Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania

The **Lieutenant Governor** is a constitutional officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The lieutenant governor is elected for a four-year term in the same year as the governor. Each party picks a candidate for lieutenant governor independently of the gubernatorial primary. The winners of the party primaries are then teamed together as a single ticket for the fall general election.

The lieutenant governor is in charge of the Senate and is first in the line of succession to the governor; in the event the governor dies, resigns, or otherwise leaves office, the lieutenant governor becomes governor.

## List

- Parties

|#|Name|Term|Governor(s) served under|Party||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|John Latta|1875–1879||John F. Hartranft|Democrat|
|2|Charles Warren Stone|1879–1883|Henry M. Hoyt|Republican||
|3|Chauncey Forward Black|1883–1887|Robert E. Pattison|Democratic||
|4|William T. Davies|1887–1891|James A. Beaver|Republican||
|5|Louis Arthur Watres|1891–1895||Robert E. Pattison|Republican|
|6|Walter Lyon|1895–1899|Daniel H. Hastings|Republican||
|7|John P. S. Gobin|1899–1903|William A. Stone|Republican||
|8|William M. Brown|1903–1907|Samuel W. Pennypacker|Republican||
|9|Robert S. Murphy|1907–1911|Edwin Sydney Stuart|Republican||
|10|John M. Reynolds|1911–1915|John K. Tener|Republican||
|11|Frank B. McClain|1915–1919|Martin Grove Brumbaugh|Republican||
|12|Edward E. Beidleman|1919–1923|William Cameron Sproul|Republican||
|13|David J. Davis|1923–1927|Gifford Pinchot|Republican||
|14|Arthur H. James|1927–1931|John Stuchell Fisher|Republican||
|15|Edward C. Shannon|1931–1935|Gifford Pinchot|Republican||
|16|Thomas Kennedy|1935–1939|George Howard Earle III|Democratic||
|17|Samuel S. Lewis|1939–1943|Arthur James|Republican||
|18|John Cromwell Bell Jr.|1943–1947|Edward Martin|Republican||
|19|Daniel B. Strickler|1947–1951|James H. Duff|Republican||
|20|Lloyd H. Wood|1951–1955|John S. Fine|Republican||
|21|Roy E. Furman|1955–1959|George M. Leader|Democratic||
|22|John Morgan Davis|1959–1963|David L. Lawrence|Democratic||
|23|Raymond P. Shafer|1963–1967|William Scranton|Republican||
|24|Raymond J. Broderick|1967–1971|Raymond P. Shafer|Republican||
|25|Ernest P. Kline|1971–1979|Milton Shapp|Democratic||
|26|William Scranton III|1979–1987|Dick Thornburgh|Republican||
|27|Mark Singel|1987–1995|Robert P. Casey|Democratic||
|28|Mark S. Schweiker|1995–2001|Tom Ridge|Republican||
|29|Robert C. Jubelirer|2001–2003|Mark S. Schweiker|Republican||
|30|Catherine Baker Knoll|2003–2008|Ed Rendell|Democratic||
|31|Joseph B. Scarnati III|2008–2011||Ed Rendell|Republican|
|32|Jim Cawley|2011–2015|Tom Corbett|Republican||
|33|Mike Stack|2015–2019|Tom Wolf|Democratic||
|34|John Fetterman|2019–2023|Tom Wolf|Democratic||
|35|Austin Davis|since 2023||Josh Shapiro|Democratic|

## Infobox (political post)

- **post**: Lieutenant Governor
- **body**: the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- **insignia**: Flag of Pennsylvania.svg
- **insigniacaption**: Flag of Pennsylvania
- **image**: AustinDavis.jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **incumbent**: Austin Davis (politician), Austin Davis
- **incumbentsince**: January 17, 2023
- **termlength**: Four years
<small>renewable once</small>
- **formation**: 1873
- **inaugural**: John Latta (Lieutenant Governor), John Latta
- **salary**: $157,765 (2014)
- **website**: [https://www.governor.pa.gov/lieutenant-governor/ ltgovernor.state.pa.us]