Peter Franchot

Peter Franchot


34th Comptroller of Maryland
Incumbent
Assumed office January 22, 2007
Governor	Martin O'Malley Larry Hogan
Preceded by	William Schaefer
Personal details
Born	(1947-11-25) November 25, 1947 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Anne Maher
Children	Abigail Nicholas
Alma mater	Amherst College Northeastern University
Website	Official website

Peter V. R. Franchot (born November 25, 1947) is an American politician who is the 33rd and current Comptroller of Maryland.

Education and family

Franchot, born in New Haven, Connecticut, attended Phillips Academy of Andover, Massachusetts, obtained a B.A. in English from Amherst College in 1973 and graduated from Northeastern University School of Law with a J.D. in 1978. Franchot now resides in Takoma Park, Maryland with his wife Anne Maher and his two children, Abigail and Nicholas. He has served his community as treasurer of the Longbranch Sligo Citizens Association, and as a coach for the Takoma Park Youth Soccer League and the Montgomery County Youth Hockey League.

Career

Franchot in 2008

Peter Franchot served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1970. Franchot has experience as an attorney and a self-employed business development consultant. From 1980 to 1986, Franchot served as staff director to Congressman Edward J. Markey. Prior to his election to statewide office, Comptroller Franchot served 20 years (1987-2007) in the General Assembly, representing the people of Montgomery County, Maryland in the Maryland House of Delegates. In 1988, while serving his first term in the Maryland General Assembly, Franchot ran for Maryland's 8th congressional district against incumbent Connie Morella (R-MD). Morella defeated Franchot, 63% to 37%, in the general election.

During his time in the Maryland House of Delegates, Franchot was a member of the Appropriations Committee and served on multiple subcommittees.

Law enforcement & transportation subcommittee
Education and transportation subcommittee
Oversight committee on program open space and agricultural land preservation
Capital budget subcommittee
Chair, Public safety & administration subcommittee
Oversight committee on pensions
Oversight committee on personnel

During Franchot’s service, prior to his appointment as the Comptroller of Maryland he served on several other committees as well.

Special joint committee on MED-EVAC Program
House Chair, Joint Committee on Federal Relations
Chair, Special Committee on County Finances, Montgomery County Delegation
Transportation Committee, Montgomery County Delegation
Maryland Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus
Maryland Veterans Caucus
National Conference of State Legislatures (transportation committee)
Chair, Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce (1985–1986)
Sound Barrier Review Panel (1995–1996)
State Information Technology Board (1999–2004)
Committee on Building Public Trust and Confidence in the Justice System (1999)
Virginia-Maryland-District of Columbia Joint Legislative Commission on Interstate Transportation (2000–2003)
Legislative counsel, Union of Concerned Scientists
Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention, 2008

Legislative notes

voted against slots in 2005 (HB1361)^[1]
voted for income tax reduction in 1998 (SB750)^[2]

Comptroller of Maryland

Franchot's Inauguration, January, 2007(seated l-r: House Speaker Mike Busch, Senate President Mike Miller, Baltimore City Delegation Chairman Curt Anderson and Governor Martin O'Malley)

A candidate for Comptroller of Maryland, Franchot defeated incumbent William Donald Schaefer and fellow challenger Janet S. Owens in a close Democratic primary election^[3] on September 12, 2006. He defeated the Republican nominee Anne McCarthy in the General Election on November 7, 2006. Franchot was sworn on January 22, 2007.^[4]

In 2011 Franchot protested the decision by Bowie State University to purchase 32 Steinway pianos at a total cost of $552,000, calling the decision "out of touch" with the state of the economy at the time.^[5]

Slots campaign

Franchot campaigned against bringing slot machine gambling to Maryland. As a member of the House of Delegates, he led a successful coalition of lawmakers to oppose the Constitutional amendment to legalize slots. The coalition succeeded in placing before the voters a Constitutional amendment to legalize slots. In 2008, Franchot, along with hundreds of grassroots leaders from around the state, launched Marylanders United to Stop Slots to encourage a 'no' vote on the referendum. Franchot argued that the high social costs of increased crime, broken families and bankruptcies would outweigh any revenue gains.^[6]

Franchot endorsed Barack Obama for President in early January 2008 ^[7] and actively campaigned for him across the state.

“Any education funding that goes into the Education Trust Fund is subject to being raided by the legislature," Franchot said. "That is what's happened historically; that inevitably is what will happen again."^[8]

The gambling referendum passed by a narrow margin, 52 percent to 48 percent.

Awards

Distinguished Partnership Award, Baltimore-Washington, DC, Chapter, National Association of Securities Professionals, 2007.
William R. Snodgrass Distinguished Leadership Award, Association of Government Accountants, 2008.
Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting, Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
BMORE News- Minority Business Advocacy Award, 2007

Electoral history

Maryland House of Delegates 20th District Democratic Primary Election, 1986
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Peter Franchot	6,912	17
Democratic	Sheila Ellis Hixson (inc.)	5,921	14
Democratic	Dana Lee Dembrow	5,341	13
Democratic	Robert Berger	5,068	12
Democratic	Louis D'Ovidio	4,956	12
Democratic	DeVance Walker, Jr.	3,904	10
Democratic	Mary Dunphy	2,449	6
Democratic	Fredrica Hodges	2,179	5
Democratic	Jeffrey King	2,051	5
Democratic	John Mennell	1,403	3
Democratic	Evan DuQuette	706	2

Maryland House of Delegates 20th District Election, 1986
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Peter Franchot	17,596	24
Democratic	Dana Lee Dembrow	17,457	24
Democratic	Sheila Ellis Hixson (inc.)	17,255	23
Republican	Stuart Eisen	7,483	10
Republican	James Gordon Bennett	7,431	10
Republican	Ronald Richard	6,572	2

Maryland's 8th Congressional District Election, 1988
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Republican	Connie Morella (inc.)	172,619	62.7
Democratic	Peter Franchot	102,478	37.3

Maryland House of Delegates 20th District Democratic Primary Election, 1990
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Peter Franchot (inc.)	8,202	22
Democratic	Dana Lee Dembrow (inc.)	7,959	21
Democratic	Sheila Ellis Hixson (inc.)	7,553	20
Democratic	Robert Berger	7,221	19
Democratic	Diane Kirchenbauer	6,879	18

Maryland House of Delegates 20th District Election, 1990
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Dana Lee Dembrow (inc.)	18,303	34
Democratic	Sheila Ellis Hixson (inc.)	17,958	33
Democratic	Peter Franchot (inc.)	17,871	33

Maryland House of Delegates 20th District Democratic Primary Election, 1994
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Dana Lee Dembrow (inc.)	8,276	27
Democratic	Sheila Ellis Hixson (inc.)	7,312	24
Democratic	Peter Franchot (inc.)	7,307	24
Democratic	Steven Silverman	4,979	16
Democratic	Michael Graham	3,082	10

Maryland House of Delegates 20th District Election, 1994
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Dana Lee Dembrow (inc.)	19,679	30
Democratic	Sheila Ellis Hixson (inc.)	19,423	29
Democratic	Peter Franchot (inc.)	18,854	28
Republican	James Harrison	8,248	12

Maryland House of Delegates 20th District Democratic Primary Election, 1998
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Dana Lee Dembrow (inc.)	7,758	30
Democratic	Sheila Ellis Hixson (inc.)	7,558	29
Democratic	Peter Franchot (inc.)	6,487	25
Democratic	Diane Nixon	3,117	12
Democratic	Robert Bates	1,276	5

Maryland House of Delegates 20th District Election, 1998
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Dana Lee Dembrow (inc.)	22,396	27
Democratic	Sheila Ellis Hixson (inc.)	21,895	27
Democratic	Peter Franchot (inc.)	21,208	26
Republican	John Leahy	6,020	7
Republican	James Harrison, Jr.	5,602	7
Republican	Franklin Hackenberg	5,163	6

Maryland House of Delegates 20th District Democratic Primary Election, 2002
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Sheila Ellis Hixson (inc.)	9,720	28.3
Democratic	Peter Franchot (inc.)	8,278	24.1
Democratic	Gareth Murray	4,125	12.0
Democratic	Dana Lee Dembrow (inc.)	3,601	10.5
Democratic	Diane Nixon	3,556	10.3
Democratic	Luis Alvarez	2,444	7.1
Democratic	Richard Rosenthal	1,674	4.9
Democratic	Robert Bates	968	2.8

Maryland House of Delegates 20th District Election, 2002
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Sheila Ellis Hixson (inc.)	19,841	26.72
Democratic	Peter Franchot (inc.)	18,273	24.61
Democratic	Gareth Murray	15,803	21.28
Green	Linda Schade	10,101	13.60
Republican	Jae Donald Collins	5,294	7.13
Republican	Kenneth Klein	4,855	6.54
Write-ins	Write-ins	96	0.13

Maryland Comptroller Democratic Primary Election, 2006
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Peter Franchot	215,192	36.5
Democratic	Janet Owens	200,292	34.0
Democratic	William Donald Schaefer	174,071	29.5

Maryland Comptroller Election, 2006
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Peter Franchot	1,016,677	59.0
Republican	Anne McCarthy	703,874	40.8
Write-ins	Write-ins	3,219	0.2
Green/Write-in	Bob Auerbach	228	0.0

Maryland Comptroller Election, 2010
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Peter Franchot (inc.)	1,087,836	61.1
Republican	William Henry Campbell	691,461	38.8
Write-ins	Write-ins	1,799	0.1

Maryland Comptroller Election, 2014
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Peter Franchot (inc.)	1,061,267	62.7
Republican	William Henry Campbell	630,109	37.2
Write-ins	Write-ins	1,941	0.1
Other/Write-in	Anjali Reed Phukan	595	0.0

References

Specific

↑ "2005 Regular Session - Vote Record 0152". Retrieved 11 August 2016.
↑ "1998 Regular Session - Vote Record 1229". Retrieved 11 August 2016.
↑ 2006 comptroller primary results, Maryland State Board of Elections.
↑ Ovetta Wiggins, "Franchot Takes Office, Claims Expanded Role", The Washington Post, January 23, 2007, page B02.
↑ Lazarick, Len. "Purchase of Steinway pianos for Bowie State strikes sour note for Franchot". Retrieved 11 August 2016.
↑ "Peter Franchot". Retrieved 11 August 2016.
↑ "Peter Franchot". Retrieved 11 August 2016.
↑ Matt Connolly, "Casino Companies Prepare for Expansion in Maryland", "The Washington Examiner, November 7, 2012.

General

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Political offices
Preceded by William Schaefer	Comptroller of Maryland 2007–present	Incumbent

Current statewide political officials of Maryland

U.S. Senators	Barbara Mikulski Ben Cardin

State government	Larry Hogan, Governor Boyd Rutherford, Lieutenant Governor Brian Frosh, Attorney General John Wobensmith, Secretary of State Peter Franchot, Comptroller Nancy Kopp, Treasurer

State Senate	Mike Miller, President Catherine Pugh, Majority Leader J. B. Jennings, Minority Leader

House of Delegates	Michael Busch, Speaker Anne Kaiser, Majority Leader Nic Kipke, Minority Leader

Court of Appeals	Mary Ellen Barbera, Chief Judge Clayton Greene Sally Adkins Robert McDonald Shirley Watts Michele Hotten, Judges

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