List of Michigan Lieutenant Governors
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 |
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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 |
See also
- List of Michigan governors
- List of United States Senators from Michigan
- List of members of the US House of Representatives from Michigan
Web links
- Vice-Governor's website
- List of all office holders (PDF file; 40 kB)