List of lieutenant governors of Connecticut

Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut

Seal of the Lieutenant Governor
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Incumbent
Nancy Wyman
since January 15, 2011
Style Her Excellency
Term length Four years, No term limits
Inaugural holder Roger Ludlow Connecticut Colony
1639
Matthew Griswold State of Connecticut
1776
Formation Constitution of Connecticut
Website Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman

The following is a list of deputy or lieutenant governors of the State of Connecticut, from the Colonial period through present day.

Deputy Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, 1639–1776

(The Connecticut Colony was initially formed from the towns of Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield)

  1. Roger Ludlow 1639–1640
  2. John Haynes 1640–1641
  3. George Wyllys 1641–1642
  4. Roger Ludlow 1642–1643
  5. Edward Hopkins 1643–1644
  6. John Haynes 1644–1645
  7. Edward Hopkins 1645–1646
  8. John Haynes 1646–1647
  9. Edward Hopkins 1647–1648
  10. Roger Ludlow 1648–1649
  11. Edward Hopkins 1649–1650
  12. John Haynes 1650–1651
  13. Edward Hopkins 1651–1652
  14. John Haynes 1652–1653
  15. Edward Hopkins 1653
  16. Thomas Welles 1654
  17. John Webster 1655
  18. Thomas Welles 1656–1657
  19. John Winthrop 1658–1659
  20. John Mason 1660–1669
  21. William Leete 1669–1676
  22. Robert Treat 1676–1683
  23. James Bishop 1683–1692
  24. William Jones 1692–1698
  25. Robert Treat 1698–1708
  26. Nathan Gold 1708–1724
  27. Joseph Talcott 1724–1725
  28. Jonathan Law 1725–1741
  29. Roger Wolcott 1741–1750
  30. Thomas Fitch 1750–1754
  31. William Pitkin 1754–1766
  32. Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. 1766–1769
  33. Matthew Griswold 1769–1776

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   Democratic   Federalist   Democratic-Republican   National Republican   Free Soil   Republican   Whig

# 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 Democratic 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

Living former U.S. Lieutenant Governors of Connecticut

As of January 2016, six former U.S. lieutenant governors of Connecticut are alive. The most recent death of a former U.S. lieutenant governor of Connecticut was that of Joseph J. Fauliso (served 1980-1991, born 1916), who died on August 20, 2014.

Lt. Governor Lt. Gubernatorial term Date of birth (and age)
Fred J. Doocy 1966–1967 May 5, 1913
Peter L. Cashman 1973–1975 May 22, 1936
Eunice S. Groark 1991–1995 February 1, 1938
M. Jodi Rell 1995–2004 June 16, 1946
Kevin B. Sullivan 2004–2007 1949 (age 66–67)
Michael Fedele 2007–2011 March 30, 1955
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