List of lieutenant governors of South Carolina

Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina

Incumbent Henry McMaster since January 14, 2015
Style	His Honor
Term length	Four years
Inaugural holder	Thomas Broughton (1730)
Formation	Board of Trade
Salary	$46,000 (2013) ^[1]

This is a list of lieutenant governors of the U.S. state of South Carolina, 1730 to present. In South Carolina, 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. However, a Constitutional Amendment was passed on November 6, 2012 that would require the Governor and Lieutenant Governor to run on the same ticket, effective with the 2018 election.^[2]

Royal period (1719–1776)

The Lieutenant Governor position was created by the British government under the control of the Board of Trade in 1729 for a term beginning on January 1, 1730. Prior to that, the Governor appointed a deputy governor to act in his stead during his absence. There were only three Lieutenant Governors during the Royal period and two were father and son.

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Governor(s) Served Under
1	Thomas Broughton	January 1, 1730	November 22, 1737	Robert Johnson
2	William Bull I	December 23, 1738	March 21, 1755	James Glen
3	William Bull II	March 21, 1755	March 26, 1776	James Glen
				William Henry Lyttleton
				Thomas Boone
				Charles Greville Montagu
				William Campbell

Statehood period (1776–present)

Vice Presidents under the Constitution of 1776

The General Assembly chose the Vice President for a term of two years.

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Governor(s) Served Under
4	Henry Laurens	March 26, 1776	January 10, 1777	No party	John Rutledge
5	James Parsons	June 27, 1777	January 9, 1779	No party	John Rutledge

Lieutenant Governors under the Constitution of 1778

The General Assembly chose the Lieutenant Governor for a term of two years.

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Governor(s) Served Under
6	Thomas Bee	January 9, 1779	January 24, 1780	No party	John Rutledge
7	Christopher Gadsden	January 24, 1780	January 31, 1782	No party	John Rutledge
8	Richard Hutson	January 31, 1782	February 4, 1783	No party	John Mathews
9	Richard Beresford	February 4, 1783	March 15, 1783	No party	Benjamin Guerard
10	William Moultrie	February 16, 1784	February 11, 1785	No party	Benjamin Guerard
11	Charles Drayton	February 11, 1785	February 20, 1787	No party	William Moultrie
12	Thomas Gadsden	February 20, 1787	January 26, 1789	Federalist	Thomas Pinckney
13	Alexander Gillon	January 26, 1789	February 15, 1791	Federalist	Charles Pinckney

Lieutenant Governors under the Constitution of 1790

The General Assembly chose the Lieutenant Governor for a term of two years.

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Governor(s) Served Under
14	Isaac Holmes	February 15, 1791	December 5, 1792	Federalist	Charles Pinckney
15	James Ladson	December 5, 1792	December 17, 1794	Federalist	William Moultrie
16	Lewis Morris	December 17, 1794	December 8, 1796	Federalist	Arnoldus Vanderhorst
17	Robert Anderson	December 8, 1796	December 18, 1798	Democratic- Republican	Charles Pinckney
18	John Drayton	December 18, 1798	January 23, 1800	Democratic- Republican	Edward Rutledge
19	Richard Winn	December 4, 1800	December 8, 1802	Democratic- Republican	John Drayton
20	Ezekiel Pickens	December 8, 1802	December 7, 1804	Democratic- Republican	James Burchill Richardson
21	Thomas Sumter, Jr.	December 7, 1804	December 9, 1806	Democratic- Republican	Paul Hamilton
22	John Hopkins	December 9, 1806	December 10, 1808	Democratic- Republican	Charles Pinckney
23	Frederick Nance	December 10, 1808	December 8, 1810	Democratic- Republican	John Drayton
24	Samuel Farrow	December 8, 1810	December 10, 1812	Democratic- Republican	Henry Middleton
25	Eldred Simkins	December 10, 1812	December 10, 1814	Democratic- Republican	Joseph Alston
26	Robert Creswell	December 10, 1814	December 5, 1816	Democratic- Republican	David Rogerson Williams
27	John A. Cuthbert	December 5, 1816	December 8, 1818	Democratic- Republican	Andrew Pickens
28	William Youngblood	December 8, 1818	December 7, 1820	Democratic- Republican	John Geddes
29	William Pinckney	December 7, 1820	December 7, 1822	Democratic- Republican	Thomas Bennett, Jr.
30	Henry Bradley	December 7, 1822	December 3, 1824	Democratic- Republican	John Lyde Wilson
31	William Bull	December 3, 1824	December 9, 1826	Democratic- Republican	Richard Irvine Manning I
32	James Witherspoon	December 9, 1826	December 10, 1828	Democratic- Republican	John Taylor
33	Thomas Williams	December 10, 1828	December 9, 1830	Democratic	Stephen Decatur Miller
34	Patrick Noble	December 9, 1830	December 10, 1832	Democratic	James Hamilton, Jr.
35	Charles Cotesworth Pinckney	December 10, 1832	December 9, 1834	Democratic	Robert Young Hayne
36	Whitemarsh B. Seabrook	December 9, 1834	December 10, 1836	Democratic	George McDuffie
37	William DuBose	December 10, 1836	December 7, 1838	Democratic	Pierce Mason Butler
38	Barnabas Kelet Henagan	December 7, 1838	April 7, 1840	Democratic	Patrick Noble
39	William K. Clowney	December 9, 1840	December 8, 1842	Democratic	John Peter Richardson II
40	Isaac Donnom Witherspoon	December 8, 1842	December 7, 1844	Democratic	James Henry Hammond
41	J.F. Ervin	December 7, 1844	December 8, 1846	Democratic	William Aiken
42	William Cain	December 8, 1846	December 12, 1848	Democratic	David Johnson
43	William Henry Gist	December 12, 1848	December 13, 1850	Democratic	Whitemarsh B. Seabrook
44	Joshua John Ward	December 13, 1850	December 9, 1852	Democratic	John Hugh Means
45	James Irby	December 9, 1852	December 11, 1854	Democratic	John Lawrence Manning
46	Richard de Treville	December 11, 1854	December 9, 1856	Democratic	James Hopkins Adams
47	Gabriel Cannon	December 9, 1856	December 10, 1858	Democratic	Robert F.W. Allston
48	M. E. Carn	December 10, 1858	December 14, 1860	Democratic	William Henry Gist
49	W.W. Harllee	December 14, 1860	December 17, 1862	Democratic	Francis Wilkinson Pickens
50	Plowden Weston	December 17, 1862	January 25, 1864	Democratic	Milledge Luke Bonham
51	Robert McCaw	December 18, 1864	May 25, 1865	Democratic	Andrew Gordon Magrath

Lieutenant Governors under the Constitution of 1865

First Constitution of South Carolina to provide for the direct election of the Lieutenant Governor.

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Governor(s) Served Under
52	W.D. Porter	November 30, 1865	July 6, 1868	No party	James Lawrence Orr

Lieutenant Governors under the Constitution of 1868

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Governor(s) Served Under
53	Lemuel Boozer	July 6, 1868	December 3, 1870	Republican	Robert Kingston Scott
54	Alonzo J. Ransier	December 3, 1870	December 7, 1872	Republican	Robert Kingston Scott
55	Richard Howell Gleaves	December 7, 1872	December 14, 1876	Republican	Franklin J. Moses, Jr.
55	Richard Howell Gleaves	December 7, 1872	December 14, 1876	Republican	Daniel Henry Chamberlain
56	William Dunlap Simpson	December 14, 1876	February 26, 1879	Democratic	Wade Hampton III
57	John D. Kennedy	November 30, 1880	December 1, 1882	Democratic	Johnson Hagood
58	John Calhoun Sheppard	December 1, 1882	July 10, 1886	Democratic	Hugh Smith Thompson
59	William Mauldin	November 30, 1886	December 4, 1890	Democratic	John Peter Richardson III
60	Eugene Gary	December 4, 1890	1893	Democratic	Benjamin Tillman
61	W.H. Timmerman	1893	January 18, 1897	Democratic	Benjamin Tillman
61	W.H. Timmerman	1893	January 18, 1897	Democratic	John Gary Evans

Lieutenant Governors under the Constitution of 1895

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Governor(s) Served Under
62	Miles Benjamin McSweeney	January 18, 1897	June 2, 1899	Democratic	William Haselden Ellerbe
63	Robert B. Scarborough	June 2, 1899	January 15, 1901	Democratic	Miles Benjamin McSweeney
64	James Tillman	January 15, 1901	January 20, 1903	Democratic	Miles Benjamin McSweeney
65	John Sloan	January 20, 1903	January 15, 1907	Democratic	Duncan Clinch Heyward
66	Thomas Gordon McLeod	January 15, 1907	January 17, 1911	Democratic	Martin Frederick Ansel
67	Charles Aurelius Smith	January 17, 1911	January 14, 1915	Democratic	Coleman Livingston Blease
68	Andrew Bethea	January 19, 1915	January 21, 1919	Democratic	Richard Irvine Manning III
69	J.T. Liles	January 21, 1919	January 18, 1921	Democratic	Robert Archer Cooper
70	Wilson Godfrey Harvey	January 18, 1921	May 20, 1922	Democratic	Robert Archer Cooper
71	E.B. Jackson	January 16, 1923	January 18, 1927	Democratic	Thomas Gordon McLeod
72	Thomas Bothwell Butler	January 18, 1927	January 20, 1931	Democratic	John Gardiner Richards, Jr.
73	James Sheppard	January 20, 1931	January 15, 1935	Democratic	Ibra Charles Blackwood
74	Joseph Emile Harley	January 15, 1935	November 4, 1941	Democratic	Olin D. Johnston
74	Joseph Emile Harley	January 15, 1935	November 4, 1941	Democratic	Burnett R. Maybank
75	Ransome Judson Williams	January 19, 1943	January 2, 1945	Democratic	Olin D. Johnston
76	George Bell Timmerman, Jr.	January 21, 1947	January 18, 1955	Democratic	Strom Thurmond
76	George Bell Timmerman, Jr.	January 21, 1947	January 18, 1955	Democratic	James F. Byrnes
77	Ernest "Fritz" Hollings	January 18, 1955	January 20, 1959	Democratic	George Bell Timmerman, Jr.
78	Burnet R. Maybank Jr.	January 20, 1959	January 15, 1963	Democratic	Ernest "Fritz" Hollings
79	Robert Evander McNair	January 15, 1963	April 22, 1965	Democratic	Donald S. Russell
80	John C. West	January 17, 1967	January 19, 1971	Democratic	Robert Evander McNair
81	Earle Morris, Jr.	January 19, 1971	January 21, 1975	Democratic	John C. West
82	W. Brantley Harvey, Jr.	January 21, 1975	January 10, 1979	Democratic	James B. Edwards
83	Nancy Stevenson	January 10, 1979	January 12, 1983	Democratic	Richard Riley
84	Michael R. Daniel	January 12, 1983	January 14, 1987	Democratic	Richard Riley
85	Nick Theodore	January 14, 1987	January 11, 1995	Democratic	Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.
86	Bob Peeler	January 11, 1995	January 15, 2003	Republican	David Beasley
86	Bob Peeler	January 11, 1995	January 15, 2003	Republican	Jim Hodges
87	André Bauer	January 15, 2003	January 12, 2011	Republican	Mark Sanford
88	Ken Ard	January 12, 2011	March 9, 2012	Republican	Nikki Haley
89	Glenn F. McConnell	March 13, 2012	June 18, 2014	Republican	Nikki Haley
90	J. Yancey McGill	June 18, 2014	January 14, 2015	Democratic	Nikki Haley
91	Henry McMaster	January 14, 2015	Incumbent	Republican	Nikki Haley

Living former U.S. Lieutenant Governors of South Carolina

As of January 2015, ten former U.S. lieutenant governors of South Carolina were alive, the oldest being Ernest Hollings (served 1955–1959, born 1922). The most recent death of a former U.S. lieutenant governor of South Carolina was that of Earle Morris, Jr. (served 1971–1975, born 1928), on February 11, 2011, the most recently serving U.S. lieutenant governor of South Carolina to die was Nancy Stevenson (served 1979-1983) on May 31, 2001.

Lt. Governor	Lt. Gubernatorial term	Date of birth (and age)
Ernest Hollings	1955–1959	(1922-01-01) January 1, 1922
Burnet R. Maybank Jr.	1959–1963	(1924-05-02) May 2, 1924
W. Brantley Harvey, Jr.	1975–1979	(1930-08-14) August 14, 1930
Michael R. Daniel	1983–1987	(1940-04-13) April 13, 1940
Nick Theodore	1987–1995	(1928-09-16) September 16, 1928
Bob Peeler	1995–2003	(1952-01-04) January 4, 1952
André Bauer	2003–2011	(1969-03-20) March 20, 1969
Ken Ard	2011–2012	(1963-12-18) December 18, 1963
Glenn F. McConnell	2012–2014	(1947-12-11) December 11, 1947
Yancey McGill	2014–2015	(1952-09-18) September 18, 1952

References

↑ http://ballotpedia.org/Lieutenant_Governor_of_South_Carolina
↑ "SC voters in favor of governor-lieutenant governor ticket". wmbfnews.com. Retrieved 31 October 2013.

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Current lieutenant governors in the United States

Vice President of the United States: Joe Biden (D)

AL Kay Ivey (R) AK Byron Mallott (D) AZ Michele Reagan (R)¹ AR Tim Griffin (R) CA Gavin Newsom (D) CO Joseph García (D) CT Nancy Wyman (D) DE Jeffrey Bullock (D)¹ FL Carlos López-Cantera (R) GA Casey Cagle (R) HI Shan Tsutsui (D) ID Brad Little (R) IL Evelyn Sanguinetti (R) IN Eric Holcomb (R) IA Kim Reynolds (R) KS Jeff Colyer (R) KY Jenean Hampton (R) LA Billy Nungesser (R) ME Michael Thibodeau (R)² MD Boyd Rutherford (R) MA Karyn Polito (R) MI Brian Calley (R) MN Tina Smith (D) MS Tate Reeves (R) MO Peter Kinder (R) MT Mike Cooney (D) NE Mike Foley (R) NV Mark Hutchison (R) NH Chuck Morse (R)² NJ Kim Guadagno (R) NM John Sánchez (R) NY Kathy Hochul (D) NC Dan Forest (R) ND Drew Wrigley (R) OH Mary Taylor (R) OK Todd Lamb (R) OR Ted Wheeler (D)⁴ PA Michael Stack (D) RI Daniel McKee (D) SC Henry McMaster (R) SD Matt Michels (R) TN Ron Ramsey (R)² TX Dan Patrick (R) UT Spencer Cox (R) VT Phillip Scott (R) VA Ralph Northam (D) WA Brad Owen (D) WV Bill Cole (R)² WI Rebecca Kleefisch (R) WY Ed Murray (R)¹ DC Phil Mendelson (D)³ Territories: AS Lemanu Peleti Mauga (D) GU Ray Tenorio (R) MP Victor Hocog (R) PR Víctor Suárez Meléndez (D)¹ VI Osbert Potter (I)

Next-in-line of succession for states and territories without lieutenant governors: 1. Secretary of State 2. Senate President 3. Council Chairman 4. Treasurer Political party affiliation: Republican: 38 Democratic: 17 Independent: 1

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