1. Frank Kratovil previously served as State's Attorney of Queen Anne's County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and he was appointed as a judge for the county's District Court by Governor Martin O'Malley in December 2011.
29 Facts About Frank Kratovil
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Frank Kratovil was born in Lanham, Maryland, and spent his childhood in Prince George's County, Maryland.
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Frank Kratovil received his bachelor's degree in 1990 from Western Maryland College.
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Frank Kratovil joined Phi Delta Theta while there and played soccer, basketball and baseball.
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Frank Kratovil then graduated with honors from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1994.
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Frank Kratovil served from 1994 to 1995 as Law Clerk for Judge Darlene G Perry of Prince George's County Circuit Court.
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In 1997, Frank Kratovil moved to the Eastern Shore and was appointed Assistant State's Attorney for Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
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Frank Kratovil continued to serve as Assistant State's Attorney until 2001 when he was appointed as Deputy State's Attorney in Kent County, Maryland.
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Frank Kratovil served as the President of the Young Democrats of Maryland from 1997 to 1998, and in 1998 was selected to represent the United States on the American Council of Young Political Leaders' delegation to Taiwan.
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Frank Kratovil was a member and on the executive committee of the Queen Anne's County local management board.
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In 2002, Kratovil ran for the office of State's Attorney in Queen Anne's County and was elected after defeating four-term incumbent David Gregory in the primary and Republican Paul W Comfort in the general election.
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Frank Kratovil assumed office at the age of 34 making him the youngest State's Attorney in Maryland.
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Frank Kratovil was elected by his fellow State's Attorneys to be President of the Maryland State's Attorneys' Association for 2005.
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On June 4,2007, Frank Kratovil announced that he would run for Congress in Maryland's 1st congressional district.
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Frank Kratovil expected to face nine-term Republican incumbent Wayne Gilchrest, a leading Republican moderate, in the general election.
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Frank Kratovil was initially a heavy underdog due to the district's election history.
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Frank Kratovil, who is considered a moderate, picked up a number of endorsements from local Eastern Shore Republicans as well as Democrats.
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Frank Kratovil received an endorsement from the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of fiscally conservative congressional Democrats.
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Frank Kratovil's election dramatized the geographic split that characterizes the 1st District.
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An Eastern Shore resident, Frank Kratovil carried all nine counties on the Shore.
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Frank Kratovil lost the district's portions of Harford and Anne Arundel counties on the Western Shore.
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Frank Kratovil therefore became only the third Democrat to represent the 1st since 1947, and the first since Gilchrest ousted Roy Dyson in 1990.
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Harris announced in May 2009 that he would seek a rematch against Frank Kratovil, citing Frank Kratovil's vote for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in its final form.
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Frank Kratovil based his 2010 re-election bid on his independent streak in Washington.
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Frank Kratovil was ranked as being in the top ten of independent voting records in Congress by CQ Politics in 2009.
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Frank Kratovil was defeated, taking 42 percent of the vote to Harris' 54 percent.
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Frank Kratovil is one of only three Democrats since 1992 to win 40 percent or more of the district's vote.
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Frank Kratovil aligned himself with the conservative House Blue Dog Coalition.
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Frank Kratovil was reappointed by Governor Larry Hogan, confirmed by the State Senate, and sworn-in to another 10-year term in April 2022.