List of Missouri Lieutenant Governors
Encyclopedia
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|+Number of Lieutenant Governors of Missouri by party affiliation
! Party !! Governors
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| Democratic
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| Republican
| align=right | 10
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| Democratic-Republican
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| Liberal Republican
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The lieutenant governor
of Missouri
is the first person in the order of succession
of Missouri
's executive branch, thus serving as governor in the event of the death, resignation, removal, impeachment
, absence from the state, or incapacity due to illness of the governor of Missouri. The Lt. Governor is elected separately and can be of a different party than the governor.
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! style="border-left-style:hidden;padding:0.1em 0em" | Lieutenant Governor
! Took office !! Left office
! Party
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! style="border-left-style:hidden;padding:0.1em 0em" | Governor
! Terms
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| 1
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| William Henry Ashley
| September 18, 1820
| November 15, 1824
| Democratic-Republican
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| Alexander McNair
| 1
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| 2
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| Benjamin Harrison Reeves
| November 15, 1824
| July 1825
| Democratic-Republican
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| Frederick Bates
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| rowspan="3" | July 1825
| rowspan="3" | November 17, 1828
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| Frederick Bates
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| Abraham J. Williams
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| John Miller
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| 3
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| Daniel Dunklin
| November 17, 1828
| November 19, 1832
| Democratic
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| John Miller
| 1
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| 4
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| Lilburn Boggs
| November 19, 1832
| September 30, 1836
| Democratic
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| Daniel Dunklin
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| September 30, 1836
| November 21, 1836
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| Lilburn Boggs
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| 5
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| Franklin Cannon
| November 21, 1836
| November 16, 1840
| Democratic
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| Lilburn Boggs
| 1
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| 6
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| Meredith Miles Marmaduke
| November 16, 1840
| February 9, 1844
| Democratic
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| Thomas Reynolds
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| February 9, 1844
| November 20, 1844
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| Meredith Miles Marmaduke
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| 7
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| James Young
| November 20, 1844
| November 20, 1848
| Democratic
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| John C. Edwards
| 1
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| 8
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| Thomas Lawson Price
| November 20, 1848
| January 3, 1853
| Democratic
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| Austin Augustus King
| 1
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| 9
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| Wilson Brown
| January 3, 1853
| August 27, 1855
| Democratic
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| Sterling Price
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| August 27, 1855
| January 5, 1857
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| Sterling Price
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| 10
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| Hancock Lee Jackson
| January 5, 1857
| February 27, 1857
| Democratic
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| Trusten Polk
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| February 27, 1857
| October 22, 1857
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| Hancock Lee Jackson
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| 10
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| Hancock Lee Jackson
| October 22, 1857
| January 3, 1861
| Democratic
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| Robert Marcellus Stewart
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| 11
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| Thomas Caute Reynolds
| January 3, 1861
| July 23, 1861
| Democratic
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| Claiborne Fox Jackson
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| 12
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| William Willard Preble Hall
| July 31, 1861
| January 31, 1864
| Republican
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| Hamilton Rowan Gamble
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| January 31, 1864
| January 2, 1865
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| William Willard Preble Hall
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| 13
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| George Smith
| January 2, 1865
| January 12, 1869
| Republican
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| Thomas Clement Fletcher
| 1
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| 14
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| Edwin Obed Stanard
| January 12, 1869
| January 4, 1871
| Republican
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| Joseph W. McClurg
| 1
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| 15
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| Joseph J. Gravely
| January 4, 1871
| April 28, 1872
| Liberal Republican
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| B. Gratz Brown
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| April 28, 1872
| January 3, 1873
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| B. Gratz Brown
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| 16
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| Charles Phillip Johnson
| January 3, 1873
| January 12, 1875
| Liberal Republican
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| Silas Woodson
| 1
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| 17
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| Norman Jay Coleman
| January 12, 1875
| January 8, 1877
| Democratic
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| Charles Henry Hardin
| 1
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| 18
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| Henry Clay Brockmeyer
| January 8, 1877
| January 10, 1881
| Democratic
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| John Smith Phelps
| 1
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| 19
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| Robert Alexander Campbell
| January 10, 1881
| January 12, 1885
| Democratic
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| Thomas Theodore Crittenden
| 1
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| 20
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| Albert P. Morehouse
| January 12, 1885
| December 28, 1887
| Democratic
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| John S. Marmaduke
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| December 28, 1887
| January 14, 1889
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| Albert P. Morehouse
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| 21
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| Stephen Hugh Claycomb
| January 14, 1889
| January 9, 1893
| Democratic
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| David R. Francis
| 1
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| 22
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| John Baptiste O'Meara
| January 9, 1893
| January 11, 1897
| Democratic
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| William Joel Stone
| 1
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| 23
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| August Bolte
| January 11, 1897
| January 14, 1901
| Democratic
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| Lawrence Vest Stephens
| 1
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| 24
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| John Adams Lee
| January 14, 1901
| April 25, 1903
| Democratic
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| Alexander Monroe Dockery
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| 25
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| Thomas Lewis Rubey
| April 25, 1903
| January 9, 1905
| Democratic
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| Alexander Monroe Dockery
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| 26
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| John C. McKinley
| January 9, 1905
| January 11, 1909
| Republican
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| Joseph W. Folk
| 1
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| 27
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| Jacob Friedrich Gmelich
| January 11, 1909
| January 13, 1913
| Republican
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| Herbert S. Hadley
| 1
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| 28
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| William Rock Painter
| January 13, 1913
| January 8, 1917
| Democratic
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| Elliot Woolfolk Major
| 1
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| 29
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| Wallace Crossley
| January 8, 1917
| January 10, 1921
| Democratic
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| Frederick D. Gardner
| 1
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| 30
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| Hiram Lloyd
| January 10, 1921
| January 12, 1925
| Republican
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| Arthur M. Hyde
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| 31
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| Philip Allen Bennett
| January 12, 1925
| January 14, 1929
| Republican
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| Samuel Aaron Baker
| 1
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| 32
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| Edward Henry Winter
| January 14, 1929
| January 9, 1933
| Republican
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| Henry S. Caulfield
| 1
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| rowspan="3" | 33
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| rowspan="3" | Frank Gaines Harris
| rowspan="3" | January 9, 1933
| rowspan="3" | December 30, 1944
| rowspan="3" | Democratic
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| Guy Brasfield Park
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| Lloyd C. Stark
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| Forrest C. Donnell
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| December 30, 1944
| January 8, 1945
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| Forrest C. Donnell
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| 34
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| Walter Naylor Davis
| January 8, 1945
| January 10, 1949
| Democratic
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| Phil M. Donnelly
| 1
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| rowspan="2" | 35
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| rowspan="2" | James T. Blair, Jr.
| rowspan="2" | January 10, 1949
| rowspan="2" | January 14, 1957
| rowspan="2" | Democratic
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| Forrest Smith
| rowspan="2" | 2
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| Phil M. Donnelly
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| 36
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| Edward V. Long
| January 14, 1957
| September 23, 1960
| Democratic
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| James T. Blair, Jr.
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| September 23, 1960
| January 9, 1961
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| James T. Blair, Jr.
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| 37
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| Hilary A. Bush
| January 9, 1961
| January 11, 1965
| Democratic
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| John M. Dalton
| 1
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| 38
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| Thomas Eagleton
| January 11, 1965
| January 13, 1969
| Democratic
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| Warren E. Hearnes
| 1
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| 39
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| William S. Morris
| January 13, 1969
| January 8, 1973
| Democratic
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| Warren E. Hearnes
| 1
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| rowspan="2" | 40
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| rowspan="2" | William C. Phelps
| rowspan="2" | January 8, 1973
| rowspan="2" | January 12, 1981
| rowspan="2" | Republican
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| Christopher "Kit" Bond
| rowspan="2" | 2
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| Joseph P. Teasdale
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| 41
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| Kenneth Rothman
| January 12, 1981
| January 14, 1985
| Democratic
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| Christopher "Kit" Bond
| 1
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| 42
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| Harriett Woods
| January 14, 1985
| January 9, 1989
| Democratic
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| John Ashcroft
| 1
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| 43
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| Mel Carnahan
| January 9, 1989
| January 11, 1993
| Democratic
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| John Ashcroft
| 1
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| 44
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| Roger B. Wilson
| January 11, 1993
| October 17, 2000
| Democratic
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| Mel Carnahan
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|-
| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| October 17, 2000
| November 15, 2000
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| Roger B. Wilson
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|-
| rowspan="2" | 45
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| rowspan="2" | Joe Maxwell
| rowspan="2" | November 15, 2000
| rowspan="2" | January 10, 2005
| rowspan="2" | Democratic
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| Roger B. Wilson
| rowspan="2" |
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| Bob Holden
|-
| rowspan="2" | 46
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| rowspan="2" | Peter Kinder
| rowspan="2" | January 10, 2005 || rowspan="2" | Incumbent
| rowspan="2" | Republican
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| Matt Blunt
| rowspan="2" | 1
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| Jay Nixon
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{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" | Name
! rowspan="2" | Term
! colspan="2" | U.S. Congress
! rowspan="2" | Other offices held
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! House
! Senate
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| Daniel Dunklin
| 1828–1832
| align="center" | H
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|
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| Daniel Dunklin
| 1828–1832
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| Governor of Missouri
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| Lilburn Boggs
| 1832–1836
|
|
| Governor of Missouri*
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| Meredith Miles Marmaduke
| 1840–1844
|
|
| Governor of Missouri*
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| Thomas Lawson Price
| 1848–1853
| align="center" | H
|
|
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| Hancock Lee Jackson
| 1857
|
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| Acting Governor of Missouri
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| Thomas Caute Reynolds
| 1861
|
|
| Confederate
Governor of Missouri
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| Willard Preble Hall
| 1861–1864
|
|
| Governor of Missouri*
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| Edwin Obed Stanard
| 1869–1871
| align="center" | H
|
|
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| Joseph Jackson Gravely
| 1871–1873
| align="center" | H
|
|
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| Norman Jay Coleman
| 1875–1877
|
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| U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
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| Albert P. Morehouse
| 1885–1887
|
|
| Governor of Missouri*
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| Thomas Lewis Rubey
| 1903–1905
| align="center" | H
|
|
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| Philip Allen Bennett
| 1925–1929
| align="center" | H
|
|
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| James T. Blair, Jr.
| 1949–1957
|
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| Governor of Missouri
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| Edward V. Long
| 1957–1960
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| align="center" | S*
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| Thomas Eagleton
| 1965–1969
|
| align="center" | S
|
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| Mel Carnahan
| 1989–1993
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| Governor of Missouri, Posthumously elected U.S. Senator
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| Roger B. Wilson
| 1993–2000
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| Governor of Missouri*
|}
(1965–1969) on March 4, 2007. The most recent serving lieutenant governor to die was Mel Carnahan
(1993–2000) on October 16, 2000.
{| class="wikitable"
! Name !! Term !! Date of birth
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| William C. Phelps
| 1973–1981
| April 5, 1934
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| Kenneth Rothman
| 1981–1985
| October 11, 1935
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| Roger B. Wilson
| 1993–2000
| October 10, 1948
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| Joe Maxwell
| 2000–2005
| March 17, 1957
|}
|+Number of Lieutenant Governors of Missouri by party affiliation
! Party !! Governors
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| Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
| align=right | 32
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| Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
| align=right | 10
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| Democratic-Republican
| align=right | 2
|-
| Liberal Republican
Liberal Republican Party (United States)
The Liberal Republican Party of the United States was a political party that was organized in Cincinnati in May 1872, to oppose the reelection of President Ulysses S. Grant and his Radical Republican supporters. The party's candidate in that year's presidential election was Horace Greeley, longtime...
| align=right | 2
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The lieutenant governor
Lieutenant governor (United States)
In the United States, 43 of the 50 states have a separate, full-time office of lieutenant governor. In most cases, the lieutenant governor is the highest officer of state after the governor, standing in for that officer when he or she is absent from the state or temporarily incapacitated...
of Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
is the first person in the order of 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:...
of Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
's executive branch, thus serving as governor in the event of the death, resignation, removal, impeachment
Impeachment
Impeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as other punishment....
, absence from the state, or incapacity due to illness of the governor of Missouri. The Lt. Governor is elected separately and can be of a different party than the governor.
Lieutenant Governors
{| class="wikitable"! #
! class=unsortable |
! style="border-left-style:hidden;padding:0.1em 0em" | Lieutenant Governor
! Took office !! Left office
! Party
! class=unsortable |
! style="border-left-style:hidden;padding:0.1em 0em" | Governor
! Terms
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| 1
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| William Henry Ashley
William Henry Ashley
William Henry Ashley was a pioneering fur trader, entrepreneur, and politician. Though a native of Virginia, Ashley had already moved to St. Genevieve in what was then called Louisiana, when it was purchased by the United States from France in 1803...
| September 18, 1820
| November 15, 1824
| Democratic-Republican
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| Alexander McNair
Alexander McNair
Alexander McNair was an American frontiersman and politician. He was the first Governor of Missouri from its entry as a state in 1820, until 1824....
| 1
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| 2
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| Benjamin Harrison Reeves
| November 15, 1824
| July 1825
| Democratic-Republican
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| Frederick Bates
Frederick Bates
Frederick Bates , older brother of Edward Bates and James Woodson Bates, was an American attorney and politician. He was elected in 1824 as the second governor of Missouri and died in office in 1825...
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| rowspan="3" colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| rowspan="3" | July 1825
| rowspan="3" | November 17, 1828
| rowspan="3" |
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| Frederick Bates
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| Abraham J. Williams
Abraham J. Williams
Abraham J. Williams was an American politician from Boone County, Missouri. He was the third Governor of Missouri in 1825 and 1826....
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| John Miller
John Miller (Missouri)
John Miller was an American publisher and politician from St. Louis, Missouri. He was the fourth Governor of Missouri...
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| 3
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| Daniel Dunklin
Daniel Dunklin
Daniel Dunklin was the fifth Governor of Missouri from 1832 to 1836. He was born in 1790 in Greenville, South Carolina, and died in 1844 near Herculaneum, Missouri, where he is buried. His grave is a state historic site and interprets Dunklin's role as the Father of Public Schools, as well as...
| November 17, 1828
| November 19, 1832
| Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
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| John Miller
| 1
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| 4
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| Lilburn Boggs
Lilburn Boggs
Lilburn Williams Boggs was the sixth Governor of Missouri from 1836 to 1840. He is now most widely remembered for his interactions with Joseph Smith and Porter Rockwell, and Missouri Executive Order 44, known by Mormons as the "Extermination Order", issued in response to the ongoing conflict...
| November 19, 1832
| September 30, 1836
| Democratic
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| Daniel Dunklin
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| September 30, 1836
| November 21, 1836
|
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| Lilburn Boggs
|
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| 5
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| Franklin Cannon
| November 21, 1836
| November 16, 1840
| Democratic
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| Lilburn Boggs
| 1
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| 6
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| Meredith Miles Marmaduke
Meredith Miles Marmaduke
Meredith Miles Marmaduke was Missouri's eighth Governor, serving in 1844. He was a Democrat. He was also Lieutenant Governor of Missouri 1840–1844.-Life and career:...
| November 16, 1840
| February 9, 1844
| Democratic
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| Thomas Reynolds
Thomas Reynolds (Governor)
Thomas Reynolds was the seventh Governor of Missouri from 1840 to 1844. He belonged to the Democratic Party....
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| February 9, 1844
| November 20, 1844
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| Meredith Miles Marmaduke
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| 7
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| James Young
| November 20, 1844
| November 20, 1848
| Democratic
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| John C. Edwards
John C. Edwards
John Cummins Edwards was the ninth Governor of Missouri from 1844 to 1848. He belonged to the Democratic Party. He was born in Frankfort, Kentucky and died in Stockton, California....
| 1
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| 8
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| Thomas Lawson Price
Thomas Lawson Price
Thomas Lawson Price was a United States Representative from Missouri.Born near Danville, Virginia, Price attended public schools. He moved to Missouri in 1831 and settled in Jefferson City. He conducted stage lines and engaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits. He was the first mayor of...
| November 20, 1848
| January 3, 1853
| Democratic
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| Austin Augustus King
| 1
|-
| 9
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| Wilson Brown
| January 3, 1853
| August 27, 1855
| Democratic
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| Sterling Price
Sterling Price
Sterling Price was a lawyer, planter, and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri, who served as the 11th Governor of the state from 1853 to 1857. He also served as a United States Army brigadier general during the Mexican-American War, and a Confederate Army major general in the American Civil...
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| August 27, 1855
| January 5, 1857
|
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| Sterling Price
|
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| 10
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| Hancock Lee Jackson
Hancock Lee Jackson
Hancock Lee Jackson was an American lawyer and politician. As Lieutenant Governor he was the 13th Governor of Missouri in 1857, taking office after previous Democratic Governor Trusten Polk resigned on February 27, 1857. Jackson was succeeded by fellow Democrat Robert Marcellus Stewart...
| January 5, 1857
| February 27, 1857
| Democratic
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| Trusten Polk
Trusten Polk
Trusten Polk served as both the 12th Governor of Missouri in 1857 and U.S. Senator from 1857 to 1862.-Biography:...
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| February 27, 1857
| October 22, 1857
|
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| Hancock Lee Jackson
|
|-
| 10
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| Hancock Lee Jackson
| October 22, 1857
| January 3, 1861
| Democratic
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| Robert Marcellus Stewart
Robert Marcellus Stewart
Robert Marcellus Stewart was the 14th Governor of Missouri from 1857 to 1861, during the critical years just prior to the American Civil War.-Early years:...
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| 11
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| Thomas Caute Reynolds
Thomas Caute Reynolds
Thomas Caute Reynolds was a lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of Missouri as the state considered secession and then was the second Confederate Governor of Missouri...
| January 3, 1861
| July 23, 1861
| Democratic
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| Claiborne Fox Jackson
Claiborne Fox Jackson
Claiborne Fox Jackson was a lawyer, soldier, and Democratic politician from Missouri. He was the 15th Governor of Missouri in 1861, then governor-in-exile for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
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| 12
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| William Willard Preble Hall
Willard Preble Hall
William Willard Preble Hall was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 17th Governor of Missouri from 1864 to 1865 during last years of the American Civil War.-Early years:...
| July 31, 1861
| January 31, 1864
| Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
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| Hamilton Rowan Gamble
Hamilton Rowan Gamble
Hamilton Rowan Gamble was the chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court at the time of the Dred Scott Decision in 1852, when his colleagues voted to overturn the 28-year precedent in Misssouri of "once free always free". He wrote a dissenting opinion...
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| January 31, 1864
| January 2, 1865
|
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| William Willard Preble Hall
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| 13
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| George Smith
| January 2, 1865
| January 12, 1869
| Republican
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| Thomas Clement Fletcher
Thomas Clement Fletcher
Thomas Clement Fletcher was the 18th Governor of Missouri during the latter stages of the American Civil War and the early part of Reconstruction. He was the first Missouri governor to be born in the state....
| 1
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| 14
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| Edwin Obed Stanard
| January 12, 1869
| January 4, 1871
| Republican
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| Joseph W. McClurg
Joseph W. McClurg
Joseph Washington McClurg was the 19th Governor of Missouri in the decade following the American Civil War. His stepfather was William Murphy.-Biography:...
| 1
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| 15
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| Joseph J. Gravely
Joseph J. Gravely
Joseph Jackson Gravely was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and teacher from Virginia and Missouri.-Biography:...
| January 4, 1871
| April 28, 1872
| Liberal Republican
Liberal Republican Party (United States)
The Liberal Republican Party of the United States was a political party that was organized in Cincinnati in May 1872, to oppose the reelection of President Ulysses S. Grant and his Radical Republican supporters. The party's candidate in that year's presidential election was Horace Greeley, longtime...
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| B. Gratz Brown
B. Gratz Brown
Benjamin Gratz Brown was an American politician. He was a Senator, the 20th Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party Vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of 1872.-Early life:...
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| colspan="3" align="center" | vacant
| April 28, 1872
| January 3, 1873
|
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| B. Gratz Brown
|
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| 16
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| Charles Phillip Johnson
| January 3, 1873
| January 12, 1875
| Liberal Republican
| bgcolor= |
| Silas Woodson
Silas Woodson
Silas Woodson was the 21st Governor of Missouri, United States, between January 8, 1873 and January 12, 1875. He was notable for being the first Democrat elected to that position since the Civil War. No Republican would reach the office for over 30 years after Woodson's election. He was born in ...
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| Norman Jay Coleman
| January 12, 1875
| January 8, 1877
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| Charles Henry Hardin
Charles Henry Hardin
Charles Henry Hardin was one of the eight founders of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Born in 1820 in Trimble County, Kentucky, he graduated from Miami University in 1840 and received his LL.D. from William Jewell College in 1890. He later became the 22nd Governor of Missouri between 1875 and 1877 and...
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| Henry Clay Brockmeyer
| January 8, 1877
| January 10, 1881
| Democratic
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| John Smith Phelps
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| Robert Alexander Campbell
| January 10, 1881
| January 12, 1885
| Democratic
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| Thomas Theodore Crittenden
Thomas Theodore Crittenden
Thomas Theodore Crittenden was a United States colonel during the American Civil War, and served as the 24th Governor of Missouri from 1881 to 1885.-Early life and education:...
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| Albert P. Morehouse
Albert P. Morehouse
Albert Pickett Morehouse was the 26th Governor of Missouri from 1887 to 1889.Morehouse was born in Delaware County, Ohio and moved to Maryville, Missouri in 1856. He was admitted to the bar and began practice in Montgomery County, Iowa.At the beginning of the American Civil War, he moved back to...
| January 12, 1885
| December 28, 1887
| Democratic
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| John S. Marmaduke
John S. Marmaduke
John Sappington Marmaduke was a career military man and a West Point graduate. He is known for his service as a Confederate Major general during the American Civil War...
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| December 28, 1887
| January 14, 1889
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| Albert P. Morehouse
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| Stephen Hugh Claycomb
| January 14, 1889
| January 9, 1893
| Democratic
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| David R. Francis
David R. Francis
David Rowland Francis was an American politician. He served in various positions including Mayor of Saint Louis, the 27th Governor of Missouri, and United States Secretary of the Interior. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Russia between 1916 and 1917, during the Russian Revolution of 1917...
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| John Baptiste O'Meara
| January 9, 1893
| January 11, 1897
| Democratic
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| William Joel Stone
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| August Bolte
| January 11, 1897
| January 14, 1901
| Democratic
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| Lawrence Vest Stephens
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| John Adams Lee
| January 14, 1901
| April 25, 1903
| Democratic
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| Alexander Monroe Dockery
Alexander Monroe Dockery
Alexander Monroe Dockery was a United States Representative and the 30th Governor of Missouri....
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| Thomas Lewis Rubey
| April 25, 1903
| January 9, 1905
| Democratic
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| Alexander Monroe Dockery
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| John C. McKinley
John C. McKinley
John C. McKinley was a lawyer and Republican politician from the state of Missouri. He was the state's 26th Lieutenant Governor as well as a member of the Missouri Senate.-Personal history:...
| January 9, 1905
| January 11, 1909
| Republican
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| Joseph W. Folk
Joseph W. Folk
Joseph "Holy Joe" Wingate Folk was an American lawyer, reformer, and politician from St. Louis, Missouri.Raised in a strict Baptist household in Brownsville, Tennessee, Folk first made his reputation as a lawyer for transit workers in the St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900...
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| Jacob Friedrich Gmelich
| January 11, 1909
| January 13, 1913
| Republican
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| Herbert S. Hadley
Herbert S. Hadley
Herbert Spencer Hadley was an American lawyer and a Republican Party politician from St. Louis, Missouri. Born in Olathe, Kansas, he was Missouri Attorney General from 1905 to 1909 and was the 32nd Governor of Missouri from 1909 to 1913. As Attorney General, he successfully prosecuted Standard Oil...
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| William Rock Painter
William Rock Painter
William Rock Painter was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was the state's 28th Lieutenant Governor and later a State Senator.-Personal history:...
| January 13, 1913
| January 8, 1917
| Democratic
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| Elliot Woolfolk Major
Elliot Woolfolk Major
Elliot Woolfolk Major was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Pike County, Missouri.-Biography:...
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| Wallace Crossley
Wallace Crossley
Wallace Crossley was a Missouri lieutenant governor and publisher of The Daily Star-Journal in Warrensburg, Missouri.Crossley was born in Bellair, Missouri in Cooper County, Missouri....
| January 8, 1917
| January 10, 1921
| Democratic
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| Frederick D. Gardner
Frederick D. Gardner
Frederick "Fred" Dozier Gardner , an American businessman and coffin and hearse manufacturer from St. Louis, Missouri, served as the 34th Governor of Missouri from 1917 to 1921.-Political career:...
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| Hiram Lloyd
| January 10, 1921
| January 12, 1925
| Republican
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| Arthur M. Hyde
Arthur M. Hyde
Arthur Mastick Hyde was an American Republican politician who served as the 35th Governor of Missouri and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.-Biography:...
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| Philip Allen Bennett
Philip Allen Bennett
Philip Allen Bennett was a Republican politician from the state of Missouri. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Missouri's 6th District during the 77th Congress. Prior to that Bennett was the 31st Lieutenant Governor of Missouri and served in the Missouri...
| January 12, 1925
| January 14, 1929
| Republican
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| Samuel Aaron Baker
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| Edward Henry Winter
Edward Henry Winter
Edward Henry Winter was an American politician and newspaper publisher from the state of Missouri. He served as the states 32nd Lieutenant Governor as well as in the Missouri General Assembly. Winter was a member of the Republican Party.-Personal history:Edward H...
| January 14, 1929
| January 9, 1933
| Republican
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| Henry S. Caulfield
Henry S. Caulfield
Henry Stewart Caulfield was an American lawyer and Republican politician from St. Louis, Missouri. He represented Missouri in the U.S. House from 1907 to 1909 and was the 37th Governor of Missouri from 1929 to 1933...
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| rowspan="3" | Frank Gaines Harris
Frank Gaines Harris
Frank Gaines Harris was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was the state's 33rd Lieutenant Governor and held that office longer than anyone else to date.-Personal history:...
| rowspan="3" | January 9, 1933
| rowspan="3" | December 30, 1944
| rowspan="3" | Democratic
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| Guy Brasfield Park
Guy Brasfield Park
Guy Brasfield Park was a politician from the U.S. State of Missouri.Park was born in Platte City, Missouri and he graduated from law school at the University of Missouri. Park practiced law in Platte City, twice winning election to be the prosecuting attorney for Platte County...
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| Lloyd C. Stark
Lloyd C. Stark
Lloyd Crow Stark was the 39th Governor of the U.S. state of Missouri. He was a Democrat.Stark was born in Louisiana, Missouri. Stark is a 1908 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. After serving four years as a naval officer, Stark went into the family business, the Stark Brothers...
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| Forrest C. Donnell
Forrest C. Donnell
Forrest C. Donnell was a United States Senator and the 40th Governor of Missouri. He was a Republican.-Early life:Donnell was born in Quitman, Missouri....
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| December 30, 1944
| January 8, 1945
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| Forrest C. Donnell
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| Walter Naylor Davis
Walter Naylor Davis
Walter Naylor Davis was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was the state's 34th Lieutenant Governor and a former commissioner of the Missouri Supreme Court.-Personal history:...
| January 8, 1945
| January 10, 1949
| Democratic
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| Phil M. Donnelly
Phil M. Donnelly
Philip Matthew Donnelly was the 41st and 43rd Governor of Missouri. He was a Democrat. Donnelly and Christopher S. "Kit" Bond are unique in being the only Missouri governors to serve two non-consecutive terms....
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| rowspan="2" | James T. Blair, Jr.
James T. Blair, Jr.
James Thomas Blair, Jr. was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was the 44th Governor of Missouri as well as serving as Lieutenant Governor of Missouri and a member of the Missouri House of Representatives....
| rowspan="2" | January 10, 1949
| rowspan="2" | January 14, 1957
| rowspan="2" | Democratic
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| Forrest Smith
Forrest Smith
Forrest Smith was the 42nd Governor of Missouri. He was a Democrat.-Personal:Forrest Smith was born February 14, 1886 near Hardin in Ray County, Missouri. After receiving his secondary education at Woodson Institute in Richmond, Missouri, Smith attended Westminster College...
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| Phil M. Donnelly
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| Edward V. Long
Edward V. Long
Edward Vaughn Long was a United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1960 until 1968....
| January 14, 1957
| September 23, 1960
| Democratic
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| James T. Blair, Jr.
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| September 23, 1960
| January 9, 1961
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| James T. Blair, Jr.
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| Hilary A. Bush
Hilary A. Bush
Hilary Ashby Bush was a Democratic Party politician who was Jackson County, Missouri prosecutor in the 1940s and 1950s and Missouri's Lieutenant Governor in the 1960s....
| January 9, 1961
| January 11, 1965
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| John M. Dalton
John M. Dalton
John Montgomery Dalton was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was the 45th Governor of Missouri and the states' 34th Attorney General.-Personal history:...
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| Thomas Eagleton
Thomas Eagleton
Thomas Francis Eagleton was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1968–1987. He is best remembered for briefly being the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972...
| January 11, 1965
| January 13, 1969
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| Warren E. Hearnes
Warren E. Hearnes
Warren Eastman Hearnes was an American politician and the 46th Governor of Missouri from 1965 to 1973. He was the first Missouri Governor eligible to serve two consecutive four year terms, and a lifelong Democrat...
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| William S. Morris
| January 13, 1969
| January 8, 1973
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| Warren E. Hearnes
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| rowspan="2" | William C. Phelps
| rowspan="2" | January 8, 1973
| rowspan="2" | January 12, 1981
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| Christopher "Kit" Bond
Kit Bond
Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond is a former United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, he defeated Democrat Harriett Woods by a margin of 53%-47%. He was re-elected in 1992, 1998, and 2004...
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| Joseph P. Teasdale
Joseph P. Teasdale
Joseph Patrick Teasdale is an American politician. He served as the 48th Governor of Missouri from 1977 to 1981. He is member of the Democratic Party....
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| Kenneth Rothman
| January 12, 1981
| January 14, 1985
| Democratic
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| Christopher "Kit" Bond
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| Harriett Woods
Harriett Woods
Harriett Woods was an American politician and activist, a two-time Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from Missouri, and a former Lieutenant Governor of Missouri...
| January 14, 1985
| January 9, 1989
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| John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft
John David Ashcroft is a United States politician who served as the 79th United States Attorney General, from 2001 until 2005, appointed by President George W. Bush. Ashcroft previously served as the 50th Governor of Missouri and a U.S...
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| Mel Carnahan
Mel Carnahan
Melvin Eugene "Mel" Carnahan was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as the 51st Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000. He died in a plane crash on the Pevely and Hillsboro, Missouri border during a campaign for the U.S...
| January 9, 1989
| January 11, 1993
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| John Ashcroft
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| Roger B. Wilson
Roger B. Wilson
Roger B. Wilson is an American politician who was the 52nd Governor of Missouri from October 16, 2000 to January 8, 2001. He is a Democrat.- Early Life and education :...
| January 11, 1993
| October 17, 2000
| Democratic
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| Mel Carnahan
Mel Carnahan
Melvin Eugene "Mel" Carnahan was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as the 51st Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000. He died in a plane crash on the Pevely and Hillsboro, Missouri border during a campaign for the U.S...
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| October 17, 2000
| November 15, 2000
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| Roger B. Wilson
Roger B. Wilson
Roger B. Wilson is an American politician who was the 52nd Governor of Missouri from October 16, 2000 to January 8, 2001. He is a Democrat.- Early Life and education :...
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| rowspan="2" | Joe Maxwell
Joe Maxwell
Joe Maxwell is an American attorney and former Lieutenant Governor for the state of Missouri. He is a Democrat who also served in the Missouri House of Representatives and the Missouri Senate.-Personal history:...
| rowspan="2" | November 15, 2000
| rowspan="2" | January 10, 2005
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| Roger B. Wilson
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| Bob Holden
Bob Holden
Robert Lee "Bob" Holden, Jr. is an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the 53rd Governor of Missouri.-Early life:...
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| rowspan="2" | Peter Kinder
Peter Kinder
Peter D. Kinder is an American politician from the U.S. state of Missouri. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of Missouri in 2004 as Matt Blunt was elected Governor. Kinder was reelected in 2008 at the same time Jay Nixon was elected Governor. Kinder is a member of the Republican Party...
| rowspan="2" | January 10, 2005 || rowspan="2" | Incumbent
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| Matt Blunt
Matt Blunt
Matthew Roy Blunt served as the 54th Governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2009. Before his election as governor, Blunt served ten years in the United States Navy, was elected to serve in the Missouri General Assembly in 1998 and as Missouri's Secretary of State in 2000.A Republican, Blunt was elected...
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| Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
Jeremiah Wilson "Jay" Nixon, Sr. is the 55th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Missouri's Attorney General before his election in 2008.-Political career:...
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Other high offices held
This is a table of congressional, other governorships, and other federal offices held by lieutenant governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Missouri except where noted. * denotes those offices which the lieutenant governor resigned or otherwise left office to take.{| class="wikitable"
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United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
! Senate
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
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| Daniel Dunklin
Daniel Dunklin
Daniel Dunklin was the fifth Governor of Missouri from 1832 to 1836. He was born in 1790 in Greenville, South Carolina, and died in 1844 near Herculaneum, Missouri, where he is buried. His grave is a state historic site and interprets Dunklin's role as the Father of Public Schools, as well as...
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| Daniel Dunklin
Daniel Dunklin
Daniel Dunklin was the fifth Governor of Missouri from 1832 to 1836. He was born in 1790 in Greenville, South Carolina, and died in 1844 near Herculaneum, Missouri, where he is buried. His grave is a state historic site and interprets Dunklin's role as the Father of Public Schools, as well as...
| 1828–1832
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| Lilburn Boggs
Lilburn Boggs
Lilburn Williams Boggs was the sixth Governor of Missouri from 1836 to 1840. He is now most widely remembered for his interactions with Joseph Smith and Porter Rockwell, and Missouri Executive Order 44, known by Mormons as the "Extermination Order", issued in response to the ongoing conflict...
| 1832–1836
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| Meredith Miles Marmaduke
Meredith Miles Marmaduke
Meredith Miles Marmaduke was Missouri's eighth Governor, serving in 1844. He was a Democrat. He was also Lieutenant Governor of Missouri 1840–1844.-Life and career:...
| 1840–1844
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| Thomas Lawson Price
Thomas Lawson Price
Thomas Lawson Price was a United States Representative from Missouri.Born near Danville, Virginia, Price attended public schools. He moved to Missouri in 1831 and settled in Jefferson City. He conducted stage lines and engaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits. He was the first mayor of...
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| Hancock Lee Jackson
Hancock Lee Jackson
Hancock Lee Jackson was an American lawyer and politician. As Lieutenant Governor he was the 13th Governor of Missouri in 1857, taking office after previous Democratic Governor Trusten Polk resigned on February 27, 1857. Jackson was succeeded by fellow Democrat Robert Marcellus Stewart...
| 1857
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| Thomas Caute Reynolds
Thomas Caute Reynolds
Thomas Caute Reynolds was a lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of Missouri as the state considered secession and then was the second Confederate Governor of Missouri...
| 1861
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...
Governor of Missouri
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| Willard Preble Hall
| 1861–1864
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| Edwin Obed Stanard
| 1869–1871
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| Norman Jay Coleman
| 1875–1877
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| U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
United States Secretary of Agriculture
The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The current secretary is Tom Vilsack, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on 20 January 2009. The position carries similar responsibilities to those of agriculture ministers in other...
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| Albert P. Morehouse
Albert P. Morehouse
Albert Pickett Morehouse was the 26th Governor of Missouri from 1887 to 1889.Morehouse was born in Delaware County, Ohio and moved to Maryville, Missouri in 1856. He was admitted to the bar and began practice in Montgomery County, Iowa.At the beginning of the American Civil War, he moved back to...
| 1885–1887
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| Thomas Lewis Rubey
| 1903–1905
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| Philip Allen Bennett
Philip Allen Bennett
Philip Allen Bennett was a Republican politician from the state of Missouri. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Missouri's 6th District during the 77th Congress. Prior to that Bennett was the 31st Lieutenant Governor of Missouri and served in the Missouri...
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| James T. Blair, Jr.
James T. Blair, Jr.
James Thomas Blair, Jr. was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was the 44th Governor of Missouri as well as serving as Lieutenant Governor of Missouri and a member of the Missouri House of Representatives....
| 1949–1957
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| Edward V. Long
Edward V. Long
Edward Vaughn Long was a United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1960 until 1968....
| 1957–1960
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| Thomas Eagleton
Thomas Eagleton
Thomas Francis Eagleton was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1968–1987. He is best remembered for briefly being the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972...
| 1965–1969
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| Mel Carnahan
Mel Carnahan
Melvin Eugene "Mel" Carnahan was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as the 51st Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000. He died in a plane crash on the Pevely and Hillsboro, Missouri border during a campaign for the U.S...
| 1989–1993
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| Governor of Missouri, Posthumously elected U.S. Senator
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| Roger B. Wilson
Roger B. Wilson
Roger B. Wilson is an American politician who was the 52nd Governor of Missouri from October 16, 2000 to January 8, 2001. He is a Democrat.- Early Life and education :...
| 1993–2000
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Living former lieutenant governors
, five former governors were alive, the oldest being William C. Phelps (1973–1981, born 1934). The most recent lieutenant governor to die was Thomas EagletonThomas Eagleton
Thomas Francis Eagleton was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1968–1987. He is best remembered for briefly being the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972...
(1965–1969) on March 4, 2007. The most recent serving lieutenant governor to die was Mel Carnahan
Mel Carnahan
Melvin Eugene "Mel" Carnahan was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as the 51st Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000. He died in a plane crash on the Pevely and Hillsboro, Missouri border during a campaign for the U.S...
(1993–2000) on October 16, 2000.
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| William C. Phelps
| 1973–1981
| April 5, 1934
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| Kenneth Rothman
| 1981–1985
| October 11, 1935
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| Roger B. Wilson
Roger B. Wilson
Roger B. Wilson is an American politician who was the 52nd Governor of Missouri from October 16, 2000 to January 8, 2001. He is a Democrat.- Early Life and education :...
| 1993–2000
| October 10, 1948
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| Joe Maxwell
Joe Maxwell
Joe Maxwell is an American attorney and former Lieutenant Governor for the state of Missouri. He is a Democrat who also served in the Missouri House of Representatives and the Missouri Senate.-Personal history:...
| 2000–2005
| March 17, 1957
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