Editing Governor of Maryland (section)

===1900s–present===
[[File:Spiro Agnew.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Former Maryland governor and [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. vice president]] [[Spiro Agnew]]]]

[[Spiro Agnew]], who was the 55th governor of Maryland from 1967 to 1969, later served as the 39th [[vice president of the United States]] under [[President of the United States|President]] [[Richard Nixon|Richard M. Nixon]]. Agnew is, thus far, the highest-ranking Marylander (along with 19th-century [[Chief Justice of the United States|chief justice]] [[Roger B. Taney]]) in public service in the history of the [[United States]].<ref name="List">{{Cite web |title=Archives of Maryland, Historical List, Governors of Maryland, 1634-- |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc2600/sc2685/html/govintro.html |access-date=March 15, 2022 |website=Maryland State Archives}}</ref> He resigned after pleading "no contest" to federal legal charges of corruption during his terms as Baltimore County executive, Maryland governor and vice president. In 1979, his gubernatorial portrait was [[Damnatio memoriae|removed]] from the [[Maryland State House]] Governor's Reception Room. In 1995, then-governor [[Parris Glendening]] re-included the portrait, stating that it was not up to anyone to alter history, whether for good or bad, citing the famous novel by [[George Orwell]], ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''. 
<ref>{{Cite speech |last=Governor Glendening |date=April 13, 1995 |access-date=March 15, 2022 |title=[Governor Glendening's Press Conference on the opening of the Exhibit of Governors' Portraits in the Governor's Reception Room, Maryland State House, Annapolis, 10 a.m., April 13, 1995] |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/stagser/s1259/121/7044/html/7044.html |website=Maryland State Archives}}</ref>

As of 2023, Maryland has not yet had a female governor.<ref name=List/> However, women were the runners-up in four gubernatorial elections (in 1974, 1994, 1998, and 2002), three [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] and one [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elections by Year |url=https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/index.html |access-date=March 15, 2022 |website=State Board of Elections}} and {{Citation | last = Duggan  | first = Paul  | title = Louise Gore, Force in Md. GOP, Dies  | newspaper = [[Washington Post]]  | date = October 7, 2005 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/06/AR2005100602042.html  | access-date = February 19, 2012}}</ref> In addition, two women have been the lieutenant governor; [[Kathleen Kennedy Townsend]], under Democratic governor [[Parris Glendening]] from 1995 to 2003; and [[Aruna Miller]], under Democratic governor [[Wes Moore]] since 2023.<ref name=List/> Another woman, [[Kristen Cox]], who was the Secretary of Disabilities, unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor as the running mate of then incumbent Republican governor [[Bob Ehrlich|Robert Ehrlich]], when the lieutenant governor at that time, [[Michael Steele]], left office to run for the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]]. Cox was a unique person to run for that office, not only because she is a woman, but also because she is [[legally blind]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Otto |first1=Mary |last2=Aratani |first2=Lori |date=June 30, 2006 |title=Ehrlich Picks Cabinet Member Cox for Ticket |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/AR2006062901055.html |access-date=June 27, 2007}}</ref>