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Before 1776, Delaware was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, administered by colonial governors in Pennsylvania as the "Lower Counties on Delaware".. In 1776, soon after Delaware and the other Thirteen Colonies declared independence from Britain, the state adopted its first state constitution.
The present governor is John Carney (D), who took office on January 17, 2017. ... Delaware was the last U.S. state to use judicial corporal punishment, in 1952. [4]
Bethany A. Hall-Long (born November 12, 1963) is an American politician who has served as the 75th governor of Delaware since January 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Hall-Long previously served as lieutenant governor of Delaware from 2017 to 2025 and in the Delaware Senate from 2008 to 2016 and in the Delaware House of Representatives from 2002 to 2008.
County executive Matt Meyer (D) has won the race to replace term-limited Delaware Gov. John Carney (D), according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Republican Mike Ramone, a state ...
John Charles Carney Jr. (born May 20, 1956) is an American politician who has served since 2025 as the 57th Mayor of Wilmington.A member of the Democratic Party, Carney was the 74th Governor of Delaware from 2017 to 2025, the U.S. representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district from 2011 to 2017, the 24th lieutenant governor of Delaware from 2001 to 2009, and Delaware's secretary ...
He served in Iraq as a diplomat for the U.S. State Department, as a senior economic adviser on the ground in Mosul, Iraq, working with military and economic aid leaders to assist the Iraqi people. [4] [5] Later, he worked as an economic advisor to Delaware governor Jack Markell and was a partner at Potomac Law Group. [6]
Campaign filings scandal rocks Delaware governor’s race The gubernatorial race in the First State has attracted three Democrats and three Republican, since Carney is term-limited (and is instead ...
The 2024 Delaware gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Delaware, concurrently with the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.