List of lieutenant governors of Connecticut

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Susan Bysiewicz , current Connecticut Lieutenant Governor

The office of Lieutenant Governor ( lieutenant governor ) in the US state of Connecticut has existed since the state was founded in 1776. Previously, it had been in the Connecticut Colony the post of Deputy Governor as deputy to the respective governor added. The colony's last deputy governor , Matthew Griswold , also became the state's first lieutenant governor.

The lieutenant governor is elected by the people together with the governor (on a so-called ticket ).

Surname Term of office Political party
Matthew Griswold 1776-1784 federalist
Samuel Huntington 1784-1786 federalist
Oliver Wolcott 1786-1796 federalist
Jonathan Trumbull 1796-1797 federalist
John Treadwell 1797-1809 federalist
Roger Griswold 1809-1811 federalist
John Cotton Smith 1811-1813 federalist
Chauncey Goodrich 1813-1815 federalist
Jonathan Ingersoll 1816-1823 federalist
David Plant 1823-1827 National Republican Party
John Samuel Peters 1827-1831 National Republican Party
Thaddeus Betts 1832-1833 Whig
Ebenezer Stoddard 1833-1834 Whig
Thaddeus Betts 1834-1835 Whig
Ebenezer Stoddard 1835-1838 Whig
Charles Hawley 1838-1842 Whig
William S. Holabird 1842-1844 democrat
Reuben Booth 1844-1846 Whig
Noyes Billings 1846-1847 democrat
Charles Johnson McCurdy 1847-1849 Whig
Thomas Backus 1849-1850 democrat
Charles Hobby Pond 1850-1851 democrat
Green Kendrick 1851-1852 Whig
Charles Hobby Pond 1852-1854 democrat
Alexander Hamilton Holley 1854-1855 Whig
William Field 1855-1856 Free Soil Party
Albert Day 1856-1857 Free Soil Party
Alfred Avery Burnham 1857-1858 republican
Julius Catlin 1858-1861 republican
Benjamin Douglas 1861-1862 republican
Roger Averill 1862-1866 unionist
Oliver Fisher Winchester 1866-1867 republican
Ephraim H. Hyde 1867-1869 democrat
Francis Wayland 1869-1870 republican
Julius Hotchkiss 1870-1871 democrat
Morris Franklin Tyler 1871-1873 republican
George Griswold Sill 1873-1877 democrat
Francis B. Loomis 1877-1879 democrat
David Gallup 1879-1881 republican
William Henry Bulkeley 1881-1883 republican
George G. Sumner 1883-1885 democrat
Lorrin Alanson Cooke 1885-1887 republican
James Leland Howard 1887-1889 republican
Samuel Edwin Merwin 1889-1893 republican
Ernest Cady 1893-1895 democrat
Lorrin Alanson Cooke 1895-1897 republican
James Dudley Dewell 1897-1899 republican
Lyman Allen Mills 1899-1901 republican
Edwin Olmstead Keeler 1901-1903 republican
Henry Roberts 1903-1905 republican
Rollin Simmons Woodruff 1905-1907 republican
Everett John Lake 1907-1909 republican
Frank Bentley Weeks 1909 republican
Dennis Albert Blakeslee 1911-1913 republican
Lyman Twining Tingier 1913-1915 democrat
Clifford Brittin Wilson 1915-1921 republican
Charles A. Templeton 1921-1923 republican
Hiram Bingham III 1923-1925 republican
John Harper Trumbull 1925 republican
J. Edwin Brainard 1925-1929 republican
Ernest Elias Rogers 1929-1931 republican
Samuel R. Spencer 1931-1933 republican
Roy C. Wilcox 1933-1935 republican
T. Frank Hayes 1935-1939 democrat
James Lukens McConaughy 1939-1941 republican
Odell Shepard 1941-1943 democrat
William L. Hadden 1943-1945 republican
Charles Wilbert Snow 1945-1946 democrat
James Coughlin Shannon 1947-1948 republican
Robert E. Parsons 1948-1949 republican
William T. Carroll 1949-1951 democrat
Edward Normand Allen 1951-1955 republican
Charles W. Jewett 1955-1959 republican
John Noel Dempsey 1959-1961 democrat
Anthony J. Armentano 1961-1963 democrat
Samuel J. Tedesco 1963-1966 democrat
Fred J. Doocy 1966-1967 democrat
Attilio R. Frassinelli 1967-1971 democrat
Treat Clark Hull 1971-1973 republican
Peter L. Cashman 1973-1975 republican
Robert K. Killian 1975-1979 democrat
William Atchison O'Neill 1979-1982 democrat
Joseph John Fauliso 1980-1991 democrat
Eunice Groark 1991-1995 A Connecticut Party
Mary Jodi Rell 1995-2004 Republican
Kevin B. Sullivan 2004-2007 democrat
Michael Fedele 2007-2011 republican
Nancy S. Wyman 2011-2019 Democrat
Susan Bysiewicz since 2019 Democrat

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