List of lieutenant governors of Connecticut
| Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut | |
|---|---|
Seal of the Lieutenant Governor | |
| Style | Her Excellency |
| Term length | Four years, No term limits |
| Inaugural holder | Roger Ludlow Connecticut Colony 1639 Matthew Griswold State of Connecticut 1776 |
| Formation | Constitution of Connecticut |
| Website | Office of the Lt. Governor |
The following is a list of deputy or lieutenant governors of the State of Connecticut, from the Colonial period until now.
List
| No. | Lieutenant Governor | Term in office | Party | Election | Governor[a][b] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
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| — | Vacant | January 5, 1796 – May 12, 1796 |
— | Oliver Wolcott | ||||
| 24 | Jonathan Trumbull Jr. | May 12, 1796 – December 1, 1796 |
Federalist | 1796 | ||||
| 1797 [e] | ||||||||
| — | Vacant | December 1, 1796 – May 11, 1797 |
— | Jonathan Trumbull Jr. | ||||
| 25 | John Treadwell | May 11, 1797 – August 7, 1809 |
Federalist | 1797 | ||||
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| — | Vacant | August 7, 1809 – May 10, 1810 |
— | John Treadwell | ||||
| 26 | Roger Griswold | May 10, 1810 – May 9, 1811 |
Federalist | 1810 | ||||
| 27 | John Cotton Smith | May 9, 1811 – October 25, 1812 |
Federalist | 1811 | Roger Griswold | |||
| 1812 [g] | ||||||||
| — | Vacant | October 25, 1812 – May 13, 1813 |
— | John Cotton Smith[h] | ||||
| 28 | Chauncey Goodrich | May 13, 1813 – August 18, 1815 |
Federalist | 1813 | ||||
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| 1815 [i] | ||||||||
| — | Vacant | August 18, 1815 – May 9, 1816 |
— | |||||
| 29 | Jonathan Ingersoll [j] | May 9, 1816 – January 12, 1823 |
Democratic- Republican |
1816 | ||||
| Toleration Party | 1817 | Oliver Wolcott Jr. | ||||||
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| — | Vacant | January 12, 1823 – May 7, 1823 |
— | |||||
| 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[l] | |||
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| 1830 [m] | ||||||||
| — | 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 | |||
| 1843 | ||||||||
| 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 | |||
| 1848 | ||||||||
| 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[n] | |||
| 43 | Green Kendrick | May 7, 1851 – May 7, 1852 |
Whig | 1851 | ||||
| 44 | Charles H. Pond | May 7, 1852 – October 13, 1853 |
Democratic | 1852 | ||||
| 1853 [o] | ||||||||
| — | 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 | |||
| 1859 | ||||||||
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 50 | Benjamin Douglas | May 1, 1861 – May 7, 1862 |
Republican | 1861 | ||||
| 51 | Roger Averill | May 7, 1862 – May 2, 1866 |
Unionist | 1862 | ||||
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| National Union | 1864 | |||||||
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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 | |||
| 1872 | ||||||||
| 57 | George G. Sill | May 7, 1873 – January 3, 1887 |
Democratic | 1873 | Charles Roberts Ingersoll | |||
| 1874 | ||||||||
| 1875 [p] | ||||||||
| 58 | Francis Loomis | January 3, 1877 – January 9, 1879 |
Democratic | 1876 [q] |
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[r] | |||
| 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 [s] |
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 Eben Baldwin[n] | |||
| 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 | |||
| 1916 | ||||||||
| 1918 | ||||||||
| 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 [t] |
Hiram Bingham III | |||
| 80 | J. Edwin Brainard | January 8, 1925 – January 9, 1929 |
Republican | John H. Trumbull | ||||
| 1926 | ||||||||
| 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[n] | |||
| 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[u] | |||
| 88 | Charles Wilbert Snow | January 3, 1945 – December 27, 1946 |
Democratic | 1944 [v] | ||||
| — | Vacant | December 27, 1946 – January 8, 1947 |
— | Charles Wilbert Snow | ||||
| 89 | James C. Shannon | January 8, 1947 – March 7, 1948 |
Republican | 1946 [w] |
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 [x] |
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 [y] | ||||
| 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 [z] | ||||
| 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 [aa] |
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 [ab] | ||||
| 103 | Joseph J. Fauliso | December 31, 1980 – January 9, 1991 |
Democratic | William A. O'Neill | ||||
| 1982 | ||||||||
| 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 [ac] | ||||||||
| 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 [ad] |
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.
- ↑ Huntington died and Wolcott acted as governor, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
- ↑ Wolcott died and Trumbull acted as governor, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
- ↑ Trumbull died and Treadwell acted as governor, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
- ↑ Griswold died and Smith acted as governor, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
- ↑ Represented the Federalist Party.
- ↑ Smith died in office; the office remained vacant for the remainder of the term.
- ↑ Represented the Democratic-Republican Party in his first year, and the Toleration Party after that.
- ↑ Ingersoll died in office; the office remained vacant for the remainder of the term.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 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.[2]
- ↑ 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 first term expires on January 4, 2023.
References
- ↑ 1662 Charter
- ↑ "Morgan Gardner Bulkeley". National Governors Association. Archived from the original on September 11, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2016.