Past Lieutenant Governors

Mike Kehoe Picture
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.

Governor Michael L. Parson Official Photo
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 Photo
Peter Kinder

2005-2017

Republican
County: Cape Girardeau
Born: 5/12/1954

#46

Joe Maxwell Photo
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 Photo
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 Photo
Mel Carnahan

1989-1993

Democrat
County: Phelps
Born: 2/11/1934
Died: 10/16/2000

#43

Harriett Woods Photo
Harriett Woods

1985-1989

Democrat
County: St. Louis
Born: 6/12/1927
Died: 2/8/2007

#42

Kenneth J. Rothman
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.