Drawing on his business experience, Stitt promises to reshape state government - NewsOK.com

While Stitt said campaigning across the state was a difficult challenge, he expects the job of governor to be fairly similar to his private sector career.

"Turning the state around takes setting vision and leading a team, and that's what I've done my whole life," Stitt said.

Sarah Stitt said her husband is well suited to run the state.

"He loves leading a team and setting aggressive goals. He is taking his normal leadership qualities to the (governor's) office," she said. "He is in his element."

John Kevin Stitt

Age: 46

Born: Milton, Florida

Home: Tulsa

Raised in Norman

Father was a pastor, grandfather owned a dairy farm in Skiatook 

Wife: Sarah (Hazen) Stitt

Married: 1998

Children: Natalie, 18; Drew, 16; Kate, 13; Piper, 11; Remington, 8; and Houston, 4

Education: Graduate of Norman High School and Oklahoma State University (accounting degree)

Business: Founded Gateway Mortgage Group in 2000

Election success

Republican Primary (Top Two Advance)

Mick Cornett (29.3 percent), Kevin Stitt (24.4 percent), Todd Lamb (23.8 percent)

Republican Runoff

Kevin Stitt (54.6 percent), Mick Cornett (45.4 percent)

General Election

Kevin Stitt (54.3 percent), Democrat Drew Edmondson (42.2 percent), Libertarian Chris Powell (3.5 percent)

28th Governor of Oklahoma

6th Republican

First governor since David Walters in 1991 not to have held elective office previously

First citizen of Cherokee Nation to be elected governor of Oklahoma

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