List of Wisconsin Lieutenant Governors

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Mandela Barnes , current Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

The Office of the Lieutenant-Governor ( lieutenant governor ) of Wisconsin was in the course of the transformation of the territory to a state of the United States created and initially had a term of two years. With the 1979 constitutional amendment, if the lieutenant governor moves up to the vacant office of governor , he becomes a full governor and resigns from the office of lieutenant governor. Before 1979, the lieutenant governor also took over the governor's office, but he was only an acting governor . Furthermore, the term of office of the lieutenant governor was extended from two to four years in 1979.

Surname Term of office Political party
John Edwin Holmes 1848-1850 democrat
Samuel W. Beall 1850-1852 democrat
Timothy Burns 1852-1853 democrat
vacant
James Taylor Lewis 1854-1856 republican
Arthur MacArthur Sr. 1856-1858 democrat
Erasmus Daniel Campbell 1858-1860 democrat
Butler G. Noble 1860-1862 republican
Edward Salomon 1862-1864 republican
vacant
Wyman Spooner 1864-1870 republican
Thaddeus Coleman Pound 1870-1872 republican
Milton H. Pettit 1872-1873 republican
vacant
Charles Durwin Parker 1874-1878 democrat
James M. Bingham 1878-1882 republican
Samuel Stillman Fifield 1882-1887 republican
George Washington Ryland 1887-1891 republican
Charles Jonas 1891-1894 democrat
vacant
Emil Baensch 1895-1899 republican
Jesse Stone 1899-1902 republican
James Ole Davidson 1903-1907 republican
William Duncan Connor 1907-1909 republican
John Strange 1909-1911 republican
Thomas Morris 1911-1915 republican
Edward F. Dithmar 1915-1921 republican
George F. Comings 1921-1925 republican
Henry A. Huber 1925-1933 republican
Thomas J. O'Malley 1933-1936 democrat
vacant
Henry A. Gunderson 1937 Progressive
vacant
Herman L. Ekern 1938-1939 Progressive
Walter Samuel Goodland 1939-1943 republican
Oscar Rennebohm 1945-1947 republican
George M. Smith 1949-1955 republican
Warren Perley Knowles 1955-1959 republican
Philleo Nash 1959-1961 democrat
Warren Perley Knowles 1961-1963 republican
Jack B. Olson 1963-1965 republican
Patrick Joseph Lucey 1965-1967 democrat
Jack B. Olson 1967-1971 republican
Martin James clerk 1971-1979 democrat
Russell A. Olson 1979-1983 republican
James T. Flynn 1983-1987 democrat
Scott McCallum 1987-2001 republican
Margaret Farrow 2001-2003 Republican
Barbara Lawton 2003-2011 Democrat
Rebecca Kleefisch 2011-2019 Republican
Mandela Barnes since 2019 democrat

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