Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut | |
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![]() Seal of the lieutenant governor | |
![]() Incumbent since January 9, 2019Susan Bysiewicz | |
Government of Connecticut | |
Style | Her Excellency |
Term length | Four years, No term limits |
Inaugural holder | Matthew Griswold State of Connecticut 1776 |
Formation | Constitution of Connecticut |
Website | Office of the Lt. Governor |
The following is a list of lieutenant governors of the State of Connecticut.
Lieutenant governors of the State of Connecticut, 1776–present
No. | Lieutenant Governor | Term in office | Party | Election | Governor[a][b] | |||
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21 | ![]() | Matthew Griswold | October 10, 1776 – May 13, 1784 | Federalist | 1776 | Jonathan Trumbull[c] | ||
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22 | ![]() | Samuel Huntington | May 13, 1784 – May 11, 1786 | Federalist | 1784 | Matthew Griswold | ||
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23 | ![]() | Oliver Wolcott | May 11, 1786 – January 5, 1796 | Federalist | 1786 | Samuel Huntington (died January 5, 1796) | ||
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— | Vacant | January 5, 1796 – May 12, 1796 | Office vacated by succession to governor | Oliver Wolcott (died December 1, 1797) | ||||
24 | ![]() | Jonathan Trumbull Jr. | May 12, 1796 – December 1, 1797 | Federalist | 1796 | |||
1797 | ||||||||
— | Vacant | December 1, 1797 – May 10, 1798 | Office vacated by succession to governor | Jonathan Trumbull Jr (died August 7, 1809) | ||||
25 | ![]() | John Treadwell | May 10, 1798 – August 7, 1809 | Federalist | 1798 | |||
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— | Vacant | August 7, 1809 – October 20, 1809 | Office vacated by succession to governor | John Treadwell | ||||
26 | ![]() | Roger Griswold | October 20, 1809[2] – May 9, 1811 | Federalist | 1810 | |||
27 | ![]() | John Cotton Smith | May 9, 1811 – October 25, 1812 | Federalist | 1811 | Roger Griswold (died October 25, 1812) | ||
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— | Vacant | October 25, 1812 – May 13, 1813 | Office vacated by succession to governor | John Cotton Smith[d] | ||||
28 | ![]() | Chauncey Goodrich | May 13, 1813 – August 18, 1815 | Federalist | 1813 | |||
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— | Vacant | August 18, 1815 – May 9, 1816 | Office vacated by death | |||||
29 | Jonathan Ingersoll | May 9, 1816 – January 12, 1823 | Democratic- Republican | 1816 | ||||
Toleration Party | 1817 | Oliver Wolcott Jr[e] | ||||||
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1822 | ||||||||
— | Vacant | January 12, 1823 – May 7, 1823 | Office vacated by death | |||||
30 | David Plant | May 7, 1823 – May 2, 1827 | National Republican | 1823 | ||||
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31 | ![]() | John Samuel Peters | May 2, 1827 – March 2, 1831 | National Republican | 1827 | Gideon Tomlinson[f] | ||
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1830 [g] | ||||||||
— | Vacant | March 2, 1831 – May 4, 1831 | — | John Samuel Peters | ||||
32 | Thaddeus Betts | March 2, 1831 – May 1, 1833 | National Republican | 1831 | ||||
1832 | ||||||||
33 | Ebenezer Stoddard | May 1, 1833 – May 7, 1834 | Democratic | 1833 | Henry W. Edwards | |||
34 | Thaddeus Betts | May 7, 1834 – May 6, 1835 | Whig | 1834 | Samuel A. Foot | |||
35 | Ebenezer Stoddard | May 6, 1835 – May 2, 1838 | Democratic | 1835 | Henry W. Edwards | |||
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36 | ![]() | Charles Hawley | May 2, 1838 – May 4, 1842 | Whig | 1838 | William W. Ellsworth | ||
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37 | William S. Holabird | May 4, 1842 – May 1, 1844 | Democratic | 1842 | Chauncey Fitch Cleveland | |||
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38 | Reuben Booth | May 1, 1844 – May 6, 1846 | Whig | 1844 | Roger Sherman Baldwin | |||
1845 | ||||||||
39 | Noyes Billings | May 6, 1846 – May 5, 1847 | Democratic | 1846 | Isaac Toucey | |||
40 | ![]() | Charles J. McCurdy | May 5, 1847 – May 2, 1849 | Whig | 1847 | Clark Bissell | ||
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41 | Thomas Backus | May 2, 1849 – May 4, 1850 | Whig | 1849 | Joseph Trumbull | |||
42 | ![]() | Charles H. Pond | May 5, 1850 – May 7, 1851 | Democratic | 1850 | Thomas H. Seymour[h] | ||
43 | Green Kendrick | May 7, 1851 – May 7, 1852 | Whig | 1851 | ||||
44 | Charles H. Pond | May 7, 1852 – October 13, 1853 | Democratic | 1852 | ||||
1853 [i] | ||||||||
— | Vacant | October 13, 1853 – May 3, 1854 | — | Charles H. Pond | ||||
45 | ![]() | Alexander H. Holley | May 3, 1854 – May 2, 1855 | Whig | 1854 | Henry Dutton | ||
46 | William Field | May 2, 1855 – May 7, 1856 | Free Soil | 1855 | William T. Minor | |||
47 | Albert Day | May 7, 1856 – May 6, 1857 | American | 1856 | ||||
48 | Alfred A. Burnham | May 6, 1857 – May 5, 1858 | Republican | 1857 | Alexander H. Holley | |||
49 | ![]() | Julius Catlin | May 5, 1858 – May 1, 1861 | Republican | 1858 | William Alfred Buckingham | ||
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50 | ![]() | Benjamin Douglas | May 1, 1861 – May 7, 1862 | Republican | 1861 | |||
51 | Roger Averill | May 7, 1862 – May 2, 1866 | National Union | 1862 | ||||
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52 | ![]() | Oliver Winchester | May 2, 1866 – May 1, 1867 | Republican | 1866 | Joseph Roswell Hawley | ||
53 | Ephraim H. Hyde | May 1, 1867 – May 5, 1869 | Democratic | 1867 | James E. English | |||
1868 | ||||||||
54 | ![]() | Francis Wayland III | May 5, 1869 – May 4, 1870 | Republican | 1869 | Marshall Jewell | ||
55 | ![]() | Julius Hotchkiss | May 4, 1870 – May 16, 1871 | Democratic | 1870 | James E. English | ||
56 | Morris Tyler | May 16, 1871 – May 7, 1873 | Republican | 1871 | Marshall Jewell | |||
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57 | ![]() | George G. Sill | May 7, 1873 – January 3, 1887 | Democratic | 1873 | Charles Roberts Ingersoll | ||
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58 | ![]() | Francis Loomis | January 3, 1877 – January 9, 1879 | Democratic | 1876 [k] | Richard D. Hubbard | ||
59 | David Gallup | January 9, 1879 – January 5, 1881 | Republican | 1878 | Charles B. Andrews | |||
60 | ![]() | William H. Bulkeley | January 5, 1881 – January 3, 1883 | Republican | 1880 | Hobart B. Bigelow | ||
61 | George G. Sumner | January 3, 1883 – January 8, 1885 | Democratic | 1882 | Thomas M. Waller | |||
62 | ![]() | Lorrin A. Cooke | January 8, 1885 – January 7, 1887 | Republican | 1884 | Henry Baldwin Harrison | ||
63 | ![]() | James L. Howard | January 7, 1887 – January 10, 1889 | Republican | 1886 | Phineas C. Lounsbury | ||
64 | Samuel E. Merwin | January 10, 1889 – January 4, 1893 | Republican | 1888 | Morgan Bulkeley[l] | |||
1890 | ||||||||
65 | ![]() | Ernest Cady | January 4, 1893 – January 9, 1895 | Democratic | 1892 | Luzon B. Morris | ||
66 | ![]() | Lorrin A. Cooke | January 9, 1895 – January 6, 1897 | Republican | 1894 | Owen Vincent Coffin | ||
67 | ![]() | James D. Dewell | January 6, 1897 – January 4, 1899 | Republican | 1896 | Lorrin A. Cooke | ||
68 | ![]() | Lyman A. Mills | January 4, 1899 – January 9, 1901 | Republican | 1898 | George E. Lounsbury | ||
69 | ![]() | Edwin O. Keeler | January 9, 1901 – January 7, 1903 | Republican | 1900 | George P. McLean | ||
70 | ![]() | Henry Roberts | January 7, 1903 – January 4, 1905 | Republican | 1902 | Abiram Chamberlain | ||
71 | ![]() | Rollin S. Woodruff | January 4, 1905 – January 9, 1907 | Republican | 1904 | Henry Roberts | ||
72 | ![]() | Everett J. Lake | January 9, 1907 – January 9, 1909 | Republican | 1906 | Rollin S. Woodruff | ||
73 | ![]() | Frank B. Weeks | January 6, 1909 – April 21, 1909 | Republican | 1908 [m] | George L. Lilley | ||
— | Vacant | April 21, 1909 – January 4, 1911 | — | Frank B. Weeks | ||||
74 | ![]() | Dennis A. Blakeslee | January 4, 1911 – January 8, 1913 | Republican | 1910 | Simeon E. Baldwin[h] | ||
75 | ![]() | Lyman T. Tingier | January 8, 1913 – January 6, 1915 | Democratic | 1912 | |||
76 | ![]() | Clifford B. Wilson | January 6, 1915 – January 5, 1921 | Republican | 1914 | Marcus H. Holcomb | ||
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77 | ![]() | Charles A. Templeton | January 5, 1921 – January 3, 1923 | Republican | 1920 | Everett J. Lake | ||
78 | ![]() | Hiram Bingham III | January 3, 1923 – January 7, 1925 | Republican | 1922 | Charles A. Templeton | ||
79 | ![]() | John H. Trumbull | January 7, 1925 – January 8, 1925 | Republican | 1924 [n] | Hiram Bingham III | ||
80 | J. Edwin Brainard | January 8, 1925 – January 9, 1929 | Republican | John H. Trumbull | ||||
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81 | ![]() | Ernest E. Rogers | January 9, 1929 – January 7, 1931 | Republican | 1928 | |||
82 | ![]() | Samuel R. Spencer | January 7, 1931 – January 4, 1933 | Republican | 1930 | Wilbur Lucius Cross[h] | ||
83 | Roy C. Wilcox | January 4, 1933 – January 9, 1935 | Republican | 1932 | ||||
84 | T. Frank Hayes | January 9, 1935 – January 4, 1939 | Democratic | 1934 | ||||
1936 | ||||||||
85 | ![]() | James L. McConaughy | January 4, 1939 – January 8, 1941 | Republican | 1938 | Raymond E. Baldwin | ||
86 | Odell Shepard | January 8, 1941 – January 6, 1943 | Democratic | 1940 | Robert A. Hurley | |||
87 | William L. Hadden | January 6, 1943 – January 3, 1945 | Republican | 1942 | Raymond E. Baldwin[o] | |||
88 | ![]() | Charles Wilbert Snow | January 3, 1945 – December 27, 1946 | Democratic | 1944 [p] | |||
— | Vacant | December 27, 1946 – January 8, 1947 | — | Charles Wilbert Snow | ||||
89 | ![]() | James C. Shannon | January 8, 1947 – March 7, 1948 | Republican | 1946 [q] | James L. McConaughy | ||
90 | Robert E. Parsons | March 7, 1948 – January 5, 1949 | Republican | James C. Shannon | ||||
91 | William T. Carroll | January 5, 1949 – January 3, 1951 | Democratic | 1948 | Chester Bowles | |||
92 | Edward N. Allen | January 3, 1951 – January 5, 1955 | Republican | 1950 [r] | John Davis Lodge | |||
93 | Charles W. Jewett | January 5, 1955 – January 7, 1959 | Republican | 1954 | Abraham Ribicoff | |||
94 | ![]() | John N. Dempsey | January 7, 1959 – January 21, 1961 | Democratic | 1958 [s] | |||
95 | ![]() | Anthony J. Armentano | January 21, 1961 – January 9, 1963 | Democratic | John N. Dempsey | |||
96 | ![]() | Samuel J. Tedesco | January 9, 1963 – January 15, 1966 | Democratic | 1962 [t] | |||
97 | ![]() | Fred J. Doocy | January 15, 1966 – January 4, 1967 | Democratic | ||||
98 | Attilio R. Frassinelli | January 4, 1967 – January 6, 1971 | Democratic | 1966 | ||||
99 | ![]() | T. Clark Hull | January 6, 1971 – June 1, 1973 | Republican | 1970 [u] | Thomas Meskill | ||
100 | ![]() | Peter L. Cashman | June 1, 1973 – January 8, 1975 | Republican | ||||
101 | Robert K. Killian | January 8, 1975 – January 3, 1979 | Democratic | 1974 | Ella Grasso | |||
102 | ![]() | William A. O'Neill | January 3, 1979 – December 31, 1980 | Democratic | 1978 [v] | |||
103 | ![]() | Joseph J. Fauliso | December 31, 1980 – January 9, 1991 | Democratic | William A. O'Neill | |||
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1986 | ||||||||
104 | Eunice Groark | January 9, 1991 – January 4, 1995 | A Connecticut Party | 1990 | Lowell Weicker | |||
105 | ![]() | Jodi Rell | January 4, 1995 – July 1, 2004 | Republican | 1994 | John G. Rowland | ||
1998 | ||||||||
2002 [w] | ||||||||
106 | Kevin Sullivan | July 1, 2004 – January 3, 2007 | Democratic | Jodi Rell | ||||
107 | Michael Fedele | January 3, 2007 – January 5, 2011 | Republican | 2006 | ||||
108 | ![]() | Nancy Wyman | January 5, 2011 – January 9, 2019 | Democratic | 2010 | Dannel Malloy | ||
2014 | ||||||||
109 | Susan Bysiewicz | January 9, 2019 – Present | Democratic | 2018 [x] | Ned Lamont |
Notes
- ^ The office of Lieutenant Governor was known as Deputy-Governor under the colonial charter, but the name 'Lieutenant Governor' was predominantly used after independence.[1]
- ^ Lieutenant governors represented the same party as their governor unless noted.
- ^ Represented no party.
- ^ Represented the Federalist Party
- ^ Represented the Toleration Party through the 1818 election, and the Democratic-Republican Party after that.
- ^ Represented the Democratic-Republican Party in his first year, and the National Republican Party after that.
- ^ Tomlinson resigned and Peters acted as governor, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
- ^ a b c Represented the Democratic Party.
- ^ Seymour resigned and Pond acted as governor, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
- ^ This term was lengthened by 7 months due to a constitutional amendment moving the election schedule.
- ^ First term under a constitutional amendment which lengthened terms to two years.
- ^ Morgan Bulkeley did not run for re-election in 1890, but due to such a close contest and controversies, the results were not certified, and the legislature spent two years debating the issue; Bulkeley essentially served as governor by default.[3]
- ^ Lilley died and Weeks acted as governor, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
- ^ Bingham resigned and Trumbull acted as governor for the remainder of the term; as president pro tempore of the senate, Brainard succeeded Trumbull.
- ^ Represented the Republican Party.
- ^ Baldwin resigned and Snow acted as governor; the office remained vacant for the remainder of the term.
- ^ McConaughy died and Shannon acted as governor; as president pro tempore of the senate, Parsons succeeded Shannon.
- ^ First term under a constitution amendment which lengthened terms to four years.
- ^ Ribicoff resigned and Dempsey acted as governor for the remainder of his term; as president pro tempore of the senate, Armentano succeeded Dempsey.
- ^ Tedesco resigned to take a seat on the Connecticut Superior Court; as president pro tempore of the senate, Doocy succeeded him.
- ^ Hull resigned to take a seat on the Connecticut Superior Court; as president pro tempore of the senate, Cashman succeeded him.
- ^ Grasso resigned and O'Neill succeeded her; as president pro tempore of the senate, Fauliso succeeded O'Neill.
- ^ Rowland resigned and Rell succeeded him; as president pro tempore of the senate, Sullivan succeeded Rell.
- ^ Bysiewicz's second term began on January 4, 2023.
References
- Constitutions
- "Constitution of the State of Connecticut". Connecticut State Library. 1965. Archived from the original on March 23, 2009. Retrieved February 21, 2009.
- "Constitution of the State of Connecticut". Secretary of the State of Connecticut. 1818. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved February 21, 2009.
- "Charter of the Colony of Connecticut". National Humanities Institute. 1662. Retrieved February 21, 2009.
- Specific
External links
- Official website of the Lieutenant Governor
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