Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut

Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
Seal of the lieutenant governor
Incumbent Susan Bysiewicz since January 9, 2019
Government of Connecticut
Style	Her Excellency
Term length	Four years, No term limits
Precursor	Deputy Governor of Connecticut Colony
Inaugural holder	Matthew Griswold State of Connecticut 1776
Formation	Constitution of Connecticut
Website	Office of the Lt. Governor

The lieutenant governor of Connecticut is the second highest executive officer of the government of the U.S. State of Connecticut. The lieutenant governor acts as President of the State Senate, presiding over the Senate and casting votes in the event of a tie. They are elected to serve four-year terms and run on the same ticket as the governor as running mate with no term limits. They are the first in the gubernatorial line of succession of Connecticut and serve as acting governor in the absence of the governor and as governor for the remainder of the term in the event the governor dies, resigns, or is removed from office.^[1][2]

The incumbent lieutenant governor is Democrat Susan Bysiewicz since 2019, after winning the 2018 gubernatorial election and winning reelection in the 2022 gubernatorial election. Her second and current term is set to expire on January 6, 2027.

The following is a list of lieutenant governors of the State of Connecticut:

Lieutenant governors of the State of Connecticut, 1776–present

Lieutenant governors of the State of Connecticut

No.	Lieutenant Governor			Term in office	Party	Election	Governor[a][b]
21			Matthew Griswold	October 10, 1776 – May 13, 1784	Federalist	1776		Jonathan Trumbull[c]
						1777
						1778
						1779
						1780
						1781
						1782
						1783
22			Samuel Huntington	May 13, 1784 – May 11, 1786	Federalist	1784		Matthew Griswold
						1785
23			Oliver Wolcott	May 11, 1786 – January 5, 1796	Federalist	1786		Samuel Huntington (died January 5, 1796)
						1787
						1788
						1789
						1790
						1791
						1792
						1793
						1794
						1795
—	Vacant			January 5, 1796 – May 12, 1796	Office vacated by succession to governor			Oliver Wolcott (died December 1, 1797)
24			Jonathan Trumbull Jr.	May 12, 1796 – December 1, 1797	Federalist	1796
						1797
—	Vacant			December 1, 1797 – May 10, 1798	Office vacated by succession to governor			Jonathan Trumbull Jr (died August 7, 1809)
25			John Treadwell	May 10, 1798 – August 7, 1809	Federalist	1798
						1799
						1800
						1801
						1802
						1803
						1804
						1805
						1806
						1807
						1808
						1809
—	Vacant			August 7, 1809 – October 20, 1809	Office vacated by succession to governor			John Treadwell
26			Roger Griswold	October 20, 1809[4] – May 9, 1811	Federalist	1810
27			John Cotton Smith	May 9, 1811 – October 25, 1812	Federalist	1811		Roger Griswold (died October 25, 1812)
						1812
—	Vacant			October 25, 1812 – May 13, 1813	Office vacated by succession to governor			John Cotton Smith[d]
28			Chauncey Goodrich	May 13, 1813 – August 18, 1815	Federalist	1813
						1814
						1815
—	Vacant			August 18, 1815 – May 9, 1816	Office vacated by death
29			Jonathan Ingersoll	May 9, 1816 – January 12, 1823	Democratic- Republican	1816
					Toleration Party	1817		Oliver Wolcott Jr[e]
						1818
						1819
						1820
						1821
						1822
—	Vacant			January 12, 1823 – May 7, 1823	Office vacated by death
30			David Plant	May 7, 1823 – May 2, 1827	National Republican	1823
						1824
						1825
						1826
31			John Samuel Peters	May 2, 1827 – March 2, 1831	National Republican	1827		Gideon Tomlinson[f]
						1828
						1829
						1830 [g]
—	Vacant			March 2, 1831 – May 4, 1831	—			John Samuel Peters
32			Thaddeus Betts	March 2, 1831 – May 1, 1833	National Republican	1831
						1832
33			Ebenezer Stoddard	May 1, 1833 – May 7, 1834	Democratic	1833		Henry W. Edwards
34			Thaddeus Betts	May 7, 1834 – May 6, 1835	Whig	1834		Samuel A. Foot
35			Ebenezer Stoddard	May 6, 1835 – May 2, 1838	Democratic	1835		Henry W. Edwards
						1836
						1837
36			Charles Hawley	May 2, 1838 – May 4, 1842	Whig	1838		William W. Ellsworth
						1839
						1840
						1841
37			William S. Holabird	May 4, 1842 – May 1, 1844	Democratic	1842		Chauncey Fitch Cleveland
						1843
38			Reuben Booth	May 1, 1844 – May 6, 1846	Whig	1844		Roger Sherman Baldwin
						1845
39			Noyes Billings	May 6, 1846 – May 5, 1847	Democratic	1846		Isaac Toucey
40			Charles J. McCurdy	May 5, 1847 – May 2, 1849	Whig	1847		Clark Bissell
						1848
41			Thomas Backus	May 2, 1849 – May 4, 1850	Whig	1849		Joseph Trumbull
42			Charles H. Pond	May 5, 1850 – May 7, 1851	Democratic	1850		Thomas H. Seymour[h]
43			Green Kendrick	May 7, 1851 – May 7, 1852	Whig	1851
44			Charles H. Pond	May 7, 1852 – October 13, 1853	Democratic	1852
						1853 [i]
—	Vacant			October 13, 1853 – May 3, 1854	—			Charles H. Pond
45			Alexander H. Holley	May 3, 1854 – May 2, 1855	Whig	1854		Henry Dutton
46			William Field	May 2, 1855 – May 7, 1856	Free Soil	1855		William T. Minor
47			Albert Day	May 7, 1856 – May 6, 1857	American	1856
48			Alfred A. Burnham	May 6, 1857 – May 5, 1858	Republican	1857		Alexander H. Holley
49			Julius Catlin	May 5, 1858 – May 1, 1861	Republican	1858		William Alfred Buckingham
						1859
						1860
50			Benjamin Douglas	May 1, 1861 – May 7, 1862	Republican	1861
51			Roger Averill	May 7, 1862 – May 2, 1866	National Union	1862
						1863
						1864
						1865
52			Oliver Winchester	May 2, 1866 – May 1, 1867	Republican	1866		Joseph Roswell Hawley
53			Ephraim H. Hyde	May 1, 1867 – May 5, 1869	Democratic	1867		James E. English
						1868
54			Francis Wayland III	May 5, 1869 – May 4, 1870	Republican	1869		Marshall Jewell
55			Julius Hotchkiss	May 4, 1870 – May 16, 1871	Democratic	1870		James E. English
56			Morris Tyler	May 16, 1871 – May 7, 1873	Republican	1871		Marshall Jewell
						1872
57			George G. Sill	May 7, 1873 – January 3, 1887	Democratic	1873		Charles Roberts Ingersoll
						1874
						1875 [j]
58			Francis Loomis	January 3, 1877 – January 9, 1879	Democratic	1876 [k]		Richard D. Hubbard
59			David Gallup	January 9, 1879 – January 5, 1881	Republican	1878		Charles B. Andrews
60			William H. Bulkeley	January 5, 1881 – January 3, 1883	Republican	1880		Hobart B. Bigelow
61			George G. Sumner	January 3, 1883 – January 8, 1885	Democratic	1882		Thomas M. Waller
62			Lorrin A. Cooke	January 8, 1885 – January 7, 1887	Republican	1884		Henry Baldwin Harrison
63			James L. Howard	January 7, 1887 – January 10, 1889	Republican	1886		Phineas C. Lounsbury
64			Samuel E. Merwin	January 10, 1889 – January 4, 1893	Republican	1888		Morgan Bulkeley[l]
						1890
65			Ernest Cady	January 4, 1893 – January 9, 1895	Democratic	1892		Luzon B. Morris
66			Lorrin A. Cooke	January 9, 1895 – January 6, 1897	Republican	1894		Owen Vincent Coffin
67			James D. Dewell	January 6, 1897 – January 4, 1899	Republican	1896		Lorrin A. Cooke
68			Lyman A. Mills	January 4, 1899 – January 9, 1901	Republican	1898		George E. Lounsbury
69			Edwin O. Keeler	January 9, 1901 – January 7, 1903	Republican	1900		George P. McLean
70			Henry Roberts	January 7, 1903 – January 4, 1905	Republican	1902		Abiram Chamberlain
71			Rollin S. Woodruff	January 4, 1905 – January 9, 1907	Republican	1904		Henry Roberts
72			Everett J. Lake	January 9, 1907 – January 9, 1909	Republican	1906		Rollin S. Woodruff
73			Frank B. Weeks	January 6, 1909 – April 21, 1909	Republican	1908 [m]		George L. Lilley
—	Vacant			April 21, 1909 – January 4, 1911	—			Frank B. Weeks
74			Dennis A. Blakeslee	January 4, 1911 – January 8, 1913	Republican	1910		Simeon E. Baldwin[h]
75			Lyman T. Tingier	January 8, 1913 – January 6, 1915	Democratic	1912
76			Clifford B. Wilson	January 6, 1915 – January 5, 1921	Republican	1914		Marcus H. Holcomb
						1916
						1918
77			Charles A. Templeton	January 5, 1921 – January 3, 1923	Republican	1920		Everett J. Lake
78			Hiram Bingham III	January 3, 1923 – January 7, 1925	Republican	1922		Charles A. Templeton
79			John H. Trumbull	January 7, 1925 – January 8, 1925	Republican	1924 [n]		Hiram Bingham III
80			J. Edwin Brainard	January 8, 1925 – January 9, 1929	Republican			John H. Trumbull
						1926
81			Ernest E. Rogers	January 9, 1929 – January 7, 1931	Republican	1928
82			Samuel R. Spencer	January 7, 1931 – January 4, 1933	Republican	1930		Wilbur Lucius Cross[h]
83			Roy C. Wilcox	January 4, 1933 – January 9, 1935	Republican	1932
84			T. Frank Hayes	January 9, 1935 – January 4, 1939	Democratic	1934
						1936
85			James L. McConaughy	January 4, 1939 – January 8, 1941	Republican	1938		Raymond E. Baldwin
86			Odell Shepard	January 8, 1941 – January 6, 1943	Democratic	1940		Robert A. Hurley
87			William L. Hadden	January 6, 1943 – January 3, 1945	Republican	1942		Raymond E. Baldwin[o]
88			Charles Wilbert Snow	January 3, 1945 – December 27, 1946	Democratic	1944 [p]
—	Vacant			December 27, 1946 – January 8, 1947	—			Charles Wilbert Snow
89			James C. Shannon	January 8, 1947 – March 7, 1948	Republican	1946 [q]		James L. McConaughy
90			Robert E. Parsons	March 7, 1948 – January 5, 1949	Republican			James C. Shannon
91			William T. Carroll	January 5, 1949 – January 3, 1951	Democratic	1948		Chester Bowles
92			Edward N. Allen	January 3, 1951 – January 5, 1955	Republican	1950 [r]		John Davis Lodge
93			Charles W. Jewett	January 5, 1955 – January 7, 1959	Republican	1954		Abraham Ribicoff
94			John N. Dempsey	January 7, 1959 – January 21, 1961	Democratic	1958 [s]
95			Anthony J. Armentano	January 21, 1961 – January 9, 1963	Democratic			John N. Dempsey
96			Samuel J. Tedesco	January 9, 1963 – January 15, 1966	Democratic	1962 [t]
97			Fred J. Doocy	January 15, 1966 – January 4, 1967	Democratic
98			Attilio R. Frassinelli	January 4, 1967 – January 6, 1971	Democratic	1966
99			T. Clark Hull	January 6, 1971 – June 1, 1973	Republican	1970 [u]		Thomas Meskill
100			Peter L. Cashman	June 1, 1973 – January 8, 1975	Republican
101			Robert K. Killian	January 8, 1975 – January 3, 1979	Democratic	1974		Ella Grasso
102			William A. O'Neill	January 3, 1979 – December 31, 1980	Democratic	1978 [v]
103			Joseph J. Fauliso	December 31, 1980 – January 9, 1991	Democratic			William A. O'Neill
						1982
						1986
104			Eunice Groark	January 9, 1991 – January 4, 1995	A Connecticut Party	1990		Lowell Weicker
105			Jodi Rell	January 4, 1995 – July 1, 2004	Republican	1994		John G. Rowland
						1998
						2002 [w]
106			Kevin Sullivan	July 1, 2004 – January 3, 2007	Democratic			Jodi Rell
107			Michael Fedele	January 3, 2007 – January 5, 2011	Republican	2006
108			Nancy Wyman	January 5, 2011 – January 9, 2019	Democratic	2010		Dannel Malloy
						2014
109			Susan Bysiewicz	January 9, 2019 – Incumbent	Democratic	2018		Ned Lamont
						2022

Notes

1. The office of Lieutenant Governor was known as Deputy-Governor under the colonial charter, but the name 'Lieutenant Governor' was predominantly used after independence.^[3]
2. Lieutenant governors represented the same party as their governor unless noted.
3. Represented no party.
4. Represented the Federalist Party
5. Represented the Toleration Party through the 1818 election, and the Democratic-Republican Party after that.
6. Represented the Democratic-Republican Party in his first year, and the National Republican Party after that.
7. Tomlinson resigned and Peters acted as governor, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
8. Represented the Democratic Party.
9. Seymour resigned and Pond acted as governor, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
10. This term was lengthened by 7 months due to a constitutional amendment moving the election schedule.
11. First term under a constitutional amendment which lengthened terms to two years.
12. Morgan Bulkeley did not run for re-election in 1890, but due to such a close contest and controversies, the results were not certified, and the legislature spent two years debating the issue; Bulkeley essentially served as governor by default.^[5]
13. Lilley died and Weeks acted as governor, rendering the office vacant for the remainder of the term.
14. Bingham resigned and Trumbull acted as governor for the remainder of the term; as president pro tempore of the senate, Brainard succeeded Trumbull.
15. Represented the Republican Party.
16. Baldwin resigned and Snow acted as governor; the office remained vacant for the remainder of the term.
17. McConaughy died and Shannon acted as governor; as president pro tempore of the senate, Parsons succeeded Shannon.
18. First term under a constitution amendment which lengthened terms to four years.
19. Ribicoff resigned and Dempsey acted as governor for the remainder of his term; as president pro tempore of the senate, Armentano succeeded Dempsey.
20. Tedesco resigned to take a seat on the Connecticut Superior Court; as president pro tempore of the senate, Doocy succeeded him.
21. Hull resigned to take a seat on the Connecticut Superior Court; as president pro tempore of the senate, Cashman succeeded him.
22. Grasso resigned and O'Neill succeeded her; as president pro tempore of the senate, Fauliso succeeded O'Neill.
23. Rowland resigned and Rell succeeded him; as president pro tempore of the senate, Sullivan succeeded Rell.

References

Constitutions

• "Constitution of the State of Connecticut". Connecticut State Library. 1965. Archived from the original on March 23, 2009. Retrieved February 21, 2009.
• "Constitution of the State of Connecticut". Secretary of the State of Connecticut. 1818. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved February 21, 2009.
• "Charter of the Colony of Connecticut". National Humanities Institute. 1662. Retrieved February 21, 2009.

Specific

1. "Constitution of the State of Connecticut". CT.gov - Connecticut's Official State Website. Retrieved November 27, 2024.
2. "What does a Lieutenant Governor do in Connecticut?". CT.gov. Retrieved November 27, 2024.
3. 1662 Charter
4. "Hartford. Oct. 24". The enquirer. Richmond, Va. November 14, 1809. p. 2. Retrieved December 20, 2021.
5. "Morgan Gardner Bulkeley". National Governors Association. Retrieved August 29, 2016.

External links

• Official website of the Lieutenant Governor