Dan Cox

Dan Cox was born in Washington, D.C., on August 9, 1974. He earned a B.S. in government and politics from University of Maryland University College in 2002 and a J.D. from Regent University School of Law in 2006, and was admitted to the Maryland bar that year. He taught at Walkersville Christian Family Schools from 1995 to 2005 and has been a sole practitioner at Cox Law Center LLC since 2007. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates for District 4, covering Carroll and Frederick counties, from January 9, 2019 to January 11, 2023, sitting on the Judiciary Committee. He was the Republican nominee for governor in 2022 and lost to Wes Moore. The Maryland Manual lists him as chief of staff to Pennsylvania state Senator Douglas V. Mastriano beginning in 2023. On June 23, 2026 he won the Republican primary for governor over Ed Hale and seven others, with Rob Krop as his running mate, and faces Governor Moore on November 3.