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Michael Steele in Aberdeen

Candidate for the National Republican Committee Chairmanship, Micheal Steele will be in Aberdeen Sunday, Jan 11 at 12:30 at the Ward Hotel.

From Wikipedia…

He is currently the chairman of GOPAC and a partner at the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf. He is a former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, having been elected on the same ticket as Governor Robert Ehrlich in 2002.

Steele was the first African American to serve in a Maryland state-wide office and the first Republican lieutenant governor in the state since the position was created in 1970. At the time he was the highest-ranking elected African American Republican in the United States.

Steele ran for a Maryland United States Senate seat being vacated by retiring senator Paul Sarbanes, but he lost the 2006 election to Democratic Congressman Ben Cardin.

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In December 2000, Steele was elected chairman of the Maryland Republican Party, becoming the first African American ever to be elected chairman of any state Republican Party.

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