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Maryland: State Comptrollers

Maryland State Comptrollers, 1851-2023 (May be incomplete!)
Phillip F. Thomas 1851-53 Henry E. Bateman 1853-54 William Pinkney Whyte 1854-56 William H. Purnell 1856-61 Dennis Claude 1861 A. Lingan Jarrett 1861-62 Samuel S. Maffit 1862-64 Henry Hollyday Goldsborough 1864 Robert John Jump 1864-67 William J. Leonard 1867-70 Levin Woolford 1870-78 Thomas James Keating 1878-84 J. Frank Turner 1884-88 L. Victor Baughman 1888-92 Marion de Kalb Smith 1892-96 Robert P. Graham 1896-98 Phillips L. Goldsborough 1898-1900 Joshua W. Hering 1900-04 Gordon T. Atkinson 1904-08 Joshua W. Hering 1908-10 William B. Clagett 1910-11 Charles H. Stanley 1911-12 Emerson C. Harrington 1912-16 Hugh A. McMullen 1916-20 E. Brooke Lee 1920-22 William S. Gordy, Jr. 1922-39 J. Millard Tawes 1939-47 James J. Lacy 1947-50 J. Millard Tawes 1950-59 Louis L. Goldstein 1959-98 Robert L. Swann 1998-99 William Donald Schaefer 1999-2007 Peter V. R. Franchot 2007-23 Brooke Lierman 2023-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1861 May 8: William H. Purnell, resigned; Dennis Claude, appointed.
  • 1869 Nov 2: William A. McKellip (Rep), defeated; Levin Woolford (Dem), elected.
  • 1877: Thomas James Keating (Dem), elected.
  • 1910 Jun 1: William B. Clagett, appointed.
  • 1911 Jul 25: William B. Clagett, died in office.
  • 1919 Nov 4: E. Brooke Lee (Dem), elected.
  • 1966 Sep 13: Louis L. Goldstein (Dem), nominated; Charles Meredith Boyce (Dem), defeated in primary; Archie D. Williams (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1966 Sep 13: Charles S. Bresler (Rep), nominated; Harry L. Simms (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1966 Nov 8: Louis L. Goldstein (Dem), elected; Charles S. Bresler (Rep), defeated.
  • 1970 Nov 3: Louis L. Goldstein (Dem), elected; Harold Cross (Rep), defeated.
  • 1998: Michael S. Steele (Rep), defeated.
  • 1998 Jul 3: Louis L. Goldstein, died in office.
  • 1998 Jul 9: Robert L. Swann, appointed.
  • 1998 Nov 3: William Donald Schaefer (Dem), elected; Larry Mark Epstein (Rep), defeated; Lih Young, defeated; Bob Kearns, defeated.
  • 2002 Sep 10: William Donald Schaefer (Dem), nominated; John T. Willis (Dem), defeated in primary; Lih Young (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 2002 Sep 10: Gene Zarwell (Rep), nominated; Augustus Alzona (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 2002 Nov 5: William Donald Schaefer (Dem), elected; Gene Zarwell (Rep), defeated; Lih Young, defeated; Beth Hufnagel (Green), defeated.
  • 2006 Sep 12: Peter V. R. Franchot (Dem), nominated.
  • 2006 Nov 7: Peter V. R. Franchot (Dem), elected.
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