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Ben Hightower

Republican · Maryland · 2026

Running for Maryland Senate District 9, Maryland

Top priorities

From the campaign site

  • Focuses his campaign on making Maryland more affordable of campaign announcement coverage
  • Wants to improve school quality of campaign announcement coverage
  • Wants to enhance public safety and defend individual liberties of campaign announcement coverage
Biography

Ben Hightower is a Navy hospital corpsman with 20 years of military service, including six combat deployments, per the campaign site. He also served in a policy role at the Pentagon before retiring and settling in Maryland, per the campaign site.

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