Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

The Office of Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana () is the second highest state office in Louisiana.  The current lieutenant governor is Billy Nungesser, a Republican. The Lieutenant Governor is the commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism. They are elected separately than from the governor.Louisiana. Report of the Secretary of State to His Excellency W.W. Heard, Governor of the State of Louisiana. May 12th, 1902. [Baton Rouge]: Baton Rouge news Pub. Co., State printers, 1902. p 325

List of lieutenant governors

Parties

1846–1860
 No. Lt. governor  Took office  Left office  Party Notes  Governor 1  Trasimond Landry      1846  1850  Democratic Calhoun, Milburn, and Bernie McGovern. Louisiana Almanac, 2002-2003 Edition. Gretna, LA: Pelican Pub. Co, 2001. PP 462-63  Isaac Johnson 2  Jean Baptiste Plauche 100px  1850   1853  Democratic  s:Louisiana State Constitution of 1852 The Constitution of 1852 shortened  this term.Hyde, Samuel C. Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1899. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. p.71 Joseph Marshall Walker 3  William Wood Farmer   1853  1854  Democratic Died in office Paul Octave Hébert 4  Robert C. Wickliffe  100px  1854  1856  DemocraticWhen William Wood Farmer died in office in 1854, Robert C. Wickliffe, as president pro temp, became lieutenant governor.s:Louisiana State Constitution of 1852 The Constitution of 1852 Set this to in end in 1856  Paul Octave Hébert 5  Charles Homer Mouton   1856  1856  Democratic Resigned Robert C. Wickliffe 6  William F. Griffin   1856  1860  DemocraticWhen Charles Homer Mouton resigned from office, William F. Griffin, as president pro temp, became lieutenant governor.  Robert C. Wickliffe

Civil War era

Lieutenant governors of Confederate Louisiana
 No. Lt. governor  Took office  Left office  Party Notes Governor 7  Henry M. Hyams   1860  1864  Democratic Thomas Overton Moore 8  Benjamin W. Pearce   1864  1865  Democratic Henry Watkins Allen

Lieutenant governors of Union-held territory in Louisiana
 No. Lt. governor  Took office  Left office  Party Notes  Governor 9  James M. Wells  100px  1864  1865  Republican Michael Hahn (Republican) 10  Albert Voorhies   1865  1866  Republican James Madison Wells (Republican)

Resumption of U.S. statehood
 No. Lt. governor  Took office  Left office  Party Notes  Governor 11  Oscar J. Dunn  100px  1868  1871  Republican Henry C. Warmoth (Republican) 12  P. B. S. Pinchback  100px  1871  1872  Republican Henry C. Warmoth (Republican) 13  Davidson B. Penn   1873  1873  Democratic; Liberal Republican  John McEnery (Democratic; Liberal Republican)  14  C.C. Antoine  100px 1873  1877  Republican   William P. Kellogg (Republican) 1873-1877Stephen B. Packard (Republican) 1877 15  Louis A. Wiltz  100px  1877  1880  Democratic Francis T. Nicholls (Democratic) 16  Samuel D. McEnery  100px  1880  1881  Democratic Louis A. Wiltz (Democratic) 17  W.A. Robertson   1881  1881  Democratic  Samuel D. McEnery (Democratic) 18  George L. Walton   1881  1882   Democratic  Samuel D. McEnery (Democratic) 19  Clay Knobloch   1884  1888  Democratic  Samuel D. McEnery (Democratic) 20  James Jeffries   1888  1892  Democratic Francis T. Nicholls (Democratic) 21  Charles Parlange 100px  1892  1893  Democratic Murphy J. Foster (Democratic) 22  Hiram R. Lott   1893  1896  Democratic Murphy J. Foster (Democratic) 23  Robert H. Snyder   1896  1900  Democratic Murphy J. Foster (Democratic) 24  Albert Estopinal 100px  1900  1904  Democratic W. W. Heard (Democratic) 25  Jared Y. Sanders, Sr.  100px  1904  1908  Democratic Newton C. Blanchard (Democratic) 26  Paul M. Lambremont   1908  1911  Democratic  Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (Democratic) 27  Thomas C. Barret   1912  1916  Democratic  Luther E. Hall (Democratic) 28  Fernand Mouton   1916  1920  Democratic  Ruffin G. Pleasant (Democratic) 29  Hewitt Bouanchaud   1920  1924  Democratic John M. Parker (Democratic) 30  Delos R. Johnson   1924  1924  Democratic John M. Parker (Democratic) 31  Oramel H. Simpson  100px 1924  1926  Democratic Henry L. Fuqua (Democratic) 32  Philip H. Gilbert   1926  1928  Democratic Oramel H. Simpson (Democratic) 33  Paul N. Cyr   1928  1931  DemocraticVacated the lieutenant governorship by trying to declare himself governor Huey P. Long (Democratic) 34  Alvin Olin King  100px 1931  1932  DemocraticAs President pro tempore of the Senate became lieutenant governor when Paul N. Cyr vacated the lieutenant governorshipBecame Governor on January 25, 1932 Huey P. Long (Democratic) 35  John B. Fournet   1932  1935  Democratic O. K. Allen (Democratic) 36  Thomas C. Wingate   1935  1935  Democratic O. K. Allen (Democratic) 37  James A. Noe  100px  1935  1936  Democratic O. K. Allen (Democratic) 38  Earl K. Long  100px  1936  1939  Democratic Richard W. Leche (Democratic) 39  Coleman Lindsey   1939  1940  Democratic Earl K. Long (Democratic) 40  Marc M. Mouton   1940  1944  Democratic  Sam H. Jones (Democratic) 41  J. Emile Verret   1944  1948  Democratic Jimmie H. Davis (Democratic) 42  William J. Dodd  100px  1948  1952  Democratic Earl K. Long (Democratic) 43  Charles E. (Cap) Barham   1952  1956  Democratic Robert F. Kennon (Democratic) 44  Lether Frazar   1956  1960  Democratic Earl K. Long (Democratic) 45  Clarence C. (Taddy) Aycock    1960  1972  Democratic  Jimmie H. Davis (Democratic) 1960-1964 John J. McKeithen (Democratic) 1964-1972 46  James E. (Jimmy) Fitzmorris, Jr.   1972  1980  Democratic Edwin Edwards (Democratic) 47  Robert Louis Freeman Sr.   1980  1988  Democratic  David C. Treen (Republican) 1980-1984 Edwin Edwards (Democratic) 1984-1988 48  Paul Hardy  1988  1992  Republican Buddy Roemer (Democratic turn Republican) 49  Melinda Schwegmann   1992  1996  Democratic Edwin Edwards (Democratic) 50  Kathleen Babineaux Blanco  100px  1996  2004  Democratic  Mike Foster (Republican) 51  Mitchell (Mitch) Landrieu  100px  2004  2010  Democratic  Kathleen Blanco (Democratic) Bobby Jindal (Republican) 52  Scott Angelle    2010  2010  Democratic  2010  2010  Republican  53  John L. (Jay) Dardenne 100px  2010  2016  Republican  54 Billy Nungesser  100px   2016  2024  Republican   John Bel Edwards (Democratic) 2024  Incumbent  Republican   Jeff Landry (Republican)

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