Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania

The Lieutenant Governor is a constitutional officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The lieutenant governor is elected for a four-year term in the same year as the governor. Each party picks a candidate for lieutenant governor independently of the gubernatorial primary. The winners of the party primaries are then teamed together as a single ticket for the fall general election.

Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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Incumbent Austin Davis since January 17, 2023
Term length	Four years renewable once
Inaugural holder	John Latta
Formation	1873
Salary	$157,765 (2014)
Website	ltgovernor.state.pa.us

The lieutenant governor is in charge of the Senate and is first in the line of succession to the governor; in the event the governor dies, resigns, or otherwise leaves office, the lieutenant governor becomes governor.

List

Parties

      Democratic (11)       Republican (24)

#	Name	Term	Governor(s) served under	Party
1	John Latta	1875–1879	John F. Hartranft	Democrat
2	Charles Warren Stone	1879–1883	Henry M. Hoyt	Republican
3	Chauncey Forward Black	1883–1887	Robert E. Pattison	Democratic
4	William T. Davies	1887–1891	James A. Beaver	Republican
5	Louis Arthur Watres	1891–1895	Robert E. Pattison	Republican
6	Walter Lyon	1895–1899	Daniel H. Hastings	Republican
7	John P. S. Gobin	1899–1903	William A. Stone	Republican
8	William M. Brown	1903–1907	Samuel W. Pennypacker	Republican
9	Robert S. Murphy	1907–1911	Edwin Sydney Stuart	Republican
10	John M. Reynolds	1911–1915	John K. Tener	Republican
11	Frank B. McClain	1915–1919	Martin Grove Brumbaugh	Republican
12	Edward E. Beidleman	1919–1923	William Cameron Sproul	Republican
13	David J. Davis	1923–1927	Gifford Pinchot	Republican
14	Arthur H. James	1927–1931	John Stuchell Fisher	Republican
15	Edward C. Shannon	1931–1935	Gifford Pinchot	Republican
16	Thomas Kennedy	1935–1939	George Howard Earle III	Democratic
17	Samuel S. Lewis	1939–1943	Arthur James	Republican
18	John Cromwell Bell Jr.	1943–1947	Edward Martin	Republican
19	Daniel B. Strickler	1947–1951	James H. Duff	Republican
20	Lloyd H. Wood	1951–1955	John S. Fine	Republican
21	Roy E. Furman	1955–1959	George M. Leader	Democratic
22	John Morgan Davis	1959–1963	David L. Lawrence	Democratic
23	Raymond P. Shafer	1963–1967	William Scranton	Republican
24	Raymond J. Broderick	1967–1971	Raymond P. Shafer	Republican
25	Ernest P. Kline	1971–1979	Milton Shapp	Democratic
26	William Scranton III	1979–1987	Dick Thornburgh	Republican
27	Mark Singel	1987–1995	Robert P. Casey	Democratic
28	Mark S. Schweiker	1995–2001	Tom Ridge	Republican
29	Robert C. Jubelirer	2001–2003	Mark S. Schweiker	Republican
30	Catherine Baker Knoll	2003–2008	Ed Rendell	Democratic
31	Joseph B. Scarnati III	2008–2011	Ed Rendell	Republican
32	Jim Cawley	2011–2015	Tom Corbett	Republican
33	Mike Stack	2015–2019	Tom Wolf	Democratic
34	John Fetterman	2019–2023	Tom Wolf	Democratic
35	Austin Davis	since 2023	Josh Shapiro	Democratic

Lieutenant Governor Of Pennsylvania Media

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  Image of John Latta from John Newton Boucher's book Old and New Westmoreland, published by The American Historical Society, Inc. in 1918

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  Charles Warren Stone, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania

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  Chauncey Forward Black (1839–1904), Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1883 to 1887

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  William Tecumseh Davies (1831–1912), Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1887–91

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  Sketch of Louis A. Watres from Geanealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, published in 1906 by The Lewis Publishing Company, Horace Edwin Hayden editor

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  Walter Lyon (1853–1933), Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1895–1899

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  William M Brown (circa 1903)

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  A Snapshot of Pennsylvania Governor Edwin S. Stuart, Lieutenant Governor Robert S. Murphy, and General Horace Porter at the University of Pittsburgh Cornerstone Laying, October 2, 1908 (cropped)

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  John Merriman Reynolds, US Representative from Pennsylvania