The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. It consists of 141 delegates elected from 47 districts. The House of Delegates Chamber is in the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis. The State House also houses the Maryland State Senate and the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the State of Maryland. Each delegate has offices in Annapolis,in the nearby Casper R. Taylor Jr. House Office Building.
The government of Maryland is conducted according to the Maryland Constitution. The United States is a federation;consequently,the government of Maryland,like the other 49 state governments,has exclusive authority over matters that lie entirely within the state's borders,except as limited by the Constitution of the United States.
The Maryland Senate,sometimes referred to as the Maryland State Senate,is the upper house of the General Assembly,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. Composed of 47 senators elected from an equal number of constituent single-member districts,the Senate is responsible,along with the Maryland House of Delegates,for passage of laws in Maryland,and for confirming executive appointments made by the Governor of Maryland.
Dennis F. Rasmussen is an American politician from the state of Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party,he has served as Baltimore County Executive,a Delegate within the Maryland House of Delegates as well as a Senator within the Maryland Senate. He ran unsuccessfully in the 2006 Maryland U.S. Senate election.
David R. Craig is an American Republican Party politician from the State of Maryland who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Governor of Maryland in 2014. He was appointed,and sworn in as Harford County Executive on July 7,2005. Craig was elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2010. Craig previously served in the Maryland State Senate in 1995–99 representing Harford County and in 1990-94 in the Maryland House of Delegates. He was also elected Mayor of Havre de Grace from 1985 to 1989 and 2001 to 2005. David was a teacher and assistant principal in the Harford County Public School System for thirty-four years.
Charles R. Boutin was an American attorney and politician who served in the Maryland House of Delegates from the 34A and 36th districts from 1999 to 2005,as a member of the Republican Party. Prior to his tenure in the state legislature he was active in local politics in Aberdeen,Maryland,with him serving on the city council and as mayor.
Richard F. Colburn,a Republican,is a former State Senator for District 37 in Maryland.
F. Vernon Boozer is an American politician who was a Republican member of the Maryland Senate from the 9th district from 1981 to 1999.
Alfred W. Redmer Jr. was a Maryland Insurance Commissioner and was the Republican nominee for County Executive of Baltimore County,Maryland in 2018. He formerly served as a legislator in the Maryland House of Delegates,representing District 8 in Baltimore County,prior to being appointed Maryland Insurance Commissioner in 2003.
John S. Arnick was an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He served in three separate spans of time as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates,representing Maryland's District 6 and District 7 in Baltimore County. He died in 2006 due to lung cancer.
Naaman Dale Anderson was a Maryland politician who held several positions,including Baltimore County Councilman,Baltimore County Executive,and Maryland State Delegate. Anderson was convicted and sentenced to prison in 1974 for tax crimes,extortion,and conspiracy.
William Smith James was a Maryland state politician. James was first elected to office as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing Harford County in 1946,and after serving two terms was elected to the Maryland Senate in 1954. He served in the Senate for a further two decades,from 1963 onwards as President of the Maryland Senate. Following his retirement from the state Senate in 1974,James was appointed State Treasurer,a position he held from 1975 through 1987. His daughter,Mary-Dulany James,was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 34A in Cecil and Harford Counties from 1999 until 2015.
Kevin B. Kamenetz was an American politician who was the 12th County Executive of Baltimore County,Maryland,serving between 2010 and May 10,2018,when he died suddenly while in office. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served as a four-term County Councilman representing the Second District of Baltimore County. On September 18,2017,Kamenetz declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the 2018 Maryland Gubernatorial Election.
Eileen M. Rehrmann is a Democratic politician from the State of Maryland,having served Harford County in several different elected positions.
Mary Eliza Watters Risteau was an American politician who was the first woman elected to both the Maryland House of Delegates and the Maryland State Senate.
Patrick G. Young Jr. is an American politician from Maryland who is currently a member of the Baltimore County Council,representing District 1. He was previously a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in District 44B from 2015 to 2022,and served as the Chair of the Baltimore County Delegation from 2018 to 2022.
Joseph Bartenfelder is an American politician and farmer from Maryland. He was appointed Secretary of Agriculture for Maryland by then-Governor-elect Larry Hogan in 2014.
Theodore G. Venetoulis was an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He served as the sixth Baltimore County Executive from 1974 to 1978. He ran for Governor of Maryland in 1978 but lost the Democratic primary election to Harry R. Hughes.
Cathi Forbes is an American politician of the Democratic Party who represents District 43B in the Maryland House of Delegates. Governor Larry Hogan first appointed her to succeed former state delegate Stephen Lafferty in 2019,in what was then District 42A. She was then elected to a four-year term in 2022,representing District 43B,which was drawn based on the 2020 Census.
Marlon D. Amprey is an American politician who has served as member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 40 since 2021.
