List of lieutenant governors of California
List of lieutenant governors

List of lieutenant governors of California

Section Title: List of lieutenant governors
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No.	Lieutenant Governor	Term in office	Party	Election	Governor

1	-	John McDougal	December 20, 1849 – January 9, 1851	Democratic	1849	Peter Hardeman Burnett

2	-	David C. Broderick (acting)	January 9, 1851 – January 8, 1852	Democratic	John McDougal

3	Samuel Purdy	January 8, 1852 – January 9, 1856	Democratic	1851	John Bigler

1853

4	Robert M. Anderson	January 9, 1856 – January 8, 1858	American	1855	J. Neely Johnson

5	-	Joseph Walkup	January 8, 1858 – January 9, 1860	Democratic	1857	John B. Weller

6	-	John G. Downey	January 9, 1860 – January 20, 1860	Democratic	1859	Milton Latham

7	Isaac N. Quinn (acting)	January 20, 1860 – January 7, 1861	Democratic	John G. Downey

8	-	Pablo de la Guerra (acting)	January 7, 1861 – January 10, 1862	Democratic

9	John F. Chellis	January 10, 1862 – December 10, 1863	Republican	1861	Leland Stanford

10	Tim N. Machin	December 10, 1863 – December 5, 1867	Republican	1863	Frederick Low

11	-	William Holden	December 5, 1867 – December 8, 1871	Democratic	1867	Henry Huntly Haight

12	-	Romualdo Pacheco	December 8, 1871 – February 27, 1875	Republican	1871	Newton Booth

13	-	William Irwin (acting)	February 27, 1875 – December 9, 1875	Democratic	Romualdo Pacheco

14	-	James A. Johnson	December 9, 1875 – January 8, 1880	Democratic	1875	William Irwin

15	John Mansfield	January 8, 1880 – January 10, 1883	Republican	1879	George Clement Perkins

16	John Daggett	January 10, 1883 – January 8, 1887	Democratic	1882	George Stoneman

17	-	Robert Waterman	January 8, 1887 – September 13, 1887	Republican	1886	Washington Bartlett

18	StephenMWhite.JPG	Stephen M. White (acting)	September 13, 1887 – January 8, 1891	Democratic	Robert Waterman

19	-	John B. Reddick	January 8, 1891 – January 11, 1895	Republican	1890	Henry Markham

20	-	Spencer G. Millard	January 11, 1895 – October 25, 1895	Republican	1894	James Budd

21	-	William T. Jeter	October 25, 1895 – January 3, 1899	Democratic

22	-	Jacob H. Neff	January 3, 1899 – January 6, 1903	Republican	1898	Henry Gage

23	-	Alden Anderson	January 6, 1903 – January 8, 1907	Republican	1902	George Pardee

24	-	Warren R. Porter	January 8, 1907 – January 3, 1911	Republican	1906	James Gillett

25	-	Albert Joseph Wallace	January 3, 1911 – January 5, 1915	Republican	1910	Hiram Johnson

26	-	John Morton Eshleman	January 5, 1915 – February 28, 1916	Progressive	1914

—	Vacant	February 28, 1916 — July 22, 1916	—

27	-	William Stephens	July 22, 1916 – March 15, 1917	Republican

—	Vacant	March 15, 1917 — January 6, 1919	—	William Stephens

28	-	C. C. Young	January 7, 1919 – January 4, 1927	Republican	1918

1922	Friend Richardson

29	-	Buron Fitts	January 4, 1927 – November 30, 1928	Republican	1926	C. C. Young

—	Vacant	November 30, 1928 — December 4, 1928	—

30	Herschel L. Carnahan	December 4, 1928 – January 6, 1931	Republican

31	-	Frank Merriam	January 5, 1931 – June 2, 1934	Republican	1930	James Rolph

—	Vacant	June 2, 1934 — January 7, 1935	—	Frank Merriam

32	George J. Hatfield	January 8, 1935 – January 2, 1939	Republican	1934

33	-	Ellis E. Patterson	January 2, 1939 – January 4, 1943	Democratic	1938	Culbert Olson

34	Frederick F. Houser	January 4, 1943 – January 6, 1947	Republican	1942	Earl Warren

35	-	Goodwin Knight	January 6, 1947 – October 5, 1953	Republican	1946

1950

36	Harold J. Powers	October 5, 1953 – January 5, 1959	Republican	Goodwin Knight

1954

37	-	Glenn M. Anderson	January 5, 1959 – January 2, 1967	Democratic	1958	Pat Brown

1962

38	-	Robert Finch	January 2, 1967 – January 8, 1969	Republican	1966	Ronald Reagan

39	-	Edwin Reinecke	January 8, 1969 – October 2, 1974	Republican

1970

40	John L. Harmer	October 2, 1974 – January 6, 1975	Republican

41	-	Mervyn M. Dymally	January 6, 1975 – January 8, 1979	Democratic	1974	Jerry Brown

42	Mike Curb Congregation and Davy Jones on Pop 1972 (cropped).JPG	Mike Curb	January 8, 1979 – January 3, 1983	Republican	1978

43	Leo T. McCarthy	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995	Democratic	1982	George Deukmejian

1986

1990	Pete Wilson

44	-	Gray Davis	January 3, 1995 – January 4, 1999	Democratic	1994

45	-	Cruz Bustamante	January 4, 1999 – January 7, 2007	Democratic	1998	Gray Davis (recalled November 17, 2003)

2002

Arnold Schwarzenegger

46	-	John Garamendi	January 7, 2007 – November 3, 2009	Democratic	2006

47	-	Mona Pasquil (acting)	November 3, 2009 – April 27, 2010	Democratic

48	-	Abel Maldonado	April 27, 2010 – January 10, 2011	Republican

2010	Jerry Brown

49	-	Gavin Newsom	January 10, 2011 – January 7, 2019	Democratic

2014

50	-	Eleni Kounalakis	January 7, 2019 – present	Democratic	2018	Gavin Newsom

Sentence(s)

Goodwin Knight was elected as the 35th Lieutenant Governor of California to serve under Governor Earl Warren in 1946, then reelected in 1950.

final_sentence: Goodwin Knight was elected as the 35th Lieutenant Governor of California to serve under Governor Earl Warren in 1946, then reelected in 1950.