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Steven Richard Keaton is married to Elyse Keaton, and father of 4 children: Alex, Mallory, Jennifer and Andy. Steven is the general manager of WKS. Steven is portrayed by Michael Gross.

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According to the Pilot, he worked for Richard Nixon for a few weeks in 1960 in order to impress a Young Republican named Sandra Fudderman. However, this is contradicted by later episodes, which suggest that he and Elyse met in high school and that he was still a minor in 1960.

Steven was raised in a cold and unemotional manner by Jacob Keaton, who viewed affection as a sign of weakness.[1]

Steven worked at the Paradise Hotel in Atlantic City in the summer of 1959, before he met Elyse.[2]

Steven attended college in Berkeley, where his GPA was about 3.248.[3] He and Elyse were engaged at eighteen and married at twenty,[4] in May 1964.[5] They served in the Peace Corps in Africa during their college years. Alex was born in 1965, ten months into their time there. As of Mallory's birth in 1967, Steven was still a student at Berkeley.[6] He has a master's degree.[7]

Steven and Elyse were involved in political activism and the hippie movement in the 1960s. As of Have Gun, Will Unravel, they've been to seven peace rallies, plus one that they thought was for peace but was actually for legalizing prostitution. They've been arrested three times, were involved in 15 subversive political protests between 1966 and 1973,[8] and spent the Democratic National Convention of '68 in jail.[9] They also danced naked in the rain at Woodstock. One of their arrests was during a protest in front of the Justice Department. Before they were taken away, Steven told Elyse, "The day I pick up a weapon against another man is the day I admit defeat as a human being." On the same day, they beat the National Guard 6-1 in a frisbee tournament.[10]

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In Elyse D'Arc, Steven wins the Midwest Regional Murray Award for Outstanding PBS Documentary for "The Egret's Regret."

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