Larry Hogan Net Worth, Family, Wife, Education, Children, Age, Biography, Political Career

Larry Hogan Biography

Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. is an American politician serving as the 62nd Governor of Maryland since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Hogan was previously the secretary of appointments under Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich from 2003 to 2007, and served as chair of the National Governors Association from 2019 to 2020.

Hogan ran unsuccessful campaigns for Marylands 5th congressional district in 1981 and 1992, the latter of which was incumbent Steny Hoyers closest race. Hogan founded the Change Maryland organization in 2011, which he used to promote his 2014 gubernatorial campaign. Hogan has enjoyed high approval ratings during his time as governor and was rated as one of the most popular governors in the United States.

Hogan attended Florida State University from 1974 to 1978 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in government and political science. While in college, Hogan worked in the Florida State Legislature and upon graduation, worked on Capitol Hill. Hogan helped his father run a successful campaign in 1978 for Prince Georges County Executive and later worked for his father as a low-paid intergovernmental liaison.

In 1985, Hogan founded Hogan Companies, which is engaged in brokerage, consulting, investment and development of land, commercial and residential properties. He spent the next 18 years in the private sector.

Hogans half-brother, Patrick N. Hogan, represented a district in Frederick County, Maryland in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2003 to 2007 and 2011 to 2015.

In June 2015, Hogan announced that he had been diagnosed with stage-three non-Hodgkin lymphoma and was undergoing treatment. He completed 18 weeks of chemotherapy and announced in November 2015 that the cancer was in remission. He underwent his last chemotherapy treatment in October 2016 and was deemed to be cancer-free. In January 2021, Hogan underwent surgery to remove early stage squamous cell skin cancer from his face and shoulder, a repeat of similar surgery he had in 2018.

In 2021, Hogan purchased a home and estate for $1.1 million in Davidsonville, Maryland.

Larry Hogan Net Worth

Larry Hogan Net Worth is $ 180 Million in 2022.

Larry Hogan Family, Parents

Hogan was born in 1956 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Landover, Maryland, attending Saint Ambrose Catholic School and DeMatha Catholic High School. He moved to Florida with his mother after his parents divorced in 1972 and graduated from Father Lopez Catholic High School in 1974. Hogan is the son of Nora and Lawrence Hogan Sr., who served as a U.S. Congressman from Marylands 5th Congressional District from 1969 to 1975 and as Prince Georges County Executive from 1978 to 1982. Hogan Sr. was famous for being the first Republican member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to call for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. His parents were both of Irish descent.

Larry Hogan Wife, Children

Hogan resides in Government House in Annapolis with his wife Yumi Hogan, a Korean-American artist and adjunct instructor at Maryland Institute College of Art. The couple met in 2001 and married in 2004. Hogan is the stepfather of Yumis three adult daughters from her first marriage: Kim Velez, Jaymi Sterling, and Julie Kim.

Larry Hogan Career and Achievement

As the son of a U.S. Representative, Hogan was exposed to politics at a young age and worked in many aspects of politics including political campaigns and citizen referendums.

In 1981, at the age of 24, Hogan first ran for office in the special election to fill the vacancy in Marylands 5th congressional district left by Gladys Noon Spellman. Spellman had succeeded Hogans father in the congressional seat. Hogan finished 2nd out of 12 candidates in the Republican primary with 22.38% of the votes, behind Bowie Mayor Audrey Scott who received 63.26%.

In 1992, Hogan was the Republican nominee for Marylands 5th congressional district, running against Democratic incumbent Steny Hoyer. Hoyer outspent Hogan by a 6-to-1 margin. Despite that financial advantage, the race was the closest in Hoyers tenure. Hogan won four of the districts five counties and took 44% of the vote to Hoyers 53%, with William Johnston (Independent) at 3%. No other challenger has come as close to unseating Hoyer since.

Hogan took a four-year leave of absence from his business to serve as Marylands Secretary of Appointments in the administration of Bob Ehrlich from 2003 to 2007. In this capacity, Hogan appointed over 7,000 individuals to positions in the Maryland government.

In 2011, Hogan founded Change Maryland, a nonprofit anti-tax advocacy organization that was used to criticize the administration of Governor Martin OMalley. The organization promoted Hogans gubernatorial run, and his campaign eventually purchased the organizations assets. The Maryland Democratic Party alleged that Hogan had improperly received campaign benefits from the nonprofit, and the State Board of Elections dismissed two of the complaints but found Hogans campaign had not properly disclosed the value of a poll done by the nonprofit before purchasing its assets.

Hogan started his campaign for Governor of Maryland on January 21, 2014. On January 29, 2014, Hogan revealed former Maryland Secretary of General Services Boyd Rutherford as his running mate. On June 24, 2014, Hogan and Rutherford won the Republican primary, receiving 43% of the vote. In an election on November 4, 2014, they defeated Anthony G. Brown, the Democratic nominee and incumbent Lieutenant Governor, 51% to 47%. He is the first governor to be elected from Anne Arundel County, Maryland in over 100 years.

In the 2018 gubernatorial election, Hogan ran against Democratic nominee Ben Jealous, a former NAACP president. Hogan enjoyed significant polling and fundraising leads over Jealous throughout the campaign. Hogan ultimately defeated Jealous, 55% to 43%, becoming only the second Republican governor in Maryland history to be reelected, and the first since Theodore McKeldin in 1954. Hogan won the most votes of any governor in Maryland history.

Governor of Maryland

Media outlets have described Hogan as a moderate Republican and a "pragmatist", The Washington Posts editorial board wrote in 2015 that he was "true to his promise to govern from the center in the first legislative session of his term." On the Issues, a non-profit and non-partisan organization which tracks politicians positions, considers Hogan to be a centrist.

Hogan served as vice chairman of the National Governors Association (NGA) from July 2018 to July 2019 and as chairman of the NGA from July 2019 to July 2020.

In 2019, Hogan raised the possibility of running for president in 2020 but eventually decided not to run. In June, he addressed the Maryland Free Enterprise Foundation, a business advocacy group, in a combative speech, "skewering Democrats who control the state legislature and vowing to spend the remainder of his term in battle with them." Hogan promised to work against tax increases.

Hogan has enjoyed high approval ratings. A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll in April 2016 showed Hogan with a 66% approval rating. Hogans numbers were attributed to the improving economy in the state and Hogans decision to govern "focusing on taxes and other pocketbook issues while avoiding polarizing social topics such as abortion or religious-objection laws." By November 2017, Hogan had one of the highest approval ratings of any governor in the country. The independent Gonzales poll in January 2020 showed Hogan with a 75% approval rating from Maryland voters, including 77% from Republicans, 73% from Democrats and 78% from Independents; 70% from African-Americans, 75% from men, and 75% from women. Pollster Patrick Gonzales said in 2020: "In our 35 years of polling the voters of Maryland, we have never found a politician who was supported by 73% of Democrats, 77% of Republicans, and 78% of independents. These numbers indicate a versatile, Protean-like appeal we have not witnessed in a politician before ... anywhere." The quarterly Morning Consult polls, starting in late 2015 and continuing into 2020, consistently place Hogan as the second-most popular governor in the nation.

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