List of Lieutenant Governors of New York

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Kathy Hochul , current Lieutenant Governor of New York

The office of Lieutenant Governor ( lieutenant governor ) in the US state of New York has existed since the state was founded in 1777. The respective incumbent is the first successor to the governor if the latter resigns, dies or is removed from his post. This case most recently occurred in 2008 when Governor Eliot Spitzer stepped down and David Paterson took office. In addition, the Vice-Governor presides over the State Senate as President. The candidates of a party for the offices of governor and vice governor have been standing for election together since 1954 and can only be elected together as a "list". Before that, the governor and the lieutenant governor were elected independently. The last time the elected governor's vice-nominee lost the election was in 1924, when Democrat Al Smith was re-elected but his deputy, George R. Lunn, was defeated by Republican Seymour Lowman . If there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice-Governor, the President pro tempore (almost always the chairman of the majority parliamentary group) of the State Senate assumes the duties of Vice-Governor. (These are marked with * in the list.) In the event of a double vacancy, the President temporarily takes over the governorship, but remains President of the Senate at the same time. In the event of a threefold vacancy, the Speaker of the State Assembly takes over the governorship provisionally, but at the same time remains in office as speaker and does not move up to the vice-governorship.

New York State

Surname Term of office Political party
Pierre Van Cortlandt 1777-1795 Democratic Republican
Stephen Van Rensselaer III. 1795-1801 federalist
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer 1801-1804 Democratic Republican
John Broome 1804-1810 Democratic Republican
John Tayler * 1811 Democratic Republican
DeWitt Clinton 1811-1813 Democratic Republican
John Tayler 1813-1817 Democratic Republican
Philetus Swift * 1817 Democratic Republican
John Tayler 1817-1822 Democratic Republican
Erastus Root 1823-1824 Democratic Republican
James Tallmadge 1825-1826 Democratic Republican
Nathaniel Pitcher 1827-1828 Democratic Republican
Peter Robert Livingston * 1828 Democratic Republican
Charles Dayan * 1828 Democratic Republican
Enos Thompson Throop 1829 democrat
Charles Stebbins * 1829 democrat
William Morrison Oliver * 1830 democrat
Edward Philip Livingston 1831-1832 democrat
John Tracy 1833-1838 democrat
Luther Bradish 1839-1842 Whig
Daniel Stevens Dickinson 1843-1844 democrat
Addison Gardiner 1845-1847 democrat
Albert Lester * 1847 democrat
Hamilton Fish 1848 Whig
George Washington Patterson 1849-1850 Whig
Sanford Elias Church 1851-1854 democrat
Henry Jarvis Raymond 1855-1856 Whig
Henry Rogers Selden 1857-1858 republican
Robert Campbell 1859-1862 republican
David Richard Floyd-Jones 1863-1864 democrat
Thomas Gold Alvord 1865-1866 republican
Stewart Lyndon Woodford 1867-1868 republican
Allen Carpenter Beach 1869-1872 democrat
John Cleveland Robinson 1873-1874 republican
William Dorsheimer 1875-1879 democrat
George Gilbert Hoskins 1880-1882 republican
David Bennett Hill 1883-1885 democrat
Dennis McCarthy * 1885 republican
Edward Franc Jones 1886-1891 democrat
William F. Sheehan 1892-1894 democrat
Charles Terry Saxton 1895-1896 republican
Timothy Lester Woodruff 1897-1902 republican
Frank Wayland Higgins 1903-1904 republican
Matthew Linn Bruce 1905-1906 republican
John Raines * 1906 republican
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler 1907-1908 democrat
Horace White 1909-1910 republican
George Henry Cobb * 1910 republican
Thomas Franklin Conway 1911-1912 democrat
Martin Henry Glynn 1913 democrat
Robert Ferdinand Wagner * 1913-1914 democrat
Edward Schoeneck 1915-1918 republican
Harry Clay Walker 1919-1920 democrat
Jeremiah Wood 1921-1922 republican
Clayton Riley Lusk * 1922 republican
George Richard Lunn 1923-1924 democrat
Seymour Lowman 1925-1926 republican
Edwin Corning 1927-1928 democrat
Herbert Henry Lehman 1929-1932 democrat
M. William Bray 1933-1938 democrat
Charles Poletti 1939-1942 democrat
Joseph Rhodes Hanley * 1942 republican
Thomas W. Wallace 1943 republican
Joseph Rhodes Hanley 1943-1950 republican
Frank Charles Moore 1951-1953 republican
Arthur H. Wicks * 1953 republican
Walter J. Mahoney * 1954 republican
George Benjamin DeLuca 1955-1958 democrat
Charles Malcolm Wilson 1959-1973 republican
Warren Mattice Anderson * 1973-1974 republican
Mary Anne Krupsak 1975-1988 democrat
Mario Matthew Cuomo 1979-1982 democrat
Alfred B. DelBello 1983-1985 democrat
Warren Mattice Anderson * 1985-1986 republican
Stanley Nelson Lundine 1987-1994 democrat
Betsy McCaughey Ross 1995-1998 republican
Mary O'Connor Donohue 1999-2006 republican
David Alexander Paterson 2007-2008 democrat
Joseph L. Bruno * 2008 republican
Dean G. Skelos * 2008 republican
Malcolm A. Smith * 2009 democrat
Pedro Espada Jr. * 2009 democrat
Malcolm A. Smith * 2009 democrat
Richard Ravitch 2009-2010 democrat
Robert John Duffy 2011-2014 democrat
Kathy Hochul since 2015 democrat

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