April McClain Delaney is a Democrat and one of 16 candidates running for Congress in the 6th Congressional District. The incumbent in that seat, Representative David Trone, is running for the Senate against Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks. Her husband John Delaney held the 6th district seat for 6 years, from 2013-2019.

The 6th District is in the northwest part of our state and includes all of Garrett, Allegany, Frederick, and Washington counties as well as portions of Montgomery County.

Delaney was born in Buhl, Idaho, the daughter of a potato farmer and resides in Potomac. Until she left to pursue the 6th District seat, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the United States Department of Commerce. Prior to that, she was a member of the board and Washington Director of Common Sense Media.

McClain Delaney holds an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law School.

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