Maryland State Comptrollers, 1851-2023(May beincomplete!) PhillipF. Thomas 1851-53HenryE. Bateman 1853-54WilliamPinkney Whyte 1854-56WilliamH. Purnell 1856-61DennisClaude 1861A.Lingan Jarrett 1861-62SamuelS. Maffit 1862-64HenryHollyday Goldsborough 1864RobertJohn Jump 1864-67WilliamJ. Leonard 1867-70LevinWoolford 1870-78ThomasJames Keating 1878-84J.Frank Turner 1884-88L.Victor Baughman 1888-92Marionde Kalb Smith 1892-96RobertP. Graham 1896-98PhillipsL. Goldsborough 1898-1900JoshuaW. Hering 1900-04GordonT. Atkinson 1904-08JoshuaW. Hering 1908-10WilliamB. Clagett 1910-11CharlesH. Stanley 1911-12EmersonC. Harrington 1912-16HughA. McMullen 1916-20E.Brooke Lee 1920-22WilliamS. Gordy, Jr. 1922-39J.Millard Tawes 1939-47JamesJ. Lacy 1947-50J.Millard Tawes 1950-59LouisL. Goldstein 1959-98RobertL. Swann 1998-99WilliamDonald Schaefer 1999-2007PeterV. R. Franchot 2007-23BrookeLierman 2023- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1861 May 8:WilliamH. Purnell, resigned;DennisClaude, appointed. 1869 Nov 2:WilliamA. McKellip (Rep), defeated;LevinWoolford (Dem), elected. 1877:ThomasJames Keating (Dem), elected. 1910 Jun 1:WilliamB. Clagett, appointed. 1911 Jul 25:WilliamB. Clagett, died in office. 1919 Nov 4:E.Brooke Lee (Dem), elected. 1966 Sep 13:LouisL. Goldstein (Dem), nominated;CharlesMeredith Boyce (Dem), defeated in primary;ArchieD. Williams (Dem), defeated in primary. 1966 Sep 13:CharlesS. Bresler (Rep), nominated;HarryL. Simms (Rep), defeated in primary. 1966 Nov 8:LouisL. Goldstein (Dem), elected;CharlesS. Bresler (Rep), defeated. 1970 Nov 3:LouisL. Goldstein (Dem), elected;HaroldCross (Rep), defeated. 1998:MichaelS. Steele (Rep), defeated. 1998 Jul 3:LouisL. Goldstein, died in office. 1998 Jul 9:RobertL. Swann, appointed. 1998 Nov 3:WilliamDonald Schaefer (Dem), elected;LarryMark Epstein (Rep), defeated;LihYoung, defeated;BobKearns, defeated. 2002 Sep 10:WilliamDonald Schaefer (Dem), nominated;JohnT. Willis (Dem), defeated in primary;LihYoung (Dem), defeated in primary. 2002 Sep 10:GeneZarwell (Rep), nominated;AugustusAlzona (Rep), defeated in primary. 2002 Nov 5:WilliamDonald Schaefer (Dem), elected;GeneZarwell (Rep), defeated;LihYoung, defeated;BethHufnagel (Green), defeated. 2006 Sep 12:PeterV. R. Franchot (Dem), nominated. 2006 Nov 7:PeterV. R. Franchot (Dem), elected. | |
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