 Despite the Governor and Lieutenant Governor being elected on the same party ticket , very often there have been public rifts between the two ; for instance Gov. Marvin Mandel and Lt. Gov. Blair Lee IV ; Gov. Harry R. Hughes and Lt. Gov. Samuel W. Bogley III ; Gov. Schaefer and Lt. Gov. Melvin A. Steinberg . , and Gov. Parris Glendening and Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend . No Lieutenant Governor of Maryland has yet been elected as the Governor in future elections , or permanently succeeded to the Governor 's office due to a vacancy ( which would be created by the resignation , death , or removal of the sitting Governor ) , although Blair Lee III served as acting Governor from June 4 , 1977 until January 15 , 1979 while Governor Marvin Mandel was serving a sentence for mail fraud and racketeering ( consequently , in a modern example of Damnatio memoriae , Mandel 's official gubernatorial portrait was not hung in the Maryland State House Governor 's Reception Room until 1993 ) . 
