Lieutenant Governor of Missouri

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The Lieutenant Governor of the State of Missouri is an elected Constitutional officer, the second ranking officer of the Executive branch, and the first officer in line to succeed the Governor of Missouri. The Lieutenant Governor is popularly elected every four years by a plurality and is limited to two terms.

Current officeholder

See also: Current Lieutenant Governors

The 46th and current lieutenant governor is Peter Kinder, a Republican elected in 2004 and 2008.

Authority

The state Constitution addresses the office of the governor in Article IV, the Executive Department.

Under Article IV, Section 10:

There shall be a lieutenant governor who shall have the same qualifications as the governor...

Qualifications

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A candidate for lieutenant governor must be:

• at least thirty years old
• a citizen of the United States for at least fifteen years
• a resident of Missouri for at least ten years

Elections

See also: Gubernatorial election cycles by state

See also: Election of lieutenant governors

Missouri elects lieutenant governors in the Presidential elections, that is, in leap years. For Missouri, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 are all lieutenant gubernatorial election years. Legally, the lieutenant gubernatorial inauguration is always set for the second Monday in the January following an election. Thus, January 14, 2013 and January 9, 2017 are inaugural days.

The lieutenant governor is elected separately and may be of a different party than the governor.

Vacancies

Details of vacancies are addressed under Article IV, Sections 11(a), (b), and (c).

Whatever the reason, a vacancy in the lieutenant governor's chair is filled using a legally prescribed line of succession.

Regardless of the reason for the vacancy, the line of succession after the Lieutenant Governor is the same:

• the President Pro Tem of the Senate

• the Speaker of the House of Representatives

• the Secretary of State

• the State Auditor

• the State Treasurer

• the Attorney General

Any officer who does serve as Acting Lieutenant Governor vacates her elected office so long as she is filling te vacant lieutenant governor's office; in that case, her chief ranked adminstrative staffer takes over her office until she returns.

Duties

The Missouri Lieutenant Governor 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 lieutenant governor has the right to preside over the Senate but is subject to the procedural rules of the state Senate while doing so. As president of the Senate, the lieutenant governor can cast a vote in the case of a tie. The Constitution also gives the lieutenant governor the right to debate and vote on issues when the Senate sits as a committee of the whole.

She has such other responsibilities and duties as the Governor shall assign.

Compensation

See also: Comparison of lieutenant gubernatorial salaries

The lieutenant governor's pay is set by law and may not be increased or diminished effective during the current term.

As of 2010, the lieutenant governor is paid $86,484 a year, the 25th highest lieutenant gubernatorial salary in America.

Former officeholders

Since 1820, Missouri has had 46 lieutenant governors. Of those 46, 34 have been Democrats, 9 Republicans, 2 Liberals and 1 Union.

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Party
1	William Henry Ashley	1820	1824	Democratic
2	Benjamin Harrison Reeves	1824	1828	Democratic
3	Daniel Dunklin	1828	1832	Democratic
4	Lilburn W. Boggs	1832	1836	Democratic
5	Franklin Cannon	1836	1840	Democratic
6	Meredith Miles Marmaduke	1840	1844	Democratic
7	James Young	1844	1848	Democratic
8	Thomas Lawson Price	1848	1852	Democratic
9	Wilson Brown	1853	1857	Democratic
10	Hancock Lee Jackson	1857	1861	Democratic
11	Thomas Caute Reynolds	1860	1861	Democratic
12	William Willard Preble Hall	1861	1864	Union
13	George Smith	1865	1869	Republican
14	Edwin Obed Standard	1869	1871	Republican
15	Joseph Jackson Gravelly	1871	1873	Liberal
16	Charles Phillip Johnson	1873	1875	Liberal
17	Norman J. Colman	1875	1877	Democratic
18	Henry Clay Brockmeyer	1877	1881	Democratic
19	Robert Alexander Campbell	1881	1885	Democratic
20	Albert Pickett Morehouse	1885	1889	Democratic
21	Stephen Hugh Claycomb	1889	1893	Democratic
22	John Baptiste O’Meara	1893	1897	Democratic
23	August Henry Bolte	1897	1901	Democratic
24	John Adams Lee	1901	1903	Democratic
25	Thomas Lewis Rubey	1903	1904	Democratic
26	John C. McKinley	1905	1909	Republican
27	Jacob Friedrich Gmelich	1909	1913	Republican
28	William Rock Painter	1913	1917	Democratic
29	Wallace Crossley	1917	1921	Democratic
30	Hiram Lloyd	1921	1925	Republican
31	Phillip Allen Bennett	1925	1929	Republican
32	Edward Henry Winter	1929	1933	Republican
33	Frank Gaines Harris	1933	1945	Democratic
34	Walter Naylor Davis	1945	1949	Democratic
35	James T. Blair Jr.	1949	1957	Democratic
36	Edward V. Long	1957	1961	Democratic
37	Hilary A. Bush	1961	1965	Democratic
38	Thomas F. Eagleton	1965	1969	Democratic
39	William S. Morris	1969	1973	Democratic
40	William C. Phelps	1973	1981	Republican
41	Kenneth J. Rothman	1981	1985	Democratic
42	Harriett Woods	1985	1989	Democratic
43	Mel Carnahan	1989	1993	Democratic
44	Roger B. Wilson	1993	2000	Democratic
45	Joe Maxwell	2000	2005	Democratic
46	Peter Kinder	2005	Present	Republican

Contact information

State Capitol Building
Room 224
Jefferson City MO 65101
Phone:573.751.4727
Fax: 573.751.9422

See also

• Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder
• Governor of Missouri
• Missouri Attorney General
• Missouri Secretary of State

External links

• Office of the Missouri Lieutenant Governor

References

• Wikipedia, Missouri Lieutenant Governor

Portions of this article were adapted from Wikipedia.