Lieutenant Governor of Ohio

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The position of lieutenant governor of Ohio was established in 1852. The lieutenant governor is elevated to the position of governor if the governor resigns, dies in office or is removed by impeachment. Before 1852, the president of the Ohio State Senate would serve as acting governor if a vacancy in the governorship occurred. Until relatively recently, lieutenant governors were elected separately but concurrently with the governor (not on a "ticket"). Thus, there were several occasions when the lieutenant governor was from a different party than the governor. This was changed by constitutional amendment. In 1974, Richard F. Celeste was the last lieutenant governor to be elected separately. In 1978, George Voinovich became the first lieutenant governor to be elected on the same ticket with the governor.

From 1851 to 1979, the lieutenant governor also served as the president of the Ohio State Senate, the nominal presiding officer of that legislative house. More recently, Ohio governors have tended to name the lieutenant governor to head an agency of state government. An example of this is Bruce Edward Johnson who served as Director of the Ohio Department of Development, as does the current lieutenant governor, Lee Fisher.

Election Results, Ohio Lieutenant Governor

List of Lieutenant Governors of Ohio:

No.	Name	Term	Party	Notes
1.	William Medill	1852-1853	Democratic	(Elevated to Governor)
2.	James Myers	1854-1856	Democratic
3.	Thomas H. Ford	1856-1858
4.	Martin Welker	1858-1860	Republican
5.	Robert C. Kirk	1860-1862
6.	Benjamin Stanton	1862-1864	Republican
7.	Charles Anderson	1864-1865	Republican	(Elevated to Governor)
8.	Andrew McBurney	1866-1868
9.	John C. Lee	1868-1872	Republican
10.	Jacob Mueller	1872-1874
11.	Alphonso Hart	1874-1876	Republican
12.	Thomas Lowry Young	1876-1877	Republican	(Elevated to Governor)
13.	H. W. Curtiss	1877-1878
14.	Jabez W. Fitch	1878-1880	Democratic
15.	Andrew Hickenlooper	1880-1882
16.	Reese G. Richards	1882-1884
17.	John George Warwick	1884-1886	Democratic
18.	Robert P. Kennedy	1886-1887	Republican
19.	Silas A. Conrad	1887-1888
20.	William C. Lyon	1888-1890
21.	Elbert L. Lampson	1890
22.	William V. Marquis	1890-1892	Democratic
23.	Andrew L. Harris	1892-1896	Republican
24.	Asa W. Jones	1896-1900
25.	John A. Caldwell	1900-1902	Republican
26.	Carl L. Nippert	1902
27.	Harry L. Gordon	1902-1904
28.	Warren G. Harding	1904-1906	Republican
29.	Andrew L. Harris	1906-1906	Republican	(Elevated to Governor)
30.	Francis W. Treadway	1909-1911	Republican
31.	Atlee Pomerene	1911	Democratic	(Elected to U.S. Senate)
32.	Hugh L. Nichols	1911-1913	Democratic
33.	W. A. Greenlund	1913-1915
34.	John H. Arnold	1915-1917
35.	Earl D. Bloom	1917-1919	Democratic
36.	Clarence J. Brown Sr.	1919-1923	Republican
37.	Earl D. Bloom (2nd)	1923-1925	Democratic
38.	Charles H. Lewis	1925-1927
39.	Earl D. Bloom (3rd)	1927-1928	Democratic
40.	William G. Pickrel	1928	Democratic
41.	George C. Braden	1928-1929
42.	John T. Brown	1929-1931	Republican
43.	William G. Pickrel (2nd)	1931-1933	Democratic
44.	Charles Sawyer	1933-1935	Democratic
45.	Harold Gerard Mosier	1935-1937	Democratic
46.	Paul P. Yoder	1937-1939
47.	Paul M. Herbert	1939-1945	Republican
48.	George D. Nye	1945-1947	Democratic
49.	Paul M. Herbert (2nd)	1947-1949	Republican
50.	George D. Nye (2nd)	1949-1953	Democratic
51.	John W. Brown	1953-1957	Republican	(Elevated to Governor)
52.	Paul M. Herbert (3rd)	1957-1959	Republican
53.	John W. Donahey	1959-1963	Democratic
54.	John W. Brown	1963-1975	Republican
55.	Richard F. Celeste	1975-1979	Democratic
56.	George V. Voinovich	1979	Republican	resigned to become mayor of Cleveland
	vacancy	1979-1983
57.	Myrl H. Shoemaker	1983-1985	Democratic	(died in office)
	vacancy	1985-1987
58.	Paul R. Leonard	1987-1991	Democratic
59.	R. Michael DeWine	1991-1994	Republican	(elected to U.S. Senate)
	vacancy	1994-1995
60.	Nancy P. Hollister	1995-1998	Republican	(Elevated to Governor)
	vacancy	1998-1999
61.	Maureen O'Connor	1999-2003	Republican	(Elected to the Ohio Supreme Court)
62.	Jennette B. Bradley	2003-2005	Republican	(Appointed State Treasurer)
63.	Bruce Edward Johnson	2005-2006	Republican	(resigned December 8, 2006)
	vacancy	2006-2007
64.	Lee Fisher	2007-	Democratic

See also:

• Election Results, Ohio Lieutenant Governor
• List of All Governors of Ohio
  • List of All Current Governors of United States
• List of United States Senators from Ohio
  • List of All Current United States Senators
• List of United States Representatives from Ohio
  • List of All Current United States Representatives
• List of Ohio politicians

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