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Elijah Cummings widow Maya Rockeymoore expected to run for his House seat

By Alana Goodman
Published October 19, 2019 12:08am ET
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Elijah Cummings widow Maya Rockeymoore expected to run for his House seat
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio poses for a photo with Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., right, during a re-enactment the House oath-of-office, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cummings' wife Maya Rockeymoore is at center. | (Susan Walsh/AP)

Rep. Elijah Cummings’s widow Maya Rockeymoore is seen as the most likely successor to fill his congressional seat after his death on Thursday, sources told the Washington Examiner.

Rockeymoore, 48, who is currently the chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party, has a history of political involvement and ran unsuccessfully for Maryland governor in 2017. She married Cummings in 2008.

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