Seth Wilbur Moulton was born on October 24, 1978, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of Lynn Alice (née Meader), a secretary, and Wilbur Thomas Moulton, Jr., a real estate attorney [REF].
Moulton joined the Marine Corps after graduation, a few months before the September 11 attacks,[REF] and attended the Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Virginia.