List of lieutenant governors of Connecticut
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut | |
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Incumbent Susan Bysiewicz since January 9, 2019 | |
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 | Jonathan Trumbull[c] | ||||
22 | Samuel Huntington | May 13, 1784 – May 11, 1786 |
Federalist | Matthew Griswold | ||||
23 | Oliver Wolcott | May 11, 1786 – January 5, 1796 |
Federalist | Samuel Huntington | ||||
[d] | ||||||||
— | Vacant | January 5, 1796 – May 12, 1796 |
— | Oliver Wolcott | ||||
24 | Jonathan Trumbull Jr. | May 12, 1796 – December 1, 1796 |
Federalist | |||||
[e] | ||||||||
— | Vacant | December 1, 1796 – May 11, 1797 |
— | Jonathan Trumbull Jr. | ||||
25 | John Treadwell | May 11, 1797 – August 7, 1809 |
Federalist | |||||
[f] | ||||||||
— | Vacant | August 7, 1809 – October 20, 1809 |
— | John Treadwell | ||||
26 | Roger Griswold | October 20, 1809[2] – May 9, 1811 |
Federalist | |||||
27 | John Cotton Smith | May 9, 1811 – October 25, 1812 |
Federalist | Roger Griswold | ||||
[g] | ||||||||
— | Vacant | October 25, 1812 – May 13, 1813 |
— | John Cotton Smith[h] | ||||
28 | Chauncey Goodrich | May 13, 1813 – August 18, 1815 |
Federalist | |||||
[i] | ||||||||
— | Vacant | August 18, 1815 – May 9, 1816 |
— | |||||
29 | Jonathan Ingersoll [j] | May 9, 1816 – January 12, 1823 |
Democratic- Republican |
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Toleration Party | Oliver Wolcott Jr. | |||||||
[k] | ||||||||
— | Vacant | January 12, 1823 – May 7, 1823 |
— | |||||
30 | David Plant | May 7, 1823 – May 2, 1827 |
National Republican |
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31 | John Samuel Peters | May 2, 1827 – March 2, 1831 |
National Republican |
Gideon Tomlinson[l] | ||||
[m] | ||||||||
— | Vacant | March 2, 1831 – May 4, 1831 |
— | John Samuel Peters | ||||
32 | Thaddeus Betts | March 2, 1831 – May 1, 1833 |
National Republican |
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33 | Ebenezer Stoddard | May 1, 1833 – May 7, 1834 |
Democratic | Henry W. Edwards | ||||
34 | Thaddeus Betts | May 7, 1834 – May 6, 1835 |
Whig | Samuel A. Foot | ||||
35 | Ebenezer Stoddard | May 6, 1835 – May 2, 1838 |
Democratic | Henry W. Edwards | ||||
36 | Charles Hawley | May 2, 1838 – May 4, 1842 |
Whig | William W. Ellsworth | ||||
37 | William S. Holabird | May 4, 1842 – May 1, 1844 |
Democratic | Chauncey Fitch Cleveland | ||||
38 | Reuben Booth | May 1, 1844 – May 6, 1846 |
Whig | Roger Sherman Baldwin | ||||
39 | Noyes Billings | May 6, 1846 – May 5, 1847 |
Democratic | Isaac Toucey | ||||
40 | Charles J. McCurdy | May 5, 1847 – May 2, 1849 |
Whig | Clark Bissell | ||||
41 | Thomas Backus | May 2, 1849 – May 4, 1850 |
Whig | Joseph Trumbull | ||||
42 | Charles H. Pond | May 5, 1850 – May 7, 1851 |
Democratic | Thomas H. Seymour[n] | ||||
43 | Green Kendrick | May 7, 1851 – May 7, 1852 |
Whig | |||||
44 | Charles H. Pond | May 7, 1852 – October 13, 1853 |
Democratic | |||||
[o] | ||||||||
— | Vacant | October 13, 1853 – May 3, 1854 |
— | Charles H. Pond | ||||
45 | Alexander H. Holley | May 3, 1854 – May 2, 1855 |
Whig | Henry Dutton | ||||
46 | William Field | May 2, 1855 – May 7, 1856 |
Free Soil | William T. Minor | ||||
47 | Albert Day | May 7, 1856 – May 6, 1857 |
American | |||||
48 | Alfred A. Burnham | May 6, 1857 – May 5, 1858 |
Republican | Alexander H. Holley | ||||
49 | Julius Catlin | May 5, 1858 – May 1, 1861 |
Republican | William Alfred Buckingham | ||||
50 | Benjamin Douglas | May 1, 1861 – May 7, 1862 |
Republican | |||||
51 | Roger Averill | May 7, 1862 – May 2, 1866 |
Unionist | |||||
National Union | ||||||||
52 | Oliver Winchester | May 2, 1866 – May 1, 1867 |
Republican | Joseph Roswell Hawley | ||||
53 | Ephraim H. Hyde | May 1, 1867 – May 5, 1869 |
Democratic | James E. English | ||||
54 | Francis Wayland III | May 5, 1869 – May 4, 1870 |
Republican | Marshall Jewell | ||||
55 | Julius Hotchkiss | May 4, 1870 – May 16, 1871 |
Democratic | James E. English | ||||
56 | Morris Tyler | May 16, 1871 – May 7, 1873 |
Republican | Marshall Jewell | ||||
57 | George G. Sill | May 7, 1873 – January 3, 1887 |
Democratic | Charles Roberts Ingersoll | ||||
[p] | ||||||||
58 | Francis Loomis | January 3, 1877 – January 9, 1879 |
Democratic | [q] |
Richard D. Hubbard | |||
59 | David Gallup | January 9, 1879 – January 5, 1881 |
Republican | Charles B. Andrews | ||||
60 | William H. Bulkeley | January 5, 1881 – January 3, 1883 |
Republican | Hobart B. Bigelow | ||||
61 | George G. Sumner | January 3, 1883 – January 8, 1885 |
Democratic | Thomas M. Waller | ||||
62 | Lorrin A. Cooke | January 8, 1885 – January 7, 1887 |
Republican | Henry Baldwin Harrison | ||||
63 | James L. Howard | January 7, 1887 – January 10, 1889 |
Republican | Phineas C. Lounsbury | ||||
64 | Samuel E. Merwin | January 10, 1889 – January 4, 1893 |
Republican | Morgan Bulkeley[r] | ||||
65 | Ernest Cady | January 4, 1893 – January 9, 1895 |
Democratic | Luzon B. Morris | ||||
66 | Lorrin A. Cooke | January 9, 1895 – January 6, 1897 |
Republican | Owen Vincent Coffin | ||||
67 | James D. Dewell | January 6, 1897 – January 4, 1899 |
Republican | Lorrin A. Cooke | ||||
68 | Lyman A. Mills | January 4, 1899 – January 9, 1901 |
Republican | George E. Lounsbury | ||||
69 | Edwin O. Keeler | January 9, 1901 – January 7, 1903 |
Republican | George P. McLean | ||||
70 | Henry Roberts | January 7, 1903 – January 4, 1905 |
Republican | Abiram Chamberlain | ||||
71 | Rollin S. Woodruff | January 4, 1905 – January 9, 1907 |
Republican | Henry Roberts | ||||
72 | Everett J. Lake | January 9, 1907 – January 9, 1909 |
Republican | Rollin S. Woodruff | ||||
73 | Frank B. Weeks | January 6, 1909 – April 21, 1909 |
Republican | [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 | Simeon Eben Baldwin[n] | ||||
75 | Lyman T. Tingier | January 8, 1913 – January 6, 1915 |
Democratic | |||||
76 | Clifford B. Wilson | January 6, 1915 – January 5, 1921 |
Republican | Marcus H. Holcomb | ||||
77 | Charles A. Templeton | January 5, 1921 – January 3, 1923 |
Republican | Everett J. Lake | ||||
78 | Hiram Bingham III | January 3, 1923 – January 7, 1925 |
Republican | Charles A. Templeton | ||||
79 | John H. Trumbull | January 7, 1925 – January 8, 1925 |
Republican | [t] |
Hiram Bingham III | |||
80 | J. Edwin Brainard | January 8, 1925 – January 9, 1929 |
Republican | John H. Trumbull | ||||
81 | Ernest E. Rogers | January 9, 1929 – January 7, 1931 |
Republican | |||||
82 | Samuel R. Spencer | January 7, 1931 – January 4, 1933 |
Republican | Wilbur Lucius Cross[n] | ||||
83 | Roy C. Wilcox | January 4, 1933 – January 9, 1935 |
Republican | |||||
84 | T. Frank Hayes | January 9, 1935 – January 4, 1939 |
Democratic | |||||
85 | James L. McConaughy | January 4, 1939 – January 8, 1941 |
Republican | Raymond E. Baldwin | ||||
86 | Odell Shepard | January 8, 1941 – January 6, 1943 |
Democratic | Robert A. Hurley | ||||
87 | William L. Hadden | January 6, 1943 – January 3, 1945 |
Republican | Raymond E. Baldwin[u] | ||||
88 | Charles Wilbert Snow | January 3, 1945 – December 27, 1946 |
Democratic | [v] | ||||
— | Vacant | December 27, 1946 – January 8, 1947 |
— | Charles Wilbert Snow | ||||
89 | James C. Shannon | January 8, 1947 – March 7, 1948 |
Republican | [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 | Chester Bowles | ||||
92 | Edward N. Allen | January 3, 1951 – January 5, 1955 |
Republican | [x] |
John Davis Lodge | |||
93 | Charles W. Jewett | January 5, 1955 – January 7, 1959 |
Republican | Abraham Ribicoff | ||||
94 | John N. Dempsey | January 7, 1959 – January 21, 1961 |
Democratic | [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 | [z] | ||||
97 | Fred J. Doocy | January 15, 1966 – January 4, 1967 |
Democratic | |||||
98 | Attilio R. Frassinelli | January 4, 1967 – January 6, 1971 |
Democratic | |||||
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 until the General Assembly elected a successor at its October session.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 first term expires 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
- ^ 1662 Charter
- ^ "Hartford. Oct. 24". The enquirer. Richmond, Va. November 14, 1809. p. 2. Retrieved December 20, 2021.
- ^ "Morgan Gardner Bulkeley". National Governors Association. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
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