page_title: Doug Gansler
section_title: Attorney General of Maryland
hierarchical_section_title: Doug Gansler / Political career / Attorney General of Maryland
caption_attribution_description: English: Attorney General Doug Gansler, and his wife Laura Leedy Gansler at his swearing 2007 swearing in, officiated by then Governor Robert Ehrlich.
context_page_description: Douglas Friend Gansler is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 45th Attorney General of Maryland. Gansler previously served as the State's Attorney for Montgomery County, Maryland from 1999 to 2007. He won nomination in the state Democratic primary election for Attorney General and defeated Republican Scott Rolle in the 2006 general election, taking 61% of the vote. He was re-elected unopposed in the 2010 election. Gansler lost the Democratic Primary race for Governor of Maryland on June 24, 2014 to Anthony G. Brown.
context_section_description: Gansler was elected as Maryland Attorney General in 2006, taking the oath of office as Attorney General of Maryland on January 2, 2007. While in office, he focused on environmental protection, consumer protection, public safety, and civil rights. He prosecuted polluters of the Chesapeake Bay, protected consumers from various forms of fraud, and safeguarded the public from gangs, violent crime, and the so-called underbelly of the Internet.
  Gansler was elected to a second term on November 2, 2010, receiving 1.3 million votes. In that election, he was the only statewide candidate in the nation to run unopposed in both the primary and general elections.
caption: Douglas F. Gansler being sworn in as Maryland Attorney General, January 2, 2007.
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