List of lieutenant governors of Nebraska

This is a list of lieutenant governors of Nebraska.

Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska
Incumbent Joe Kelly since January 5, 2022
Type	Lieutenant governor
Term length	Four years
Formation	1877
First holder	Othman A. Abbott

List

Parties

      Fusion (Democratic/Populist) (2)       Democratic (8)       Republican (31)

#	Lieutenant Governor	Term began	Term ended	Governor(s) served under	Party
1	Othman A. Abbott	1877	1879	Silas Garber	Republican
2	Edmund C. Carns	1879	1883	Albinus Nance	Republican
3	Alfred W. Agee	1883	1885	James W. Dawes	Republican
4	Hibbard H. Shedd	1885	1889	James W. Dawes John Milton Thayer	Republican
5	George D. Meiklejohn	1889	1891	John Milton Thayer	Republican
6	Thomas J. Majors	1891	1895	John Milton Thayer (Republican) James E. Boyd (Democratic) Lorenzo Crounse (Republican)	Republican
7	Robert E. Moore	1895	1897	Silas A. Holcomb	Fusion (Democrat/Populist)
8	James E. Harris	1897	1899	Silas A. Holcomb	Fusion (Democrat/Populist)
9	Edward A. Gilbert	1899	1901	William A. Poynter	Republican
10	Ezra P. Savage	1901	1901	Charles H. Dietrich	Republican
11	Edmund G. McGilton	1903	1907	John H. Mickey	Republican
12	Melville R. Hopewell	1907	1911 (died)	George L. Sheldon (Republican) Ashton C. Shallenberger (Democratic)	Republican
13	Samuel R. McKelvie	1913	1915	John H. Morehead	Republican
14	James Pearson	1915	1917	John H. Morehead	Democrat
15	Edgar Howard	1917	1919	Keith Neville	Democrat
16	Pelham A. Barrows	1919	1923	Samuel R. McKelvie	Republican
17	Fred G. Johnson	1923	1925	Charles W. Bryan	Republican
18	George A. Williams	1925	1931	Adam McMullen Arthur J. Weaver	Republican
19	Theodore W. Metcalfe	1931	1933	Charles W. Bryan	Republican
20	Walter H. Jurgensen	1933	1938	Charles W. Bryan Robert Leroy Cochran	Democrat
21	Nate M. Parsons	1938	1939	Robert Leroy Cochran	Democrat
22	William E. Johnson	1939	1943	Robert Leroy Cochran (Democratic) Dwight Griswold (Republican)	Republican
23	Roy W. Johnson	1943	1947	Dwight Griswold	Republican
24	Robert B. Crosby	1947	1949	Val Peterson	Republican
25	Charles J. Warner	1949	1955 (died)	Val Peterson Robert B. Crosby Victor E. Anderson	Republican
26	Dwight W. Burney	1957	1965	Ralph G. Brooks Dwight W. Burney Frank B. Morrison	Republican
27	Philip C. Sorensen	1965	1967	Frank B. Morrison	Democrat
28	John E. Everroad	1967	1971	Norbert T. Tiemann	Republican
29	Frank Marsh	1971	1975	J. James Exon	Republican
30	Gerald T. Whelan	1975	1979	J. James Exon	Democrat
31	Roland A. Luedtke	1979	1983	Charles Thone	Republican
32	Donald F. McGinley	1983	1987	J. Robert Kerrey	Democrat
33	William E. Nichol	1987	1991	Kay A. Orr	Republican
34	Maxine B. Moul	1991	1993 (resigned)	Ben Nelson	Democrat
35	Kim M. Robak	1993 (appointed)	1999	Ben Nelson	Democrat
36	David Maurstad	1999	2001 (resigned)	Mike Johanns	Republican
37	Dave Heineman	2001 (appointed)	2005 (became governor)	Mike Johanns	Republican
38	Rick Sheehy	2005 (appointed)	2013 (resigned)	Dave Heineman	Republican
39	Lavon Heidemann	2013 (appointed)	2014 (resigned)	Dave Heineman	Republican
40	John E. Nelson	2014 (appointed)	2015	Dave Heineman	Republican
41	Mike Foley	2015	2023	Pete Ricketts	Republican
42	Joe Kelly	2023	Incumbent	Jim Pillen	Republican

List Of Lieutenant Governors Of Nebraska Media

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  Othman A Abbott (prior to 1920)

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  Hibbard Houston Shedd

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  Photo of George de Rue Meiklejohn, Nebraska Republican politician who served as the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska and a representative of the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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  Thomas J. Majors (Nebraska Congressman)