Martin O'Malley

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Martin O'Malley (2015)

Martin Joseph O'Malley (born January 18, 1963 in Washington, DC ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 2007 to 2015 he was governor of the state of Maryland . He ran for the Democratic nomination in the primary election for the 2016 US presidential election .

Life

The son of a Roman Catholic family attended Gonzaga College High School until 1981 . After completing his law studies at the Law School of the University of Maryland, Baltimore , he established himself as a lawyer. In 1990 he married Catherine Curran.

From 1999 he was mayor of the city of Baltimore . In 2002 Esquire magazine named him "The Best Young Mayor in the Country", and in 2005 Time named him America's "Top 5 Big City Mayors". As mayor, he implemented a zero tolerance strategy of stopping and searching spontaneously and cracking down on petty crime. Of the 100,000 arrests in 2005 - over a sixth of the population - the majority were African Americans .

On November 8, 2006, he won the gubernatorial election in the state of Maryland against the previous Republican incumbent Robert L. Ehrlich . O'Malley received 52.7 percent of the vote after a campaign managed by Robby Mook , Ehrlich came with 46.2 percent. In the 2010 gubernatorial election there was another duel between O'Malley and Ehrlich. Contrary to the federal trend, which brought significant gains for the Republicans in this year's elections, O'Malley increased his stake to 56.2 percent and began his second four-year term in January 2011. For the gubernatorial election on November 4, 2014 , he did not run again because of the term limit. As one of his final acts, he commuted death sentences for four inmates to life sentences. He was succeeded by the Republican candidate Larry Hogan , who had prevailed against O'Maley's Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown .

O'Malley has been a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 2016 presidential election for years . He publicly signaled interest in running for the first time in summer 2013 and in March 2015 ruled out a candidacy for the vacant seat of Barbara Mikulski in the US Senate in 2016. On May 30, 2015, O'Malley announced his application in the Democratic primary for the presidency . However, he did not succeed in getting out of the low single-digit percentage range in the polls against the by far leading Hillary Clinton and the surprisingly strong runner-up, the US Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders . Some political observers assume that O'Malley wanted to recommend himself with his candidacy as a possible running mate and vice presidential candidate Hillary Clintons. After being in the first vote, the caucus in Iowa had less received on 1 February 2016 as a percent of the vote, he gave up his candidacy. He initially withdrew from the public and in early June 2016 declared his support for Clinton, for whom he was campaigning in the northeastern United States. O'Malley announced that he would work as a lecturer from autumn 2016 and drive the Smart City Initiative , which is geared towards local projects , and he was also traded as a possible cabinet member in a Clinton administration.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Thompson: Wonk 'n' Roller. In: Time , April 18, 2005 (accessed November 24, 2014).
  2. ↑ Juliet Linderman: One year after the death of Freddie Gray. The healing of Baltimore. In: Die Tageszeitung , April 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ Official 2006 Gubernatorial General Election Results for Governor / Lt. Governor. Election results. In: Elections.State.MD.us (accessed November 24, 2014).
  4. ↑ Maryland Governor pardons four inmates. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 2, 2015 (accessed January 14, 2015).
  5. ^ What a Martin O'Malley Presidential Campaign Would Sound Like - In 113 Words. In: The Washington Post , August 3, 2013.
  6. ↑ Jeremy Diamond: O'Malley Won't Run for Mikulski's Senate Seat in 2016. In: CNN .com , March 3, 2015 (English).
  7. ↑ David Jackson: Martin O'Malley Jumps Into Presidential Race. In: USA Today , May 30, 2015.
  8. ↑ Laura Reston: Americans Love an Underdog - Just Not Lincoln Chafee, Jim Webb, or Martin O'Malley. In: The New Republic , October 14, 2015.
  9. ^ Goldie Taylor: Is Martin O'Malley Running to Be Vice President? In: Blue Nation Review , April 18, 2015.
  10. ^ Result of the Democrats in Iowa: Clinton wafer thin before Sanders. In: Spiegel Online , February 2, 2016.
  11. ↑ John Fritze: Martin O'Malley to campaign for Clinton in Pa., NH In: The Baltimore Sun , July 15, 2016 (English); Jade Scipioni, Matthew V. Libassi: Fmr. Gov. O'Malley Outraged Americans Shrugging off DNC Hack. In: Fox News , July 26, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME O'Malley, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Malley, Martin Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, governor of Maryland
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC