Democratic representative, Wes Moore who was elected as Maryland’s first black governor on Tuesday has Jamaican roots.
Moore, whose mother Joy Moore was born in Jamaica and migrated to the United States as a child with her parents, managed to flip a governor’s office from Republican to Democratic with his victory.
Of the 36 governor’s races this year, Maryland and Massachusetts represented the best chances for Democrats to regain a governor’s office at a time when the GOP holds a 28-22 edge in governor’s seats.
Only two other black politicians have ever been elected governor in the United States — Virginia’s Douglas Wilder in 1989, and Deval Patrick of Massachusetts in 2006.
