BALTIMORE — With his family in tow, Gov.-elect Wes Moore walked across the stage at his election night victory party Tuesday and into the history books: for the first time since the office was founded, Maryland will have a Black governor.
“You’ll never see a first Black governor in Maryland again,” said Amy Dacey, the executive director of American University Sine Institute of Policy & Politics, where Moore was a fellow last year. “That barrier has been broken.”
Aside from Moore, who is the state’s first and the nation’s third Black governor, Maryland will see a series of other historic firsts after Democrats swept the top of the ticket Tuesday. They are the first immigrant and Asian American lieutenant governor in Aruna Miller, the first Black attorney general in Anthony Brown and, in Brooke Lierman, the first female comptroller and first woman directly elected to statewide office.
