Walker Stapleton (born April 15, 1974) is an American politician who served two terms as Colorado's state treasurer from 2011 to 2019.

[1] Stapleton was the Republican nominee for Governor of Colorado in the 2018 election, which he lost to Democrat Jared Polis.

[3][4] Walker was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, attending the private Brunswick School.

[11] He subsequently was CEO and CFO of various private and publicly traded companies, until assuming office as Colorado Treasurer in 2011.

[12] In early 2018, Stapleton, then running for governor of Colorado, was accused by fellow candidate Steve Barlock of paying off the History Colorado Center to remove mention of the family's ties with the white supremacy movement and the beginnings of the Ku Klux Klan in America from their exhibitions.