Larry Hogan

Larry Hogan is an American politician and businessman who served as the 62nd governor of Maryland from 2015 to 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party and the son of three-term congressman Lawrence Hogan. Hogan also served as the chair of the National Governors Association from 2019 to 2020. Prior to his governorship, he campaigned unsuccessfully for Maryland's 5th congressional district in 1981 and 1992. Hogan served in the cabinet of governor Bob Ehrlich as Maryland Secretary of Appointments from 2003 to 2007. In 2011, he founded the Change Maryland organization, which he used to promote his successful 2014 gubernatorial campaign. Hogan campaigned as a moderate Republican and was reelected in 2018, becoming Maryland's first two-term Republican governor since Theodore McKeldin. He was term-limited from running for a third term in 2022.