Lieutenant Governor of Missouri explained

Post:	Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
Incumbent:	Mike Kehoe
Incumbentsince:	June 18, 2018
Appointer:	Popular election / Governor of Missouri
Termlength:	Four years, no term limits
Formation:	1820
Succession:	1st
Salary:	$86,484 (2017)^[1]

Party!Governors

	Democratic	align=right	32
	Republican	align=right	12
	Democratic-Republican	align=right	2
	Liberal Republican	align=right	2

The lieutenant governor of Missouri is the first person in the order of succession of the U.S. state of Missouri's executive branch, thus serving as governor in the event of the death, resignation, removal, impeachment, absence from the state, or incapacity due to illness of the governor of Missouri. The lieutenant governor also serves, ex officio, as president of the Missouri Senate. The lieutenant governor is elected separately from the governor, and therefore may be of a different party than the governor.

The current lieutenant governor is Mike Kehoe.

List

	class=unsortable		Lieutenant Governor	Took office	Left office	Party	class=unsortable		Governor	Terms
1	bgcolor=			William Henry Ashley	September 18, 1820	November 15, 1824	Democratic-Republican	bgcolor=		Alexander McNair	1
2	bgcolor=			Benjamin Harrison Reeves	November 15, 1824	July 1825	Democratic-Republican	bgcolor=		Frederick Bates
Vacant	July 1825	November 17, 1828		bgcolor=		Frederick Bates
bgcolor=					Abraham J. Williams
bgcolor=					John Miller
3	bgcolor=			Daniel Dunklin	November 17, 1828	November 19, 1832	Democratic	bgcolor=		John Miller	1
4	bgcolor=			Lilburn Boggs	November 19, 1832	September 30, 1836	Democratic	bgcolor=		Daniel Dunklin
Vacant	September 30, 1836	November 21, 1836		bgcolor=		Lilburn Boggs
5	bgcolor=			Franklin Cannon	November 21, 1836	November 16, 1840	Democratic	bgcolor=		Lilburn Boggs	1
6	bgcolor=			Meredith Miles Marmaduke	November 16, 1840	February 9, 1844	Democratic	bgcolor=		Thomas Reynolds
Vacant	February 9, 1844	November 20, 1844		bgcolor=		Meredith Miles Marmaduke
7	bgcolor=			James Young	November 20, 1844	November 20, 1848	Democratic	bgcolor=		John C. Edwards	1
8	bgcolor=			Thomas Lawson Price	November 20, 1848	January 3, 1853	Democratic	bgcolor=		Austin Augustus King	1
9	bgcolor=			Wilson Brown	January 3, 1853	August 27, 1855	Democratic	bgcolor=		Sterling Price
Vacant	August 27, 1855	January 5, 1857		bgcolor=		Sterling Price
10	bgcolor=			Hancock Lee Jackson	January 5, 1857	February 27, 1857	Democratic	bgcolor=		Trusten Polk
Vacant	February 27, 1857	October 22, 1857		bgcolor=		Hancock Lee Jackson
10	bgcolor=			Hancock Lee Jackson	October 22, 1857	January 3, 1861	Democratic	bgcolor=		Robert Marcellus Stewart
11	bgcolor=			Thomas Caute Reynolds	January 3, 1861	July 23, 1861	Democratic	bgcolor=		Claiborne Fox Jackson
12	bgcolor=			Willard Preble Hall	July 31, 1861	January 31, 1864	Republican	bgcolor=		Hamilton Rowan Gamble
Vacant	January 31, 1864	January 2, 1865		bgcolor=		Willard Preble Hall
13	bgcolor=			George Smith	January 2, 1865	January 12, 1869	Republican	bgcolor=		Thomas Clement Fletcher	1
14	bgcolor=			Edwin Obed Stanard	January 12, 1869	January 4, 1871	Republican	bgcolor=		Joseph W. McClurg	1
15	bgcolor=			Joseph J. Gravely	January 4, 1871	April 28, 1872	Liberal Republican	bgcolor=		B. Gratz Brown
Vacant	April 28, 1872	January 3, 1873		bgcolor=		B. Gratz Brown
16	bgcolor=			Charles Phillip Johnson	January 3, 1873	January 12, 1875	Liberal Republican	bgcolor=		Silas Woodson	1
17	bgcolor=			Norman Jay Colman	January 12, 1875	January 8, 1877	Democratic	bgcolor=		Charles Henry Hardin	1
18	bgcolor=			Henry Clay Brockmeyer	January 8, 1877	January 10, 1881	Democratic	bgcolor=		John Smith Phelps	1
19	bgcolor=			Robert Alexander Campbell	January 10, 1881	January 12, 1885	Democratic	bgcolor=		Thomas Theodore Crittenden	1
20	bgcolor=			Albert P. Morehouse	January 12, 1885	December 28, 1887	Democratic	bgcolor=		John S. Marmaduke
Vacant	December 28, 1887	January 14, 1889		bgcolor=		Albert P. Morehouse
21	bgcolor=			Stephen Hugh Claycomb	January 14, 1889	January 9, 1893	Democratic	bgcolor=		David R. Francis	1
22	bgcolor=			John Baptiste O'Meara	January 9, 1893	January 11, 1897	Democratic	bgcolor=		William Joel Stone	1
23	bgcolor=			August Bolte	January 11, 1897	January 14, 1901	Democratic	bgcolor=		Lawrence Vest Stephens	1
24	bgcolor=			John Adams Lee	January 14, 1901	April 25, 1903	Democratic	bgcolor=		Alexander Monroe Dockery
25	bgcolor=			Thomas Lewis Rubey	April 25, 1903	January 9, 1905	Democratic	bgcolor=		Alexander Monroe Dockery
26	bgcolor=			John C. McKinley	January 9, 1905	January 11, 1909	Republican	bgcolor=		Joseph W. Folk	1
27	bgcolor=			Jacob Friedrich Gmelich	January 11, 1909	January 13, 1913	Republican	bgcolor=		Herbert S. Hadley	1
28	bgcolor=			William Rock Painter	January 13, 1913	January 8, 1917	Democratic	bgcolor=		Elliot Woolfolk Major	1
29	bgcolor=			Wallace Crossley	January 8, 1917	January 10, 1921	Democratic	bgcolor=		Frederick D. Gardner	1
30	bgcolor=			Hiram Lloyd	January 10, 1921	January 12, 1925	Republican	bgcolor=		Arthur M. Hyde
31	bgcolor=			Philip Allen Bennett	January 12, 1925	January 14, 1929	Republican	bgcolor=		Samuel Aaron Baker	1
32	bgcolor=			Edward Henry Winter	January 14, 1929	January 9, 1933	Republican	bgcolor=		Henry S. Caulfield	1
33			Frank Gaines Harris	January 9, 1933	December 30, 1944	Democratic	bgcolor=		Guy Brasfield Park
	bgcolor=							Lloyd C. Stark
	bgcolor=							Forrest C. Donnell
Vacant	December 30, 1944	January 8, 1945		bgcolor=		Forrest C. Donnell
34	bgcolor=			Walter Naylor Davis	January 8, 1945	January 10, 1949	Democratic	bgcolor=		Phil M. Donnelly	1
35			James T. Blair Jr.	January 10, 1949	January 14, 1957	Democratic	bgcolor=		Forrest Smith	2
	bgcolor=							Phil M. Donnelly
36	bgcolor=			Edward V. Long	January 14, 1957	September 23, 1960	Democratic	bgcolor=		James T. Blair Jr.
Vacant	September 23, 1960	January 9, 1961		bgcolor=		James T. Blair Jr.
37	bgcolor=			Hilary A. Bush	January 9, 1961	January 11, 1965	Democratic	bgcolor=		John M. Dalton	1
38	bgcolor=			Thomas Eagleton	January 11, 1965	December 27, 1968	Democratic	bgcolor=		Warren E. Hearnes	1
Vacant	December 27, 1968	January 13, 1969		bgcolor=		Warren E. Hearnes
39	bgcolor=			William S. Morris	January 13, 1969	January 8, 1973	Democratic	bgcolor=		Warren E. Hearnes	1
40			William C. Phelps	January 8, 1973	January 12, 1981	Republican	bgcolor=		Kit Bond	2
	bgcolor=							Joseph P. Teasdale
41	bgcolor=			Kenneth Rothman	January 12, 1981	January 14, 1985	Democratic	bgcolor=		Kit Bond	1
42	bgcolor=			Harriett Woods	January 14, 1985	January 9, 1989	Democratic	bgcolor=		John Ashcroft	1
43	bgcolor=			Mel Carnahan	January 9, 1989	January 11, 1993	Democratic	bgcolor=		John Ashcroft	1
44	bgcolor=			Roger B. Wilson	January 11, 1993	October 16, 2000	Democratic	bgcolor=		Mel Carnahan
Vacant	October 16, 2000	November 15, 2000		bgcolor=		Roger B. Wilson
45			Joe Maxwell	November 15, 2000	January 10, 2005	Democratic	bgcolor=		Roger B. Wilson
	bgcolor=							Bob Holden
46			Peter Kinder	January 10, 2005	January 9, 2017	Republican	bgcolor=		Matt Blunt	3
	bgcolor=							Jay Nixon
47	bgcolor=			Mike Parson	January 9, 2017	June 1, 2018	Republican	bgcolor=		Eric Greitens
48	bgcolor=			Mike Kehoe	June 18, 2018	Incumbent	Republican	bgcolor=		Mike Parson

Notes

• A. The fractional terms of some lieutenant governors are not to be understood absolutely literally; rather, they are meant to show single terms during which multiple lieutenant governors served, due to resignations, deaths and the like.
• B. Resigned from office.
• C. Vacant due to resignation of lieutenant governor.
• D. Vacant due to lieutenant governor becoming governor for remainder of unexpired term.
• E. Died in office.
• F. Vacant due to death of lieutenant governor.
• G. Vacant due to lieutenant governor acting as governor.
• H. The Missouri state convention declared the executive department of the state had expatriated itself and their offices vacant.^[2] Reynolds had fled the capital and aligned himself with the Confederacy.
• I. Hall was elected the provisional governor of Missouri by the state convention.^[2]
• J. Appointed lieutenant governor following the resignation of Lee.
• K. Resigned from office to take an appointed seat in the United States Senate.
• L. Wilson appointed lieutenant governor-elect Maxwell to fill vacancy until his official inauguration.^[3]

References

General

• Web site: Missouri History – Lieutenant Governors . Missouri Secretary of State . 2008-09-18.
• Web site: Missouri History – Governors . Missouri Secretary of State . 2008-09-18.

Constitutions

• Web site: 1945 Constitution of the State of Missouri . 2007 . Missouri Secretary of State . 2008-09-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081029024702/http://www.sos.mo.gov/pubs/missouri_constitution.pdf . 2008-10-29 .
• Book: Thorpe, Francis Newton. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies, Now Or Heretofore Forming the United States of America. Government Printing Office. Washington. 1909. IV. 2008-09-12.

• Constitution of Missouri—1820

• Constitution of Missouri—1865

• Constitution of Missouri—1875

Specific

External links

• Office website of the Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
• Publications by or about the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Missouri at Internet Archive.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Missouri state government salary. April 8, 2017 . Ballotpedia.
2. Book: Journal of the Missouri State Convention Held at Jefferson City, July, 1861. George Knapp & Co., Printers and Binders. St. Louis. 1861. 2650423. 2008-09-18.
3. Web site: OFFICE OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, PERIOD JULY 1, 2000 TO NOVEMBER 15, 2000 AND THE TWO YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2000 . McCaskill . Claire . March 2, 2001 . Office Of The State Auditor Of Missouri . PDF . 2008-09-19.