List of Michigan Lieutenant Governors

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Garlin Gilchrist, the current Lieutenant Governor of Michigan

The office of lieutenant governor of Michigan was created when the territory was converted to a state . The lieutenant governor is also President of the Michigan Senate . The following people have held the office since 1835:

Surname Term of office Political party
Edward Mundy 1835-1840 democrat
James Wright Gordon 1840-1841 Whig
Thomas Jefferson Drake 1841 Whig
Origen D. Richardson 1842-1846 democrat
William L. Greenly 1846-1847 democrat
Charles P. Bush 1847 democrat
William Matthew Fenton 1848-1851 democrat
Calvin Britain 1852 democrat
Andrew Parsons 1853 democrat
George R. Griswold 1853-1854 democrat
George Alonzo Coe 1855-1858 republican
Edmund Burke Fairfield 1859-1860 republican
James M. Birney 1861 republican
Joseph Rickelson Williams 1861 republican
Henry Titus Backus 1861-1862 republican
Charles Sedgwick May 1863-1864 republican
Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor 1865-1866 republican
Dwight May 1867-1868 republican
Morgan Bates 1869-1872 republican
Henry H. Holt 1873-1876 republican
Alonzo sessions 1877-1880 republican
Moreau S. Crosby 1881-1884 republican
Archibald Buttars 1885-1886 republican
James H. MacDonald 1887-1889 republican
William Ball 1889-1890 republican
John Strong 1891-1892 democrat
J. Wight Giddings 1893-1894 republican
Alfred Milnes 1895 republican
Joseph R. McLaughlin 1895-1896 republican
Thomas B. Dunstan 1897-1898 republican
Orrin Williams Robinson 1899-1902 republican
Alexander Maitland 1903-1906 republican
Patrick Henry Kelley 1907-1910 republican
John Q. Ross 1911-1914 republican
Luren Dudley Dickinson 1915-1920 republican
Thomas Read 1921-1924 republican
George W. Welsh 1925-1926 republican
Luren Dudley Dickinson 1927-1932 republican
Allen E. Stebbins 1933-1934 democrat
Thomas Read 1935-1936 republican
Leo J. Nowicki 1937-1938 democrat
Luren Dudley Dickinson 1939 republican
Matilda Dodge Wilson 1940 republican
Frank Murphy 1941-1942 democrat
Eugene C. Keyes 1943-1944 republican
Vernon J. Brown 1945-1946 republican
Eugene C. Keyes 1947-1948 republican
John W. Connolly 1949-1950 democrat
William C. Vandenberg 1951-1952 republican
Clarence A. Reid 1953-1954 republican
Philip Aloysius Hart 1955-1958 democrat
John Burley Swainson 1959-1960 democrat
Thaddeus John Lesinski 1961-1964 democrat
William Grawn Milliken 1965-1969 republican
Thomas F. Schweigert 1970 republican
James H. Brickley 1971-1974 republican
James Joseph Damman 1975-1988 republican
James H. Brickley 1979-1982 republican
Martha Wright Griffiths 1983-1991 democrat
Connie Berube Binsfeld 1991-1998 republican
Richard Posthumus 1999-2002 republican
John D. Cherry 2003-2011 democrat
Brian Nelson Calley 2011-2019 republican
Garlin Gilchrist since 2019 democrat

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