List of lieutenant governors of California

Below is a list of lieutenant governors of the U.S. state of California, 1849 to present. In California, the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor do not run together on the same ticket. The Lieutenant Governor can therefore be affiliated with a different political party than that of the Governor. Per the 1879 California Constitution, the Lieutenant Governor is the President of the State Senate.

List of lieutenant governors

Notes

1. Lieutenant governors represented the same party as their governor unless noted.
2. A civilian government was formed in late 1849 prior to official statehood, and operated as the state government for ten months before official statehood was granted.^[1]
3. Represented the Republican Party
4. Represented the Democratic Party
5. Represented the Progressive Party starting from the 1914 election
6. Fitts resigned to serve as a special prosecutor.
7. Hatfield instead ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for governor.
8. Houser instead ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate.
9. Finch resigned to be United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
10. Reinecke was forced to resign when convicted and sentenced for perjury; it was later overturned on appeal.
11. Curb instead ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for governor.
12. Garamendi resigned, having been elected to the United States House of Representatives.
13. Pasquil was appointed acting lieutenant governor until the nominated replacement, Abel Maldonado, could be confirmed.
14. Newsom delayed his swearing in as lieutenant governor until January 10, 2011, to remain mayor of San Francisco; Maldonado stayed on as lieutenant governor until then.^[3]
15. Kounalakis' second term began on January 2, 2023.

References

General

• "History of California Constitutional Officers" (PDF). California Secretary of State. Retrieved March 6, 2015.

Constitutions

• "Constitution of the State of California". Legislative Counsel of California. 1879. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
• "Constitution of the State of California". California Secretary of State. 1849. Archived from the original on January 28, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2010.

Specific

1. "Peter Hardeman Burnett". National Governors Association. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
2. "Governor Budd's Powers". Los Angeles Herald. AP. October 27, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
3. Upton Oot, John (January 7, 2011). "Newsom's Dual Role Raises Legal Quandary". The Bay Citizen. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2015.