List of Lieutenant Governors of Massachusetts

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The office of lieutenant governor ( Lieutenant Governor ) was introduced in the US state of Massachusetts with the passage of the state constitution in the year 1780. Previously, there had already been the post of lieutenant-governor as deputy governor in the colonial province of Massachusetts Bay . According to the constitution, the lieutenant governor moves up to the governorship if the holder of that post dies, resigns, or is removed from office. However, he is then not considered an official governor as in almost all other states, but only as an acting governor .

Surname Term of office Political party
Thomas Cushing 1780-1788 independent
Benjamin Lincoln 1788-1789 independent
Samuel Adams 1789-1793 independent
Moses Gill 1794-1799 federalist
Samuel Phillips 1801-1802 federalist
Edward Hutchinson Robbins 1802-1806 federalist
Levi Lincoln 1807-1808 Democratic Republican
David Cobb 1809-1810 federalist
William Gray 1810-1812 Democratic Republican
William Phillips 1812-1823 federalist
Levi Lincoln Jr. 1823-1824 Democratic Republican
Marcus Morton 1824-1825 Democratic Republican
Thomas L. Winthrop 1826-1833 Democratic Republican
Samuel Turell Armstrong 1833-1835 Whig
George Hull 1836-1843 Whig
Henry H. Childs 1843-1844 democrat
John Reed 1844-1851 Whig
Henry W. Cushman 1851-1853 democrat
Elisha Huntington 1853-1854 Whig
William Caudwell Plunkett 1854-1855 Whig
Simon Brown 1855-1856 Know-nothing party
Henry Wetherby Benchley 1856-1858 Know-nothing party
Eliphalet Trask 1858-1861 republican
John Zacheus Goodrich 1861 republican
John Nesmith 1862 republican
Joel Hayden 1863-1866 republican
William Claflin 1866-1869 republican
Joseph Tucker 1869-1873 republican
Thomas Talbot 1873-1874 republican
Horatio Gates Knight 1875-1879 republican
John Davis Long 1879-1880 republican
Byron Weston 1880-1883 republican
Oliver Ames 1883-1887 republican
John Quincy Adams Brackett 1887-1890 republican
William H. Haile 1890-1893 republican
Roger Wolcott 1893-1896 republican
Winthrop Murray Crane 1897-1900 republican
John Lewis Bates 1900-1903 republican
Curtis Guild 1903-1906 republican
Ebenezer Sumner Draper 1906-1909 republican
Louis Adams Frothingham 1909-1912 republican
Robert Luce 1912-1913 republican
David Ignatius Walsh 1913-1914 democrat
Edward P. Barry 1914-1915 democrat
Grafton D. Cushing 1915-1916 democrat
John Calvin Coolidge 1916-1919 republican
Channing Harris Cox 1919-1921 republican
Alvan Tufts Fuller 1921-1925 republican
Frank G. Allen 1925-1929 republican
William Sterling Youngman 1929-1933 republican
Gaspar Griswold Bacon 1933-1935 republican
Joseph Leo Hurley 1935-1937 democrat
Francis E. Kelly 1937-1939 democrat
Horace Tracy Cahill 1939-1945 republican
Robert Fiske Bradford 1945-1947 republican
Arthur William Coolidge 1947-1949 republican
Charles F. Sullivan 1949-1953 democrat
Sumner Gage Whittier 1953-1957 republican
Robert F. Murphy 1957-1961 democrat
Edward Francis McLaughlin 1961-1963 democrat
Francis X. Bellotti 1963-1965 democrat
Elliot Lee Richardson 1965-1967 republican
Francis William Sargent 1967-1969 republican
Donald R. Dwight 1969-1975 republican
Thomas Phillip O'Neill 1975-1983 democrat
John Forbes Kerry 1983-1985 democrat
Evelyn Murphy 1987-1991 democrat
Argeo Paul Cellucci 1991-1999 republican
Jane Maria Swift 1999-2003 republican
Kerry Murphy Healey 2003-2007 republican
Timothy P. Murray 2007-2013 democrat
vacant 2013-2015
Karyn Polito since 2015 republican

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