Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
| Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky | |
|---|---|
 Commonwealth seal | |
 Incumbent Jenean Hampton since December 8, 2015 | |
| Style | The Honorable |
| Term length | Four years, renewable once |
| Inaugural holder | Alexander Scott Bullitt (1800) |
| Formation | Kentucky Constitution |
| Salary | $124,113.60 [1] |
| Website | http://ltgovernor.ky.gov |
The office of Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky was created under the state's second constitution, which was ratified in 1799. The inaugural officeholder was Alexander Scott Bullitt, who took office in 1800 following his election to serve under James Garrard in 1799. The lieutenant governor serves as governor of Kentucky under circumstances similar to the Vice President of the United States assuming the powers of the presidency. The current Lieutenant Governor is Republican Jenean Hampton.
Contents
1 Duties of the Kentucky Lt. Governor
2 Changes by 1992 amendment
3 List of lieutenant governors
4 Living former lieutenant governors of Kentucky
5 See also
6 References
Duties of the Kentucky Lt. Governor
as specified in Kentucky Revised Statute 11.400
11.400 Duties of Lieutenant Governor.[2]
(1) In addition to the duties prescribed for the office by the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, the duties of the Lieutenant Governor shall be as
follows:
(a) To serve as vice chairman of the State Property and Buildings Commission as
prescribed by KRS 56.450;
(b) To serve as vice chairman of the Kentucky Turnpike Authority as prescribed
in KRS 175.430;
(c) To serve as a member of the Kentucky Council on Agriculture in accordance
with KRS 247.417;
(d) To appoint one (1) member of the Public Officials' Compensation
Commission as provided in KRS 64.742;
(e) To serve as a member of the Board of the Kentucky Housing Corporation in
accordance with KRS 198A.030; and
(f) To serve as a member of Kentucky delegations on the following interstate
compact commissions or boards:
1. The Southern Growth Policies Board as prescribed by KRS 147.585;
2. The Breaks Interstate Park Commission as provided in KRS 148.225;
3. The Falls of the Ohio Interstate Park Commission pursuant to KRS
148.242;
4. The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority pursuant
to KRS 182.305;
5. The Interstate Water Sanitation Control Commissions as prescribed by
KRS 224.18-710; and
6. The Kentucky Mining Advisory Council for the Interstate Mining
Compact as provided by KRS 350.310.
(2) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the Governor and Lieutenant Governor from
agreeing upon additional duties within the executive branch of the state government
to be performed by the Lieutenant Governor.
Effective: June 26, 2007
Changes by 1992 amendment
The role and powers of the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky were altered by a 1992 amendment to the Constitution of Kentucky. Prior to that 1992 amendment to the Constitution of Kentucky the lieutenant governor became acting governor at any time that the governor was outside of the commonwealth. Lieutenant governors Thelma Stovall (1975–1979) and Happy Chandler (1931–1935) engaged in high-profile use of their powers as acting governor when the elected governor was out of the commonwealth.
Kentucky's first governor's mansion served as the lieutenant governor's official residence for many years.
Also prior to the 1992 amendment of the Constitution of Kentucky, the lieutenant governor of Kentucky presided over the Kentucky Senate, casting a vote only in the event of a tie. The 1992 constitutional amendment supplanted the office of President pro tempore of the Kentucky Senate with the new office of President of the Kentucky Senate as presiding officer and abolished the lieutenant governor's duties involving the Senate. As a result, the lieutenant governor has no ongoing constitutional duties, and his or her traditional use of the Old Governor's Mansion as an official residence has been phased out.
Candidates for governor and lieutenant governor in Kentucky run together on party slates. This is the result of the same 1992 constitutional amendment; prior to that the candidates for both offices ran separately and, as a result, sometimes the two elected to those offices were not allies and did not work together. This was famously highlighted when then-Lt. Gov. A. B. "Happy" Chandler in 1935 and then-Lt. Gov. Thelma Stovall in 1978 called the Kentucky General Assembly into session to enact legislation that was not advocated by the governors at the time (Ruby Laffoon and Julian Carroll, respectively). In 1967 a Republican, Louie Nunn, was elected governor and a Democrat, Wendell H. Ford, was elected lieutenant governor; they served together in that way for four years.
List of lieutenant governors
Democratic (29)
Democratic-Republican (5)
National Republican (1)
Free Soil (0)
Republican (7)
Whig (5)
| # | Name | Political Party | Term | Governor(s) served under |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexander Scott Bullitt | 1800–1804 | James Garrard | |
| 2 | John Caldwell | 1804 | Christopher Greenup | |
| 3 | Thomas Posey | Democratic-Republican | 1806–1808 | Christopher Greenup |
| 4 | Gabriel Slaughter | Democratic-Republican | 1808–1812 | Charles Scott |
| 5 | Richard Hickman | 1812–1816 | Isaac Shelby | |
| 6 | Gabriel Slaughter | Democratic-Republican | 1816 | George Madison |
| Vacant 1816–1820 | Gabriel Slaughter | |||
| 7 | William T. Barry | Democratic-Republican | 1820–1824 | John Adair |
| 8 | Robert B. McAfee | Democratic-Republican | 1824–1828 | Joseph Desha |
| 9 | John Breathitt | Democratic | 1828–1832 | Thomas Metcalfe |
| 10 | James T. Morehead | National Republican, Whig | 1832–1834 | John Breathitt |
| Vacant 1834–1836 | James T. Morehead | |||
| 11 | Charles A. Wickliffe | Whig | 1836–1839 | James Clark |
| 12 | Manlius Valerius Thomson | 1840–1844 | Robert P. Letcher | |
| 13 | Archibald Dixon | Whig | 1844–1848 | William Owsley |
| 14 | John LaRue Helm | Whig | 1848–1850 | John J. Crittenden |
| Vacant 1850–1851 | John L. Helm | |||
| 15 | John Burton Thompson | Whig, Know Nothing | 1851–1853 | Lazarus W. Powell |
| 16 | James Greene Hardy | Know Nothing | 1855–1856 | Charles S. Morehead |
| Vacant 1856–1859 | ||||
| 17 | Linn Boyd | Democratic | 1859 | Beriah Magoffin |
| 18 | Richard Taylor Jacob | Democratic | 1863–1864 | Thomas E. Bramlette |
| Vacant 1864–1867 | Thomas E. Bramlette | |||
| 19 | John W. Stevenson | Democratic | 1867 | John L. Helm |
| Vacant 1867–1871 | ||||
| 20 | John G. Carlisle | Democratic | 1871–1875 | Preston H. Leslie |
| 21 | John C. Underwood | 1875–1879 | James B. McCreary | |
| 22 | James E. Cantrill | 1879–1883 | Luke P. Blackburn | |
| 23 | James R. Hindman | Democratic | 1883–1887 | J. Proctor Knott |
| 24 | James W. Bryan | Democratic | 1887–1891 | Simon Bolivar Buckner |
| 25 | Mitchell C. Alford | Democratic | 1891–1895 | John Young Brown |
| 26 | William J. Worthington | Republican | 1895–1899 | William O. Bradley |
| 27 | John Marshall | Republican | 1899–1900 | William S. Taylor |
| 28 | J. C. W. Beckham | Democratic | 1900 | William Goebel |
| Vacant 1900–1903 | J. C. W. Beckham | |||
| 29 | William P. Thorne | 1903–1907 | J. C. W. Beckham | |
| 30 | William H. Cox | Republican | 1907–1911 | Augustus E. Willson |
| 31 | Edward J. McDermott | Democratic | 1911–1915 | James B. McCreary |
| 32 | James D. Black | Democratic | 1915–1919 | Augustus O. Stanley |
| 33 | S. Thruston Ballard | Republican | 1919–1923 | James D. Black Edwin P. Morrow |
| 34 | Henry Denhardt | 1923–1927 | William J. Fields | |
| 35 | James Breathitt, Jr. | Democratic | 1927–1931 | Flem D. Sampson |
| 36 | Happy Chandler | Democratic | 1931–1935 | Ruby Laffoon |
| 37 | Keen Johnson | Democratic | 1935–1939 | Happy Chandler |
| 38 | Rodes K. Myers | 1939–1943 | Keen Johnson | |
| 39 | Kenneth H. Tuggle | Republican | 1943–1947 | Simeon Willis |
| 40 | Lawrence W. Wetherby | Democratic | 1947–1950 | Earle Clements |
| 41 | Emerson "Doc" Beauchamp | Democratic | 1951–1955 | Lawrence W. Wetherby vacant |
| 42 | Harry Lee Waterfield | Democratic | 1955–1959 | Happy Chandler |
| 43 | Wilson W. Wyatt | Democratic | 1959–1963 | Bert Combs |
| 44 | Harry Lee Waterfield | Democratic | 1963–1967 | Ned Breathitt |
| 45 | Wendell H. Ford | Democratic | 1967–1971 | Louie Nunn |
| 46 | Julian M. Carroll | Democratic | 1971–1974 | Wendell Ford |
| Vacant 1974–1975 | ||||
| 47 | Thelma Stovall | Democratic | 1975–1979 | Julian Carroll |
| 48 | Martha Layne Collins | Democratic | 1979–1983 | John Y. Brown Jr. |
| 49 | Steve Beshear | Democratic | 1983–1987 | Martha Layne Collins |
| 50 | Brereton C. Jones | Democratic | 1987–1991 | Wallace Wilkinson |
| 51 | Paul E. Patton | Democratic | 1991–1995 | Brereton C. Jones |
| 52 | Steve Henry | Democratic | 1995–2003 | Paul E. Patton |
| 53 | Steve Pence | Republican | 2003–2007 | Ernie Fletcher |
| 54 | Daniel Mongiardo | Democratic | 2007–2011 | Steve Beshear |
| 55 | Jerry Abramson | Democratic | 2011–2014 | Steve Beshear |
| 56 | Crit Luallen | Democratic | 2014–2015 | Steve Beshear |
| 57 | Jenean Hampton | Republican | 2015–present | Matt Bevin |
Some accounts also indicate that Kentucky's Confederate government had one lieutenant governor, Horatio F. Simrall, who was elected at the Russellville Convention in 1861. Simrall fled to Mississippi shortly thereafter.[3]
Living former lieutenant governors of Kentucky
As of January 2017[update], ten former lieutenant governors were alive, the oldest being Julian Carroll (served 1971–1974, born 1931). The most recent death of a former lieutenant governor was that of Wendell H. Ford (served 1967–1971, born 1924), on January 22, 2015. The most recently serving lieutenant governor to die was Thelma Stovall (1975-1979) on February 4, 1994.
| Lt. Governor | Lt. Gubernatorial term | Date of birth (and age) |
|---|---|---|
Julian M. Carroll | 1971–1974 | (1931-04-16) April 16, 1931 |
Martha Layne Collins | 1979–1983 | (1936-12-07) December 7, 1936 |
Steve Beshear | 1983–1987 | (1944-09-21) September 21, 1944 |
Brereton C. Jones | 1987–1991 | (1939-06-27) June 27, 1939 |
Paul E. Patton | 1991–1995 | (1937-05-26) May 26, 1937 |
Steve Henry | 1995–2003 | (1953-10-08) October 8, 1953 |
Steve Pence | 2003–2007 | (1953-12-22) December 22, 1953 |
Daniel Mongiardo | 2007–2011 | (1960-07-04) July 4, 1960 |
Jerry Abramson | 2011–2014 | (1946-09-12) September 12, 1946 |
Crit Luallen | 2014–2015 | (1952-07-21) July 21, 1952 |
See also
- Governor of Kentucky
References
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^ Kentucky Revised Statute 11.400
^ Powell, Robert A. (1976). Kentucky Governors. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Images. ASIN B0006CPOVM. OCLC 2690774.
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