- Gray Davis
Described by the San Jose Mercury News as "perhaps the best-trained Governor-in-waiting California has ever produced," Governor Gray Davis has made improving public education his administration's number-one priority. As his first official act as Governor, he called a special session of the Legislature to address his proposals to ensure that every child can read by age 9, strengthen teacher training and education, and increase accountability in the schools.
- David Paterson
David A. Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and the current Lieutenant Governor of New York. He is the first African American to hold this position. He was selected as running mate by New York Attorney General and Democratic Party nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. Paterson was born legally blind in Brooklyn in 1954. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1977 and later his law degree from Hofstra Law School.
- John Garamendi
A fast track medical school plan was presented by Lt. Gov. John Garamendi last month. Without a lower-cost alternative, Garamendi said it was likely the Merced medical school would be delayed and perhaps never opened at all as the state's budget crisis mounts. Garamendi is also an ex-officio member of the Board of Regents; his son, John Garamendi Jr . , works as the vice chancellor for University Relations at UC Merced.
- Kerry Healey
Kerry Healey Kerry Healey served as Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2003-2007.
- Cruz Bustamante
Cruz Miguel Bustamante (born January 4, 1953) is an American politician. He was the 45th Lieutenant Governor of California, a former Speaker of the State Assembly and a member of the Democratic Party. He served with Governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger and was succeeded by John Garamendi on January 8, 2007.
- David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst (born 1945) is the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Texas.
- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend (born July 4, 1951) was lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002. The eldest of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel's 11 children, she is part of the Kennedy political family. She was named for her aunt Kathleen Agnes Kennedy, Marchioness of Hartington, who died in a plane crash in 1948.
- Michael S. Steele
Michael S. Steele (born October 19, 1958) is the chairman of GOPAC and a former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, having been elected on the same ticket as Governor Robert L. Ehrlich in 2002. He is the first African American to serve in a Maryland state-wide office and the first Republican lieutenant governor in the state since the position was created in 1970. He was, at the time, the highest-ranking elected African American Republican in the United States.
- Casey Cagle
Lowell S. "Casey" Cagle (born January 12, 1966 in Gainesville, Georgia) is an American politician, a member of the Republican Party, a conservative, and a former member of the General Assembly in the U.S. state of Georgia. He is best known as the underdog candidate who, on July 18, 2006, defeated conservative political activist Ralph Reed in the 2006 Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. Cagle defeated Democrat Jim Martin November 7, 2006, …
- Mitch Landrieu
Mitchell Joseph Landrieu (born August 16, 1960) is the Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. A Roman Catholic, he is the son of former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu and the brother of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. He is a candidate for a second term as lieutenant governor in the October 20, 2007 jungle primary. The singer Sammy Kershaw, a Vermilion Parish native and a Republican, announced in June that he will challenge Landrieu in the primary.
- Catherine Baker Knoll
Catherine Baker Knoll (born September 3, 1930 in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania) is the present lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
- Beverly Perdue
Beverly Perdue is the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina. Throughout Perdue's tenure as an elected official she has demonstrated tremendous leadership and fiscal responsibility in writing state budgets, managing state government and being a tireless advocate for quality jobs, public schools, and health care. Lt. Governor Perdue has supported investments to the thriving biotechnology sector in North Carolina-now the
- Peter Kinder
Peter D. Kinder is an American politician from the State of Missouri. In 2004 he was elected lieutenant governor of the state. He is a Republican.
- Mark Taylor
Mark Fletcher Taylor, American politician and member of the Democratic Party, served two terms between 1999 to 2007 as Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. Taylor was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia in the 2006 general election, losing to Republican incumbent Sonny Perdue.
- John Graves Simcoe
John Graves Simcoe (February 25, 1752 - October 26, 1806) was the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (modern-day southern Ontario plus the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior) from 1791-1796. He founded York (now Toronto) and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as the courts, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, …
- Lucy Baxley
Lucy Baxley (born December 21, 1937) served as the Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, from 2003 to 2007 and was the Democratic candidate for Governor in 2006. Though Alabama has had a female governor, Baxley is the first woman to hold the state's office of lieutenant governor. She was born in 1937 near Pansey, Alabama, a small town near Dothan. Lucy attended college but did not graduate.
- Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska and the presumptive 2008 Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States. She will be the first female Vice Presidential candidate representing the Republican Party and the second female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major political party.
- Jim Risch
James E. "Jim" Risch (born May 3, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a former Governor of Idaho. He succeeded to the office on May 26, 2006 when his predecessor, Dirk Kempthorne, resigned to become U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Risch is a rancher, attorney, and politician from Ada County. He was the first Catholic to become governor of the State of Idaho. Currently he is Lieutenant Governor of Idaho.
- Tim Murray
Timothy P. Murray (born 1968), better known as Tim Murray, is the current Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, USA. Prior to his service as Lieutenant Governor, Murray served as Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts.
- Sean Parnell
Sean's father, Pat, served Alaska honorably as an Anchorage Assembly Member and as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives, modeling ethical political leadership for both his sons and birthing a dream in his eldest. Sean pursued his childhood dream, and in 1992 he was elected to the Alaska State House of Representatives. While serving in the House, Sean was active as a member of the House Finance Committee and chaired numerous budget subcommittees.
- Bill Halter
William A. "Bill" Halter (born 1960), a Democrat, was sworn in as lieutenant governor of Arkansas in Little Rock, his hometown, on January 9, 2007. He succeeded the late Republican Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, who served in the position for the preceding decade. In 1993, Halter began service in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), part of the Executive Office of the President. In his six years with President Clinton's OMB, …
- M. Jodi Rell
Mary Jodi Rell (born June 16, 1946) is a Republican politician who became the 72nd Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut on July 1, 2004. She had been the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut until Governor John G. Rowland resigned during a corruption investigation. Rell is Connecticut's second female Governor. Born Mary Carolyn Reavis in Norfolk, Virginia, Rell attended Old Dominion University, but left in 1967 to marry Lou Rell, a US Navy pilot.
- Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano, elected governor that fall, made the newspaper's mission her own. Fixing CPS, she announced, would be one of her top priorities. Children needed to be protected.
- Brian Dubie
Brian E. Dubie of Essex Junction, Chittenden County, was born in Burlington, Vermont on March 9, 1959. He is married to Penny Bolio Dubie , and they have four children. Brian was educated in Essex Junction public schools, graduating from Essex Community Educational Center in 1977. Brian is a 1982 graduate of the University of Vermont with a BS, Mechanical Engineering. While a student at UVM, Brian joined the Vermont Air National Guard.
- Mary Landrieu
Mary Loretta Landrieu (born November 23, 1955) is the Senior Democratic United States senator from the state of Louisiana, as well as the first, and as of 2007, only woman from that state to be elected to the Senate. She is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu and the sister of current Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. By national standards, Landrieu is one of the more conservative Democrats in the U.S. Senate.
- Brad Owen
Brad Owen (born May 23, 1950) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party and currently serves as the lieutenant governor of Washington state. Due to the failed election of John S. Wilder of Tennessee, Owen is now the longest current serving Lieutenant Governor. Owen was a small business owner before entering politics. In 1989, he formed a non-profit organization called Strategies for Youth to fight substance abuse among Washington's young people.
- Carol Molnau
Carol Molnau (b. September 17, 1949) is the 46th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, and also serves as head of the Minnesota Department of Transportation. She is known for her opposition to state funding of the mass transit systems of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area. Born in Carver County, Minnesota, she was elected as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1992 and served five terms.
- Diane Denish
Diane D. Denish is the Lietenant Governor of New Mexico. Denish is a founding member and former Chair of New Mexico First. She serves as Chair of New Mexico Community Foundation and Chair of the New Mexico Tech Board of Regents. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Daniels Fund, which supports education and other programs in New Mexico and the West. Diane Denish is married to Herb Denish, is the mother of three grown children and has two grandchildren.
- Mark Parkinson
Mark V. Parkinson (born June 24, 1957) is an American lawyer, businessman, and Democratic politician who is the current Lieutenant Governor of Kansas.
- Steve Windom
Steve Windom (born November 6 1949) is an American politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Alabama from 1999 to 2003.
- Jim Guy Tucker
James "Jim" Guy Tucker, Jr. (born June 12 1943) is a former governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas. Tucker resigned the governorship on July 16, 1996, after his conviction for fraud during the Whitewater scandal although the conviction was not directly related to that investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton's real estate and related business dealings.
- Amy Tuck
Amy Tuck (b. July 8, 1963) is currently the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, a Republican. She is only the second woman elected to statewide office in Mississippi and the first to be re-elected. Tuck is a native of Maben, Mississippi, received her Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and her Master's Degree in Public Policy & Administration from Mississippi State University, and her Juris Doctor degree from Mississippi College School of Law.
- Bruce Johnson
Bruce Edward Johnson (born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and Republican politician who was appointed the State of Ohio's sixty-third lieutenant governor on January 5, 2005 to complete an unexpired term. Johnson concurrently served as Director of the Ohio Department of Development. Johnson's rise in Ohio was swift. He entered politics in Columbus, becoming Greg Latshutka's chief of staff after he managed Latshutka's successful 1991 campaign for mayor of Columbus.
- Toni Jennings
Antoinette "Toni" Jennings (born May 17, 1949) was the 16th lieutenant governor of Florida. She was nominated to the office by Governor Jeb Bush in February 2003 to replace Frank Brogan, who resigned to become president of Florida Atlantic University. She was sworn in on March 2 2003, becoming the first woman to hold the office. She declined to run for governor in 2006 even though she was reputed to be Bush's preferred choice as his successor.
- Steve Pence
Stephen B. Pence (born in Louisville, Kentucky on December 22, 1953) is Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He took office with fellow Republican Ernie Fletcher in December 2003. Pence received BS (1976) and MBA (1978) degrees from Eastern Kentucky University, and a law degree from the University of Kentucky in 1981. After law school, Pence worked as an assistant attorney general of Kentucky from 1981-1982.
- Patty Judge
Patty Jean Judge is the current Lieutenant Governor and former Secretary of Agriculture in the U.S State of Iowa. She was elected to the office in 2006, after unsuccessfully seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election. Before serving as Agriculture Secretary, she was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1992, and re-elected in 1996.
- John Wilson
John Wilson was Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada in 1816.
- Ron Ramsey
Ronald Lynn "Ron" Ramsey (born November 20, 1955) is the current Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate; by virtue of his speakership, he also the Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee. A Republican from Blountville in East Tennessee, Ramsey succeeded long-term Democratic Lieutenant Governor John S. Wilder, who had held the office of Tennessee Lieutenant Governor since 1971.
- Jim Holt
Jim L. Holt (born January 17, 1965) is a conservative Republican politician from Springdale, the fourth largest city in Arkansas, located in Washington and Benton counties in the GOP stronghold in the northwestern portion of the state. He was born in Camden in Ouachita County in heavily Democratic south Arkansas. He attended the University of Maryland in College Park but dropped out to return to Arkansas to care for his ailing grandmother.
- Johnny Isakson
John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson (born December 28 1944), is an American politician, who has been the Republican junior United States Senator from Georgia since 2005. Previously, he represented in the House from 1999 to 2005.