Wes Moore
American politician, investment banker, author and television producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Westley Watende Omari Moore (born October 15, 1978) is an American politician, businessman, author, and veteran, serving as the 63rd governor of Maryland since 2023.
Moore was born in Maryland and later raised in New York. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received a master's degree from Wolfson College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. After serving in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, he became an investment banker in New York.
Moore has published five books, including a young-adult novel. He served as CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation from 2017 to 2021.[1] He authored The Other Wes Moore and The Work. He also hosted Beyond Belief on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and was executive producer and a writer for Coming Back with Wes Moore on PBS.[2]
Moore won the 2022 gubernatorial election. He become Maryland's first African-American governor and the third African-American person elected governor of any U.S. state.[a][4][5]
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- Moore is the fifth African-American U.S. state governor overall following P. B. S. Pinchback of Louisiana, Douglas Wilder of Virginia, Deval Patrick of Massachusetts and David Paterson of New York.[3]
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