Edmund Barrett

Edmund Barrett is the Democratic candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates, District 37B, in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2] A retired U.S. Army colonel, he said in a Ballotpedia survey that he also served as a regional director for U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen and as a professor at the Naval War College.[3]

Barrett served in the U.S. Army from 1984 to 2015.[1] According to Ballotpedia, he graduated from Mooretown High School, earned a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University in 1990, and earned graduate degrees from Central Michigan University in 2003 and the Naval War College in 2008.[1] In a Ballotpedia survey, he described himself as a retired Army colonel with more than 30 years of military service, a former regional director for Senator Van Hollen, and a professor at the Naval War College who has also been a teacher and youth sports coach.[3]

Barrett also ran for the Maryland State Senate in District 37 in 2026 and lost in the Democratic primary on June 23, 2026.[1] In the survey, he named affordability and cost of living, energy reliability and affordability, and rural health care and child care access as his campaign's key messages, and said he supports an all-of-the-above approach to energy that includes wind, solar and nuclear power.[3]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.