About Your Representative Michael More
"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth
and pursue it steadily." - George Washington
My family roots are in the Upper Midwest where my nine siblings and I grew up and were educated in the public school system. Athletics were a major component of our youth activities and we rapidly learned the tough lessons of the school of hard knocks playing football, baseball, and hockey, both recreationally and in local school leagues.Our additional spare time was spent working our family paper route and various summer jobs to pay for our personal expenditures (in many large Mid-western families such as our own during the ‘70’s and early 80’s the
idea of an allowance was only a fantasy).
At the age of eighteen my parents shipped me off to Santa Clara, California sight unseen to attend the University of Santa Clara and develop my own identity outside the immediate environment of our nuclear family. Santa Clara proved to be both extremely exciting and academically challenging while also a dynamic environment for personal growth. As is the case with many undergraduates, I pondered the many choices of a possible major before settling on Political Science in my sophomore year.
Having done so, I was then poised to make the most of Santa Clara’s foreign studies program, and traveled to London, England and Vienna, Austria in the fall and winter of 1983 to study for two semesters. While in London I was blessed to participate in a Parliamentary internship and wrote a rather sobering report on tactical nuclear weapons for the MP under whom I was working. As a deviation from our studies at the London School of Economics and the University of London, my fellow students and I took in many theatrical matinees and enjoyed at least a pint or two of Britain’s finest brews. Vienna proved to be a similarly exciting locale for those of us in Political Science studies, and at the Easter break I was able to participate in a fascinating ten day trip behind the Iron Curtain to Poland which solidified my appreciation of how truly blessed we are to live in this great country that is America due to the freedoms our forefathers guaranteed to us in the remarkable document that is the Constitution.
After graduating from college in the spring of 1985, I returned to Chicago for a short time with the intention to work paying off my school loans before the allure of the West drew me back to the Wasatch Range in Salt Lake City and a seasonal position at Snowbird Resort that offered great powder skiing. Little did I know at the time that I would spend the next ten years working in the Ski Industry with another opportunity to reside in Europe while participating in an employee exchange program to Zermatt, Switzerland in 1988. Having worked my way up from concierge to a position in the sales and marketing office, I traveled throughout the U.S. representing Snowbird at both trade and consumer ski shows, before learning of a sales opening at Big Sky Resort in 1991. By August of that year I had relocated to the “Last Best Place” where, apart from a 
couple of extended sojourns, I have lived ever since.
My travels in both Europe and America throughout college and my young adult years served to adequately convince me that there is no better, nor more beautiful state in the union than Montana! Between its excellent fishing, hunting, and unlimited outdoor recreational opportunities, its friendly and warm-hearted residents, and the many opportunities that exist for those unafraid to embrace the American work ethic, the Big Sky State is a wonderful and singular place in which to make one’s residence. Seeing it as such, I bought a two acre lot just southof Gallatin Gateway in 1993. I designed and built a log home there from the ground up between 1996 and 2001, fulfilling a dream I’d had since childhood. I have worked in real estate, sales, and in the construction trades since moving to Gallatin County seventeen years ago. I have also studied both philosophy and Catholic theology at the post-graduate level and hope to teach in some capacity in the near future.
In closing, I am eager to represent Montana in the 2009 Legislature to ensure that theprinciples of self-governance guaranteed by both our state and federal constitutions are protected and that the freedom of all Montanan’s to decide the future for themselves remains a hopeful possibility. I thank you for both your moral and financial support and, more importantly, for your prayers and encouragement for those of us who seek to reclaim a conservative political perspective from the many assaults it currently finds itself under. May God bless us all!
Michael More - Education Curriculum Vitae:
- University of Santa Clara: Political Science Major; Semester Internship in U.K. Parliament
- Mt. Angel Seminary: Philosophical Studies, 2004 -2005
- Holy Apostles College : Masters in Theology, 2010