List of lieutenant governors of California
Below is a list of lieutenant governors of the U.S. state of California, 1849 to present. In California, the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor do not run together on the same ticket. The Lieutenant Governor can therefore be affiliated with a different political party than that of the Governor. Per the 1879 California Constitution, the Lieutenant Governor is the President of the State Senate.
List of lieutenant governors
No. | Lieutenant Governor | Term in office | Party | Election | Governor[a] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | | John McDougal | December 20, 1849 – January 9, 1851 | Democratic | 1849 [b][c] | | Peter Hardeman Burnett |
| 2 |  | David C. Broderick (acting) | January 9, 1851 – January 8, 1852 | Democratic | John McDougal | |||
| 3 | Samuel Purdy | January 8, 1852 – January 9, 1856 | Democratic | 1851 | John Bigler | |||
1853 | ||||||||
| 4 | Robert M. Anderson | January 9, 1856 – January 8, 1858 | American | 1855 | J. Neely Johnson | |||
| 5 |  | Joseph Walkup | January 8, 1858 – January 9, 1860 | Democratic | 1857 | John B. Weller | ||
| 6 |  | John G. Downey | January 9, 1860 – January 20, 1860 | Democratic | 1859 [d] | Milton Latham | ||
| 7 | Isaac N. Quinn (acting) | January 20, 1860 – January 7, 1861 | Democratic | John G. Downey | ||||
| 8 |  | Pablo de la Guerra (acting) | January 7, 1861 – January 10, 1862 | Democratic | ||||
| 9 | John F. Chellis | January 10, 1862 – December 10, 1863 | Republican | 1861 | Leland Stanford | |||
| 10 | Tim N. Machin | December 10, 1863 – December 5, 1867 | Republican | 1863 [e] | Frederick Low | |||
| 11 |  | William Holden | December 5, 1867 – December 8, 1871 | Democratic | 1867 | Henry Huntly Haight | ||
| 12 |  | Romualdo Pacheco | December 8, 1871 – February 27, 1875 | Republican | 1871 [f] | Newton Booth | ||
| 13 |  | William Irwin (acting) | February 27, 1875 – December 9, 1875 | Democratic | Romualdo Pacheco[g] | |||
| 14 |  | James A. Johnson | December 9, 1875 – January 8, 1880 | Democratic | 1875 | William Irwin | ||
| 15 | John Mansfield | January 8, 1880 – January 10, 1883 | Republican | 1879 | George Clement Perkins | |||
| 16 | John Daggett | January 10, 1883 – January 8, 1887 | Democratic | 1882 | George Stoneman | |||
| 17 |  | Robert Waterman | January 8, 1887 – September 13, 1887 | Republican | 1886 [h] | Washington Bartlett[i] | ||
| 18 |  | Stephen M. White (acting) | September 13, 1887 – January 8, 1891 | Democratic | Robert Waterman[g] | |||
| 19 |  | John B. Reddick | January 8, 1891 – January 11, 1895 | Republican | 1890 | Henry Markham | ||
| 20 |  | Spencer G. Millard | January 11, 1895 – October 25, 1895 | Republican | 1894 [j] | James Budd[i] | ||
| 21 |  | William T. Jeter | October 25, 1895 – January 3, 1899 | Democratic | ||||
| 22 |  | Jacob H. Neff | January 3, 1899 – January 6, 1903 | Republican | 1898 | Henry Gage | ||
| 23 |  | Alden Anderson | January 6, 1903 – January 8, 1907 | Republican | 1902 | George Pardee | ||
| 24 |  | Warren R. Porter | January 8, 1907 – January 3, 1911 | Republican | 1906 | James Gillett | ||
| 25 |  | Albert Joseph Wallace | January 3, 1911 – January 5, 1915 | Republican | 1910 | Hiram Johnson[k] | ||
| 26 |  | John Morton Eshleman | January 5, 1915 – February 28, 1916 | Progressive | 1914 [l] | |||
| — | Vacant | February 28, 1916 — July 22, 1916 | — | |||||
| 27 |  | William Stephens | July 22, 1916 – March 15, 1917 | Republican | ||||
| — | Vacant | February 28, 1916 — July 22, 1916 | — | William Stephens | ||||
| 28 |  | C. C. Young | January 7, 1919 – January 4, 1927 | Republican | 1918 | |||
1922 | Friend Richardson | |||||||
| 29 |  | Buron Fitts | January 4, 1927 – November 30, 1928 | Republican | 1926 [m] | C. C. Young | ||
| — | Vacant | November 30, 1928 — December 4, 1928 | — | |||||
| 30 | Herschel L. Carnahan | December 4, 1928 – January 6, 1931 | Republican | |||||
| 31 |  | Frank Merriam | January 5, 1931 – June 2, 1934 | Republican | 1930 [n] | James Rolph | ||
| — | Vacant | June 2, 1934 — January 7, 1935 | — | Frank Merriam | ||||
| 32 | George J. Hatfield | January 8, 1935 – January 2, 1939 | Republican | 1934 | ||||
| 33 |  | Ellis E. Patterson | January 2, 1939 – January 4, 1943 | Democratic | 1938 | Culbert Olson | ||
| 34 | Frederick F. Houser | January 4, 1943 – January 6, 1947 | Republican | 1942 | Earl Warren | |||
| 35 |  | Goodwin Knight | January 6, 1947 – October 5, 1953 | Republican | 1946 | |||
1950 [o] | ||||||||
| 36 | Harold J. Powers | October 5, 1953 – January 5, 1959 | Republican | Goodwin Knight | ||||
1954 | ||||||||
| 37 |  | Glenn M. Anderson | January 5, 1959 – January 2, 1967 | Democratic | 1958 | Pat Brown | ||
1962 | ||||||||
| 38 |  | Robert Finch | January 2, 1967 – January 8, 1969 | Republican | 1966 [p] | Ronald Reagan | ||
| 39 |  | Edwin Reinecke | January 8, 1969 – October 2, 1974 | Republican | ||||
1970 [q] | ||||||||
| 40 | John L. Harmer | October 2, 1974 – January 6, 1975 | Republican | |||||
| 41 |  | Mervyn M. Dymally | January 6, 1975 – January 8, 1979 | Democratic | 1974 | Jerry Brown[i] | ||
| 42 |  | Mike Curb | January 8, 1979 – January 3, 1983 | Republican | 1978 | |||
| 43 | Leo T. McCarthy | January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995 | Democratic | 1982 | George Deukmejian[g] | |||
1986 | ||||||||
1990 | Pete Wilson[g] | |||||||
| 44 |  | Gray Davis | January 3, 1995 – January 4, 1999 | Democratic | 1994 | |||
| 45 |  | Cruz Bustamante | January 4, 1999 – January 7, 2007 | Democratic | 1998 | Gray Davis (recalled November 17, 2003) | ||
2002 | ||||||||
Arnold Schwarzenegger[g] | ||||||||
| 46 |  | John Garamendi | January 7, 2007 – November 3, 2009 | Democratic | 2006 [r] | |||
| 47 |  | Mona Pasquil (acting) | November 3, 2009 – April 27, 2010 | Democratic | ||||
| 48 |  | Abel Maldonado | April 27, 2010 – January 10, 2011 | Republican | ||||
2010 [s] | Jerry Brown[i] | |||||||
| 49 |  | Gavin Newsom | January 10, 2011 – January 7, 2019 | Democratic | ||||
2014 | ||||||||
| 50 |  | Eleni Kounalakis | January 7, 2019 – present | Democratic | 2018 [t] | Gavin Newsom | ||
Notes
^ Lieutenant governors represented the same party as their governor unless noted.
^ A civilian government was formed in late 1849 prior to official statehood, and operated as the state government for ten months before official statehood was granted.[1]
^ Burnett resigned and McDougal succeeded him; as president of the senate, Broderick acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.
^ Latham resigned and Downey succeeded him. As president of the senate, Quinn acted as lieutenant governor until the legislative session ended, at which time de la Guerra was elected president of the senate and acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.
^ First term under an 1862 constitutional amendment, which lengthened terms to four years.
^ Booth resigned and Pacheco succeeded him; as president of the senate, Irwin acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.
^ abcde Represented the Republican Party.
^ Bartlett died in office and Waterman succeeded him; as president of the senate, White acted as lieutenant governor for the remainder of the term.
^ abcd Represented the Democratic Party.
^ Millard died in office; Jeter was appointed by Budd to succeed him.
^ Represented the Progressive Party during Stephens' term.
^ Eshleman died in office; Stephens was appointed to succeed him. Johnson later resigned and Stephens succeeded him; the office remained vacant for the remainder of the term.
^ Fitts resigned to serve as a special prosecutor; Carnahan was appointed to succeed him.
^ Rolph died in office and Merriam succeeded him, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
^ Warren resigned and Knight succeeded him; as president pro tempore of the senate, Powers succeeded Knight.
^ Finch resigned to be United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and Reinecke was appointed to succeed him.
^ Reineke was forced to resign when convicted and sentenced for perjury; it was later overturned on appeal. Harmer was appointed to succeed him.
^ Garamendi resigned to take an elected seat in the United States House of Representatives; Maldonado was appointed to succeed him, and Pasquil was appointed to act as lieutenant governor pending Maldonado's confirmation.
^ Newsom delayed his swearing in as lieutenant governor until January 10, 2011, to remain mayor of San Francisco; Maldonado stayed on as lieutenant governor until then.[2]
^ Kounalakis' first term expires on January 2, 2023.
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^ Upton Oot, John (January 7, 2011). "Newsom's Dual Role Raises Legal Quandary". The Bay Citizen. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
