Past Lieutenant Governors
Mike Kehoe
2018-Present
Republican
County: Cole
Born: 1/17/1962
#48 – Governor Michael L. Parson appointed Senate Majority Floor Leader Mike Kehoe to the vacant office on June 18, 2018.
MichaelParson
2017-2018
Republican
County: Polk
Born: 9/17/1955
#47 – Parson succeeded to the office of governor on June 1, 2018 upon the resignation of Governor Eric Greitens.
Peter Kinder
2005-2017
Republican
County: Cape Girardeau
Born: 5/12/1954
#46
Joe Maxwell
2000-2005
Democrat
County: Audrain
Born: 3/17/1957
#45 – Lieutenant Governor-Elect Joe Maxwell was appointed to the vacant office to serve until his inauguration in January 2001.
Roger B. Wilson
1993-2000
Democrat
County: Boone
Born: 10/10/1948
#44 – Wilson succeeded to the office of governor in October 2000 upon the death of Governor Mel Carnahan.
Mel Carnahan
1989-1993
Democrat
County: Phelps
Born: 2/11/1934
Died: 10/16/2000
#43
Harriett Woods
1985-1989
Democrat
County: St. Louis
Born: 6/12/1927
Died: 2/8/2007
#42
Kenneth J. Rothman
1981-1985
Democrat
County: St. Louis
Born: 10/11/1935
#41
Name and Party
1. William Henry Ashley (D)
2. Benjamin Harrison Reeves (D) 1
3. Daniel Dunklin (D)
4. Lilburn W. Boggs (D) 2
5. Franklin Cannon (D)
6. Meredith Miles Marmaduke (D) 3
7. James Young (D)
8. Thomas Lawson Price
9. Wilson Brown (D)
10. Hancock Lee Jackson (D) 4
11. Thomas Caute Reynolds
12. William Willard Preble Hall (U)5, 6
13. George Smith (R)
14. Edwin Obed Standard (R)
15. Joseph Jackson Gravelly (Liberal) 7
16. Charles Phillip Johnson (Liberal)
17. Norman J. Colman (D)
18. Henry Clay Brockmeyer (D)
19. Robert Alexander Campbell (D)
20. Albert Pickett Morehouse (D) 8
21. Stephen Hugh Claycomb (D)
22. John Baptiste O’Meara (D)
23. August Henry Bolte (D)
24. John Adams Lee (D)
25. Thomas Lewis Rubey (D) 9
26. John C. McKinley (R)
27. Jacob Friedrich Gmelich (R)
28. William Rock Painter (D)
29. Wallace Crossley (D)
30. Hiram Lloyd (R)
31. Phillip Allen Bennett (R)
32. Edward Henry Winter (R)
33. Frank Gaines Harris (D)
34. Walter Naylor Davis (D) 10
35. James T. Blair Jr. (D)
36. Edward V. Long (D) 11
37. Hilary A. Bush (D)
38. Thomas F. Eagleton (D)
39. William S. Morris (D)
40. William C. Phelps (R)
Term
1820-24
1824-28
1828-32
1832-36
1836-40
1840-44
1844-48
1848-52
1853-57
1857-61
1860-61
1861-64
1865-69
1869-71
1871-73
1873-75
1875-77
1877-81
1881-85
1885-89
1889-93
1893-97
1897-1901
1901-03
1903-04
1905-09
1909-13
1913-17
1917-21
1921-25
1925-29
1929-33
1933-45
1945-49
1949-57
1957-61
1961-65
1965-69
1969-73
1973-81
County
St. Louis
Howard
Washington
Jackson
Cape Girardeau
Saline
Lafayette
Cole
Cape Girardeau
Randolph
St. Louis
Buchanan
Caldwell
St. Louis
Cedar
St. Louis
St. Louis
St. Louis City
St. Louis City
Nodaway
Jasper
St. Louis City
Franklin
St. Louis City
Laclede
Putnam
Cooper
Carroll
Johnson
St. Louis
Dallas
Cole
Boone
St. Louis
Cole
Pike
Jackson
St. Louis
Jackson
Jackson
Born
1785
N/A
1/14/1790
12/14/1792
3/12/1794
8/28/1791
5/11/1800
1/19/1809
8/27/1804
5/12/1796
10/11/1821
5/9/1820
2/2/1809
1/5/1832
9/25/1828
1/8/1836
3/16/1827
8/12/1828
9/2/1832
7/11/1835
8/11/1847
6/24/1852
9/3/1854
6/28/1851
N/A
11/20/1859
7/23/1839
8/27/1863
10/4/1874
7/27/1875
3/5/1881
4/5/1879
4/25/1871
11/29/1876
3/15/1902
7/18/1908
6/21/1905
9/4/1929
11/8/1919
4/5/1934
Died
3/26/1839
4/16/1849
8/25/1844
3/14/1860
6/13/1863
3/26/1864
1/9/1866
7/15/1870
8/27/1855
3/19/1876
3/30/1887
11/31/1882
7/14/1881
3/12/1914
4/28/1872
5/21/1920
11/3/1911
7/26/1906
4/2/1926
9/23/1891
6/6/1930
7/22/1926
6/24/1920
10/10/1928
9/2/1928
5/1/1927
2/21/1914
7/1/1947
12/13/1943
9/10/1942
12/7/1942
6/29/1941
12/30/1944
9/16/1951
7/12/1962
11/6/1972
5/11/1966
3/4/2007
3/4/1975
1 Reeves resigned in July 1825; the office was vacant until the inauguration of Daniel Dunklin.
2 Boggs became governor when Dunklin resigned in 1836.
3 Marmaduke served as governor for nine months after the death of Reynolds in 1844.
4 Lt. Governor Wilson Brown died in office in August 1855. The office was vacant until Hancock Lee Jackson was elected in August 1856. Jackson served as governor from February through October 1857, after the resignation of
trusten Polk. After Robert Stewart’s Inauguration, Jackson resumed his lieutenant governor duties.
5 The office of lieutenant governor, held by Thomas Caute Reynolds, was declared vacant by the Missouri State convention. Willard Preble Hall was elected provisional governor by the convention on July 31, 1861.
6 Hall succeeded to the governorship following the death of Gamble in July 1864.
7 Gravelly died in office in April 1872; theoffice remained vacant until the November 1872 general election.
8 Morehouse succeeded to the governorship following the death of Marmaduke in 1887; his office remained vacant until the inauguration of Claycomb.
9 Lee resigned the lieutenant governor’s office in 1903; Senate President Pro Tempore Thomas L. rubey assumed the duties of the office until the inauguration of McKinley.
10 Harris died in office in December 1944; the office remained vacant until the newly-elected Walter N. Davis took the oath in January 1945.
11 Long appointed to a vacant United States Senate seat in September 1960.