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Larry Hogan
Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. is an American politician and businessman who served as the 62nd governor of Maryland from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party and son of three-term U.S. representative Lawrence Hogan, he served as co-chair of the centrist organization No Labels from 2020 to 2023. As of 2026, Hogan and Boyd Rutherford, his lieutenant governor, are the last Republicans to have w…
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business · Governor of Maryland from 2015 to 2023 · politician · businessperson · also Larry Hogan, Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr., Lawrence Hogan Jr., Gov. Lawrence Hogan Jr., Gov. Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr., Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.
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2026· 2 entries
The Baltimore Sun: Larry Hogan’s message is one we need on the national stage | STAFF COMMENTARY
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2024· 8 entries
Election lost: 2024 U.S. Senate election to Alsobrooks.
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Hogan told CNN that he would not vote for anyone in the presidential election, saying that he "never voted for anybody I didn't believe in"
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But was defeated by Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks in the general election on November 5, 2024
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Hogan filed and launched a campaign for the 2024 United States Senate election in Maryland, seeking to succeed retiring incumbent Democratic U
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“never voted for anybody I didn”
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Against Angela Alsobrooks, Hogan considered supporting Palestine to be "both-sideism"
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Campaign: 2024 U.S. Senate election.
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“s remarks were in the context of the Supreme Court”
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2023· 3 entries
By simultaneously shooting himself and being shot by an FBI agent during a confrontation in Knoxville, Tennessee
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“raised about $50 million to get [ballot] access in all 50 states as kind of an insurance policy”
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That he would not seek the Republican nomination for president in 2024
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2022· 7 entries
Published video “Governor Hogan Joins CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper”.
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Published video “Governor Hogan Appears on ABC's "This Week"”.
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Published video “Governor Hogan Joins "Good Morning New Hampshire with Jack Heath"”.
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After legislative leaders dropped their appeal of Battaglia's ruling
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Though refused to endorse Republican candidate Dan Cox
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But left open the possibility of running for president in 2024
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Campaign: 2022 gubernatorial election.
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2021· 14 entries
The Maryland Transportation Authority Board voted unanimously to approve toll rates on Interstate 270, with prices depending on whether drivers use EZ-Pass or video tolling, the driver's vehicle and amount of passengers,
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Published video “Governor Hogan joins Fox News' "America's Newsroom"”.
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Published video “Governor Hogan Remarks on 20th Anniversary of 9/11”.
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Published video “Governor Hogan Appears on CBS "Face The Nation"”.
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Published video “Governor Hogan: Battalion Chief Joshua Laird Remarks”.
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Hogan announced that on July 3 he would join two dozen other Republican governors in ending the $300 supplemental weekly unemployment insurance provided by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
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Published video “Governor Hogan Hits a Bullseye at ForeAxes in Cumberland”.
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Published video “No Labels: Empty Words”.
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Published video “This is Leadership”.
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And lifted all remaining COVID-19 related restrictions on May 15
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But kept social distancing and mask mandate requirements in place
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The Maryland General Assembly voted to override Hogan's veto of the Kirwan bill
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Hogan vetoed bills that would "raise the bar for officers to use force; give civilians a role in police discipline for the first time; restrict no-knock warrants; mandate body cameras; and open some allegations of police
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In 2021, Hogan purchased a home for $1.1 million in Davidsonville, Maryland.
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2020· 6 entries
Hogan announced that Maryland would receive its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines by December 14 and laid out a four-phase plan for who would receive the first doses
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After a sudden increase in COVID-19 cases across the state
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Hogan announced that the state had brokered a $10 million deal with South Korea to acquire 500,000 COVID-19 tests after weeks of negotiations in a confidential project called Operation Enduring Friendship
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Hogan ordered the closure of all public schools in the state starting March 16 and ending March 27 to allow for the cleaning and disinfecting of school buildings to prevent the virus's spread
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After three Montgomery County residents tested positive for COVID-19
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Until The Baltimore Sun broke news of a $233,647 severance he received in 2020 upon leaving the Maryland Environmental Service to take the chief of staff position
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2019· 6 entries
Hogan vetoed a bill to replace the state Handgun Permit Review Board with a panel of judges
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The Prince George's County Council voted unanimously for a proposal requiring Hogan to undertake further environmental reviews before proceeding with the plan
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“s Future, a proposed multi-billion-dollar plan to implement a series of education reforms recommended by the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education. In May 2020, Hogan vetoed the Blueprint for Maryland”
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“impeachment inquiry against Trump. In February 2020, after Trump was impeached and acquitted by the Senate, Hogan criticized Congress, saying that House Democrats”
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Career landmark: chairperson (2019–2020).
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Hogan raised the possibility of running for president in 2020, but he later decided not to run
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2018· 1 entry
Defeating Democrat Ben Jealous, to become Maryland's first two-term Republican governor since Theodore McKeldin won re-election in 1954
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2017· 3 entries
The legislature passed a bill to reimburse Planned Parenthood in the event that the federal government withdrew funding, and Hogan allowed the bill to become a law without his signature
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Hogan vetoed legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly to increase the use of renewable energy by setting a renewable portfolio standard to require that 25% of the state's electricity come from renewable source
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Again proposed changes to the state's charter laws, which was met with pushback from legislative leaders and teacher unions
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2016· 6 entries
The Maryland General Assembly introduced HB 1013, the Maryland Open Transportation Investment Decision Act of 2016, which aimed to establish statewide transportation goals through a transparent scoring process by the Mar
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Hogan signed legislation to reauthorize greenhouse gas reduction targets and mandate a 40% reduction in statewide carbon pollution by 2030
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“s presumptive nominee. Instead, on election day, Hogan wrote in his father, Lawrence Hogan, for president. He later attended Trump”
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Hogan reopened the Maryland State Police Barrack in Annapolis, which had closed in 2008 as a cost-saving measure
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Hogan signed a law making birth control cheaper
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Hogan vetoed legislation to decriminalize possession of marijuana paraphernalia in Maryland, making it a civil infraction rather than a crime
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2015· 6 entries
Hogan endorsed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in his campaign for the Republican nomination for president
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Career landmark: board member (2015).
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Career landmark: Governor of Maryland (2015–2023).
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To restore the voting rights of persons convicted of felonies following their completion of prison sentences
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The Washington Post's editorial board wrote that he was "true to his promise to govern from the center in the first legislative session of his term
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Hogan expanded an executive order to include protections for gender identity among "executive branch employees
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2014· 6 entries
Defeated Brown in the general election with 51 percent of the vote in what many considered to be an upset victory
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Election won: 2014 election.
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Officially announced his run at a rally in Annapolis, Maryland, and named former Maryland General Services Secretary Boyd Rutherford as his running mate a week later
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Hogan opposed a transgender rights law signed by Governor Martin O'Malley
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But in July 2018, he said he would decline an endorsement and funds from the NRA if they were offered
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Campaign: 2014 election.
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2013· 1 entry
A bipartisan commission studied whether to move the start of the school year after Labor Day and voted 12–3 to recommend such a measure to then Governor Martin O'Malley
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2011· 2 entries
Hogan founded Change Maryland, a nonprofit anti-tax advocacy organization that was used to criticize Governor Martin O'Malley's administration
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Hogan founded the Change Maryland organization, which he used to promote his 2014 gubernatorial campaign
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1992· 1 entry
Hogan was the Republican nominee for Maryland's 5th congressional district, running against Democratic incumbent Steny Hoyer
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1985· 1 entry
Hogan founded Hogan Companies, which is engaged in brokerage, consulting, investment and development of land, commercial and residential properties
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1981· 2 entries
And 1992, the latter of which was incumbent Steny Hoyer's closest race
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At age 24, Hogan first ran for office in the special election to fill the vacancy in Maryland's 5th congressional district left by Gladys Noon Spellman
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1978· 2 entries
Studied at Florida State University, Bachelor of Arts (1978).
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For Prince George's County executive and later worked for him as a low-paid "intergovernmental liaison"
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1972· 1 entry
Moved to Florida with his mother and graduated from Father Lopez Catholic High School in 1974
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1956· 1 entry
Born 1956-05-25.
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