Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania

The Lieutenant Governor is a constitutional officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Lieutenant Governor is elected every four years along with the Governor. Jim Cawley of Bucks County is the incumbent Lieutenant Governor. The lieutenant governor presides in the Senate and is first in the line of succession to the governor; in the event the governor dies, resigns, or otherwise leaves office, the lieutenant governor becomes governor.

The Office of Lieutenant Governor was created by the Constitution of 1873. As with the Governor's position, the Constitution of 1968 made the Lieutenant Governor eligible to succeed himself or herself for one additional four-year term [1].

Lieutenant Governors of Pennsylvania

  1. John Latta (Democrat) 1875-79
  2. Charles Warren Stone (Republican) 1879-83
  3. Chauncey Forward Black (Democrat) 1883-87
  4. William T. Davies (Republican) 1887-91
  5. Louis Arthur Watres (Republican) 1891-95
  6. Walter Lyon (Republican) 1895-99
  7. John P. S. Gobin 1899-1903
  8. William M. Brown (Republican) 1903-07
  9. Robert S. Murphy (Republican) 1907-11
  10. John M. Reynolds (Democrat) 1911-15
  11. Frank B. McClain (Republican) 1915-19
  12. Edward E. Beidleman (Republican) 1919-23
  13. David J. Davis (Republican) 1923-27
  14. Arthur H. James (Republican) 1927-31
  15. Edward C. Shannon (Republican) 1931-35
  16. Thomas Kennedy (Democrat) 1935-39
  17. Samuel S. Lewis (Republican) 1939-43
  18. John Cromwell Bell, Jr. (Republican) 1943-47
  19. Daniel B. Strickler (Republican) 1947-51
  20. Lloyd H. Wood (Republican) 1951-55
  21. Roy E. Furman (Democrat) 1955-59
  22. John Morgan Davis (Democrat) 1959-63
  23. Raymond P. Shafer (Republican) 1963-67
  24. Raymond J. Broderick (Republican) 1967-71
  25. Ernest P. Kline (Democrat) 1971-1979
  26. William Scranton, III (Republican) 1979-1987
  27. Mark Singel (Democrat) 1987-1995
  28. Mark S. Schweiker (Republican) 1995-2001
  29. Robert C. Jubelirer (Republican) 2001-2003
  30. Catherine Baker Knoll (Democrat) 2003-2008
  31. Joseph B. Scarnati III (Republican) 2008-2011
  32. Jim Cawley (Republican) 2011–present

Vice-Presidents of Pennsylvania

From 1777 to 1790 the executive branch of Pennsylvania's state government was headed by a Supreme Executive Council consisting of a representative of each county and of the City of Philadelphia. The Vice President of the Council—also known as the Vice-President of Pennsylvania—held a position analogous to the modern office of Lieutenant Governor. Presidents and Vice-Presidents were elected to one-year terms and could serve up to three years—the full length of their regular term as Counsellor. Ten men served as Vice-President during the time of the Council's existence.

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