LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS
TABLE 4.12 The Lieutenant Governors, 2019
Joint election of governor and State or other Method of Length of regular Date of Present Number of previous lieutenant governor jurisdiction Name and party selection term in years first service term ends terms (a) Alabama Will Ainsworth (R) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … No Alaska Kevin Meyer (R) CE 4 12/2018 12/2022 … Yes Arizona ------(b) ------Arkansas Tim Griffin (R) CE 4 1/2015 1/2023 … No California Eleni Kounalakis (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … No Colorado Dianne Primavera (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Connecticut Susan Bysiewicz (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Delaware Bethany Hall-Long (D) CE 4 1/2017 1/2021 … No Florida Jeanette Núñez (R) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Georgia Geoff Duncan (R) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … No Hawaii Joshua B. Green (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Idaho Janice McGeachin (R) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … No Illinois Juliana Stratton (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Indiana Suzanne Crouch (R) CE 4 1/2017 1/2021 … Yes Iowa Adam Gregg (R) CE 4 5/2017 (c) 1/2023 … Yes Kansas Lynn Rogers (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Kentucky Jenean Hampton (R) CE 4 12/2015 12/2019 … Yes Louisiana Billy Nungesser (R) CE 4 1/2016 1/2020 … No Maine ------(b) ------Maryland Boyd Rutherford (R) CE 4 1/2015 1/2023 1 Yes Massachusetts Karyn Polito (R) CE 4 1/2015 1/2023 1 Yes Michigan Garlin Gilchrist II (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Minnesota Peggy Flanagan (DFL) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Mississippi Tate Reeves (R) CE 4 1/2012 1/2020 1 No Missouri Mike Kehoe (R) (q) CE 4 (d) (d) … No Montana Mike Cooney (D) CE 4 1/2017 1/2021 … Yes Nebraska Mike Foley (R) CE 4 1/2015 1/2023 1 Yes Nevada Kate Marshall (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … No New Hampshire ------(b) ------New Jersey Sheila Oliver (D) CE 4 1/2018 1/2022 1 Yes New Mexico Henry "Howie" C. Morales (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes New York Kathy Hochul (D) CE 4 1/2015 1/2023 1 Yes North Carolina Dan Forest (R) CE 4 1/2013 1/2021 1 No North Dakota Brent Sanford (R) CE 4 12/2017 12/2020 … Yes Ohio John Husted (R) SE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Oklahoma Matt Pinnell (R) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … No Oregon ------(b) ------Pennsylvania John Fetterman (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Rhode Island Dan McKee (D) SE 4 1/2015 1/2023 1 No South Carolina Pamela Evette (R) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … No South Dakota Larry Rhoden (R) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Tennessee Randy McNally (R) (f) 2 1/2019 1/2021 1 No Texas Dan Patrick (R) CE 4 1/2015 1/2023 No Utah Spencer J. Cox (R) CE 4 10/2013 (e) 1/2021 1 Yes Vermont David Zuckerman (D) CE 2 1/2017 1/2021 1 No Virginia Justin Fairfax (D) CE 4 1/2018 1/2022 … No Washington Cyrus Habib (D) CE 4 1/2017 1/2021 … No West Virginia Mitch Carmichael (R) (g) 2 1/2017 1/2021 1 No Wisconsin Mandela Barnes (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 Yes (h) Wyoming ------(b) ------American Samoa Lemanu Peleti Mauga (D) CE 4 1/2013 1/2021 … Yes Guam Josh Tenorio (D) CE 4 1/2019 1/2013 … Yes CNMI* Arnold Palacios (R) CE 4 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes Puerto Rico ------(b) ------U.S. Virgin Islands Tregenza Roach (I) SE SE 1/2019 1/2023 … Yes
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TABLE 4.12 The Lieutenant Governors, 2019 (continued)
Source: The Council of State Governments, Jan. 2019. Pro Tem of the Missouri Senate is next in line to become governor, *Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands followed by Speaker of the House, and Secretary of State. On Key: June 18, 2018, Governor Mike Parson appointed Mike Kehoe …—Not applicable. (R), as Lieutenant Governor. The appointment comes with legal C—Covenant uncertainty, as the Constitution of Missouri states that CE—Constitutional, elected by public. the governor can fill all vacancies “other than in the offices of D—Democrat lieutenant governor, state senator or representative ... .” However, DFL—Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party Parson stated that he believed that the Constitution gave him I—Independent authority to name Kehoe as lieutenant governor.” LG—Lieutenant Governor (e) Spencer J. Cox was appointed to the office of lieutenant PDP—Popular Democratic Party governor in Oct. 2013 after Lt. Gov. Greg Bell resigned to return to R—Republican the private sector. SE—Statutorily elected. (f) In Tennessee, the president of the senate and the lieutenant (a) The following also choose candidates for governor and governor are one in the same. The legislature provided in statute lieutenant governor through a joint nomination process: Florida, the title of lieutenant governor upon the senate president. The Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, senate president serves two-year terms, elected by the Senate on American Samoa, Guam, No. Mariana Islands, and U.S. Virgin the first day of the first session of each two year legislative term. Islands. For additional information see The National Lieutenant (g) In West Virginia, the president of the senate and the lieutenant Governors Association website at http://www.nlga.us. governor are one in the same. The legislature provided in statute (b) No lieutenant governor. the title of lieutenant governor upon the senate president. The (c) Gov. Kim Reynolds appointed Adam Gregg, the state’s public senate president serves two-year terms, elected by the Senate on defender, as lieutenant governor when she ascended to the office the first day of the first session of each two year legislative term. upon Terry Branstad’s resignation. She and Gregg ran for and were (h) The governor and lt. governor are elected on a joint ticket at the elected to a full term in the 2018 general election. November general election. However, they run on separate party (d) Mike Parson became Governor upon the resignation of Eric primary ballots in the August primary election. Greitens. There is no provision for filling this office. The President
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