Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina

The **Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina** is the second highest elected official in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is the only elected official to have powers in both the legislative and executive branches of state government.

## List

- Parties

|#|Image|Lieutenant governor|Term of office|Political party|Governor(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||Tod R. Caldwell|1868–1870|Republican|William W. Holden (R)|
|colspan=5 align=center|Office vacant 1870–1873|||||
|2||Curtis H. Brogden|1873–1874|Republican|Tod R. Caldwell (R)|
|colspan=5 align=center|Office vacant 1874–1877|||||
|3||Thomas J. Jarvis|1877–1879|Democratic|Zebulon B. Vance (D)|
|colspan=5 align=center|Office vacant 1879–1881|||||
|4||James L. Robinson|1881–1885|Democratic|Thomas J. Jarvis (D)|
|5||Charles M. Stedman|1885–1889|Democratic|Alfred Moore Scales (D)|
|6||Thomas M. Holt|1889–1891|Democratic|Daniel Gould Fowle (D)|
|colspan=5 align=center|Office vacant 1891–1893|||||
|7||Rufus A. Doughton|1893–1897|Democratic|Elias Carr (D)|
|8||Charles A. Reynolds|1897–1901|Republican|Daniel Lindsay Russell (R)|
|9||Wilfred D. Turner|1901–1905|Democratic|Charles Brantley Aycock (D)|
|10||Francis D. Winston|1905–1909|Democratic|Robert Broadnax Glenn (D)|
|11||William C. Newland|1909–1913|Democratic|William Walton Kitchin (D)|
|12||Elijah L. Daughtridge|1913–1917|Democratic|Locke Craig (D)|
|13||Oliver Max Gardner|1917–1921|Democratic|Thomas Walter Bickett (D)|
|14||William B. Cooper|1921–1925|Democratic|Cameron A. Morrison (D)|
|15||J. Elmer Long|1925–1929|Democratic|Angus Wilton McLean (D)|
|16||Richard T. Fountain|1929–1933|Democratic|Oliver Max Gardner (D)|
|17||Alexander H. Graham|1933–1937|Democratic|John C. B. Ehringhaus (D)|
|18||Wilkins P. Horton|1937–1941|Democratic|Clyde R. Hoey (D)|
|19||Reginald L. Harris|1941–1945|Democratic|J. Melville Broughton (D)|
|20||Lynton Y. Ballentine|1945–1949|Democratic|R. Gregg Cherry (D)|
|21||Hoyt Patrick Taylor|1949–1953|Democratic|W. Kerr Scott (D)|
|22||Luther H. Hodges|1953–1954|Democratic|William B. Umstead (D)|
|colspan=5 align=center|Office vacant 1954–1957|||||
|23||Luther E. Barnhardt|1957–1961|Democratic|Luther H. Hodges (D)|
|24||Harvey Cloyd Philpott|1961|Democratic|Terry Sanford (D)|
|colspan=5 align=center|Office vacant 1961–1965|||||
|25||Robert W. Scott|1965–1969|Democratic|Dan K. Moore (D)|
|26||Hoyt Patrick Taylor Jr.|1969–1973|Democratic|Robert W. Scott (D)|
|27||Jim Hunt|1973–1977|Democratic|James Holshouser (R)|
|28||James C. Green|1977–1985|Democratic|Jim Hunt (D)|
|29||Robert B. Jordan|1985–1989|Democratic|James G. Martin (R)|
|30||Jim Gardner|1989–1993|Republican||
|31||Dennis Wicker|1993–2001|Democratic|Jim Hunt (D)|
|32||Bev Perdue|2001–2009|Democratic|Mike Easley (D)|
|33||Walter Dalton|2009–2013|Democratic|Bev Perdue (D)|
|34|rowspan=2|rowspan=2| Dan Forest|2013–2021|Republican|Pat McCrory (R) (2013–2017)|
|Roy Cooper (D) (2017–2021)||||||
|35||Mark Robinson|2021–2025|Republican|Roy Cooper (D)|
|36||Rachel Hunt|2025–present|Democratic|Josh Stein (D)|

## Other websites

- Office of the Lieutenant Governor
- NC History Project

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Lieutenant Governor
- **body**:
North Carolina
- **insignia**: Seal of North Carolina.svg
- **insigniasize**: 150px
- **insigniacaption**: Seal of North Carolina, State seal
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **image**: Senator Rachel Hunt 2023-25 Legislative Portrait (cropped).jpg
- **incumbent**: Rachel Hunt
- **seat**: Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina
- **termlength**: Four years, renewable once consecutively
- **constituting instrument**: Constitution of North Carolina, North Carolina Constitution of 1868
- **inaugural**: Tod Robinson Caldwell, Tod R. Caldwell
- **formation**: 1868
- **salary**: per year
(2023)