The following is a list of deputy or lieutenant governors of the State of Connecticut, from the Colonial period through present day.
Lieutenant Governors of the State of Connecticut, 1776–present
The State of Connecticut counts the Lieutenant Governors using a standard that counts Colonial period lieutenants as well as counting lieutenants who had served multiple times as only one individual figure. There have been 108 Lieutenant Governors in the history of Connecticut and 88 since the founding of the United States in 1776.
- Parties
A Connecticut (1)
Democratic (26)
Federalist (8)
Democratic-Republican (3)
National Republican (2)
Free Soil (2)
Republican (30)
Whig (7)
# | Lt. Governor | Took Office | Left Office | Party | Governor(s) served under |
1 | Matthew Griswold | 1776 | 1784 | Federalist | Jonathan Trumbull |
2 | Samuel Huntington | 1784 | 1786 | Federalist | Matthew Griswold |
3 | Oliver Wolcott | 1786 | 1796 | Federalist | Samuel Huntington |
4 | Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. | 1796 | 1797 | Federalist | Oliver Wolcott |
5 | John Treadwell | 1797 | 1809 | Federalist | Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. |
6 | Roger Griswold | 1809 | 1811 | Federalist | John Treadwell |
7 | John Cotton Smith | 1811 | 1813 | Federalist | Roger Griswold |
8 | Chauncey Goodrich | 1813 | 1815 | Federalist | John Cotton Smith |
9 | Jonathan Ingersoll | 1816 | 1823 | Democratic-Republican | Oliver Wolcott, Jr. |
10 | David Plant | 1823 | 1827 | National Republican |
11 | John Samuel Peters | 1827 | 1831 | National Republican | Gideon Tomlinson |
12 | Thaddeus Betts | 1831 | 1833 | Whig | John Samuel Peters |
13 | Ebenezer Stoddard | 1833 | 1834 | Democratic-Republican | Henry W. Edwards |
14 | Thaddeus Betts | 1834 | 1835 | Whig | Samuel A. Foot |
15 | Ebenezer Stoddard | 1835 | 1838 | Democratic-Republican | Henry W. Edwards |
16 | Charles Hawley | 1838 | 1842 | Whig | William W. Ellsworth |
17 | William S. Holabird | 1842 | 1844 | Democratic | Chauncey Fitch Cleveland |
18 | Reuben Booth | 1844 | 1846 | Whig | Roger Sherman Baldwin |
19 | Noyes Billings | 1846 | 1847 | Democratic | Isaac Toucey |
20 | Charles J. McCurdy | 1847 | 1849 | Whig | Clark Bissell |
21 | Thomas Backus | 1849 | 1850 | Democratic | Joseph Trumbull |
22 | Charles H. Pond | 1850 | 1851 | Democratic | Thomas H. Seymour |
23 | Green Kendrick | 1851 | 1852 | Whig |
24 | Charles H. Pond | 1852 | 1853 | Democratic |
| Vacant | 1853 | 1854 | | |
25 | Alexander H. Holley | 1854 | 1855 | Whig | Henry Dutton |
26 | William Field | 1855 | 1856 | Free Soil | William T. Minor |
27 | Albert Day | 1856 | 1857 | Free Soil |
28 | Alfred A. Burnham | 1857 | 1858 | Republican | Alexander H. Holley |
29 | Julius Catlin | 1858 | 1861 | Republican | William A. Buckingham |
30 | Benjamin Douglas | 1861 | 1862 | Republican |
31 | Roger Averill | 1862 | 1866 | Republican |
32 | Oliver F. Winchester | 1866 | 1867 | Republican | Joseph R. Hawley |
33 | Ephraim H. Hyde | 1867 | 1869 | Democratic | James E. English |
34 | Francis Wayland III | 1869 | 1870 | Republican | Marshall Jewell |
35 | Julius Hotchkiss | 1870 | 1871 | Democratic | James E. English |
36 | Morris Tyler | 1871 | 1873 | Republican | Marshall Jewell |
37 | George G. Sill | 1873 | 1877 | Democratic | Charles R. Ingersoll |
38 | Francis Loomis | 1877 | 1879 | Democratic | Richard D. Hubbard |
39 | David Gallup | 1879 | 1881 | Republican | Charles B. Andrews |
40 | William H. Bulkeley | 1881 | 1883 | Republican | Hobart B. Bigelow |
41 | George G. Sumner | 1883 | 1885 | Democratic | Thomas M. Waller |
42 | Lorrin A. Cooke | 1885 | 1887 | Republican | Henry B. Harrison |
43 | James L. Howard | 1887 | 1889 | Republican | Phineas C. Lounsbury |
44 | Samuel E. Merwin | 1889 | 1893 | Republican | Morgan G. Bulkeley |
45 | Ernest Cady | 1893 | 1895 | Democratic | Luzon B. Morris |
46 | Lorrin A. Cooke | 1895 | 1897 | Republican | Owen Vincent Coffin |
47 | James D. Dewell | 1897 | 1899 | Republican | Lorrin A. Cooke |
48 | Lyman A. Mills | 1899 | 1901 | Republican | George E. Lounsbury |
49 | Edwin O. Keeler | 1901 | 1903 | Republican | George P. McLean |
50 | Henry Roberts | 1903 | 1905 | Republican | Abiram Chamberlain |
51 | Rollin S. Woodruff | 1905 | 1907 | Republican | Henry Roberts |
52 | Everett J. Lake | 1907 | 1909 | Republican | Rollin S. Woodruff |
53 | Frank B. Weeks | 1909 | 1909 | Republican | George L. Lilley |
| Vacant | 1909 | 1911 | | |
54 | Dennis A. Blakeslee | 1911 | 1913 | Republican |
Simeon E. Baldwin |
55 | Lyman T. Tingier | 1913 | 1915 | Democratic |
56 | Clifford B. Wilson | 1915 | 1921 | Republican | Marcus H. Holcomb |
57 | Charles A. Templeton | 1921 | 1923 | Republican | Everett J. Lake |
58 | Hiram Bingham | 1923 | 1925 | Republican | Charles A. Templeton |
59 | John H. Trumbull | 1925 | 1925 | Republican | Hiram Bingham III |
60 | J. Edwin Brainard | 1925 | 1929 | Republican | John H. Trumbull |
61 | Ernest E. Rogers | 1929 | 1931 | Republican |
62 | Samuel R. Spencer | 1931 | 1933 | Republican |
Wilbur Lucius Cross |
63 | Roy C. Wilcox | 1933 | 1935 | Republican |
64 | T. Frank Hayes | 1935 | 1939 | Democratic |
65 | James L. McConaughy | 1939 | 1941 | Republican | Raymond E. Baldwin |
66 | Odell Shepard | 1941 | 1943 | Democratic | Robert A. Hurley |
67 | William L. Hadden | 1943 | 1945 | Republican | Raymond E. Baldwin |
68 | Charles Wilbert Snow | 1945 | 1946 | Democratic |
| Vacant | 1946 | 1947 | | |
69 | James C. Shannon | 1947 | 1948 | Republican | James L. McConaughy |
70 | Robert E. Parsons | 1948 | 1949 | Republican | James C. Shannon |
71 | William T. Carroll | 1949 | 1951 | Democratic | Chester Bowles |
72 | Edward N. Allen | 1951 | 1955 | Republican | John Davis Lodge |
73 | Charles W. Jewett | 1955 | 1959 | Republican | Abraham A. Ribicoff |
74 | John N. Dempsey | 1959 | 1961 | Democratic |
75 | Anthony J. Armentano | 1961 | 1963 | Democratic | John N. Dempsey |
76 | Samuel J. Tedesco | 1963 | 1966 | Democratic |
77 | Fred J. Doocy | 1966 | 1967 | Democratic |
78 | Attilio R. Frassinelli | 1967 | 1971 | Democratic |
79 | T. Clark Hull | 1971 | 1973 | Republican | Thomas J. Meskill |
80 | Peter L. Cashman | June 7, 1973 | January 8, 1975 | Republican |
81 | Robert K. Killian | January 8, 1975 | January 3, 1979 | Democratic | Ella T. Grasso |
82 | William A. O’Neill | January 3, 1979 | December 31, 1980 | Democratic |
83 | Joseph J. Fauliso | December 31, 1980 | January 9, 1991 | Democratic | William A. O’Neill |
84 | Eunice S. Groark | January 9, 1991 | January 4, 1995 | A Connecticut Party | Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. |
85 | M. Jodi Rell | January 4, 1995 | July 1, 2004 | Republican | John G. Rowland |
86 | Kevin B. Sullivan | July 1, 2004 | January 3, 2007 | Democratic |
M. Jodi Rell |
87 | Michael Fedele | January 3, 2007 | January 5, 2011 | Republican |
88 | Nancy Wyman | January 5, 2011 | present | Democratic | Dannel Malloy |
As of January 2018, four former lieutenant governors of Connecticut are alive. The most recent death of a former lieutenant governor of Connecticut was that of Eunice Groark (served 1991–1995), who died on May 9, 2018, at the age of 80.
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