The Office of the Lieutenant Governor

Lieutenant governor

A lieutenant governor or lieutenant-governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction, but is often the deputy or lieutenant to or ranking under a governor — a "second-in-command"...

 in Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

 was created in 1975. There have only been seven Lieutenant Governors in Utah's history. Prior to the creation of the Lieutenant Governor

Lieutenant governor

A lieutenant governor or lieutenant-governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction, but is often the deputy or lieutenant to or ranking under a governor — a "second-in-command"...

's office, the succession

Order of succession

An order of succession is a formula or algorithm that determines who inherits an office upon the death, resignation, or removal of its current occupant.-Monarchies and nobility:...

 to the Governorship of Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

 was held by the Utah Secretary of State

Secretary of State (U.S. state government)

Secretary of State is an official in the state governments of 47 of the 50 states of the United States, as well as Puerto Rico and other U.S. possessions. In Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, this official is called the Secretary of the Commonwealth...

. The office of Utah's Secretary of State was abolished by the legislature in 1976, and those duties given to the newly created Office of the Lieutenant Governor.

Duties

Because Utah has no Secretary of State,http://le.utah.gov/~code/TITLE67/htm/67_01a000200.htm many of the functions that would commonly be served by a state Secretary of State are fulfilled by Utah's Lieutenant Governor.http://le.utah.gov/~code/TITLE67/htm/67_01a000600.htm Accordingly, the Lieutenant Governor's statutory duties include the oversight of all Notaries Public

Notary public

A notary public in the common law world is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, and foreign and international business...

,http://le.utah.gov/~code/TITLE46/htm/46_01_000300.htm the legal authentication of documents,http://le.utah.gov/~code/TITLE67/htm/67_01a000600.htm maintaining oversight and regulation of registered lobbyists,http://www.livepublish.le.state.ut.us/lpBin22/lpext.dll/InfobaseUtahCode/title08405.htm/chapter08428.htm/section08433.htm?f=templates&fn=document-frame.htm&q=36-11-201&x=Advanced&2.0#LPHit1 certifying municipal annexation

Annexation

Annexation is the de jure incorporation of some territory into another geo-political entity . Usually, it is implied that the territory and population being annexed is the smaller, more peripheral, and weaker of the two merging entities, barring physical size...

s,http://le.utah.gov/~code/TITLE10/htm/10_01_011700.htm and serving as the "keeper" of The Great Seal of the State of Utah.http://le.utah.gov/~code/TITLE67/htm/67_01a000700.htm Arguably the most important duty of the Utah Lieutenant Governor is to maintain general oversight authority over all elections—federal, state, or local—that take place in Utah.http://le.utah.gov/~code/TITLE20A/TITLE20A.htm

List of Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

 Lieutenant Governors

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1	Clyde L. Miller Clyde L. Miller Clyde L. Miller was a Democratic politician who was the first Lieutenant Governor of Utah.Miller was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He began his involvement with politics at age 18, when he distributed materials in support of Democrat Al Smith's 1928 presidential...	1975	1977	Democratic
2	David S. Monson	1977	1985	Republican
3	W. Val Oveson W. Val Oveson Wilford Val Oveson is an American Republican Party politician in the state of Utah. Oveson has held several state offices in Utah, most notably the third Lieutenant Governor of Utah, and the federal office of National Taxpayer Advocate for the Internal Revenue Service...	1985	1993	Republican
4	Olene S. Walker Olene S. Walker Olene Smith Walker was Utah's 15th Governor. She was sworn into office on November 5, 2003, shortly before her 73rd birthday, as Utah's first, and, to date, only female governor. She is a member of the Republican Party....	1993	2003	Republican
5	Gayle McKeachnie Gayle McKeachnie Gayle F. McKeachnie is a Utah Republican politician and the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Utah.-Education:Gayle McKeachnie received his B.A. from the College of Southern Utah and his J.D. from the University of Utah. For a time, Lieutenant Governor McKeachnie was an adjunct professor at Brigham...	2003	2005	Republican
6	Gary R. Herbert Gary R. Herbert Gary Richard Herbert is the 17th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Utah. Having served as the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, he assumed the governorship on August 11, 2009, following the resignation of Jon Huntsman, who was appointed United States Ambassador to the...	2005	2009	Republican
7	Greg Bell Greg Bell (politician) Gregory S Bell is an American politician, land-use attorney, and the seventh and current Lieutenant Governor of the US state of Utah. A Republican, he was a member of the Utah State Senate, representing the state's 22nd senate district in Davis County...	2009	Incumbent	Republican