List of current United States lieutenant governors
Appearance
Democratic
Republican
Position nonexistent
Democratic designated successor
Republican designated successor
New Progressive designated successor
Same ticket
Same ticket in the general election, separate election in the primaries
Separate election
Title given to the leader of state senate
Position nonexistent
The lieutenant governor is the second-highest-ranking government official in 45 of the 50 U.S. States and four of the five territories. Not all states have a lieutenant governor. This article is a list of all lieutenant governors and/or political offices of equal ranking.
List of Lieutenant Governors
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Democratic (3) Independent (1) | |||||||||
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Territory | Picture | Lieutenant governor | Party | Prior office(s) held | Took office | Seat up | Chosen by[1] | ||
(List) |
Salo Ale | Democratic | Attorney General | Jan 3, 2021 | 2025 | Same ticket | |||
(List) |
Josh Tenorio | Democratic | No prior offices | Jan 7, 2019 | 2027 | Same ticket | |||
(List) |
David M. Apatang | Independent | Northern Mariana Islands Senate | Jan 9, 2023 | 2027 | Same ticket | |||
(List) |
Tregenza Roach | Democratic | Legislature of the Virgin Islands | Jan 7, 2019 | 2027 | Same ticket |
States without Lieutenant Governors
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Democratic (3) Republican (2) | ||||||||||
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State | Office | Picture | Officeholder | Party | Prior office(s) held | Took position | ||||
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Secretary of State | Adrian Fontes | Democratic | County Recorder of Maricopa County | Jan 2, 2023 | |||||
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President of the Senate | Troy Jackson | Democratic | Maine Senate | Dec 5, 2018 | |||||
(List) |
President of the Senate | Jeb Bradley | Republican | New Hampshire Senate U.S. House New Hampshire House of Representatives |
Dec 7, 2022 | |||||
(List) |
Secretary of State | Shemia Fagan |
Democratic | Oregon Senate Oregon House |
Jan 4, 2021 | |||||
(List) |
Secretary of State | Chuck Gray | Republican | Wyoming House of Representatives | Jan 2, 2023 |
Federal districts and territories without Lieutenant Governors
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Democratic (1) New Progressive (1) | |||||||||
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Federal district or territory |
Office | Picture | Officeholder | Party | Prior Offices Held | Took position | |||
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Chairman of the Council | Phil Mendelson[5] | Democratic | DC Councilman Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner |
June 13, 2012 | ||||
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Secretary of State | Omar J. Marrero | New Progressive | July 12, 2021 |
Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ Proposition 131 passed in the 2022 election which will create the office of Arizona Lieutenant Governor starting with the 2026 election.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Executive Branch of the Several States". The Green Papers. Retrieved March 31, 2012.
- ↑ NY lieutenant gubernatorial terms begin at midnight New Year's Day.
- ↑ The Tennessee Senate elects their speaker who serves as lieutenant governor. The full title of the office is Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate.
- ↑ West Virginia Code 6A-1-4(b), as enacted in 2000, entitles the president of the West Virginia Senate to use the title Lieutenant Governor
- ↑ Mendelson was initially appointed Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia after the position was vacated on June 6, 2012, due to the resignation of Kwame R. Brown. Brown had been charged in federal court with bank fraud and, after his resignation, was further charged in D.C. Superior Court with making an unlawful cash campaign expenditure. Mendelson was subsequently elected to complete Brown's term on November 6, 2013.