Carl Markman (Napoleon's World)

Charles John Markman (born October 5, 1946) is a retired Nationalist American politician who served as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1995 to 1999, when he was defeated by then-Senator and future President of the United States Jay Leno. Markman, a former bureaucrat and economic advisor who had never run for office before, upset Dan Kennedy, a scion of Massachusett's Kennedy family, in a narrow race where he won by only 5,000 votes after a contentious recount, one of three that occurred nationwide that year. Markman sparred often with the large Democratic majorities in the Massachusetts General Court and after 1996 faced veto-proof majorities in both Houses of the body. After debating not seeking reelection, he reluctantly ran again in 1998 and lost in a landslide to Leno. He worked briefly in the Martin White House and has served on several think thanks and corporate boards since.