Steve Duprey
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| Steve Duprey | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Location: | Concord, N.H. |
| Education: | •New College •Cornell University Law School •Harvard University |
| Website: | Official website |
| Prior Experience | |
| Former national committeeman for the Republican Party of New Hampshire | |
Stephen "Steve" Duprey is a former national committeeman for the Republican Party of New Hampshire, a former New Hampshire state legislator, Republican congressional candidate, and advisor to 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain. Duprey is the president and CEO of Foxfire Property Management Company in Concord, New Hampshire.[1][2]
Duprey was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from New Hampshire. Duprey was one of three delegates from New Hampshire bound by state party rules to support John Kasich at the convention.[3] Kasich suspended his campaign on May 4, 2016. At the time, he had approximately 156 bound delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates.
Career
Duprey was elected to the New Hampshire General Court, the state's legislative body, in 1972 at the age of 19. He served two terms as a state legislator while earning an undergraduate degree in public policy from New College in 1974. Following his tenure in the state legislature, Duprey earned a J.D. from Cornell University Law School in 1978. He later became a partner in the law firm of Sulloway, Hollis, and Soden in Concord, New Hampshire.[4][5]
In 1981, Duprey founded Foxfire Property Management Company, a commercial and residential property management company based in Concord, New Hampshire. He left his law practice with Sulloway, Hollis, and Soden in 1986 in order work full-time in property management. Foxfire operates as a subsidiary of The Duprey Companies, an overarching real estate organization that oversees property management, real estate development, and hotel management subsidiaries. Duprey continues to serve as Foxfire's president and CEO.[4][6]
Duprey completed a mid-career certificate program in real estate development and management from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2013.[6]
Politics
Since the early 1970s, Duprey and his wife, Susan, have participated in more than 30 state- and national-level Republican political campaigns. Duprey gained early campaign experience in 1972 as a volunteer during former Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey's New Hampshire presidential primary race. That same year, Duprey was elected to the New Hampshire General Court at the age of 19 and became the youngest state legislator in the United States. He served two terms in the state legislature but campaigned unsuccessfully for a New Hampshire congressional seat in 1992.[2][5]
Duprey has worked as the finance committee chair for a number of Republican political candidates, including former U.S. Senator Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), former Congressman Bill Zeliff (R-N.H.), and U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.). Duprey also served as an advisor to U.S. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) during his 2008 presidential campaign.[2][5]
Duprey served as the chair of the Republican Party of New Hampshire (NH GOP) from 1992 to 1995 and from 1997 to 2001. During his time as the state party chair, Duprey served as a member of the executive committee of the Republican National Committee (RNC) from 1997 to 2001. He was first elected as the NH GOP's national committeeman to the RNC in 2011 and won re-election to a four-year term in 2016.[7][8]Duprey resigned on January 25, 2020, after losing re-election for an additional term.[9]
For the 2016 election cycle, Duprey was appointed chairman of the Republican National Committee’s Debate Committee, whose task it was to decide when, where, and on what networks the Republican presidential debates would take place.[10] Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus described the committee as being "responsible for implementing the new GOP debate policies in the 2016 presidential election."[10]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Duprey was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from New Hampshire.
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Duprey was a member of the RNC Rules Committee, a 112-member body responsible for crafting the official rules of the Republican Party, including the rules that governed the 2016 Republican National Convention.[11]
Appointment process
The convention Rules Committee in 2016 consisted of one male and one female delegate from each state and territorial delegation. The Rules of the Republican Party required each delegation to elect from its own membership representatives to serve on the Rules Committee.
Delegate rules
In New Hampshire, presidential candidates were required to submit lists of preferred delegates prior to the state primary election on February 9, 2016. After the primary, if a candidate was allocated any delegates, he or she was allowed to select an official delegate slate from the list they submitted prior to the primary. New Hampshire delegates were bound on all ballots. Delegates were to be released and unbound if a candidate "withdraws" from the race.
New Hampshire primary results
| New Hampshire Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
35.6% | 100,735 | 11 | |
| John Kasich | 15.9% | 44,932 | 4 | |
| Ted Cruz | 11.7% | 33,244 | 3 | |
| Jeb Bush | 11.1% | 31,341 | 3 | |
| Marco Rubio | 10.6% | 30,071 | 1 | |
| Chris Christie | 7.4% | 21,089 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 4.2% | 11,774 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 2.3% | 6,527 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul* | 0.7% | 1,930 | 0 | |
| Total Write-ins | 0.5% | 1,398 | 0 | |
| Jim Gilmore | 0% | 134 | 0 | |
| Totals | 283,175 | 22 | ||
| Source: New Hampshire Secretary of State | ||||
*Rand Paul dropped out of the race on February 3, 2016, but his name remained on the ballot in New Hampshire.[12]
Delegate allocation
New Hampshire had 23 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, six were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's two congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; each candidate who won at least 10 percent of the statewide vote was entitled to receive a share of New Hampshire's district delegates.[13][14]
Of the remaining 17 delegates, 14 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; each candidate who won at least 10 percent of the statewide vote was entitled to receive a share of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[13][14]
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See also
- New Hampshire
- Republican Party of New Hampshire
- Republican National Committee
- New Hampshire General Court
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "New Hampshire Leadership," accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Boston Globe, "Couple is mainstay of Republican politics in N.H.," September 1, 2011
- ↑ NH SOS, "Republican Delegates and Alternates to 2016 National Convention," accessed May 3, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Foxfire Property Management Inc., "Key personnel," accessed April 23, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Newsweek, "McCain's court jester," August 8, 2008
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 LinkedIn, "Steve Duprey," accessed April 23, 2016
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Steve Duprey," accessed April 23, 2016
- ↑ CBS Boston, "At state’s convention, NH Republicans call for party to unite around Trump," June 4, 2016
- ↑ The Hill, "Conservative activist wins contest to represent New Hampshire at Republican National Convention," January 25, 2020
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 GOP, "RNC Elects 2016 Debate Committee," August 8, 2014
- ↑ Ballotpedia's list of 2016 RNC Rules Committee members is based on an official list from the Republican National Committee obtained by Ballotpedia on June 24, 2016
- ↑ Politico, "Rand Paul drops out of White House race," February 3, 2016
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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