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.[2] Democrat John Fetterman is the incumbent lieutenant governor. The lieutenant governor presides in 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.[3][4]

Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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Incumbent John Fetterman since January 15, 2019
Residence	State House
Term length	Four years renewable once
Inaugural holder	John Latta
Formation	1873
Salary	$157,765 (2014)[1]
Website	ltgovernor.state.pa.us

The office of lieutenant governor was created by the Constitution of 1873. As with the governor's position, the Constitution of 1968 made the lieutenant governor eligible to succeed himself or herself for one additional four-year term.[5] The position's only official duties are serving as president of the state senate and chairing the Board of Pardons and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Council. Lieutenant governors often work on additional projects and have a full schedule of community and speaking events. Pennsylvania is the only state that provides an official residence, State House at Fort Indiantown Gap, for its lieutenant governor.[6] Constructed in 1940 and previously the governor's "summer residence", it became available for Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor in 1968 when the current governor's residence was completed in Harrisburg.[5]

List of lieutenant governors

Parties

  Democratic (10)   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–present	Tom Wolf	Democratic

Living former Lieutenant Governors of Pennsylvania

As of January 2019, seven former Lieutenant Governors of Pennsylvania were alive, the oldest being Robert C. Jubelirer (served 2001–2003, born 1937). The most recent death of a former lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania was that of Ernest P. Kline (served 1971–1979, born 1929), on May 13, 2009. The most recently serving lieutenant governor to die was Catherine Baker Knoll (served 2003–2008), who died in office on November 12, 2008.[7]

Lt. Governor	Lt. Gubernatorial term	Date of birth (and age)
William Scranton III	1979–1987	July 20, 1947
Mark Singel	1987–1995	September 12, 1953
Mark S. Schweiker	1995–2001	January 31, 1953
Robert C. Jubelirer	2001–2003	February 9, 1937
Joseph B. Scarnati III	2008–2011	January 2, 1962
Jim Cawley	2011–2015	June 22, 1969
Mike Stack	2015–2019	June 5, 1963

Vice-presidents of Pennsylvania

From 1777 to 1790 the executive branch of Pennsylvania's state government was headed by a Supreme Executive Council consisting of a representative of each county and of the City of Philadelphia. The Vice President of the Council—also known as the Vice-President of Pennsylvania—held a position analogous to the modern office of Lieutenant Governor. Presidents and Vice-Presidents were elected to one-year terms and could serve up to three years—the full length of their regular term as Counsellor. Ten men served as Vice-President during the time of the Council's existence.

• George Bryan 1777–1779
• Matthew Smith 1779
• William Moore 1779–1781
• James Potter 1781–1782
• James Ewing 1782–1784
• James Irvine 1784–1785
• Charles Biddle 1785–1787
• Peter Muhlenberg 1787–1788
• David Redick 1788
• George Ross 1788–1790

References

1. Dawson, Mike (February 20, 2014). "Jay Paterno seeking election as Pa. lieutenant governor". Centre Daily Times. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
2. "Pennsylvania Election Process". The Morning Call. January 21, 2005. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
3. "The Constitution of Pennsylvania: Article IV §13 — When Lieutenant Governor to act as Governor". Pennsylvania General Assembly. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
4. "The Constitution of Pennsylvania: Article IV §14 — Vacancy in office of Lieutenant Governor". Pennsylvania General Assembly. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
5. "RG-64, Records of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Agency History". Pennsylvania State Archives. Archived from the original on November 22, 2002. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
6. Walmer, Daniel (April 21, 2017). "Pa. has US's only Lt. Gov. mansion. Is it worth the cost?". Lebanon Daily News. Gannett. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
7. Gurman, Sadie and Tom Barnes (13 November 2008), "Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll Dies at Age 78", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, accessed September 21, 2016.