[2] Stanley Crooks served in the United States Navy during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Crooks was elected Chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in 1992, the same year that the tribe's Mystic Lake Casino opened on the reservation.
[3] Crooks defeated his cousin, the incumbent Chairman Leonard Prescott, who had overseen the construction of the casino, in the 1992 tribal election.
[2] The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux employs more than 4,100 people for its casino and non-casino related businesses, with a total payroll of more than $154 million, as of 2012.
[6] Stanley Crooks died of a heart attack at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee, Minnesota, on August 25, 2012, at the age of 70.