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Governor of Maryland

Index Governor of Maryland

The Governor of Maryland heads the executive branch of the government of the State of Maryland, and is the commander-in-chief of the state's National Guard units. [1]

87 relations: American Civil War, American Revolution, Annapolis, Maryland, Anthony G. Brown, Architecture, Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Baron Baltimore, Base Realignment and Closure, Blair Lee III, Bob Ehrlich, Boyd Rutherford, Cabinet (government), Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, Chief executive officer, Chief Justice of the United States, Chief of staff, Commander-in-chief, Comptroller of Maryland, Constitution of Maryland, Damnatio memoriae, Democratic Party (United States), Executive (government), Federal architecture, Frederick County, Maryland, George Orwell, Georgian architecture, Government House (Maryland), Government of Maryland, Governor, Head of government, Head of state, History of Maryland, House of Hanover, Jennings House (Annapolis, Maryland), John C. Wobensmith, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Kingdom of England, Kristen Cox, Larry Hogan, Leonard Calvert, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, Lillian M. Lowery, Line-item veto, List of colonial governors of Maryland, List of counties in Maryland, List of current United States governors, List of English monarchs, Marvin Mandel, Maryland, ..., Maryland Constitution of 1776, Maryland Constitution of 1864, Maryland Defense Force, Maryland General Assembly, Maryland gubernatorial elections, Maryland Military Department, Maryland Senate, Maryland State Department of Education, Maryland State House, Maryland State Police, Michael Steele, National Guard of the United States, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Notary public, Off-year election, Pardon, Parris Glendening, President of the United States, Proprietary governor, Province of Maryland, Republican Party (United States), Resignation, Rhode Island, Richard Nixon, Roger B. Taney, Spiro Agnew, The Washington Post, Thomas Johnson (jurist), United States, United States midterm election, United States Naval Academy, United States Senate, Veto, Vice President of the United States, Victorian architecture, Visual impairment, Washington, D.C.. Expand index (37 more) »

American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.

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Annapolis, Maryland

Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County.

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Anthony G. Brown

Anthony Gregory Brown (born November 21, 1961) is an American lawyer and politician, who is currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 4th congressional district.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Attorney General of Maryland

The Attorney General of Maryland is the chief legal officer of the State of Maryland in the United States and is elected by the people every four years with no term limits.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Baron Baltimore

Baron Baltimore, of Baltimore Manor in County Longford, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Base Realignment and Closure

Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) is a process by a United States federal government commission to increase United States Department of Defense efficiency by planning the end of the Cold War realignment and closure of military installations.

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Blair Lee III

Francis Preston Blair Lee III (May 19, 1916 – October 25, 1985), popularly known as Blair Lee III, was an American Democratic politician.

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Bob Ehrlich

Robert Leroy Ehrlich Jr. (born November 25, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 60th Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007.

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Boyd Rutherford

Boyd Kevin Rutherford (born April 1, 1957) is an American Republican politician from Maryland who is the ninth and current Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, serving since January 21, 2015.

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Cabinet (government)

A cabinet is a body of high-ranking state officials, typically consisting of the top leaders of the executive branch.

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Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore

Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675), was the first Proprietor of the Province of Maryland, ninth Proprietary Governor of the Colony of Newfoundland and second of the colony of Province of Avalon to its southeast.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Chief Justice of the United States

The Chief Justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and thus the head of the United States federal court system, which functions as the judicial branch of the nation's federal government.

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Chief of staff

The title chief of staff (or head of staff) identifies the leader of a complex organization, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a principal staff officer (PSO), who is the coordinator of the supporting staff or a primary aide-de-camp to an important individual, such as a president or a senior military officer.

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Commander-in-chief

A commander-in-chief, also sometimes called supreme commander, or chief commander, is the person or body that exercises supreme operational command and control of a nation's military forces.

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Comptroller of Maryland

The Comptroller of Maryland, United States, currently Peter Franchot, is the state's thirty-third chief financial officer, elected by the people to a four-year term.

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Constitution of Maryland

The current Constitution of the State of Maryland, which was ratified by the people of the state on September 18, 1867, forms the basic law for the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Damnatio memoriae

Damnatio memoriae is a modern Latin phrase literally meaning "condemnation of memory", meaning that a person must not be remembered.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Executive (government)

The executive is the organ exercising authority in and holding responsibility for the governance of a state.

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Federal architecture

Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815.

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Frederick County, Maryland

Frederick County is located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.

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Government House (Maryland)

Government House, also known as the Governor's Mansion, is the official residence of the Governor of Maryland.

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Government of Maryland

The government of Maryland is conducted according to the Maryland Constitution.

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Governor

A governor is, in most cases, a public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign or sub-national level of government, ranking under the head of state.

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Head of government

A head of government (or chief of government) is a generic term used for either the highest or second highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, (commonly referred to as countries, nations or nation-states) who often presides over a cabinet, a group of ministers or secretaries who lead executive departments.

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Head of state

A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona that officially represents the national unity and legitimacy of a sovereign state.

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History of Maryland

The recorded history of Maryland dates back to the beginning of European exploration, starting with the Venetian John Cabot, who explored the coast of North America for England in 1498.

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House of Hanover

The House of Hanover (or the Hanoverians; Haus Hannover) is a German royal dynasty that ruled the Electorate and then the Kingdom of Hanover, and also provided monarchs of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1800 and ruled the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from its creation in 1801 until the death of Queen Victoria in 1901.

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Jennings House (Annapolis, Maryland)

Jennings House, located in Annapolis, Maryland, was the residence of the Governors of Maryland from 1777 until 1870, when it was replaced by Government House.

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John C. Wobensmith

John C. Wobensmith is an American politician from Maryland.

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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend (born July 4, 1951) is an American attorney who was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003.

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Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England (French: Royaume d'Angleterre; Danish: Kongeriget England; German: Königreich England) was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the 10th century—when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms—until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Kristen Cox

Kristen Cox (born Kristen Eyring in 1969, Bellevue, Washington) is an American politician and former Executive Director for the Utah Department of Workforce Services, current executive director of Utah Governor's Office of Management and Budget.

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Larry Hogan

Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. (born May 25, 1956) is an American politician who currently serves as the 62nd Governor of Maryland, in office since January 2015.

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Leonard Calvert

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Lieutenant Governor of Maryland

The Lieutenant Governor of Maryland is the second highest-ranking official in the executive branch of the state government of Maryland in the United States.

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Lillian M. Lowery

Lillian M. Lowery is an American government official and educator who served as Superintendent of the Maryland State Department of Education in the Cabinet of Governors Martin O'Malley and Larry Hogan from July 2012 to September, 2015.

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Line-item veto

The line-item veto, or partial veto, is a special form of veto that authorizes a chief executive to reject particular provisions of a bill enacted by a legislature without vetoing the entire bill.

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List of colonial governors of Maryland

The following is a list of the colonial governors of the Province of Maryland.

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List of counties in Maryland

There are twenty-four counties and county-equivalents in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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List of current United States governors

The following is a list of incumbent governors of the states and territories of the United States as well as the Mayor of the District of Columbia.

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List of English monarchs

This list of kings and queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, one of the petty kingdoms to rule a portion of modern England.

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Marvin Mandel

Marvin Mandel (April 19, 1920 – August 30, 2015) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th Governor of Maryland from January 7, 1969 to January 17, 1979, including a one-and-a-half-year period when Lt. Governor Blair Lee III served as the state's acting Governor in Mandel's place from June 1977 to January 15, 1979.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Maryland Constitution of 1776

The Maryland Constitution of 1776 was the first of four constitutions under which the U.S. state of Maryland has been governed.

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Maryland Constitution of 1864

The Maryland Constitution of 1864 was the third of the four constitutions which have governed the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Maryland Defense Force

The Maryland Defense Force (MDDF) is the state defense force for the state of Maryland.

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Maryland General Assembly

The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland that convenes within the State House in Annapolis.

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Maryland gubernatorial elections

The following is a list of elections for the position of Governor of Maryland since the American Civil War.

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Maryland Military Department

The Maryland Military Department (MMD) is a department of the state of Maryland directed by MAJ GEN Linda Singh, adjutant general of Maryland.

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Maryland Senate

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.

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Maryland State Department of Education

Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) is a division of the state government of Maryland in the United States.

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Maryland State House

The Maryland State House is located in Annapolis, Maryland and is the oldest U.S. state capitol in continuous legislative use, dating to 1772.

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Maryland State Police

The Maryland State Police (MDSP), officially the Department of Maryland State Police (MSP), is the official state police force of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Michael Steele

Michael Stephen Steele (born October 19, 1958) is an American conservative political commentator and former Republican party politician.

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National Guard of the United States

The National Guard of the United States, part of the reserve components of the United States Armed Forces, is a reserve military force, composed of National Guard military members or units of each state and the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, for a total of 54 separate organizations.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.

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Notary public

A notary public (or notary or public notary) of the common law is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, and foreign and international business.

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Off-year election

An off-year election is a general election in the United States which is held in odd-numbered years when neither a presidential election nor a midterm election takes place.

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Pardon

A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be absolved of guilt for an alleged crime or other legal offense, as if the act never occurred.

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Parris Glendening

Parris Nelson Glendening (born June 11, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 59th Governor of Maryland from January 18, 1995 to January 15, 2003.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Proprietary governor

A proprietary governor is an individual authorized to govern a proprietary colony.

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Province of Maryland

The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Resignation

A resignation is the formal act of giving up or quitting one's office or position.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Roger B. Taney

Roger Brooke Taney (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864.

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Spiro Agnew

Spiro Theodore "Ted" Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th Vice President of the United States, serving from 1969 to his resignation in 1973.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Thomas Johnson (jurist)

Thomas Johnson (November 4, 1732 – October 26, 1819) was an 18th century American judge and politician.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States midterm election

Midterm elections in the United States are the general elections held in November of even-numbered years not divisible by four, and thus near the midpoint of a president's four-year term of office.

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United States Naval Academy

The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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Veto

A veto – Latin for "I forbid" – is the power (used by an officer of the state, for example) to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation.

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Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States (informally referred to as VPOTUS, or Veep) is a constitutional officer in the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States as the President of the Senate under Article I, Section 3, Clause 4, of the United States Constitution, as well as the second highest executive branch officer, after the President of the United States.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Visual impairment

Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Governor (Maryland), Maryland Governor.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Maryland

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