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Wes Moore: “Only three people, African Americans, have been elected…”

Featuring: Wes Moore, Democratic | Governor of Maryland

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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Tells His Life Story (Full Interview)

Published | Video Starts at 01:39

It says a lot, right? It says a lot about the journey of this country that in the, you know, hundreds of years of this country, Only three people, African Americans, have been elected chief executives of their state. But I remember the morning of my inauguration, we actually, I was very intentional where we started down at the Annapolis Docks and the, you know, Annapolis is a state capital for. (01:39–01:45)

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Asserts that only three African Americans have been elected as governors in U.S. history.

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