Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina

Lieutenant Governor of
North Carolina
Lieutenant Governor of ; North Carolina
	State seal
	Incumbent; Mark Robinson; since January 1, 2021
Style	Lieutenant Governor; (informal); The Honorable; (formal); Mr. President; (as President of the Senate);
Member of	Council of State; North Carolina Senate; Board of Education; Capital Planning Commission; Board of Community Colleges; eLearning Commission;
Seat	Raleigh, North Carolina
Term length	Four years, renewable once consecutively
Constituting instrument	North Carolina Constitution of 1868
Inaugural holder	Tod R. Caldwell
Formation	1868
Salary	US$124,676 per year; (2013)
Website	Official website

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[change | change source]

Parties

Democratic (29) Republican (6)

#	Lt. Governor	Term of office	Political party	Governor(s)
1	Tod R. Caldwell^[a]	1868–1870	Republican	William W. Holden (R)
Office vacant 1870–1873
2	Curtis H. Brogden	1873–1874	Republican	Tod R. Caldwell (R)
Office vacant 1874–1877
3	Thomas J. Jarvis	1877–1879	Democratic	Zebulon B. Vance (D)
Office vacant 1879–1881
4	James L. Robinson^[b]	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)
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	Jacob E. 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)
Office vacant 1954–1957
23	Luther E. Barnhardt	1957–1961	Democratic	Luther H. Hodges (D)
24	Harvey Cloyd Philpott^[c]	1961	Democratic	Terry Sanford (D)
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^[d]	1977–1985	Democratic	Jim Hunt (D)
29	Robert B. Jordan	1985–1989	Democratic	James G. Martin (R)
30	Jim Gardner^[e]	1989–1993	Republican
31	Dennis Wicker	1993–2001	Democratic	Jim Hunt (D)
32	Bev Perdue^[f]	2001–2009	Democratic	Mike Easley (D)
33	Walter Dalton	2009–2013	Democratic	Bev Perdue (D)
34	Dan Forest	2013–2021	Republican	Pat McCrory (R) (2013–2017)
34	Dan Forest	2013–2021	Republican	Roy Cooper (D) (2017–2021)
35	Mark Robinson^[g]	2021–present	Republican	Roy Cooper (D)

Notes[change | change source]

↑ Became Governor on December 20, 1870.
↑ Robinson is often referred to as "acting Lieutenant Governor" from 1879 through 1881, because, as President Pro Tempore of the Senate at the time that Jarvis succeeded to the governorship, he became President of the Senate, putting him next in line to succeed the governor. However, technically, there is no such office as "acting" lieutenant governor, meaning that the office was vacant, just as it had been in periods such as 1874-1877. Robinson was elected lieutenant governor in his own right in 1880.
↑ Died in office.
↑ First Lt. Governor to serve two terms.
↑ First Republican elected since Reynolds in 1896.
↑ First female Lt. Governor.
↑ First African American Lt. Governor.

References[change | change source]

↑ "CSG Releases 2013 Governor Salaries". The Council of State Governments. June 25, 2013. Archived from the original on October 22, 2014. Retrieved November 23, 2014.

Other websites[change | change source]

Office of the Lieutenant Governor
NC History Project Archived 2016-03-13 at the Wayback Machine

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[a-2] Became Governor on December 20, 1870.

[b-3] Robinson is often referred to as "acting Lieutenant Governor" from 1879 through 1881, because, as President Pro Tempore of the Senate at the time that Jarvis succeeded to the governorship, he became President of the Senate, putting him next in line to succeed the governor. However, technically, there is no such office as "acting" lieutenant governor, meaning that the office was vacant, just as it had been in periods such as 1874-1877. Robinson was elected lieutenant governor in his own right in 1880.

[c-4] Died in office.

[d-5] First Lt. Governor to serve two terms.

[e-6] First Republican elected since Reynolds in 1896.

[f-7] First female Lt. Governor.

[g-8] First African American Lt. Governor.

[1] "CSG Releases 2013 Governor Salaries". The Council of State Governments. June 25, 2013. Archived from the original on October 22, 2014. Retrieved November 23, 2014.

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