List of Lieutenant Governors of Colorado
Lieutenant Governors

List of Lieutenant Governors of Colorado

Section Title: Lieutenant Governors
Table Section Text: None

No.	Lieutenant Governor	Term in office	Party	Election	Governor

1	Lafayette Head	August 1, 1876 – January 14, 1879	Republican	1876	John Long Routt

2	Horace Tabor	January 14, 1879 – January 9, 1883	Republican	1878	Frederick Walker Pitkin

1880

3	William H. Meyer	January 9, 1883 – January 13, 1885	Republican	1882	James Benton Grant

4	Peter W. Breene	January 13, 1885 – January 11, 1887	Republican	1884	Benjamin Harrison Eaton

5	Norman H. Meldrum	January 11, 1887 – January 8, 1889	Democratic	1886	Alva Adams

6	William Grover Smith	January 8, 1889 – January 13, 1891	Republican	1888	Job Adams Cooper

7	William Story	January 13, 1891 – January 10, 1893	Republican	1890	John Long Routt

8	David H. Nichols	January 10, 1893 – January 8, 1895	Populist	1892	Davis Hanson Waite

9	Jared L. Brush	January 8, 1895 – January 10, 1899	Republican	1894	Albert McIntire

1896	Alva Adams

10	Francis Patrick Carney	January 10, 1899 – January 8, 1901	Populist	1898	Charles Spalding Thomas

11	David C. Coates	January 8, 1901 – January 13, 1903	Democratic	1900	James Bradley Orman

12	Warren A. Haggott	January 13, 1903 – January 10, 1905	Republican	1902	James Hamilton Peabody

13	Arthur Cornforth	January 10, 1905 – March 17, 1905	Democratic	1904	Alva Adams

14	Jesse Fuller McDonald	March 17, 1905 – March 17, 1905	Republican	James Hamilton Peabody

(13)	Arthur Cornforth	March 17, 1905 – July 5, 1905	Democratic	Jesse Fuller McDonald

15	Fred W. Parks	July 5, 1905 – January 8, 1907	Republican

16	Erastus Harper	January 8, 1907 – January 12, 1909	Republican	1906	Henry Augustus Buchtel

17	Stephen R. Fitzgarrald	January 12, 1909 – January 12, 1915	Democratic	1908	John F. Shafroth

1910

1912	Elias M. Ammons

18	Moses E. Lewis	January 12, 1915 – January 9, 1917	Republican	1914	George Alfred Carlson

19	James Pulliam	January 9, 1917 – January 14, 1919	Democratic	1916	Julius Caldeen Gunter

20	George Stephan	January 14, 1919 – January 11, 1921	Republican	1918	Oliver Henry Shoup

21	Earl Cooley	January 11, 1921 – January 9, 1923	Republican	1920

22	Robert F. Rockwell	January 9, 1923 – January 13, 1925	Republican	1922	William Ellery Sweet

23	Sterling Byrd Lacy	January 13, 1925 – January 11, 1927	Democratic	1924	Clarence Morley

24	George Milton Corlett	January 11, 1927 – January 13, 1931	Republican	1926	Billy Adams

1928

25	Edwin C. Johnson	January 13, 1931 – January 10, 1933	Democratic	1930

26	Ray Herbert Talbot	January 10, 1933 – January 1, 1937	Democratic	1932	Edwin C. Johnson

1934

—	Vacant	January 1, 1937 – January 12, 1937	—	Ray Herbert Talbot

27	Frank Hayes	January 12, 1937 – January 10, 1939	Democratic	1936	Teller Ammons

28	John Charles Vivian	January 10, 1939 – January 12, 1943	Republican	1938	Ralph Lawrence Carr

1940

29	William Eugene Higby	January 12, 1943 – January 14, 1947	Republican	1942	John Charles Vivian

1944

30	Homer L. Pearson	January 14, 1947 – January 11, 1949	Democratic	1946	William Lee Knous

31	Walter Walford Johnson	January 11, 1949 – April 15, 1950	Democratic	1948

32	Charles P. Murphy	April 15, 1950 – January 9, 1951	Republican	Walter Walford Johnson

33	Gordon Allott	January 9, 1951 – January 11, 1955	Republican	1950	Daniel I. J. Thornton

1952

34	Stephen McNichols	January 11, 1955 – January 8, 1957	Democratic	1954	Edwin C. Johnson

35	Frank L. Hays	January 8, 1957 – January 13, 1959	Republican	1956	Stephen McNichols

36	Robert Lee Knous	January 13, 1959 – January 10, 1967	Democratic	1958

1962	John Arthur Love

37	Mark Anthony Hogan	January 10, 1967 – January 12, 1971	Democratic	1966

38	John D. Vanderhoof	January 12, 1971 – July 16, 1973	Republican	1970

39	Ted L. Strickland	July 16, 1973 – January 14, 1975	Republican	John D. Vanderhoof

40	George L. Brown	January 14, 1975 – January 10, 1979	Democratic	1974	Richard Lamm

41	Nancy E. Dick	January 10, 1979 – January 13, 1987	Democratic	1978

1982

42	Mike Callihan	January 13, 1987 – May 10, 1994	Democratic	1986	Roy Romer

1990

—	Vacant	May 10, 1994 – May 11, 1994	—

43	Samuel H. Cassidy	May 11, 1994 – January 3, 1995	Democratic

44	Gail Schoettler	January 3, 1995 – January 12, 1999	Democratic	1994

45	Joe Rogers	January 12, 1999 – January 14, 2003	Republican	1998	Bill Owens

46	Jane E. Norton	January 14, 2003 – January 9, 2007	Republican	2002

47	Barbara O'Brien	January 9, 2007 – January 11, 2011	Democratic	2006	Bill Ritter

48	Joseph García	January 11, 2011 – May 12, 2016	Democratic	2010	John Hickenlooper

2014

49	Donna Lynne	May 12, 2016 – January 8, 2019	Democratic

50	Dianne Primavera	January 8, 2019 – present	Democratic	2018	Jared Polis

Sentence(s)

Norman H. Meldrum was the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, serving from 1887 to 1889 under Alva Adams.

final_sentence: Norman H. Meldrum was the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, serving from 1887 to 1889 under Alva Adams.