Lieutenant Governor of Missouri

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Number of Lieutenant Governors of Missouri by party affiliation
Party Governors
style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color" |   Democratic 32
style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" | Republican 10
style="background:Template:Democratic-Republican Party/meta/color" | Democratic-Republican 2
style="background:Template:Liberal Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" | Liberal Republican 2

The lieutenant governor of Missouri is the first person in the order of succession of Missouri's executive branch, thus serving as governor in the event of the death, resignation, removal, impeachment, absence from the state, or incapacity due to illness of the governor of Missouri. The Lt. Governor is elected separately and can be of a different party than the governor.

The incumbent Lieutenant Governor is Peter Kinder.

Lieutenant Governors

  Democratic-Republican (2)   Democratic (32)   Republican (10)   Liberal Republican (2)

#   Lieutenant Governor Took office Left office Party   Governor Terms[A]
1 bgcolor=Template:Democratic-Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | William Henry Ashley September 18, 1820 November 15, 1824 Democratic-Republican bgcolor=Template:Democratic-Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Alexander McNair 1
2 bgcolor=Template:Democratic-Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Benjamin Harrison Reeves November 15, 1824 July 1825 Democratic-Republican bgcolor=Template:Democratic-Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Frederick Bates 1⁄2[B]
vacant July 1825 November 17, 1828 bgcolor=Template:Democratic-Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Frederick Bates 1⁄2[C]
bgcolor=Template:Democratic-Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Abraham J. Williams
bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | John Miller
3 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Daniel Dunklin November 17, 1828 November 19, 1832 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | John Miller 1
4 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Lilburn Boggs November 19, 1832 September 30, 1836 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Daniel Dunklin 1⁄2
vacant September 30, 1836 November 21, 1836 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Lilburn Boggs 1⁄2[D]
5 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Franklin Cannon November 21, 1836 November 16, 1840 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Lilburn Boggs 1
6 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Meredith Miles Marmaduke November 16, 1840 February 9, 1844 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Thomas Reynolds 1⁄2
vacant February 9, 1844 November 20, 1844 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Meredith Miles Marmaduke 1⁄2[D]
7 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | James Young November 20, 1844 November 20, 1848 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | John C. Edwards 1
8 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Thomas Lawson Price November 20, 1848 January 3, 1853 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Austin Augustus King 1
9 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Wilson Brown January 3, 1853 August 27, 1855 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Sterling Price 1⁄2[E]
vacant August 27, 1855 January 5, 1857 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Sterling Price 1⁄2[F]
10 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Hancock Lee Jackson January 5, 1857 February 27, 1857 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Trusten Polk 1⁄3
vacant February 27, 1857 October 22, 1857 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Hancock Lee Jackson 1⁄3[G]
10 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Hancock Lee Jackson October 22, 1857 January 3, 1861 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Robert Marcellus Stewart 1⁄3
11 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Thomas Caute Reynolds January 3, 1861 July 23, 1861 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Claiborne Fox Jackson 1⁄3[H]
12 bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | William Willard Preble Hall July 31, 1861 January 31, 1864 Republican bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Hamilton Rowan Gamble 1⁄3[I]
vacant January 31, 1864 January 2, 1865 bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | William Willard Preble Hall 1⁄3[D]
13 bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | George Smith January 2, 1865 January 12, 1869 Republican bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Thomas Clement Fletcher 1
14 bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Edwin Obed Stanard January 12, 1869 January 4, 1871 Republican bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Joseph W. McClurg 1
15 bgcolor=Template:Liberal Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Joseph J. Gravely January 4, 1871 April 28, 1872 Liberal Republican bgcolor=Template:Liberal Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | B. Gratz Brown 1⁄2[E]
vacant April 28, 1872 January 3, 1873 bgcolor=Template:Liberal Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | B. Gratz Brown 1⁄2[F]
16 bgcolor=Template:Liberal Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Charles Phillip Johnson January 3, 1873 January 12, 1875 Liberal Republican bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Silas Woodson 1
17 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Norman Jay Coleman January 12, 1875 January 8, 1877 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Charles Henry Hardin 1
18 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Henry Clay Brockmeyer January 8, 1877 January 10, 1881 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | John Smith Phelps 1
19 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Robert Alexander Campbell January 10, 1881 January 12, 1885 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Thomas Theodore Crittenden 1
20 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Albert P. Morehouse January 12, 1885 December 28, 1887 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | John S. Marmaduke 1⁄2
vacant December 28, 1887 January 14, 1889 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Albert P. Morehouse 1⁄2[D]
21 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Stephen Hugh Claycomb January 14, 1889 January 9, 1893 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | David R. Francis 1
22 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | John Baptiste O'Meara January 9, 1893 January 11, 1897 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | William Joel Stone 1
23 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | August Bolte January 11, 1897 January 14, 1901 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Lawrence Vest Stephens 1
24 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | John Adams Lee January 14, 1901 April 25, 1903 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Alexander Monroe Dockery 1⁄2[B]
25 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Thomas Lewis Rubey April 25, 1903 January 9, 1905 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Alexander Monroe Dockery 1⁄2[J]
26 bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | John C. McKinley January 9, 1905 January 11, 1909 Republican bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Joseph W. Folk 1
27 bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Jacob Friedrich Gmelich January 11, 1909 January 13, 1913 Republican bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Herbert S. Hadley 1
28 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | William Rock Painter January 13, 1913 January 8, 1917 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Elliot Woolfolk Major 1
29 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Wallace Crossley January 8, 1917 January 10, 1921 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Frederick D. Gardner 1
30 bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Hiram Lloyd January 10, 1921 January 12, 1925 Republican bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Arthur M. Hyde
31 bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Philip Allen Bennett January 12, 1925 January 14, 1929 Republican bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Samuel Aaron Baker 1
32 bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Edward Henry Winter January 14, 1929 January 9, 1933 Republican bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Henry S. Caulfield 1
33 rowspan="3" bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Frank Gaines Harris January 9, 1933 December 30, 1944 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Guy Brasfield Park 2+1⁄2[E]
bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Lloyd C. Stark
bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Forrest C. Donnell
vacant December 30, 1944 January 8, 1945 bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Forrest C. Donnell 1⁄2[F]
34 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Walter Naylor Davis January 8, 1945 January 10, 1949 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Phil M. Donnelly 1
35 rowspan="2" bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | James T. Blair, Jr. January 10, 1949 January 14, 1957 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Forrest Smith 2
bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Phil M. Donnelly
36 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Edward V. Long January 14, 1957 September 23, 1960 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | James T. Blair, Jr. 1⁄2[K]
vacant September 23, 1960 January 9, 1961 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | James T. Blair, Jr. 1⁄2[C]
37 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Hilary A. Bush January 9, 1961 January 11, 1965 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | John M. Dalton 1
38 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Thomas Eagleton January 11, 1965 December 27, 1968 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Warren E. Hearnes 1
vacant December 27, 1968 January 13, 1969 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Warren E. Hearnes 1⁄48 [c]
39 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | William S. Morris January 13, 1969 January 8, 1973 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Warren E. Hearnes 1
40 rowspan="2" bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | William C. Phelps January 8, 1973 January 12, 1981 Republican bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Christopher "Kit" Bond 2
bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Joseph P. Teasdale
41 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Kenneth Rothman January 12, 1981 January 14, 1985 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Christopher "Kit" Bond 1
42 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Harriett Woods January 14, 1985 January 9, 1989 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | John Ashcroft 1
43 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Mel Carnahan January 9, 1989 January 11, 1993 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | John Ashcroft 1
44 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Roger B. Wilson January 11, 1993 October 16, 2000 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Mel Carnahan 1⁄3
vacant October 16, 2000 November 15, 2000 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Roger B. Wilson 1⁄3[D]
45 rowspan="2" bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Joe Maxwell November 15, 2000 January 10, 2005 Democratic bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Roger B. Wilson 1+1⁄3[L]
bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Bob Holden
46 rowspan="2" bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Peter Kinder January 10, 2005 January 9, 2017 Republican bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Matt Blunt 3
bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color | Jay Nixon
47 bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Mike Parson January 9, 2017 Elect Republican bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color | Eric Greitens 1

Notes

  • A. ^ The fractional terms of some lieutenant governors are not to be understood absolutely literally; rather, they are meant to show single terms during which multiple lieutenant governors served, due to resignations, deaths and the like.
  • B. a b Resigned from office.
  • C. a b Vacant due to resignation of lieutenant governor.
  • D. a b c d e Vacant due to lieutenant governor becoming governor for remainder of unexpired term.
  • E. a b c Died in office.
  • F. a b c Vacant due to death of lieutenant governor.
  • G. ^ Vacant due to lieutenant governor acting as governor.
  • H. ^ The Missouri state convention declared the executive department of the state had expatriated itself and their offices vacant.[1] Reynolds had fled the capital and aligned himself with the Confederacy.
  • I. ^ Hall was elected the provisional governor of Missouri by the state convention.[1]
  • J. ^ Appointed lieutenant governor following the resignation of Lee.
  • K. ^ Resigned from office to take an appointed seat in the United States Senate.
  • L. ^ Wilson appointed lieutenant governor-elect Maxwell to fill vacancy until his official inauguration.[2]

Other high offices held

This is a table of congressional, other governorships, and other federal offices held by lieutenant governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Missouri except where noted. A '*' denotes those offices from which the lieutenant governor resigned or otherwise left office to take.

Lt. Governor Lt. Gubernatorial term U.S. Congress Other offices held
House Senate
Daniel Dunklin 1828–1832 H
Daniel Dunklin 1828–1832 Governor of Missouri
Lilburn Boggs 1832–1836 Governor of Missouri*
Meredith Miles Marmaduke 1840–1844 Governor of Missouri*
Thomas Lawson Price 1848–1853 H
Hancock Lee Jackson 1857 Acting Governor of Missouri
Thomas Caute Reynolds 1861 Confederate Governor of Missouri
Willard Preble Hall 1861–1864 Governor of Missouri*
Edwin Obed Stanard 1869–1871 H
Joseph Jackson Gravely 1871–1873 H
Norman Jay Coleman 1875–1877 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Albert P. Morehouse 1885–1887 Governor of Missouri*
Thomas Lewis Rubey 1903–1905 H
Philip Allen Bennett 1925–1929 H
James T. Blair, Jr. 1949–1957 Governor of Missouri
Edward V. Long 1957–1960 S*
Thomas Eagleton 1965–1969 S
Mel Carnahan 1989–1993 Governor of Missouri, Posthumously elected U.S. Senator
Roger B. Wilson 1993–2000 Governor of Missouri*

Living former U.S. Lieutenant Governors of Missouri

As of June 2016, there are four former U.S. lieutenant governors of Missouri who are currently living at this time, the oldest U.S. lieutenant governor being William C. Phelps (served 1973–1981, born 1934). The most recent U.S. lieutenant governor of Missouri to die was Thomas Eagleton (served 1965–1969, born 1929) on March 4, 2007. The most recent serving U.S. lieutenant governor of Missouri to die was Mel Carnahan (served 1989–1993, born 1934) on October 16, 2000.

Lt. Governor Lt. Gubernatorial term Date of birth (and age)
William C. Phelps 1973–1981 (1934-04-05) April 5, 1934 (age 90)
Kenneth Rothman 1981–1985 (1935-10-11) October 11, 1935 (age 88)
Roger B. Wilson 1993–2000 (1948-10-10) October 10, 1948 (age 75)
Joe Maxwell 2000–2005 (1957-03-17) March 17, 1957 (age 67)

References

General
  • "Missouri History - Lieutenant Governors". Missouri Secretary of State. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  • "Missouri History - Governors". Missouri Secretary of State. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
Constitutions
Specific
  1. ^ a b Journal of the Missouri State Convention Held at Jefferson City, July, 1861. St. Louis: George Knapp & Co., Printers and Binders. 1861. OCLC 2650423. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  2. ^ McCaskill, Claire (March 2, 2001). "OFFICE OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, PERIOD JULY 1, 2000 TO NOVEMBER 15, 2000 AND THE TWO YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2000" (PDF). Office Of The State Auditor Of Missouri. Retrieved 2008-09-19.

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