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List of female lieutenant governors in the United States

List of female lieutenant governors in the United States

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As of September 8, 2023, there are 22 women currently serving (excluding acting capacity) as lieutenant governors in the United States. Overall, 119 women have served (including acting capacity).

Women have been elected lieutenant governor in 40 of the 50 states. The states that have the position of lieutenant governor and have not yet elected a woman are Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and West Virginia. The states that do not have the position of lieutenant governor are Arizona, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and Wyoming. The holders of the first in line to the governorship there, either the secretary of state or senate president, are listed here separately.

14 female lieutenant governors have become governors of their respective states, and six female secretaries of state have become governors of their respective states.

Nancy E. Dick is the oldest living former female lieutenant governor, at the age of 93.

History

The first woman to become lieutenant governor was Matilda Dodge Wilson (R), who was appointed lieutenant governor of Michigan in 1940 by Luren Dickinson.[1] The first woman elected as lieutenant governor was Consuelo N. Bailey of Vermont, who was elected in 1954.[2]

In 1978, Jean King (D) was elected as the first female Asian-American lieutenant governor, when she was elected lieutenant governor of Hawaii.[3] In 2002, Jennette Bradley (R) was elected as the first female African-American lieutenant governor, when she was elected lieutenant governor of Ohio.[4] In 2014, Evelyn Sanguinetti (R) was elected as the first female Hispanic or Latino lieutenant governor, when she was elected lieutenant governor of Illinois.[5]

Kentucky was the first state to hold a transfer of power from one female lieutenant governor to another, when Martha Layne Collins was elected to succeed Thelma Stovall in 1979.[citation needed]

Minnesota has had the most female lieutenant governors or other deputy leaders of any state in the Union, with nine consecutive female lieutenant governors since 1983. However, no female politician has been nominated for governor by any major statewide party in any of Minnesota's gubernatorial elections.[6]

No state ever had both a female governor and permanent female lieutenant governor at the same time until Arkansas and Massachusetts achieved this feat as a result of the 2022 gubernatorial elections. In New York, Andrea Stewart-Cousins became acting Lieutenant Governor on Kathy Hochul's succeeding Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York during his third term on August 24, 2021.

From 1997 to 2009, Arizona had two female governors and two concurrently serving female secretaries of state.

List of female lieutenant governors

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  • Italics denotes acting lieutenant governor
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List of female secretaries of state

Certain states do not have a lieutenant governor; instead, they have a Secretary of State next in line for succession of governor.

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List of female Senate presidents

Two states – Maine and New Hampshire – do not have a lieutenant governor, and do not have the secretary of state as first in the line of succession to the governor. In these two states, the President of the State Senate is first in line to succeed the governor.

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List of female federal district council chairs

In the District of Columbia, the chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia is first in line of succession in the event of a vacancy in the office of mayor of the District of Columbia.

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Notes

  1. Later served as the Governor of Vermont (1985–1991)
  2. Previously served as the U.S. representative from Michigan 17th (1955–1974)
  3. Later served as U.S. Representative from Hawaii 2nd (2007-2013) & U.S. senator from Hawaii (2013–present)
  4. Elected as a Republican in 1994, but switched to Democratic in 1997
  5. Later became Governor of Oklahoma (2011–2019)
  6. Elected as a Reformer, but Minnesota party split from Reform in 2000 and changed name to the Independence Party
  7. Elected as a Democrat in 1999, but switched to Republican in 2002
  8. Previously served as the U.S. representative from New York 26th (2011–2013)
  9. Later served as the U.S. representative from Minnesota 7th (2021–present)

References

  1. [1]
    "Nov. 4 recognized as Matilda R. Dodge Wilson Day". News-Page.
  2. [2]
    "Lieutenant Governor Consuelo Northrop Bailey · Digital Vermont: A Project of the Vermont Historical Society". digitalvermont.org.
  3. [3]
    "Former Hawaii Lt. Gov. Jean King dies at age 87". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. November 25, 2013.
  4. [4]
    "Ground-Breaker | Wittenberg University". www.wittenberg.edu.
  5. [5]
    College, Wheaton. "Evelyn Sanguinetti". Wheaton College.
  6. [6]
    "Minnesota: Where Female Lieutenant Governors Reign". Smart Politics. January 17, 2014. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
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