Facts:   - website: -lsb- -rsb- http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/08conoff/attorney/html/msa14107.html government website -rsb- -lsb- http://www.ganslerformaryland.com/page/biography campaign website    - successor: brian frosh    - party: democrat    - spouse: laura leedy    - predecessor: joseph curran    - office: 45th attorney general of maryland      - term end: january 6 , 2015    - children: samuel william    - term start: january 2 , 2007    - birth date: 30 october 1962    - name: doug gansler    - image: ag gansler at his desk.jpg    - birth place: summit , new jersey , u.s.    - religion: judaism    - governor: martin o'malley    - alma mater: yale university university of virginia   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of doug gansler .
douglas f. `` doug '' gansler -lrb- born october 30 , 1962 -rrb- is an american attorney politician who served as the 45th attorney general of maryland .gansler previously served as the state 's attorney for montgomery county , maryland from 1999 to 2007 .he then won nomination in the state democratic primary election for attorney general and defeated republican candidate scott rolle in the 2006 general election , taking 61 % of the vote .he was re-elected unopposed in the 2010 election .gansler lost the democratic primary race for governor of maryland on june 24 , 2014 to anthony brown .