With Glenn Ivey’s election to Congress, the Iveys have completed a rare trifecta: a family of elected officials at every level of government, each representing Prince George’s County, Md.
Before the gridlock began on the House floor on the first day of the 118th Congress, Glenn Ivey had a party to go to.
The Iveys have been running for office as a family unit for years — “these kids have been campaigning since they were very, very young,” longtime family friend Rushern Baker, former Prince George’s County Executive, said of the five Ivey sons and Glenn’s daughter, Joanna. There’s no shortage of multigenerational politicians or hard-charging power couples in Maryland, from the Cardins and the Sarbaneses to the Mosbys in Baltimore. But there’s also a certain sensitivity
The bespectacled lawyer studied politics at Princeton and law at Harvard in the 1980s . It was around the same time he watched Jesse Jackson run for president and Mel King run for mayor in racially divided Boston. There was “no frickin’ way they were going to elect an African American mayor at that time,” Ivey recalled — but it got him thinking: Maybe one day the odds wouldn’t seem so high. Maybe more Black men would be in public office everywhere — maybe even him.
had already been outspoken as a local education advocate, and was known for co-founding Mocha Moms, a nonprofit seeking to empower at-home moms of color with kids in school, which now has chapters all over the“So I talked to Glenn, and he said it was a terrible idea. He always denies it,” Ivey
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