eric Robert Greitens (/ˈ ɡ r aɪ t ə n z / ; born April 10, 1974) is an American politician, humanitarian, author, and former Navy SEAL who was the 56th governor of Missouri from January 2017 until his resignation in June 2018.

Before graduating from Duke in 1996, Greitens was selected as a Rhodes and a Truman Scholar. He went on to attend Lady Margaret Hall, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, where he earned a master’s degree in development studies in 1998 and a doctorate in 2000. Greitens is a former Senior Fellow at the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri.

Greitens matriculated at the United States Navy’s Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Florida, in January 2001, graduating in May of that year as an ensign in the United States Navy Reserve. He then began Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEAL (BUD/S) training in Coronado, California, graduating with Class 237 in February 2002.

Greitens released funding for biodiesel facilities that was originally withheld because of concerns that state revenues could fall short. The released $4 million was the amount necessary to pay off a backlog of subsidies called for under a 2002 state law that provided incentives for biodiesel plants that began operating by 2009. Fox 2 St. Louis reported that members of the soybean industry said that releasing the incentives “helped launch the industry.”

Greitens’s marriage to his first wife ended in divorce in 2003.

In 2005 President George W. Bush appointed Greitens as a White House Fellow. As a White House Fellow he worked in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and developed a new program to assist with rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina: the Universities Rebuilding America Partnership (URAP), a $5.6 million effort to engage architecture and engineering students in the continued effort to rebuild New Orleans. During his time as a White House Fellow he co-founded the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll Program.

During a deployment in Thailand, Greitens learned of drug use by Navy personnel and initiated an investigation that led to their removal. In the Philippines Greitens’s crew effectively shut down a transit site for a terrorist organization, according to an evaluation report. Greitens spent three months in charge of a 50-person unit in Manda Bay, Kenya, near the Somali border. He left full-time active duty to take a one-year White House fellowship, where he developed a program to get architecture and engineering students involved in rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina. Greitens simultaneously remained in the Navy Reserves, leading a program that recruited high-level advisers for special military operations around the world. After his fellowship, he volunteered for a six-month tour in Iraq that began in October 2006.

As CEO of The Mission Continues, Greitens worked without a salary in 2007–08. Later he received compensation between $150,000 and $200,000. Daniel Borochoff, president and founder of CharityWatch, which evaluates nonprofit organizations, said that Greitens’s wages “seem within a reasonable range”; the AP reported that his salary was about one-third higher than the $131,000 median compensation for chief executives of 237 medium-sized charities in the Midwest. In a 2016 interview Borochoff cited Greitens’s PhD and military experience as a possible reason for his slightly above-average salary.

On March 28, 2007, two suicide bombers detonated trucks carrying chlorine gas at the Fallujah government complex where Greitens and other military personnel were sleeping. The attack was the seventh chlorine bombing in the Al Anbar province of Iraq by al Queda. Greitens was among about 15 who were wounded. “The attack began at 6:33 a.m. with mortar fire, followed by two truck bombs and small arms fire. Iraqi Police identified the first suicide attacker and fired on the truck, causing it to detonate before reaching the compound,” according to a Multinational Forces West press release. “Iraqi Army soldiers spotted the second suicide truck approaching the gate and engaged it with small arms fire, causing it to also detonate near the entrance of the compound.” Greitens received a Purple Heart after sustaining injuries from the bombing.

On October 3, 2008, President George W. Bush awarded Greitens the President’s Volunteer Service Award outside Air Force One at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri, for his work at The Mission Continues.

Greitens’s first book, Strength and Compassion (2008), is a collection of photographs and essays with a foreword by Rwandan humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina and an introduction by Bobby Muller, cofounder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Photographs by Greitens were placed on display in the exhibition “Strength and Compassion” at the International Photography Hall of Fame (IPHF) in December 2014. Strength and Compassion was recognized as ForeWord magazine’s Photography Book of the Year and the grand prize winner of the 2009 New York Book Festival.

In 2009, Greitens received the HOOAH Award, commissioned by the Major George A. Smith Memorial Fund and presented by the National Conference on Citizenship to recognize “a notable veteran who defines their citizenship through service to our country”. He was also named the 2010 Reader of the Year by Outside magazine.

In June 2010, Major League Baseball and People announced Greitens as a winner in People’s All-Stars Among Us competition. He was selected to represent the city of St. Louis and the Cardinals at the 2010 All-Star Game in Anaheim, California.

From 2010 to 2012, Washington University in St. Louis’s Center for Social Development, in collaboration with The Mission Continues, conducted a study involving nearly 500 veterans in more than 400 nonprofit organizations in 42 states. Its aim was to assess the perceived personal, social and family impacts of participating in the organization’s Fellowship Program. “The results show that volunteering with The Mission Continues can help vets reengage in their communities and can increase their well-being,” wrote Nancy Morrow-Howell, co-author and Faculty Associate, Center for Social Development, Washington University.

He married Sheena Elise Chestnut on August 7, 2011, in Spokane, Washington, and they have two sons. Sheena Greitens is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri, focused primarily on China and North Korea.

On April 11, 2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published Greitens’s second book, The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL. The Heart and the Fist is Greitens’s memoir, featuring stories of his humanitarian work, his training as a naval officer and SEAL and the military experiences that led him to adopt the philosophy that one has to be strong to do good but also has to do good to be strong. The book ranked 10th on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction in May 2011, debuting on the St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance Best Sellers list at No. 1 for the week of April 17, 2011. The following year, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt also released a young adult edition, The Warrior’s Heart.

Greitens rose to be a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserve. During his active duty career, he was deployed four times, to Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and Southeast Asia. He was the commander of a joint special operations task unit, a Mark V Special Operations Craft detachment, and an al-Qaeda targeting cell. He was awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and the Combat Action Ribbon. In 2011 the Association of the U.S. Navy named Greitens its Naval Reserve Junior Officer of the Year.

On May 20, 2012, Greitens was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Tufts University when he gave the commencement speech at the school’s 156th commencement. That same year he received the Bronfman Prize, which recognizes dynamic leaders whose innovation and impact serve as inspiration for the next generations.

Greitens ended a longstanding state policy against using tax dollars to aid religious groups. His decision came a week before the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer. The lawsuit challenged a 2012 decision by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to deny the Columbia church a grant to replace the gravel on its playground with softer, safer material. Greitens instructed the Department of Natural Resources to allow religious organizations to apply for and be eligible to receive those grants.

On April 18, 2013, Time named Greitens to its list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2014 Fortune featured him as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.

Born and raised in St. Louis, Greitens received a doctorate from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar. During his four tours of duty as a U.S. Navy SEAL officer, he rose to the rank of lieutenant commander, commanded a unit targeting Al-Qaeda, and was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Later, after being a White House Fellow, Greitens founded a nonprofit organization, The Mission Continues, to benefit veterans. In 2013, Time included him in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

After returning from Iraq, Greitens used his combat pay and the disability pay of two friends to start The Mission Continues, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to “challenge veterans to serve and lead in communities across America”. It encourages veterans to heal themselves through public service by engaging in volunteer organizations across the country. In 2014 it won the CLASSY Award for its effectiveness in active-duty and veteran services. Greitens stepped down as CEO in July 2014 and resigned from the board of directors in 2015.

In 2015, Greitens had an extramarital affair with his hairstylist. In December 2016, before Greitens took office, Sheena Greitens was robbed at gunpoint at a St. Louis-area coffee shop. She was unharmed. Three suspects, ages 14, 15 and 19, were arrested a short time later. Eric Greitens said at the time that he was glad “the men and women of law enforcement found these young men before I did.” After the incident, Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain John Hotz said the patrol would begin providing security for Sheena Greitens. The patrol provided security for the governor-elect immediately after the election, but Hotz said security detail for the spouse typically begins only after a governor takes office.

In 2015, Greitens had an extramarital affair with his hairstylist. In December 2016, before Greitens took office, Sheena Greitens was robbed at gunpoint at a St. Louis-area coffee shop. She was unharmed. Three suspects, ages 14, 15 and 19, were arrested a short time later. Eric Greitens said at the time that he was glad “the men and women of law enforcement found these young men before I did.” After the incident, Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain John Hotz said the patrol would begin providing security for Sheena Greitens. The patrol provided security for the governor-elect immediately after the election, but Hotz said security detail for the spouse typically begins only after a governor takes office.

In 2015, Greitens—who was a Democrat in his early years—wrote a Fox News editorial announcing that he had become a Republican. He said he had been raised in the tradition of Harry Truman and had even been recruited as a Democratic candidate for Congress, but was pushed rightward after seeing the Department of Veterans Affairs fail to help many of his brothers in arms. He recalled being angered at how the Democrats’ only solution was to “spend more money” on the VA. “The problem is that most Democrats seem to think more money and bigger government are the solutions to virtually every single problem,” he wrote. He said he believed Democrats no longer had the right ideas to stand up for the middle class.

In March 2015 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt released Greitens’s book Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life. It draws on letters Greitens wrote to a fellow SEAL struggling with PTSD.

After having been a Democrat during his early life, Greitens announced in 2015 that he had become a Republican. He ran for governor of Missouri as a Republican in 2016. Greitens prevailed over three opponents in the Republican primaries and then defeated Democratic state Attorney General Chris Koster in the general election. One of Greitens’s signature accomplishments in office was signing Missouri’s right-to-work law, which was later repealed by statewide referendum.

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