{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Carlo Sanchez | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|04|01}} | birth_place = El Salvador | death_date = | death_place = | state_delegate = Maryland | district = 47B | term_start = October 30, 2015 | term_end = January 9, 2019 | predecessor = Will Campos | successor = Wanika B. Fisher | party = Democrat | occupation = | majority = | alma_mater = | relations = | partner = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Carlo Sanchez''' is an American politician who served as a Delegate to the Maryland General Assembly representing Maryland's 47th Legislative District in northwestern Prince George's County from 2015 to 2019.
== Personal life == Sanchez' parents moved to the United States from El Salvador, settling in Langley Park, Maryland, where Sanchez was born on April 1, 1982. He attended Takoma Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist school in Takoma Park, Maryland before earning an associate degree from Montgomery College and a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.<ref name="about">{{cite web |title=About |url=http://www.carloformaryland.com/about |website=Carlo Sanchez, Maryland State Delegate |access-date=April 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427002915/http://www.carloformaryland.com/about |archive-date=April 27, 2017}}</ref> He has worked as a public safety training officer for Montgomery College since 2000. He is an elder with the Washington Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church, and his wife works as an operating room nurse.<ref name="msa">{{cite web |title=Carlo Sanchez, Maryland State Delegate |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/former/html/msa17164.html |website=Maryland Manual Online |publisher=Maryland State Archives |access-date=February 24, 2023 |date=December 20, 2019}}</ref>
== Political career == Sanchez began volunteering for future United States Senator Chris Van Hollen while still a student at Montgomery College during Van Hollen's 2002 campaign for Maryland's 8th Congressional District. After the conclusion of the campaign, Sanchez began to volunteer on other political campaigns.<ref name="about" /> In 2010, he became involved in the Prince George's County Young Democrats, and by 2014 had been elected to the countywide Democratic Central Committee and as President of his neighborhood association.<ref name="msa" /> In 2015, following the resignation of Delegate Will Campos, Sanchez ran for the appointment to the open seat representing the heavily Hispanic District 47B. He was unopposed for the appointment and gained the support of District 47 Senator Victor R. Ramirez.<ref name="Post">{{cite news |last1=Hernández |first1=Arelis R. |title=Elizabeth Proctor, Carlo Sanchez tapped to fill Maryland delegate seats |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/these-two-are-in-line-to-become-marylands-newest-state-legislators/2015/10/08/6b3c9992-6db4-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html |access-date=April 25, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 8, 2015 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016114204/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/these-two-are-in-line-to-become-marylands-newest-state-legislators/2015/10/08/6b3c9992-6db4-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html |archive-date=October 16, 2015}}</ref> He was sworn into the House of Delegates on October 30, 2015.<ref name="msa" />
=== In the Legislature === Sanchez was appointed to serve as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, which oversees legislation affecting civil and criminal law, upon joining the House of Delegates. In 2017, he was elected Chair of the Maryland Legislative Latino Caucus.<ref name="msa" />
Sanchez was defeated for election to his seat in the 2018 Democratic primary by Wanika B. Fisher,<ref>{{cite web |title=Official 2018 Gubernatorial Primary Election results for House of Delegates |url=https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/2018/results/primary/gen_results_2018_1_01647B.html |website=elections.maryland.gov |publisher=Maryland State Board of Elections |access-date=February 24, 2023 |date=July 31, 2018}}</ref> the eventual winner in the general election.<ref>{{cite web |title=Official 2018 Gubernatorial General Election results for House of Delegates |url=https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/2018/results/general/gen_results_2018_2_01647B.html |website=elections.maryland.gov |publisher=Maryland State Board of Elections |access-date=February 24, 2023 |date=December 11, 2018}}</ref>
== Post-politics == In 2022, Sanchez was appointed to the Prince George's County Police Accountability Board.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ford |first1=William J. |title=Police accountability board gets to work in Prince George's, but still missing one member |url=https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/11/17/police-accountability-board-gets-to-work-in-prince-georges-but-still-missing-one-member/ |access-date=February 24, 2023 |work=Maryland Matters |date=November 17, 2022}}</ref>
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