Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina

Lieutenant Governor of
North Carolina
Lieutenant Governor of ; North Carolina
	State seal
	Incumbent; Rachel Hunt; since January 1, 2025
Style	Lieutenant Governor; (informal); The Honorable; (formal); Madame President; (as President of the Senate);
Member of	Council of State; Board of Education; Capital Planning Commission; Board of Community Colleges;
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$157,403 per year; (2023)
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

Parties

Democratic (29) Republican (6)

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