Larry Hogan Quotes
Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'
Wagner, John. "Hogan reflects on historic win in Maryland." The Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2014.
The presidential nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896 split the Democratic party. Governor Hill was a strong party man, but couldn't abide Bryan's "free silver" and other positions, so when a reporter asked him if he was still a Democrat, and would campaign for Bryan, the governor answered:
Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. is an American politician serving as the 62nd Governor of Maryland since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Hogan was previously the Secretary of Appointments under Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich from 2003 to 2007, and served as chairman of the National Governors Association from 2019 to 2020.