List of Lieutenant Governors of Mississippi
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Lieutenant Governors

Name Term Party
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart may refer to:* Duncan Stewart , Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, 1817-1820* Duncan Stewart , interim President of Uruguay in 1894...

1817-1820
James Patton
James Patton
James Patton may refer to:*James French Patton , American soldier and judge*Jimmy Patton , American football player*James Patton Anderson , U.S. doctor and politician...

1820-1822
David Dickson
David Dickson (politician)
David Dickson was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.-Biography:Born in Georgia, United States, Dickson moved to Mississippi.He studied medicine and practiced extensively in Pike County....

1822-1824
Gerard C. Brandon 1824-1826*
Abram M. Scott
Abram M. Scott
Abram Marshall Scott was a Democratic Mississippi politician born in South Carolina .He was an early settler of Wilkinson County, Mississippi and was instrumental in founding the town of Woodville, Mississippi...

1828-1832 Democrat
Fountain Winston
Fountain Winston
Fountain Winston was an American politician from Mississippi.-Biography:Born in Germantown as a son of the Representative Joseph Winston...

1832-1832

Presidents of the Senate

The Office of Lieutenant Governor was abolished by the Constitution of 1832, and the duties of President of the Senate were incorporated into a separate office.
Name Term Party
Charles Lynch 1833-1834 Democrat
P. Briscoe 1834-1836
W. Van Norman 1836-1837
Alexander G. McNutt
Alexander G. McNutt
Alexander Gallatin McNutt was a Mississippi politician that served two consecutive 2-year terms as that state's governor, having previously served as a state senator .McNutt studied at Washington College and moved to Jackson,...

1837-1838 Democrat
A. L. Bingaman 1838-1840
G. B. Augustus 1840-1842
Jesse Speight
Jesse Speight
Jesse Speight was a North Carolina and Mississippi politician in the nineteenth century.Born in Greene County, North Carolina, Speight attended country schools as a child. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1820, serving as Speaker of the House, and was a member of the North...

1842-1843
A. Fox 1843-1844
Jesse Speight
Jesse Speight
Jesse Speight was a North Carolina and Mississippi politician in the nineteenth century.Born in Greene County, North Carolina, Speight attended country schools as a child. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1820, serving as Speaker of the House, and was a member of the North...

1844-1846
G. T. Swan 1846-1848
Dabney Lipscomb 1848-1851
James Whitfield
James Whitfield
James Whitfield may refer to:*James Whitfield , Roman Catholic Bishop of Baltimore from 1828–1834*James Whitfield , Governor of Mississippi from 1858–1859...

1851-1854 Democrat
John J. Pettus
John J. Pettus
John Jones Pettus was a United States politician. A member of the Democratic party, he was Governor of the state of Mississippi from January 5, 1854 to January 10, 1854, and later was elected to a full term, from 21 November 1859 - 16 November 1863...

1854-1858 Democrat
James Drane 1858-1865
John M. Simonton 1865-1869

Lieutenant Governors

The Constitution of 1869 re-established the office of Lieutenant Governor. This office also re-assumed the duties of President of the Senate

Name Term Party
Ridgley C. Powers
Ridgley C. Powers
Ridgley Ceylon Powers was a Union officer in the American Civil War and a Mississippi politician.-Biography:He was born in Mecca, Ohio, on Christmas Eve...

1870-1871 Republican
Alexander K. Davis 1871-1876 Republican
John M. Stone 1876-1878 Democrat
William H. Sims 1878-1882 Democrat
G. D. Shands 1882-1890 Democrat
M. M. Evans 1890-1896 Democrat
J. H. Jones 1896-1900 Democrat
James T. Harrison 1900-1904 Democrat
John Prentiss Carter 1904-1908 Democrat
Luther Manship 1908-1912 Democrat
Theodore G. Bilbo
Theodore G. Bilbo
Theodore Gilmore Bilbo was an American politician. Bilbo, a Democrat, twice served as governor of Mississippi and later was elected a U.S. Senator . A master of filibuster and scathing rhetoric, a rough-and-tumble fighter in debate, he made his name a synonym for white supremacy...

1912-1916 Democrat
Lee Maurice Russell 1916-1920 Democrat
Homer H. Casteel 1920-1924 Democrat
Dennis Murphree
Dennis Murphree
Dennis Herron Murphree was a Mississippi politician. He was twice elected to the lieutenant governorship, once in 1923 and again in 1939. In each instance, he succeeded the governor who died in office and completed the term of his predecessor.He was a member of the Mississippi House of...

1924-1927 Democrat
Clayton B. Adams 1928-1932 Democrat
Dennis Murphree
Dennis Murphree
Dennis Herron Murphree was a Mississippi politician. He was twice elected to the lieutenant governorship, once in 1923 and again in 1939. In each instance, he succeeded the governor who died in office and completed the term of his predecessor.He was a member of the Mississippi House of...

1932-1936 Democrat
Jacob Buehler Snider 1936-1940 Democrat
Dennis Murphree
Dennis Murphree
Dennis Herron Murphree was a Mississippi politician. He was twice elected to the lieutenant governorship, once in 1923 and again in 1939. In each instance, he succeeded the governor who died in office and completed the term of his predecessor.He was a member of the Mississippi House of...

1940-1943 Democrat
Fielding L. Wright
Fielding L. Wright
Fielding Lewis Wright was a Democratic politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1944 to 1946, then as Governor after the incumbent, Thomas L. Bailey, died in office in 1946. Wright was elected Governor in his own right in 1947 and served a full four year term...

1944-1946 Democrat
Sam Lumpkin
Sam Lumpkin
Sam Lumpkin was a United States politician from Tupelo, Lee County, Mississippi. A Democrat, he served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1948 to 1952 under Governor Fielding L. Wright.Before elevation to Lt...

1948-1952 Democrat
Carroll Gartin
Carroll Gartin
Carrol Gartin was an American Democratic politician from Laurel, Jones County, Mississippi, who served three terms as the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi....

1952-1960 Democrat
Paul B. Johnson, Jr.
Paul B. Johnson, Jr.
Paul Burney Johnson, Jr. was a United States Democratic Mississippi politician and son of former Mississippi Governor Paul B. Johnson, Sr.....

1960-1964 Democrat
Carroll Gartin
Carroll Gartin
Carrol Gartin was an American Democratic politician from Laurel, Jones County, Mississippi, who served three terms as the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi....

1964-1966 Democrat
Charles L. Sullivan
Charles L. Sullivan
Charles L. Sullivan was an American politician, attorney and military pilot. He was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1968 to 1972 and a General in the United States Air National Guard...

1968-1972 Democrat
William F. Winter 1972-1976 Democrat
Evelyn Gandy
Evelyn Gandy
Edythe Evelyn Gandy was an American politician who was the first female elected to a statewide office in Mississippi– that of Treasurer for the State of Mississippi...

1976-1980 Democrat
Brad Dye
Brad Dye
Brad Dye is a retired American politician who served three 4-year terms as 27th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1980 until 1992. He was a member of the Democratic Party.Dye was born in Charleston, Mississippi....

1980-1992 Democrat
Eddie Briggs
Eddie Briggs
Eddie Briggs is a United States politician from De Kalb, Mississippi. Briggs served as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1992 to 1996 under Republican Governor Kirk Fordice. Briggs was the first Republican to hold the office of Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi since Reconstruction...

1992-1996 Republican
Ronnie Musgrove
Ronnie Musgrove
David Ronald "Ronnie" Musgrove is an American politician who was the 29th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from January 16, 1996 to January 11, 2000 and the 62nd Governor of Mississippi from January 11, 2000 to January 13, 2004 of the U.S. state of Mississippi. He was recently defeated by...

1996-2000 Democrat
Amy Tuck
Amy Tuck
Amy Tuck was the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi. A Republican, she is only the second woman elected to statewide office in Mississippi and the first to have been re-elected.-Biography:...

2000-2002 Democrat
2002-2008 Republican1
Phil Bryant 2008-present Republican


1. Amy Tuck switched to the Republican Party in December 2002.
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