Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
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The Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina is the second-in-command to the Governor of South Carolina. The current lieutenant governor is Pamela Evette, who took office January 9, 2019.
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina | |
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Style |
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Term length | Four years, no limit |
Inaugural holder | Thomas Broughton (1730) |
Formation | South Carolina Constitution |
Succession | First |
Salary | $46,545 (2016) [1] |
List
Legend: Democratic (32) Republican (9) No party (1)
No. | Lieutenant Governor | Party | Term in office | Election | Governor | Notes | ||
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52 | W.D. Porter | Independent | November 30, 1865 – July 6, 1868 |
1865 | James Lawrence Orr | First popularly elected lieutenant governor | ||
53 | Lemuel Boozer | Republican | July 6, 1868 – December 3, 1870 |
1868 | Robert Kingston Scott | |||
54 | Alonzo J. Ransier | Republican | December 3, 1870 – December 7, 1872 |
1870 | First black lieutenant governor | |||
55 | Richard Howell Gleaves | Republican | December 7, 1872 – December 14, 1876 |
1872 | Franklin J. Moses, Jr. | Second black lieutenant governor Haitian-American | ||
1874 | Daniel Henry Chamberlain | |||||||
- | Disputed | Disputed between Gleaves and William Dunlap Simpson. Two governments were formed during this time. | ||||||
56 | William Dunlap Simpson | Democratic | December 14, 1876 – February 26, 1879 |
1876 | Wade Hampton III | Succeeded to governorship[b] | ||
1878 | ||||||||
- | Vacant | until November 30, 1880 | ||||||
57 | John D. Kennedy | Democratic | November 30, 1880 – December 1, 1882 |
1880 | Johnson Hagood | |||
58 | John Calhoun Sheppard | Democratic | December 1, 1882 – July 10, 1886 |
1882 | Hugh Smith Thompson | Succeeded to governorship[c] | ||
1884 | ||||||||
- | Vacant | until November 30, 1886 | ||||||
59 | William L. Mauldin | Democratic | December 30, 1886 – December 4, 1890 |
1886 | Hugh Smith Thompson | |||
1888 | ||||||||
60 | Eugene B. Gary | Democratic | December 4, 1890 – December 22, 1893 |
1890 | Benjamin Tillman | Resigned[d] | ||
1892 | ||||||||
61 | Washington H. Timmerman | Democratic | December 22, 1893 – January 18, 1897 |
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1894 | John Gary Evans | |||||||
62 | Miles Benjamin McSweeney | Democratic | January 18, 1897 – June 2, 1899 |
1896 | William Haselden Ellerbe | Succeeded to governorship[e] | ||
1898 | ||||||||
63 | Robert B. Scarborough | Democratic | June 2, 1899 – January 15, 1901 |
Miles Benjamin McSweeney | Not elected | |||
64 | James Tillman | Democratic | January 15, 1901 – January 20, 1903 |
1900 | ||||
65 | John Sloan | Democratic | January 20, 1903 – January 15, 1907 |
1902 | Duncan Clinch Heyward | |||
1904 | ||||||||
66 | Thomas Gordon McLeod | Democratic | January 15, 1907 – January 17, 1911 |
1906 | Martin Frederick Ansel | |||
1908 | ||||||||
67 | Charles Aurelius Smith | Democratic | January 17, 1911 – January 14, 1915 |
1910 | Coleman Livingston Blease | Succeeded to governorship[f] | ||
1912 | ||||||||
- | Vacant | until January 19, 1915 | ||||||
68 | Andrew Bethea | Democratic | January 19, 1915 – January 21, 1919 |
1914 | Richard Irvine Manning III | |||
1916 | ||||||||
69 | J.T. Liles | Democratic | January 21, 1919 – January 18, 1921 |
1918 | Robert Archer Cooper | |||
70 | Wilson Godfrey Harvey | Democratic | January 18, 1921 – May 20, 1922 |
1920 | Succeeded to governorship[g] | |||
- | Vacant | until January 16, 1923 | ||||||
71 | E.B. Jackson | Democratic | January 16, 1923 – January 18, 1927 |
1922 | Thomas Gordon McLeod | |||
1924 | ||||||||
72 | Thomas Bothwell Butler | Democratic | January 18, 1927 – January 20, 1931 |
1926 | John Gardiner Richards, Jr. | First elected to four-year term | ||
73 | James Sheppard | Democratic | January 20, 1931 – January 15, 1935 |
1930 | Ibra Charles Blackwood | |||
74 | Joseph Emile Harley | Democratic | January 15, 1935 – November 4, 1941 |
1934 | Olin D. Johnston | Succeeded to governorship[h] | ||
1938 | Burnet R. Maybank | |||||||
- | Vacant | until January 19, 1943 | ||||||
75 | Ransome Judson Williams | Democratic | January 19, 1943 – January 2, 1945 |
1942 | Olin D. Johnston | Succeeded to governorship[i] | ||
- | Vacant | until January 21, 1947 | ||||||
76 | George Bell Timmerman, Jr. | Democratic | January 21, 1947 – January 18, 1955 |
1946 | Strom Thurmond | |||
1950 | James F. Byrnes | |||||||
77 | Fritz Hollings | Democratic | January 18, 1955 – January 20, 1959 |
1954 | George Bell Timmerman, Jr. | |||
78 | Burnet R. Maybank Jr. | Democratic | January 20, 1959 – January 15, 1963 |
1958 | Fritz Hollings | |||
79 | Robert Evander McNair | Democratic | January 15, 1963 – April 22, 1965 |
1962 | Donald S. Russell | Succeeded to governorship[j] | ||
- | Vacant | until January 17, 1967 | ||||||
80 | John C. West | Democratic | January 17, 1967 – January 19, 1971 |
1966 | Robert Evander McNair | |||
81 | Earle Morris, Jr. | Democratic | January 19, 1971 – January 21, 1975 |
1970 | John C. West | |||
82 | W. Brantley Harvey, Jr. | Democratic | January 21, 1975 – January 10, 1979 |
1974 | James B. Edwards | |||
83 | Nancy Stevenson | Democratic | January 10, 1979 – January 12, 1983 |
1978 | Richard Riley | First female lieutenant governor | ||
84 | Michael R. Daniel | Democratic | January 12, 1983 – January 14, 1987 |
1982 | ||||
85 | Nick Theodore | Democratic | January 14, 1987 – January 11, 1995 |
1986 | Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. | |||
1990 | ||||||||
86 | Bob Peeler | Republican | January 11, 1995 – January 15, 2003 |
1994 | David Beasley | |||
1998 | Jim Hodges | |||||||
87 | André Bauer | Republican | January 15, 2003 – January 12, 2011 |
2002 | Mark Sanford | |||
2006 | ||||||||
88 | Ken Ard | Republican | January 12, 2011 – March 9, 2012 |
2010 | Nikki Haley | Resigned[k] | ||
- | Vacant | until March 13, 2012 | ||||||
89 | Glenn F. McConnell | Republican | March 13, 2012 – June 18, 2014 |
Resigned[l] | ||||
90 | Yancey McGill[m] | Democratic | June 18, 2014 – January 14, 2015 |
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91 | Henry McMaster | Republican | January 14, 2015 – January 24, 2017 |
2014 | Succeeded to governorship[n] | |||
92 | Kevin L. Bryant | Republican | January 25, 2017 – January 9, 2019 |
Henry McMaster | ||||
93 | Pamela Evette | Republican | January 9, 2019 – Present |
2018 | First elected on same ticket as governor[3] |
Notes
- ↑ Gleaves lost by 359 votes. Initially, the Republicans claimed that the Democrats committed voter fraud and that their majority was invalid. However, Republicans lost electoral support and were forced to concede. Gleaves, by all accounts of sources, did not refuse to leave office as Governor Daniel Henry Chamberlain did.
- ↑ Succeeded to the governorship when Governor Wade Hampton III resigned to become a U.S. Senator
- ↑ Succeeded to the governorship when Governor Hugh Thompson resigned to become the assistant Secretary of the Treasury under the Grover Cleveland administration.
- ↑ Resigned to take position of associate justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
- ↑ Succeeded to governorship when Governor William Ellerbe died in office.
- ↑ Succeeded to governorship for five days when Governor Coleman Blease resigned to avoid attending the innaguration of his successor
- ↑ Succeeded to governorship when Governor Robert Cooper resigned to take a position on the Federal Farm Loan Board.
- ↑ Succeeded to governorship when Governor Burnet Maybank resigned to become a United States Senator.
- ↑ Succeeded to governorship when Governor Olin Johnston resigned to become a United States Senator.
- ↑ Succeeded to governorship when Governor Donald Russell resigned to become a United States Senator.
- ↑ Resigned after the South Carolina ethics commission charged him with 69 counts of using campaign money for personal use and 23 counts of failing to disclose campaign expenses during the 2010 election for lieutenant governor.
- ↑ Resigned to become the president of the College of Charleston.
- ↑ McGill was a Democrat while lieutenant governor, but he switched parties after leaving office.
- ↑ Succeeded to the governorship after Governor Nikki Haley resigned to become the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
References
- ↑ "South Carolina state government salary". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ↑ Reports of Committees of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Columbia: South Carolina Government. 1876. p. 125.
- ↑ "SC voters in favor of governor-lieutenant governor ticket". wmbfnews.com. Retrieved October 31, 2013.