List of lieutenant governors of California

Below is a list of lieutenant governors of the U.S. state of California, 1849 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.

List of lieutenant governors

Lieutenant Governors of the State of California
No.	Lieutenant Governor			Term in office	Party	Election	Governor^[a]
1		rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	John McDougal	December 20, 1849 – January 9, 1851	Democratic	1849 ^[b]^[c]	rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Peter Hardeman Burnett
2		David C. Broderick (acting)	January 9, 1851 – January 8, 1852	Democratic	John McDougal	1849 ^[b]^[c]
3		Samuel Purdy	January 8, 1852 – January 9, 1856	Democratic	1851	John Bigler
3		Samuel Purdy	January 8, 1852 – January 9, 1856	Democratic	1853	John Bigler
4		style="background:Template:Know Nothing Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Robert M. Anderson	January 9, 1856 – January 8, 1858	American	1855	style="background:Template:Know Nothing Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	J. Neely Johnson
5		rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Joseph Walkup	January 8, 1858 – January 9, 1860	Democratic	1857	rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	John B. Weller
6		John G. Downey	January 9, 1860 – January 20, 1860	Democratic	1859 ^[d]	Milton Latham
7		Isaac N. Quinn (acting)	January 20, 1860 – January 7, 1861	Democratic		John G. Downey
8		Pablo de la Guerra (acting)	January 7, 1861 – January 10, 1862	Democratic		John G. Downey
9		rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	John F. Chellis	January 10, 1862 – December 10, 1863	Republican	1861	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Leland Stanford
10		Tim N. Machin	December 10, 1863 – December 5, 1867	Republican	1863 ^[e]	Frederick Low
11		style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	William Holden	December 5, 1867 – December 8, 1871	Democratic	1867	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Henry Huntly Haight
12		style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Romualdo Pacheco	December 8, 1871 – February 27, 1875	Republican	1871 ^[f]	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Newton Booth
13		rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	William Irwin (acting)	February 27, 1875 – December 9, 1875	Democratic	1871 ^[f]	Romualdo Pacheco^[g]
14		James A. Johnson	December 9, 1875 – January 8, 1880	Democratic	1875	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	William Irwin
15		style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	John Mansfield	January 8, 1880 – January 10, 1883	Republican	1879	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	George Clement Perkins
16		style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	John Daggett	January 10, 1883 – January 8, 1887	Democratic	1882	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	George Stoneman
17		style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Robert Waterman	January 8, 1887 – September 13, 1887	Republican	1886 ^[h]	Washington Bartlett^[i]
18		style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Stephen M. White (acting)	September 13, 1887 – January 8, 1891	Democratic	1886 ^[h]	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Robert Waterman^[g]
19		rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	John B. Reddick	January 8, 1891 – January 11, 1895	Republican	1890	Henry Markham
20		Spencer G. Millard	January 11, 1895 – October 25, 1895	Republican	1894 ^[j]	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	James Budd^[i]
21		style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	William T. Jeter	October 25, 1895 – January 3, 1899	1894 ^[j]	Democratic	James Budd^[i]
22		rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Jacob H. Neff	January 3, 1899 – January 6, 1903	Republican	1898	rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Henry Gage
23		Alden Anderson	January 6, 1903 – January 8, 1907	Republican	1902	George Pardee
24		Warren R. Porter	January 8, 1907 – January 3, 1911	Republican	1906	James Gillett
25		Albert Joseph Wallace	January 3, 1911 – January 5, 1915	Republican	1910	Hiram Johnson^[k]
26		style="background:Template:Progressive Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	John Morton Eshleman	January 5, 1915 – February 28, 1916	Progressive		1914 ^[l]	rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Progressive Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|
—	Vacant			February 28, 1916 — July 22, 1916	—
27		style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	William Stephens	July 22, 1916 – March 15, 1917	Republican
—	Vacant			March 15, 1917 — January 6, 1919	—	rowspan="9" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|		William Stephens
28		rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	C. C. Young	January 7, 1919 – January 4, 1927	Republican	1918		William Stephens
28		1922	C. C. Young	January 7, 1919 – January 4, 1927	Republican	Friend Richardson
29		Buron Fitts	January 4, 1927 – November 30, 1928	Republican	1926 ^[m]	C. C. Young
—	Vacant			November 30, 1928 — December 4, 1928			—
30		rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Herschel L. Carnahan	December 4, 1928 – January 6, 1931			Republican
31		Frank Merriam	January 5, 1931 – June 2, 1934	Republican	1930 ^[n]	James Rolph
—	Vacant			June 2, 1934 — January 7, 1935	1930 ^[n]	—	Frank Merriam
32		style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	George J. Hatfield	January 8, 1935 – January 2, 1939	Republican	1934	Frank Merriam
33		style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Ellis E. Patterson	January 2, 1939 – January 4, 1943	Democratic	1938	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Culbert Olson
34		rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Frederick F. Houser	January 4, 1943 – January 6, 1947	Republican	1942	rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Earl Warren
35		Goodwin Knight	January 6, 1947 – October 5, 1953	Republican	1946
35		Goodwin Knight	January 6, 1947 – October 5, 1953	Republican	1950 ^[o]
36		Harold J. Powers	October 5, 1953 – January 5, 1959	Republican	1950 ^[o]	Goodwin Knight
36		Harold J. Powers	October 5, 1953 – January 5, 1959	Republican	1954	Goodwin Knight
37		rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Glenn M. Anderson	January 5, 1959 – January 2, 1967	Democratic	1958	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Pat Brown
37		1962	Glenn M. Anderson	January 5, 1959 – January 2, 1967	Democratic			Pat Brown
38		rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Robert Finch	January 2, 1967 – January 8, 1969	Republican	1966 ^[p]	rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Ronald Reagan
39		Edwin Reinecke	January 8, 1969 – October 2, 1974	Republican		1966 ^[p]
39		Edwin Reinecke	January 8, 1969 – October 2, 1974	Republican	1970 ^[q]
40		John L. Harmer	October 2, 1974 – January 6, 1975	Republican	1970 ^[q]
41		style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Mervyn M. Dymally	January 6, 1975 – January 8, 1979	Democratic	1974	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Jerry Brown^[i]
42		style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Mike Curb	January 8, 1979 – January 3, 1983	Republican	1978		Jerry Brown^[i]
43		rowspan="9" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Leo T. McCarthy	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995	Democratic	1982	rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	George Deukmejian^[g]
		1986						George Deukmejian^[g]
		1990				Pete Wilson^[g]
44		Gray Davis	January 3, 1995 – January 4, 1999	Democratic	1994	Pete Wilson^[g]
45		Cruz Bustamante	January 4, 1999 – January 7, 2007	Democratic	1998	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Gray Davis (recalled November 17, 2003)
					2002		Gray Davis (recalled November 17, 2003)
					2002	rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Arnold Schwarzenegger^[g]
46		John Garamendi	January 7, 2007 – November 3, 2009	Democratic	2006 ^[r]
47		Mona Pasquil (acting)	November 3, 2009 – April 27, 2010	Democratic
48		rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Abel Maldonado	April 27, 2010 – January 10, 2011		Republican
48		2010 ^[s]	Abel Maldonado	April 27, 2010 – January 10, 2011	rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Republican	Jerry Brown^[i]
49		2010 ^[s]	rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Gavin Newsom	January 10, 2011 – January 7, 2019	Democratic
49		2014		Gavin Newsom	January 10, 2011 – January 7, 2019	Democratic
50		Eleni Kounalakis	January 7, 2019 – present	Democratic	2018 ^[t]	Gavin Newsom

Notes

^ Lieutenant governors represented the same party as their governor unless noted.
^ A civilian government was formed in late 1849 prior to official statehood, and operated as the state government for ten months before official statehood was granted.^[1]
^ Burnett resigned and McDougal succeeded him; as president of the senate, Broderick acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.
^ Latham resigned and Downey succeeded him. As president of the senate, Quinn acted as lieutenant governor until the legislative session ended, at which time de la Guerra was elected president of the senate and acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.
^ First term under an 1862 constitutional amendment, which lengthened terms to four years.
^ Booth resigned and Pacheco succeeded him; as president of the senate, Irwin acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Represented the Republican Party.
^ Bartlett died in office and Waterman succeeded him; as president of the senate, White acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Represented the Democratic Party.
^ Millard died in office; Jeter was appointed by Budd to succeed him.
^ Represented the Progressive Party during Stephens' term.
^ Eshleman died in office; Stephens was appointed to succeed him. Johnson later resigned and Stephens succeeded him; the office remained vacant for the remainder of the term.
^ Fitts resigned to serve as a special prosecutor; Carnahan was appointed to succeed him.
^ Rolph died in office and Merriam succeeded him, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
^ Warren resigned and Knight succeeded him; as president pro tempore of the senate, Powers succeeded Knight.
^ Finch resigned to be United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and Reinecke was appointed to succeed him.
^ Reineke was forced to resign when convicted and sentenced for perjury; it was later overturned on appeal. Harmer was appointed to succeed him.
^ Garamendi resigned to take an elected seat in the United States House of Representatives; Maldonado was appointed to succeed him, and Pasquil was appointed to act as lieutenant governor pending Maldonado's confirmation.
^ Newsom delayed his swearing in as lieutenant governor until January 10, 2011, to remain mayor of San Francisco; Maldonado stayed on as lieutenant governor until then.^[2]
^ Kounalakis' first term expires on January 2, 2023.

References

General

"History of California Constitutional Officers" (PDF). California Secretary of State. Retrieved March 6, 2015.

Constitutions

"Constitution of the State of California". Legislative Counsel of California. 1879. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
"Constitution of the State of California". California Secretary of State. 1849. Archived from the original on January 28, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2010.

Specific

^ "Peter Hardeman Burnett". National Governors Association. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
^ Upton Oot, John (January 7, 2011). "Newsom's Dual Role Raises Legal Quandary". The Bay Citizen. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2015.

[1] Lieutenant governors represented the same party as their governor unless noted.

[3] A civilian government was formed in late 1849 prior to official statehood, and operated as the state government for ten months before official statehood was granted.^[1]

[4] Burnett resigned and McDougal succeeded him; as president of the senate, Broderick acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.

[5] Latham resigned and Downey succeeded him. As president of the senate, Quinn acted as lieutenant governor until the legislative session ended, at which time de la Guerra was elected president of the senate and acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.

[6] First term under an 1862 constitutional amendment, which lengthened terms to four years.

[7] Booth resigned and Pacheco succeeded him; as president of the senate, Irwin acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.

[gov-rep-8] Represented the Republican Party.

[9] Bartlett died in office and Waterman succeeded him; as president of the senate, White acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.

[gov-dem-10] Represented the Democratic Party.

[11] Millard died in office; Jeter was appointed by Budd to succeed him.

[12] Represented the Progressive Party during Stephens' term.

[13] Eshleman died in office; Stephens was appointed to succeed him. Johnson later resigned and Stephens succeeded him; the office remained vacant for the remainder of the term.

[14] Fitts resigned to serve as a special prosecutor; Carnahan was appointed to succeed him.

[15] Rolph died in office and Merriam succeeded him, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.

[16] Warren resigned and Knight succeeded him; as president pro tempore of the senate, Powers succeeded Knight.

[17] Finch resigned to be United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and Reinecke was appointed to succeed him.

[18] Reineke was forced to resign when convicted and sentenced for perjury; it was later overturned on appeal. Harmer was appointed to succeed him.

[19] Garamendi resigned to take an elected seat in the United States House of Representatives; Maldonado was appointed to succeed him, and Pasquil was appointed to act as lieutenant governor pending Maldonado's confirmation.

[21] Newsom delayed his swearing in as lieutenant governor until January 10, 2011, to remain mayor of San Francisco; Maldonado stayed on as lieutenant governor until then.^[2]

[22] Kounalakis' first term expires on January 2, 2023.

[2] "Peter Hardeman Burnett". National Governors Association. Retrieved September 6, 2015.

[20] Upton Oot, John (January 7, 2011). "Newsom's Dual Role Raises Legal Quandary". The Bay Citizen. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2015.

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