American politician (born 1963)
John Kevin Delaney
(born April 16, 1963) is an American politician, businessman, and former attorney who was the
United States representative
for
Maryland's 6th congressional district
from 2013 to 2019.
[1]
He was a candidate in the
2020 Democratic presidential primaries
.
On July 28, 2017, Delaney became the first Democrat to announce his
run for president in 2020
.
[2]
Delaney did not run for re-election to Congress in 2018, choosing to focus on his presidential campaign. In November 2018, fellow Democrat
David Trone
was elected to succeed Delaney in Congress, and subsequently endorsed him for
President in 2020
. Delaney suspended his campaign on January 31, 2020, citing low poll numbers and wanting to avoid pulling support from other candidates.
[3]
[4]
He later endorsed
Joe Biden
for president.
Early life and education
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Delaney grew up in
Wood-Ridge, New Jersey
, the son of Elaine (Rowe), and Jack Delaney, an electrician. He is the nephew of former
Aetna
CEO
John Rowe
.
[5]
He is of three quarters Irish and one quarter English descent.
[6]
[7]
Delaney spent part of his youth working at his father's construction sites.
[8]
Delaney graduated from
Bergen Catholic High School
.
[9]
Scholarships from his father's labor union (
IBEW Local 164
) as well as the
American Legion
,
VFW
, and the
Lions Club
helped Delaney attend college; he earned a
B.A.
degree from
Columbia University
in 1985, and a
J.D.
degree from
Georgetown University Law Center
in 1988.
[10]
[11]
[12]
Business career
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Delaney co-founded two companies that were publicly traded on the
New York Stock Exchange
. He won the
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
in 2004.
[13]
In 1993, Delaney co-founded Health Care Financial Partners (HCFP), to make loans available to smaller-sized health care service providers said to be ignored by larger banks.
[14]
HCFP
went public
in 1996, and its stock began trading on the
New York Stock Exchange
in 1998.
[15]
Health Care Financial Partners was acquired by
Heller Financial
in 1999.
[16]
In 2000, Delaney co-founded
CapitalSource
, a commercial lender headquartered in
Chevy Chase, Maryland
; the company provided capital to roughly 5,000 small and mid-size businesses before his departure.
[17]
In 2010, while Delaney was CEO, CapitalSource was awarded a Bank Enterprise Award from the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund by the U.S. Treasury Department for its investment in low-income and economically distressed communities.
[18]
In 2005, CapitalSource was named one of
Washingtonian
magazine's best places to work for its company culture and employee benefits.
[19]
CapitalSource continued to be publicly traded on the NYSE after Delaney's election, making him the only former CEO of a publicly traded company to serve in the
113th United States Congress
.
[20]
In 2014, the lender merged with
PacWest Bancorp
.
[21]
U.S. House of Representatives
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Election
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2012
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After redistricting following the 2010 census, Delaney decided to run for the newly redrawn 6th district against 10-term Republican incumbent
Roscoe Bartlett
. The district had long been a Republican stronghold, but it had been significantly reconfigured. The
Maryland General Assembly
shifted much of heavily Republican
Carroll County
and the more rural sections of
Frederick County
into the heavily Democratic
8th district
. It also shifted Republican-tilting sections of
Harford
and
Baltimore
counties, as well as another section of Carroll, into the already heavily Republican
1st district
. Taking their place was a heavily Democratic spur of western Montgomery County previously in the 8th District. The redrawn district's share of Montgomery County ended just two blocks from Delaney's home in
Potomac
. The redrawn district, the state's second-largest, included nearly the entire western portion of the state, but the bulk of its vote came from the outer suburbs of
Washington, D.C.
On paper, this dramatically altered the district's demographics, turning it from a heavily Republican district into a Democratic-leaning district. While
John McCain
carried the 6th with 57 percent of the vote in 2008,
[22]
Barack Obama
would have carried the new 6th with 56 percent.
[23]
The Montgomery County share of the district has three times as many people as the rest of the district combined.
The shifts were quite controversial, as Republicans accused Democrats of shifting district boundaries in their favor, and former Governor
Martin O'Malley
later admitted the redrawn districts would favor Democrats. "That was my hope," O'Malley told attorneys in a deposition. "It was also my intent to create ... a district where the people would be more likely to elect a Democrat than a Republican."
[24]
During the primary, Delaney was endorsed by former President
Bill Clinton
, U.S. Congresswoman
Donna Edwards
, Comptroller
Peter Franchot
,
The Washington Post
, and the
Gazette
.
[25]
[26]
[27]
On April 3, 2012, Delaney won the five-candidate Democratic primary field with 54% of the vote. The next closest opponent, State Senator
Robert J. Garagiola
, received 29% of the vote, 25 points behind Delaney.
[28]
[29]
In the November 6, 2012 general election, Delaney defeated Bartlett by 59%?38%, a 21-point margin. He won the Montgomery County share of the district by almost 56,000 votes, accounting for almost all of the overall margin of 58,900 votes.
[30]
2014
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Delaney faced a closer-than-expected contest for reelection against
Dan Bongino
, the Republican candidate in 2012 for U.S. Senate from Maryland. While Delaney won just one of the district's five counties, that one county was Montgomery, which he carried by over 20,500 votes. Delaney ultimately won the race by just over 2,200 votes.
[31]
2016
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Delaney won a third term in 2016, taking 56 percent of the vote to Republican Amie Hoeber's 40 percent.
Tenure
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Delaney introduced legislation to end partisan
gerrymandering
. The
Open Our Democracy Act of 2017
would appoint independent redistricting commissions nationwide to end partisan gerrymandering, make Election Day a federal holiday, and create an open top-two primary system.
[32]
Delaney was ranked as the 53rd most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the
114th United States Congress
(and the most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland) in the Bipartisan Index created by
The Lugar Center
and the
McCourt School of Public Policy
that ranks members of the United States Congress by their degree of bipartisanship (by measuring the frequency each member's bills attract co-sponsors from the opposite party and each member's co-sponsorship of bills by members of the opposite party).
[33]
In 2015, a similar ranking by the nonpartisan site GovTrack ranked Delaney third highest for bipartisanship among all House Democrats.
[34]
Committee assignments
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Caucus memberships
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2020 presidential bid
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Despite a rumored bid to run against governor
Larry Hogan
in
2018
, Delaney bypassed the
2018 elections
altogether. On July 28, 2017, he announced his run for president in 2020 in a
Washington Post
op-ed.
[2]
Delaney favored
universal health coverage
and proposed a public plan that would cover all Americans under the age of 65 (while leaving
Medicare
for those over 65 untouched).
[40]
He opposed Medicare-for-all, arguing that advocacy for the policy would help incumbent President
Donald Trump
get re-elected.
[41]
[42]
During a June 2019 debate, Delaney claimed that hospitals will be shuttered under
Medicare for All
;
Politifact
, the
Washington Post
fact-checker, and
Kaiser Health News
all found this claim to be false and unsubstantiated.
[43]
[44]
[41]
Delaney dropped out of the presidential race on January 31, 2020. He cited his failure to gain traction in polls and wanting to avoid pulling support from other moderate candidates as reasons behind the suspension of his campaign.
[45]
On March 6, 2020, he endorsed
Joe Biden
.
[46]
Political positions
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Delaney has been frequently referred to as a "moderate". However, he does not entirely identify as such.
[47]
Delaney has remarked,
People have a hard time labeling me. Some of the things they hear me talking about are on the total progressive or liberal end of the spectrum, and in other ways I'm kind of a solutions-oriented moderate who wants to get things done.
[47]
However, statements made since then suggest he has embraced the moderate label. Appearing on PBS NewsHour on May 8, 2019, Delaney remarked, "I am probably the most moderate candidate" in the field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
[48]
He has received the top score of 100 from the
Human Rights Campaign
for his support of equality-related legislation, with him stating "No one should be discriminated against because of who they are or who they love" in response to this recognition.
[49]
[50]
Delaney has said he would support increasing the
corporate tax
rate from 21 percent to 23 percent "to raise about $200 billion for infrastructure".
[51]
Personal life
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Delaney and his wife
April
(nee McClain) met at
Georgetown University Law Center
. They married in
Sun Valley, Idaho
in 1989,
[52]
and moved to the
Washington metropolitan area
after graduating.
[53]
Together, they live in
Potomac, Maryland
[54]
and have four daughters; Summer, Brooke, Lily, and Grace.
[55]
April served as deputy administrator of the
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
from 2022 to 2023
[54]
before
running for Congress in Maryland's 6th congressional district in 2024
.
[56]
Two of Delaney's four daughters attend
Northwestern University
while his oldest daughter, Summer, worked as a video journalist and multimedia reporter for
Tribune Media
and
WPIX
(PIX11) News.
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Delaney is Catholic, and has said that "to some extent" his faith has guided his "social justice orientation".
[57]
He was also a member of the Board of Directors of several organizations: St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School (Chairman),
Georgetown University
,
National Symphony Orchestra
, and the
International Center for Research on Women
.
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