Secretary of State of Maryland

The secretary of state of Maryland is charged with the administrative and record-keeping functions of the state government of the U.S. state of Maryland. The secretary of state also holds custody of the Seal of Maryland. Unlike in many states, the secretary of state is not an elective office, but is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state senate. Susan C. Lee has served as the secretary of state since January 2023.

Secretary of State of Maryland
Incumbent Susan C. Lee since January 18, 2023
Type	Secretary of State
Formation	1838
First holder	John Charles Groome

List of secretaries of state

Name	Term	Image
John Charles Groome	1838
John H. Culbreth	1838
Joseph Hopper Nicholson II	1838–1839
Cornelius McLean	1839–1840
James Murray	1840–1841
Thomas Wright, III	1841–1842
Henry Hobbs	1842
John Carroll LeGrand	1842–1844
John N. Watkins	1844
John N. Watkins	1844–1845
William T. Wootton	1845–1848
Richard C. Hollyday	1848–1849
John N. Watkins	1849–1851
Thomas H. O'Neal	1851–1853
John Randolph Quinn	1853–1854
Nathaniel Cox	1854–1857
Jonathan Pinkney	1857–1858
James R. Partridge	1858–1861
Grayson Eichelberger	1861
Thomas J. Wilson	1861–1862
William B. Hill	1862–1866
John M. Carter	1866–1869
Richard C. Hollyday	1869–1872
John Thomson Mason Jr.	1872–1873
Richard C. Hollyday	1873–1880
James T. Briscoe	1880–1884
Richard C. Hollyday	1884
George B. Milligan	1884–1886
Edward W. LeCompte	1886–1893
William T. Brantly	1893–1894
Edwin Gott	1894–1896
Richard Dallam	1896–1899
George E. Loweree	1899–1900
Wilfred Bateman	1900–1904
Oswald Tilghman	1904–1908
N. Winslow Williams	1908–1912
Robert P. Graham	1912–1916
Thomas W. Simmons	1916–1919
George L. P. Radcliffe	1919–1920
Philip B. Perlman	1920–1923
E. Brooke Lee	1923–1925
David C. Winebrenner III	1925–1935
Thomas L. Dawson	1935–1936
E. Ray Jones	1936–1939
John B. Gontrum	1939
Francis Petrott	1939–1941
Miles T. Tull	1941
Thomas Elmo Jones	1941–1946
William J. McWilliams	1946
Edward G. Chaney	1946–1947
John B. Funk	1947
Bertram Lee Boone II	1947–1949
Vivian V. Simpson	1949–1951
John R. Reeves	1951–1955
Blanchard Randall	1955–1957
Claude B. Hellmann	1957–1959
Thomas B. Finan	1959–1961
Lloyd Lewis Simpkins	1961–1967
C. Stanley Blair	1967–1969
Blair Lee III	1969–1971
Fred L. Wineland	1971–1982
Patricia G. Holtz	1982–1983
Lorraine M. Sheehan	1983–1987
Winfield M. Kelly Jr.	1987–1993
Tyras S. Athey	1993–1995
John T. Willis	1995–2003
R. Karl Aumann	2003–2005
Mary D. Kane	2005–2007
Dennis C. Schnepfe	2007–2008
John P. McDonough	2008–2015
John C. Wobensmith	2015–2023
Susan C. Lee	2023–present

References

• About the office of Secretary of State, from the Maryland Archives.
• List of Secretaries of State, from the Maryland Archives.

External links

• Media related to Secretaries of State of Maryland at Wikimedia Commons