List of Lieutenant Governors 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 |
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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 |