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The Secretary of State of Maryland is charged with the administrative and record-keeping functions of the State Government of the U.S. state of Maryland. The Secretary of State also holds custody of the Seal of Maryland. Unlike in many states, the Secretary of State is not an elective office, but is appointed by the Governor.
List of Secretaries of State
Name Term John Charles Groome 1838 John H. Culbreth 1838 Joseph Hopper Nicholson II 1838–1839 Cornelius McLean 1839–1840 James Murray 1840–1841 Thomas Wright, III 1841–1842 Henry Hobbs 1842 John Carroll LeGrand 1842–1844 John N. Watkins 1844 John N. Watkins 1844–1845 William T. Wootton 1845–1848 Richard C. Hollyday 1848–1849 John N. Watkins 1849–1851 Thomas H. O'Neal 1851–1853 John Randolph Quinn 1853–1854 Nathaniel Cox 1854–1857 Jonathan Pinkney 1857–1858 James R. Partridge 1858–1861 Grayson Eichelberger 1861 Thomas J. Wilson 1861–1862 William B. Hill 1862–1866 John M. Carter 1866–1869 Richard C. Hollyday 1869–1872 John Thomson Mason, Jr. 1872–1873 Richard C. Hollyday 1873–1880 James T. Briscoe 1880–1884 Richard C. Hollyday 1884 George B. Milligan 1884–1886 Edward W. LeCompte 1886–1893 William T. Brantly 1893–1894 Edwin Gott 1894–1896 Richard Dallam 1896–1899 George E. Loweree 1899–1900 Wilfred Bateman 1900–1904 Oswald Tilghman 1904–1908 N. Winslow Williams 1908–1912 Robert P. Graham 1912–1916 Thomas W. Simmons 1916–1919 George L. P. Radcliffe 1919–1920 Philip B. Perlman 1920–1923 E. Brooke Lee 1923–1925 David C. Winebrenner III 1925–1935 Thomas L. Dawson 1935–1936 E. Ray Jones 1936–1939 John B. Gontrum 1939 Francis Petrott 1939–1941 Miles T. Tull 1941 Thomas Elmo Jones 1941–1946 William J. McWilliams 1946 Edward G. Chaney 1946–1947 John B. Funk 1947 Bertram Lee Boone II 1947–1949 Vivian V. Simpson 1949–1951 John R. Reeves 1951–1955 Blanchard Randall 1955–1957 Claude B. Hellmann 1957–1959 Thomas B. Finan 1959–1961 Lloyd Lewis Simpkins 1961–1967 C. Stanley Blair 1967–1969 Blair Lee III 1969–1971 Fred L. Wineland 1971–1982 Patricia G. Holtz 1982–1983 Lorraine M. Sheehan 1983–1987 Winfield M. Kelly, Jr. 1987–1993 Tyras S. Athey 1993–1995 John T. Willis 1995–2003 R. Karl Aumann 2003–2005 Mary D. Kane 2005–2007 Dennis C. Schnepfe 2007–2008 John P. McDonough 2008–present References
- About the office of Secretary of State, from the Maryland Archives.
- List of Secretaries of State, from the Maryland Archives.
Government of Maryland Executive Governor (List) • Lt. Governor • Secretary of State • Agriculture • Education • Environment • Health & Mental Hygiene • Housing & Community Development • Labor, Licensing & Regulation • Natural Resources • Transportation
Legislative Judicial Constitutional offices Independent agencies Maryland Commission on Human Relations • Maryland Insurance Administration • Maryland Lottery • Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings • Maryland Public Service Commission • Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing PolicyState secretaries of state in the United States AL: Beth Chapman (R)
AK: No such office
AR: Mark Martin (R)
AZ: Ken Bennett (R)
CA: Debra Bowen (D)
CO: Scott Gessler (R)
CT: Denise Merrill (D)
DE: Harriet Smith Windsor (D)
FL: Kurt S. Browning (R)
GA: Brian Kemp (R)HI: No such office
ID: Ben Ysursa (R)
IL: Jesse White (D)
IN: Charlie White (R)
IA: Matt Schultz (R)
KS: Kris Kobach (R)
KY: Elaine Walker (D)
LA: Tom Schedler (R)
MD: John P. McDonough (D)
MA: Bill Galvin (D)ME: Charlie Summers (R)
MI: Ruth Johnson (R)
MN: Mark Ritchie (D)
MS: Delbert Hosemann (R)
MO: Robin Carnahan (D)
MT: Linda McCulloch (D)
NE: John Gale (R)
NV: Ross Miller (D)
NH: Bill Gardner (I)
NJ: Kim Guadagno (R)NM: Dianna Duran (R)
NY: Cesar A. Perales (D)
NC: Elaine Marshall (D)
ND: Al Jaeger (R)
OH: Jon Husted (R)
OK: Glenn Coffee (R)
OR: Kate Brown (D)
PA: Carol Aichele (R)
RI: Ralph Mollis (D)
SC: Mark Hammond (R)SD: Jason Gant (R)
TN: Tre Hargett (R)
TX: Esperanza Andrade (R)
UT: No such office
VT: Jim Condos (D)
VA: Janet Polarek (R)
WA: Sam Reed (R)
WV: Natalie Tennant (D)
WI: Doug La Follette (D)
WY: Max Maxfield (R)
AS: Lt. Gov. Ipulasi A. Sunia (D)
DC: Cynthia Brock-Smith (D)
GU: Lt. Gov. Ray Tenorio (R)
PR: Kenneth McClintock (D-NPP)
VI: No such officeIn Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, the office is called the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
In states without the office, the lieutenant governor may perform some of the typical duties of a Secretary of State.Categories:- Secretaries of State of Maryland
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