Max Maxfield is the Republican

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 Secretary of State of Wyoming

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Biography

A native of Janesville

Janesville, Wisconsin

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, Wisconsin

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, Maxfield graduated from Janesville High School

Joseph A. Craig High School

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 in 1963. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point

University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point

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 and University of Wisconsin–Whitewater.

Maxfield was previously a YMCA

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 director, director of the Wyoming Recreation Commission, and the first appointed director of the Wyoming Department of Commerce. Maxfield was also the executive director of the Wyoming Make-A-Wish Foundation

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 and a financial consultant for nonprofit agencies in and outside Wyoming. He is a Paul Harris

Paul P. Harris

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 Fellow of Rotary International

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He was elected State Auditor in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. He was elected secretary of state in 2006.

Maxfield and his wife, Gayla, a clinical social worker, have four adult children and two grandchildren. He is a member of the First United Methodist Church of Cheyenne.