List of lieutenant governors of Connecticut
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 |
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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 |
See also
- List of Connecticut Governors
- List of United States Senators from Connecticut
- List of members of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut