Editing Governor of Maryland (section)

==Lieutenant governor==
{{Main|Lieutenant Governor of Maryland}}
In 1971, the office of Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, which had existed for only a few years in the 1860s, was re-instituted by an amendment to the Maryland Constitution. The lieutenant governor is a weak office compared to other counterparts (in other states including Texas, the lieutenant governor is the president of the state's Senate, while in California the lieutenant governor assumes all of the governor's powers when the sitting governor is out of the state), as it only possesses the powers and duties that the governor assigns to him or her. The lieutenant governor is elected on the same ballot with the governor, and to the same term of office as the governor. The lieutenant governor succeeds to the governorship only if there is a vacancy in that office.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lieutenant Governor: Origins and Functions |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/08conoff/ltgov/html/02ltgovf.html |access-date=March 15, 2022 |website=Maryland Manual On-Line}}</ref>

Despite the governor and lieutenant governor being elected on the same party ticket, very often there have been public rifts between the two; for instance Gov. Marvin Mandel and Lt. Gov. Blair Lee III; Gov. Harry R. Hughes and Lt. Gov. Samuel W. Bogley III; Gov. Schaefer and Lt. Gov. Melvin A. Steinberg., and Gov. Parris Glendening and Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
<ref>{{Cite news |last=Koenig |first=Sarah |date=November 26, 2002 |title=For This Pair, the Talking Is Over |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.partners26nov26,0,836237,full.story?coll=bal-home-headlines |url-status=dead |access-date=April 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522115934/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.partners26nov26,0,836237,full.story?coll=bal-home-headlines |archive-date=May 22, 2011}}</ref> No lieutenant governor of Maryland has yet been elected as the governor in future elections, or permanently succeeded to the governor's office due to a vacancy (which would be created by the resignation, death, or removal of the sitting governor), although [[Blair Lee III]] served as acting governor from June 4, 1977, until January 15, 1979, while Governor [[Marvin Mandel]] was serving a sentence for mail fraud and racketeering (consequently, in a modern example of ''[[Damnatio memoriae]]'', Mandel's official gubernatorial portrait was not hung in the [[Maryland State House]] Governor's Reception Room until 1993).<ref name=List/>