Barbara Ann Mikulski is an American politician and social worker who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 1987 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,she also served in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987. Mikulski is the third-longest-serving female United States Senator,and the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Maryland history.
Martin Joseph O'Malley is an American lawyer and former politician who served as the 61st Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,he was the 48th Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007.
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.
The Maryland Republican Party is the Maryland state branch of the Republican Party (GOP),headquartered in Annapolis.
Jill Priscilla Carter is an American attorney and politician who represents Maryland's 41st legislative district of Baltimore City in the Maryland State Senate. She previously represented the same district in the Maryland House of Delegates. She was elected to the Maryland legislature in 2002 and took office in January 2003,resigning in 2017. She was appointed to the state Senate on May 4,2018.
Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr. is an American politician from Baltimore,Maryland,who once served in the Maryland House of Delegates and the Baltimore City Council and was a candidate in the 2007 mayoral election.
Frank M. Conaway Jr. is an American politician who represents the 40th legislative district in the Maryland House of Delegates. Conaway is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland.
Joan Carter Conway is an American politician who represented district 43 in the Maryland State Senate. She is the first African American woman to be appointed chairman of any of the standing committees in the Maryland Senate.
Douglas J. J. Peters is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the Maryland State Senate representing the 23rd district in Prince George's County from January 10,2007 to July 31,2021. In June 2021,Peters announced he wouldn't seek re-election in 2022;in July 2021,he was appointed to the unpaid University System of Maryland's Board of Regents and announced he would resign from the senate.
Obie Patterson is an American politician. He was previously a Democratic member of the Maryland Senate from the 26th district in Prince George's County. He served on the Prince George's County Council representing District 8,and in the Maryland House of Delegates representing the 26th district.
George W. Della was a politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Maryland. Trained as a lawyer,Della was appointed to the Maryland Senate in 1939 to represent a district in Baltimore and served until his retirement from politics. He served as President of the Maryland Senate from 1951 to 1955 and again from 1959 to 1963. Following his retirement in 1963,Della worked as a lobbyist for Baltimore Gas and Electric. His son,George W. Della,Jr.,was a member of the Baltimore City Council from 1976 to 1983 and the Maryland Senate representing South Baltimore from 1983 to 2010.
William Claiborne Ferguson IV is an American politician,attorney,and former schoolteacher. He is a Democratic member of the Maryland Senate,representing the 46th district since 2011,and serving as the President of the Maryland Senate since 2020. The district is composed of parts of Baltimore City.
The 2014 Maryland gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Maryland. Incumbent Democratic governor Martin O'Malley was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a third consecutive term.
David V. Fraser-Hidalgo is an Ecuadorian-born American politician and a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 15 in Montgomery County,Maryland. He was appointed to complete the term of Delegate Brian J. Feldman following Feldman's appointment to a Senate seat and has since been elected to his own full term.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Maryland took place on November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Maryland,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The 2018 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 6,2018. The date included the election of the governor,lieutenant governor,and all members of the Maryland General Assembly. Incumbent governor Larry Hogan and Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford,both Republicans,were re-elected to a second term against Democrat Ben Jealous,the former NAACP CEO,and his running mate Susan Turnbull.
The 2018 United States Senate election in Maryland took place on November 6,2018,in order to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Maryland. It was held concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Ben Cardin was re-elected to a third and ultimately final term by a landslide margin of almost 35 points.
Johnny Ray Salling is an American politician from Maryland from the Republican Party. He is currently serving as a Maryland State Senator representing District 6,which covers southeast Baltimore County,including Dundalk,Essex and Rosedale.
The 2020 Baltimore mayoral election was held on November 3,2020,concurrent with the general election. Brandon Scott won the Democratic Party's nomination for mayor and the general election.
Carl W. Jackson is a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 8,which is in Baltimore County,Maryland.
