page_title: List of people from Maryland
section_title: Politicians, jurists, and statesmen
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Maryland / Politicians, jurists, and statesmen
caption_attribution_description: Steny Hoyer, official photo as House Minority Whip.
context_page_description: The following are some notable people from the American state of Maryland, listed by their field of endeavor. This list may not include Federal officials and members of the United States Congress who live in Maryland but are not actual natives.
context_section_description: Spiro T. Agnew, former Governor of Maryland and Vice President of the United States
  John R. Bolton, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
  Charles Joseph Bonaparte, former Attorney General of the United States; founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; grand-nephew of French emperor Napoleon I
  Anthony G. Brown, United States Congressman, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
  Charles Carroll of Carrollton, lawyer, politician, and signer of the Declaration of Independence
  John Lee Carroll, 37th Governor of Maryland
  Samuel Chase, United States Supreme Court Justice
  Frank J. Christensen, labor leader
  Joan Claybrook, President of Public Citizen; head of the NHTSA in the Carter administration
  J. Joseph Curran, Jr., state Attorney General and former Lieutenant Governor
  Frederick Douglass, abolitionist
  Doug Duncan, county executive
  Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., former governor of Maryland and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  Christopher Emery, Assistant White House Chief Usher
  John Hanson, ninth president of the Continental Congress; first elected under the Articles of Confederation
  Ellen Lipton Hollander, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
  Steny Hoyer, current and former House Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives
  Sarah T. Hughes, federal judge who administered the presidential oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson
  Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  Philip Barton Key, U.S. representative and U.S. district judge
  Allan H. Kittleman, former Maryland State Senator and county executive for Howard County, Maryland
  Ernest Lyon, former United States Ambassador to Liberia and founder of Maryland Industrial and Agricultural Institute for Colored Youths
  Thurgood Marshall, civil rights leader and United States Supreme Court Justice
  Kweisi Mfume, NAACP leader and former Congressman
  J. William Middendorf, United States diplomat, Secretary of the Navy
  Charles E. Miller, politician, businessman, and philanthropist
  David Nolan, activist and politician
  John A. Olszewski Jr., Baltimore County Executive and former Maryland State Delegate
  Katie O'Malley, State District Judge and wife of Martin O'Malley
  Martin J. O'Malley, former governor of Maryland and 2016 candidate for President of the United States
  William Paca, signer of the Declaration of Independence
  Nancy Pelosi, current and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  Edgar Allan Poe, Maryland attorney general (1911–1915)
  John P. Poe Sr., Attorney General of Maryland (1891–1895)
  Neilson Poe, Judge for Baltimore City and grandfather of Poe brothers
  Kevin B. Quinn, Chief Executive Officer and Administrator of the Maryland Transit Administration
  William Donald Schaefer, former Governor
  Sargent Shriver, politician, former Vice Presidential candidate
  Michael S. Steele, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (2003–2007)
  Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States
  Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, (Democratic Party) former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and oldest daughter of Robert F. Kennedy
  Jeffrey Zients, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama
  Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
caption: Steny Hoyer
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