Larry Hogan

Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. (born May 25, 1956) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 62nd governor of Maryland from 2015 to 2023. A moderate Republican, he previously served as Maryland secretary of appointments from 2003 to 2007. Hogan also served as chair of the National Governors Association from 2019 to 2020. Hogan, the son of three-term congressman Lawrence Hogan, unsuccessfully campaigned for Maryland's 5th congressional district in 1981 and 1992, the latter of which was incumbent Steny Hoyer's closest race. He then served in the cabinet of governor Bob Ehrlich as Maryland Secretary of Appointments, from 2003 to 2007. In 2011, Hogan founded the Change Maryland organization, which he used to promote his 2014 gubernatorial campaign. He was elected governor in 2014, defeating Democrat Anthony Brown, and took office on January 21, 2015. He was reelected in 2018, defeating Democrat Ben Jealous, to become Maryland's first two-term Republican governor since Theodore McKeldin. Hogan was term limited from running for a third term in 2022 and was succeeded for governor by Democrat Wes Moore; he left office on January 18, 2023. Throughout his tenure, Hogan ranked among the most popular governors in the country. He was initially seen as a likely contender for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, but he declined to seek the nomination. Hogan was born in 1956 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Landover, Maryland, attending Saint Ambrose Catholic School and DeMatha Catholic High School. He moved to Florida with his mother after his parents divorced in 1972 and graduated from Father Lopez Catholic High School in 1974. Hogan is the son of Nora (Maguire) and Lawrence Hogan Sr., who served as U.S. Representative from Maryland's 5th congressional district from 1969 to 1975 and as Prince George's County executive from 1978 to 1982. Hogan Sr. was the first Republican member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to call for Richard Nixon's impeachment.