Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas

The **Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas** presides over the Arkansas Senate with a tie-breaking vote, serves as Governor of Arkansas when the governor resigns, is impeached or dies in office.

## List

|scope="col" data-sort-type="number"||scope="col" colspan="3"|Lieutenant Governor|scope="col"|Term in office|scope="col"|Party|scope="col"|Election|scope="col" colspan="2"|Governor|
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|1|data-sort-value="Bliss, Calvin"||rowspan="2" style="background:;"|||||||||
|– July 2, 1868|Republican|1864|rowspan="5" style="background:;"||data-sort-value="Murphy, Isaac"|Isaac Murphy||||||
|2|data-sort-value="Johnson, James"|||||||||||
|– March 14, 1871|Republican|rowspan="3"|1868|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Clayton, Powell"|Powell Clayton <small>(resigned March 17, 1871)</small>|||||||
|rowspan="2"|—|||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|_ – January 6, 1873_|rowspan="2"|—|||||||||
|data-sort-value="Hadley, Ozra"|Ozra Amander Hadley|||||||||||
|3|data-sort-value="Smith, Volney"||style="background:;"|||||||||
|– November 12, 1874|Republican|1872|data-sort-value="Baxter, Elisha"|Elisha Baxter||||||||
|4|data-sort-value="Parnell, Harvey"||style="background:;"|||||||||
|– March 4, 1928|Democratic|rowspan="2"|1926|rowspan="21" style="background:;"||data-sort-value="Martineau, John"|John Ellis Martineau|||||
|—||||||||||||
|_ – January 14, 1929_|—|rowspan="3" data-sort-value="Parnell, Harvey"|Harvey Parnell|||||||||
|5|data-sort-value="Cazort, Lee"||rowspan="19" style="background:;"|||||||||
|– January 12, 1931|Democratic|1928||||||||||
|6|data-sort-value="Wilson, Lawrence"|||||||||||
|– January 10, 1933|Democratic|1930||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|7|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Cazort, Lee"||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|– January 12, 1937|rowspan="2"|Democratic|1932|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Futrell, Junius"|Junius Marion Futrell||||||
|1934||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|8|rowspan="3" data-sort-value="Bailey, Robert"||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|– January 12, 1943|rowspan="3"|Democratic|1936|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Bailey, Carl"|Carl Edward Bailey||||||
|1938||||||||||||
|1940|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Adkins, Homer"|Homer Martin Adkins||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|9|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Shaver, James"||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|– January 14, 1947|rowspan="2"|Democratic|1942||||||||
|1944|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Laney, Benjamin"|Benjamin Travis Laney||||||||||
|rowspan="10"|10|rowspan="10" data-sort-value="Gordon, Nathan"||||||||||
|rowspan="10"|– January 10, 1967|rowspan="10"|Democratic|1946||||||||
|1948|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="McMath, Sid"|Sid McMath||||||||||
|1950||||||||||||
|1952|data-sort-value="Cherry, Francis"|Francis Cherry||||||||||
|1954|rowspan="6" data-sort-value="Faubus, Orval"|Orval Faubus||||||||||
|1956||||||||||||
|1958||||||||||||
|1960||||||||||||
|1962||||||||||||
|1964||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|11|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Britt, Maurice"||rowspan="2" style="background:;"||||||||
|rowspan="2"|– January 12, 1971|rowspan="2"|Republican|1966|rowspan="2" style="background:;"||rowspan="2"|Winthrop Rockefeller||||
|1968||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|12|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Riley, Bob"||rowspan="2" style="background:;"||||||||
|rowspan="2"|– January 3, 1975|rowspan="2"|Democratic|1970|rowspan="7" style="background:;"||rowspan="2"|Dale Bumpers||||
|rowspan="2"|1972|||||||||||
|—||||||||||||
|_ – January 14, 1975_|—|data-sort-value="Riley, Bob"|Bob C. Riley|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|13|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Purcell, Joe"||rowspan="2" style="background:;"||||||||
|rowspan="2"|– January 3, 1979|rowspan="2"|Democratic|1974|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Pryor, David"|David Pryor||||||
|rowspan="2"|1976|||||||||||
|—||||||||||||
|_ – January 9, 1979_|—|data-sort-value="Purcell, Joe"|Joe Purcell|||||||||
|13|data-sort-value="Purcell, Joe"||rowspan="6" style="background:;"|||||||||
|– January 19, 1981|Democratic|1978|data-sort-value="Clinton, Bill"|Bill Clinton||||||||
|rowspan="4"|14|rowspan="4" data-sort-value="Bryant, Winston"||||||||||
|rowspan="4"|– January 15, 1991|rowspan="4"|Democratic|1980|style="background:;"||data-sort-value="White, Frank"|Frank D. White||||
|1982|rowspan="7" style="background:;"||rowspan="4" data-sort-value="Clinton, Bill"|Bill Clinton||||||||
|1984||||||||||||
|1986||||||||||||
|15|data-sort-value="Tucker, Jim"|||||||||||
|– December 12, 1992|Democratic|rowspan="2"|1990|||||||||
|—||||||||||||
|_ – November 20, 1993_|—|rowspan="3" data-sort-value="Tucker, Jim"|Jim Guy Tucker|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|16|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Huckabee, Mike"||rowspan="2" style="background:;"||||||||
|rowspan="2"|– July 15, 1996|rowspan="2"|Republican|1993 <small>(special)</small>||||||||
|rowspan="2"|1994|||||||||||
|—||||||||||||
|_ – November 19, 1996_|—|rowspan="5" style="background:;"||rowspan="5" data-sort-value="Huckabee, Mike"|Mike Huckabee|||||||
|rowspan="3"|17|rowspan="3" data-sort-value="Rockefeller, Winthrop"||rowspan="3"||||||||
|rowspan="3"|– July 16, 2006|rowspan="3"|Republican|1996 <small>(special)</small>||||||||
|1998||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|2002|||||||||||
|—||||||||||||
|_ – January 9, 2007_|—|||||||||||
|18|data-sort-value="Halter, Bill"||style="background:;"|||||||||
|– January 11, 2011|Democratic|2006|rowspan="3" style="background:;"||rowspan="3" data-sort-value="Beebe, Mike"|Mike Beebe||||||
|19|data-sort-value="Darr, Mark"||style="background:;"|||||||||
|– February 1, 2014|Republican|rowspan="2"|2010|||||||||
|—||||||||||||
|_ – January 13, 2015_|—|||||||||||
|20|data-sort-value="Griffin, Tim"||style="background:;"|||||||||
|–|Republican|2014 2018|style="background:;"||data-sort-value="Hutchinson, Asa"|Asa Hutchinson||||||
|21|data-sort-value="Rutledge, Leslie"||style="background:;"|||||||||
|– present|Republican|2022|style="background:;"||data-sort-value="Huckabee Sanders, Sarah"|Sarah Huckabee Sanders||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Lieutenant Governor
- **body**: Arkansas
- **insignia**: Seal of Arkansas.svg
- **insigniasize**: 110px
- **insigniacaption**: Great Seal of Arkansas, State seal
- **image**: Leslie Rutledge (25475720912) (1).jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **incumbent**: Leslie Rutledge
- **seat**: Arkansas State Capitol, State Capitol, Little Rock, Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas
- **termlength**: Four years, renewable once (Seventy-third Amendment to the Constitution of Arkansas, Arkansas Constitution of 1874)
- **constituting instrument**: Constitution of Arkansas#1836 Constitution, Arkansas Constitution of 1864
- **inaugural**: Calvin C. Bliss