List of lieutenant governors of California

This is a list of lieutenant governors of the U.S. state of California, 1850 to present. In California, the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor do not run together on the same ticket. The Lieutenant Governor can therefore be affiliated with a different political party than that of the Governor. Per the 1879 California Constitution, the Lieutenant Governor is the President of the State Senate.

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Governor(s) Served With
1	John McDougall	1849	1851	Independent Democrat	Peter Burnett
2	David C. Broderick (acting)	1851	1852	Democrat	John McDougall
3	Samuel Purdy	1852	1856	Democrat	John Bigler
4	Robert M. Anderson	1856	1858	American	J. Neeley Johnson
5	John Walkup	1858	1860	Democrat	John B. Weller
6	John Gately Downey	1860	1860	Lecompton Democrat	Milton Latham
7	Isaac N. Quinn (acting)	1860	1861	Democrat	John G. Downey
8	Pablo de la Guerra (acting)	1861	1862	Democrat
9	John F. Chellis	1862	1863	Republican	Leland Stanford
10	Tim N. Machin	1863	1867	Unionist Republican	Frederick Low
11	William Holden	1867	1871	Democrat	Henry Huntly Haight
12	Romualdo Pacheco	1871	1875	Republican	Newton Booth
13	William Irwin (acting)	1875	1875	Democrat	Romualdo Pacheco
14	James A. Johnson	1875	1880	Democrat	William Irwin
15	John Mansfield	1880	1883	Republican	George Perkins
16	John Daggett	1883	1887	Democrat	George Stoneman
17	Robert Whitney Waterman	1887	1887	Republican	Washington Bartlett
18	Stephen M. White (acting)	1887	1891	Democrat	Robert Waterman
19	John B. Reddick	1891	1895	Republican	Henry Markham
20	Spencer G. Millard	1895	1895	Republican	James Budd
21	William T. Jeter	1895	1899	Democrat
22	Jacob H. Neff	1899	1903	Republican	Henry Gage
23	Alden Anderson	1903	1907	Republican	George Pardee
24	Warren R. Porter	1907	1911	Republican	James Gillett
25	A. J. Wallace	1911	1915	Republican	Hiram Johnson
26	John Morton Eshleman	1915	1916	Progressive	Hiram Johnson
27	William Dennison Stephens	1916	1917	Republican	Hiram Johnson
28	Clement Calhoun Young	1919	1927	Republican	William Stephens
					Friend Richardson
29	Buron Fitts	1927	1928	Republican	C. C. Young
30	H. L. Carnahan	1928	1931	Republican
31	Frank Finley Merriam	1931	1934	Republican	James Rolph
32	George J. Hatfield	1935	1939	Republican	Frank Merriam
33	Ellis E. Patterson	1939	1943	Democrat	Culbert Olson
34	Frederick F. Houser	1943	1947	Republican	Earl Warren
35	Goodwin Jess Knight	1947	1953	Republican
36	Harold J. Powers	1953	1959	Republican	Goodwin Knight
37	Glenn Malcolm Anderson	1959	1967	Democrat	Pat Brown
38	Robert Hutchinson Finch	1967	1969	Republican	Ronald Reagan
39	Edwin Reinecke	1969	1974	Republican
40	John L. Harmer	1974	1975	Republican
41	Mervyn Malcolm Dymally	1975	1979	Democrat	Jerry Brown
42	Michael Curb	1979	1983	Republican
43	Leo Tarcissus McCarthy	1983	1991	Democrat	George Deukmejian
		1991	1995		Pete Wilson
44	Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis, Jr.	1995	1999	Democrat
45	Cruz Miguel Bustamante	1999	2003	Democrat	Gray Davis
		2003	2007		Arnold Schwarzenegger
46	John Raymond Garamendi	2007	2009	Democrat
47	Mona F. Pasquil (acting)	2009	2010	Democrat
48	Abel Maldonado, Jr.	2010	2011	Republican
					Jerry Brown
49	Gavin Christopher Newsom	2011		Democrat

Living former Lt. governors

As of 10 January 2011 (2011 -01-10), nine former Lt. governors (eight actual, one acting) were alive. The oldest living Lt. governor is Edwin Reinecke (1969–1974, born 1924, age 88). The most recent Lt. governor to die was Leo T. McCarthy (1983–1995), on February 5, 2007.

Lt. Governor	Lt. Gubernatorial term	Date of birth
Edwin Reinecke	1969–1974	January 7, 1924 (1924-01-07)
John L. Harmer	1974–1975	April 28, 1934 (1934-04-28)
Mervyn M. Dymally	1975–1979	May 12, 1926 (1926-05-12)
Mike Curb	1979–1983	December 24, 1944 (1944-12-24)
Gray Davis	1995–1999	December 26, 1942 (1942-12-26)
Cruz Bustamante	1999–2007	January 4, 1953 (1953-01-04)
John Garamendi	2007–2009	January 24, 1945 (1945-01-24)
Mona Pasquil	2009–2010	April 3, 1962 (1962-04-03)
Abel Maldonado	2010–2011	August 21, 1967 (1967-08-21)

External links

• "History of California Constitutional Officers". California Secretary of State. p. 6. http://www.sos.ca.gov/admin/ca-roster/2010/pdf/01c-his_off.pdf. Retrieved January 17, 2011. 
• Current Candidates for Lieutenant Governor