List of Lieutenant Governors of Virginia

The office of lieutenant governor ( Lieutenant Governor ) was created in the US state Virginia by an amendment of the state constitution in the year 1851; previously, the President of the Council of State had acted as a deputy to the respective governor . Since the governor and lieutenant governor do not run as joint candidates, both incumbents can belong to different parties.

State of Virginia

Before the Civil War (1852-1860)

Surname	Term of office	Political party
Shelton Farrar Leake	1852-1856	democrat
Elisha W. McComas	1856-1857	democrat
William Lowther Jackson	1857-1860

During the Civil War (1860-1865)

Surname	Term of office	Political party
Robert Latane Montague *	1860-1864	democrat
Samuel Price *	1864-1865	democrat
Daniel Polsley **	1861-1863	republican
Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper **	1863-1865	republican

^{* Confederate lieutenant governors during the Civil War}

^{** Vice-governors in the Union-occupied part of Virginia}

After the Civil War (from 1865)

Surname	Term of office	Political party	Remarks
Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper	1865-1869	republican
John Francis Lewis	1869-1870	republican
John Lawrence Marye	1870-1874
Robert Enoch Withers	1874-1875	democrat	Withers moved to the US Senate on March 4, 1875 .
Henry Wirtz Thomas	1875-1878
James Alexander Walker	1878-1882	republican
John Francis Lewis	1882-1886	democrat
John Edward Massey	1886-1890	democrat
James Hoge Tyler	1890-1894	democrat
Robert Craig Kent	1894-1898	democrat
Edward Echols	1898-1902	democrat
Joseph Edward Willard	1902-1906	democrat
James Taylor Ellyson	1906-1918	democrat
Benjamin Franklin Buchanan	1918-1922
Junius Edgar West	1922-1930	democrat
James Hubert Price	1930-1938	democrat
Saxon Winston Holt	1938-1940	democrat	Holt died in office and left a vacancy until the next election.
vacant
William Munford Tuck	1942-1946	democrat
Lewis Preston Collins	1946-1952	democrat	Collins passed away in office.
Allie Edward (s) Stokes Stephens	1952-1962	democrat
Mills Edwin Godwin Jr.	1962-1966	democrat
Frederick Gresham Pollard	1966-1970	democrat
Julian Sargeant Reynolds	1970-1971	democrat	Reynolds died in office.
Henry Evans Howell Jr.	1971-1974	Independently
John Nichols Dalton	1974-1988	republican
Charles Spittal Robb	1978-1982	democrat
Richard Joseph Davis	1982-1986	democrat
Lawrence Douglas Wilder	1986-1990	democrat
Donald S. Beyer	1990-1998	democrat
John Henry Hager	1998-2002	republican
Timothy Michael Kaine	2002-2006	democrat
William Troy Bolling	2006-2014	republican
Ralph Shearer Northam	2014-2018	democrat
Justin Edward Fairfax	since 2018	democrat

See also

• List of Virginia Governors
• List of United States Senators from Virginia
• List of members of the US House of Representatives from Virginia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Massacre on the Lordsburg Road: A Tragedy of the Apache Wars by Marc Simmons, Texas A&M University Press, 2008, ISBN 1585444464 , 9781585444465, page 7
2. ↑ Will the Real "Mudwall" Jackson Please Stand Up? (PDF; 1.3 MB) by Geoffrey R. Walden
3. ↑ John Lawrence Marye (February 09, 1798; July 25, 1868) on the Genealogy.com website
4. ^ Charges against an officer. - John E. Massey accused before the Virginia Senate (PDF) on The New York Times website
5. ↑ Junius Edgar West on the page of The Political Graveyard
6. ^ A Guide to the WRVA Radio Collection, 1925-2000 , Accession Number 38210, A Collection in the Library of Virginia
7. ↑ J. LINDSAY ALMOND, JR., PAPERS, 1850-1987 on the Virginia Historical Society - Department of Manuscripts and Archives website
8. ↑ Inventory of the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers 1947-1989 (Collection Number Mss. 78 G54) on the website of "A Collection in the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department"
9. ↑ Article: Va. Lawmaker Fred G. Pollard Dies at 85 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• The Vice Governor's website
• List of former lieutenant governors