Christopher Stout

Christopher Paul Stout (born October 7, 1965) is an accountant from Salt Lake City, Utah and Democratic Party candidate for election to the United States Senate in 2010. Stout filed to run on March 16, 2010. He lost the nomination to Sam Granato on May 8, 2010 at the State Democratic Nominating Convention receiving 22.5% of the delegate votes.
Biography
Stout was born in Salt Lake City on October 7, 1965 to Harry R. and JoAnn Stout. He was raised in the Olympus Cove area of Salt Lake City with his three sisters and four brothers until 1977 when the family moved to Sandy.
He attended Alta High School and competed in speech and debate, graduating in 1984. After the summer of his senior year, Chris enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve and attended basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and trained as a radioteletype operator at Fort Gordon, Georgia. Later that year he married the former Jennifer Sells, and had two daughters, Mercedes Pierce (1985) and Heather Stout (1986).
Stout served an Active Guard Reserve (AGR) position as a U.S. Army Reserve Recruiter in Ogden, Utah from 1988 until 1990 when his father died. He left active duty to provide accounting support for the family business. Stout, his wife and children moved to Portland, Oregon in 1992, where he attended Portland Community College briefly. He returned to Utah the following year, and divorced in 1994. His mother died in 1995.
Stout obtained an Associate Degree in Business from Salt Lake Community College in 1997 while working as a bookkeeper for a family business. From 1997 to 2003, Stout was employed as a sales tax accountant for a Utah MLM. In 1999, Stout returned to the University of Utah to complete his accounting degree part-time. That same year, he converted to Roman Catholicism. Stout founded SalesTaxSolutions.US in 2005 , a sales and use tax consulting firm in Salt Lake City.
His daughter, Mercedes, is married to Joshua Pierce, and they have two children, Gage (2005) and Maggie (2008). Stout lives and works in the Millcreek area of Salt Lake County.

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