The Office of Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana is the second highest state office in Louisiana. The current Lieutenant Governor is Jay Dardenne, a Republican. He was elected in a special election on November 2, 2010 to replace Mitch Landrieu, who was elected to the office of Mayor of New Orleans on February 6, 2010 and resigned as Lieutenant Governor to assume the mayoral office on May 3, 2010. As prescribed in the Louisiana Constitution, Governor Bobby Jindal had appointed Scott Angelle to serve as the interim Lieutenant Governor until the special election could be held.
Paul J. Hardy, who served from 1988 to 1992, was the first Republican in the position after the Reconstruction Era.
[edit] History
The office was first hatched by the Louisiana Constitution of 1845. Prior to that, the successor to the Governor in the event of his death or resignation was the President of the Louisiana Senate. [1] [2] A number of State Senate Presidents succeeded Governors before the 1845 Constitution was adopted, including Henry S. Thibodaux, Armand Beauvais and Jacques Dupre.
The Lieutenant Governor presided over the Louisiana Senate from 1845 until the adoption of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974. Today, the Lieutenant Governor exercises powers delegated to him by the Governor as provided by law. [He] also serves as governor in the event of a vacancy in the office, if the Governor is unable to act as governor, or is out of state. Under the constitution, the Lieutenant Governor no longer serves as ex-officio president of the Senate, but he is made an ex-officio member of each committee, board and commission on which the Governor serves. (Louisiana Constitution Article IV, Section 6) Additionally, the Lieutenant Governor serves as Commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.
[edit] List of office holders
[edit] 1846-1860
[edit] Civil War Era
[edit] Lieutenant Governors of Confederate Louisiana
[edit] Lieutenant Governors of Union-held territory in Louisiana
[edit] Resumption of U.S. Statehood
- ^ Louisiana State Constitution of 1812 Article III Sect. 17th. and Louisiana State Constitution of 1845 Art. 45
- ^ a b c d e f Louisiana. Report of the Secretary of State to His Excellency W.W. Heard, Governor of the State of Louisiana. May 12th, 1902. [Baton Rouge: Baton Rouge news Pub. Co., State printers, 1902.] p 325
- ^ a b c d e f Calhoun, Milburn, and Bernie McGovern. Louisiana Almanac, 2002-2003 Edition. Gretna, LA: Pelican Pub. Co, 2001. PP 462-63
- ^ s:Louisiana State Constitution of 1852 The Constitution of 1852 shortened this term.
- ^ Hyde, Samuel C. Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1899. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. p.71
- ^ Died in office
- ^ When William Wood Farmer died in office in 1854, Robert C. Wickliffe, as President Pro Temp, became Lieutenant Governor.
- ^ s:Louisiana State Constitution of 1852 The Constitution of 1852 Set this to in end in 1856
- ^ Resigned
- ^ When Charles Homer Mouton Resigned from in office, William F. Griffin, as President Pro Temp, became Lieutenant Governor.
- ^ Vacated the Lieutenant Governorship by tring to declared himself governor
- ^ As President pro tempore of the Senate became Lieutenant Governor when Paul N. Cyr vacated the Lieutenant Governorship
- ^ Became Governor on January 25, 1932
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