| Chip Keating | |
| Office: | Oklahoma Secretary of Public Safety |
| Governor: | Kevin Stitt |
| Predecessor: | Rusty Rhoades |
| Successor: | Tricia Everest |
| Term Start: | February 21, 2019 |
| Term End: | December 31, 2020 |
| Birth Name: | Francis Anthony Keating III |
| Birth Date: | 1980/1981 |
| Father: | Francis Anthony Keating II |
| Mother: | Catherine Heller Keating |
Francis Anthony Keating III, better known as Chip Keating, is an American businessman who served as the Oklahoma Secretary of Public Safety between 2019 and 2020.
Francis Anthony Keating III was born to Francis Anthony Keating II and Catherine Heller Keating. He and his siblings were raised Catholic.[1] He worked for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol between 2001 and 2004.[2] Between August 2004 and March 2007 he worked as a commercial real estate broker for Trammell Crow Company. He graduated from Bishop McGuiness Catholic High School and Southern Methodist University before marrying Brittney Ann O’Kelley in October 2005.[3] The same year unsuccessfully ran for the Oklahoma House of Representatives. Between March 2007 and March 2010 he worked for Chesapeake Energy as the Real Estate Development Manager. He has owned Keating Investments since March 2010.[4]
Despite supporting Todd Lamb during the 2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election, Keating was appointed Oklahoma Secretary of Public Safety on February 21, 2019, by Governor Kevin Stitt.[5] He resigned December 31, 2020.[6] [7]
Chip Keating, along with Michael Mallick, raised $100,000 for the Advance Right political action committee in 2024. The PAC paid for anti-Greg McCortney mailers and he lost his reelection campaign.[8]