He played hurling with his local club Erin's Own and with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team in the early years of the 20th century.
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He is the great-grandfather of Walker Stapleton, who was elected Colorado Treasurer in 2010, and the grandfather of Craig Roberts Stapleton, former U.S. ambassador to France and the Czech Republic.
He clerked for Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and for Chief Judge John F. Gerry of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
His son, Patrick, is a member of the State Liquor Control Board.
Thomas J. Stapleton, former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives