List of lieutenant governors of New York

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This is a complete list of the people who have served as the Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of New York.

The Lieutenant Governor of New York is the second-highest position in the New York State government, and first in line to succeed to the governorship should the governor resign, die or be removed from office via impeachment conviction. The lieutenant governor also assumes the gubernatorial powers & duties as acting governor, if the governor is unable to perform those powers & duties.

The Lieutenant Governor is also the president of the New York State Senate. New York has the highest-paid lieutenant governor in the country.

List of lieutenant governors of New York[]

#	Portrait	Name		Term in office	Party	Governor
1			Pierre Van Cortlandt	1777 - 1795	Democratic-Republican Party		George Clinton
2			Stephen Van Rensselaer	1795 - 1801	Federalist Party		John Jay
3			Jeremiah Van Rensselaer	1801 - 1804	Democratic-Republican Party		George Clinton
4			John Broome	July 1804 - August 8, 1810	Democratic-Republican Party		Morgan Lewis
							Daniel Tompkins
Office vacant August 8, 1810 - January 29, 1811
–			John Tayler	January 29, 1811 - May 2, 1811	Democratic-Republican Party
5			DeWitt Clinton	May 2, 1811 - July 1, 1813	Democratic-Republican Party
6			John Tayler	July 1, 1813 - February 24, 1817	Democratic-Republican Party
–			Philetus Swift	February 24, 1817 - June 30, 1817	Democratic-Republican Party		John Tayler (Acting)
6			John Tayler	July 1, 1817 - December 31, 1822	Democratic-Republican Party		DeWitt Clinton
7			Erastus Root	January 1, 1823 - December 31, 1823	Democratic-Republican Party		Joseph C. Yates
8			James Tallmadge Jr.	January 1, 1825 - 1826	Democratic-Republican Party		DeWitt Clinton
Office vacant ? 1826 - January 11, 1827
9			Nathaniel Pitcher	January 11, 1827 - February 10, 1828	Democratic-Republican Party
			Peter R. Livingston	February 11, 1828 - October 17, 1828	Democratic-Republican Party		Nathaniel Pitcher
–			Charles Dayan	October 17, 1828 - December 31, 1828	Democratic-Republican Party
10			Enos T. Throop	January 1, 1829 - March 12, 1829	Democratic Party		Martin Van Buren
–			Charles Stebbins	1829 - 1829	Democratic Party		Enos T. Throop
–			William M. Oliver	1830 - 1830	Democratic Party
11			Edward P. Livingston	1831 - 1832	Democratic Party
12			John Tracy	January 1, 1831 - December 31, 1838	Democratic Party		William L. Marcy
13			Luther Bradish	January 1, 1839 - December 31, 1842	Whig Party		William H. Seward
14			Daniel S. Dickinson	January 1, 1843 - December 31, 1844	Democratic Party		William C. Bouck
15			Addison Gardiner	January 1, 1845 - July 5, 1847	Democratic Party		Silas Wright
							John Young
–			Albert Lester	July 5, 1847 - December 31, 1847	Whig Party
16			Hamilton Fish	January 1, 1848 - December 31, 1848	Whig Party
17			George W. Patterson	January 1, 1849 - December 31, 1850	Whig Party		Hamilton Fish
18			Sanford E. Church	January 1, 1851 - December 31, 1854	Democratic Party		Washington Hunt
							Horatio Seymour
19			Henry J. Raymond	January 1, 1855 - December 31, 1856	Whig Party		Myron H. Clark
20			Henry R. Selden	January 1, 1857 - December 31, 1858	Republican Party		John A. King
21			Robert Campbell	January 1, 1859 - December 31, 1862	Republican Party		Edwin D. Morgan
22			David R. Floyd-Jones	January 1, 1863 - December 31, 1864	Democratic Party		Horatio Seymour
23			Thomas G. Alvord	January 1, 1865 - December 31, 1866	Union Party		Reuben Fenton
24			Stewart L. Woodford	January 1, 1867 - December 31, 1868	Union Party
25			Allen C. Beach	January 1, 1869 - December 31, 1872	Democratic Party		John T. Hoffman
26			John C. Robinson	January 1, 1873 - December 31, 1874	Republican Party		John A. Dix
27			William Dorsheimer	January 1, 1875 - December 31, 1879	Democratic Party		Samuel Tilden
							Lucius Robinson
28			George G. Hoskins	January 1, 1880 - December 31, 1882	Republican Party		Alonzo B. Cornell
29			David B. Hill	January 1, 1883 - January 6, 1885	Democratic Party		Grover Cleveland
–			Dennis McCarthy	January 6, 1885 - December 31, 1885	Republican Party		David B. Hill
30			Edward F. Jones	January 1, 1886 - December 31, 1891	Democratic Party
31			William F. Sheehan	January 1, 1892 - December 31, 1894	Democratic Party		Roswell P. Flower
32			Charles T. Saxton	January 1, 1895 - December 31, 1896	Republican Party		Levi P. Morton
33			Timothy L. Woodruff	January 1, 1897 - December 31, 1902	Republican Party		Frank S. Black
							Theodore Roosevelt
							Benjamin Odell
34			Frank W. Higgins	January 1, 1903 - December 31, 1904	Republican Party
35			Matthew L. Bruce	January 1, 1905 - December 5, 1906	Republican Party		Frank W. Higgins
–			John Raines	December 5, 1906 - December 31, 1906	Republican Party
36			Lewis S. Chanler	1 January, 1907 - 31 December, 1908	Democratic Party		Charles Evans Hughes
37			Horace White	January 1, 1909 - October 6, 1910	Republican Party
–			George H. Cobb	October 6, 1910 - December 31, 1910	Republican Party		Horace White
38			Thomas F. Conway	January 1, 1911 - December 31, 1912	Democratic Party		John A. Dix
39			Martin H. Glynn	January 1, 1913 - October 17, 1913	Democratic Party		William Sulzer
–			Robert F. Wagner	October 17, 1913 - December 31, 1914	Democratic Party		Martin H. Glynn
40			Edward Schoeneck	January 1, 1915 - December 31, 1918	Republican Party		Charles S. Whitman
41			Harry C. Walker	January 1, 1919 - December 31, 1920	Democratic Party		Al Smith
42			Jeremiah Wood	January 1, 1921 - September 26, 1922	Republican Party		Nathan L. Miller
–			Clayton R. Lusk	September 26, 1922 - December 31, 1922	Republican Party
43			George R. Lunn	January 1, 1923 - December 31, 1924	Democratic Party		Al Smith
44			Seymour Lowman	January 1, 1925 - December 31, 1926	Republican Party
45			Edwin Corning	January 1, 1927 - December 31, 1928	Democratic Party
46			Herbert H. Lehman	January 1, 1929 - December 31, 1932	Democratic Party		Franklin D. Roosevelt
47			M. William Bray	January 1, 1933 - December 31, 1938	Democratic Party		Herbert H. Lehman
48			Charles Poletti	January 1, 1939 - December 3, 1942	Democratic Party
–			Joe R. Hanley	December 3, 1942 - December 31, 1942	Republican Party		Charles Poletti
49			Thomas W. Wallace	January 1, 1943 - November 2, 1943	Republican Party		Thomas E. Dewey
50			Joe R. Hanley	November 2, 1943 - December 31, 1950	Republican Party
51			Frank C. Moore	January 1, 1950 - September 30, 1953	Republican Party
–			Arthur H. Wicks	September 30, 1953 - November 18, 1953	Republican Party
–			Walter J. Mahoney	November 18, 1953 - December 31, 1954	Republican Party
52			George DeLuca	January 1, 1955 - December 31, 1958	Democratic Party		W. Averell Harriman
53			Malcolm Wilson	January 1, 1959 - December 18, 1973	Republican Party		Nelson Rockefeller
–			Warren M. Anderson	December 18, 1973 - December 31, 1974	Republican Party		Malcolm Wilson
54			Mary Anne Krupsak	January 1, 1975 - December 31, 1978	Democratic Party		Hugh Carey
55			Mario Cuomo	January 1, 1979 - December 31, 1982	Democratic Party
56			Alfred DelBello	January 1, 1983 - February 1, 1985	Democratic Party		Mario Cuomo
–			Warren M. Anderson	February 1, 1985 - December 31, 1986	Republican Party
57			Stan Lundine	January 1, 1987 - December 31, 1994	Democratic Party
58			Betsy McCaughey Ross	January 1, 1995 - December 31, 1998	Republican Party		George Pataki
59			Mary Donohue	January 1, 1998 - December 31, 2006	Republican Party
60			David Paterson	January 1, 2007 - March 17, 2008	Democratic Party		Eliot Spitzer
–			Joseph Bruno	March 17, 2008 - June 24, 2008	Republican Party		David Paterson
–			Dean Skelos	June 24, 2008 - December 31, 2008	Republican Party
Office vacant January 1, 2008 - January 7, 2008
–			Malcolm Smith	January 7, 2009 - June 8, 2009	Republican Party
–			Pedro Espada	June 8, 2009 - July 8, 2009	Democratic Party
61			Richard Ravitch	July 8, 2009 - December 31, 2010	Democratic Party
62			Robert Duffy	January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2014	Democratic Party		Andrew Cuomo
63			Kathy Hochul	January 1, 2015 - August 24, 2021	Democratic Party
–			Andrea Stewart-Cousins	August 24, 2021 - September 9, 2021	Democratic Party		Kathy Hochul
64			Brian Benjamin	September 9, 2021 - Incumbent	Democratic Party

See also[]

• Lieutenant Governor of New York
• New York gubernatorial elections (to see the election results for the Lieutenant Governor of New York)
• Politics of New York (state)
• Second Spouses and Partners of New York

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