The Political Graveyard: Michigan: Lieutenant Governors (original) (raw)

Lieutenant Governors of Michigan, 1835-2022 (May be incomplete!)
Edward Mundy 1835-40James Wright Gordon 1840-41Origen D. Richardson 1842-46William L. Greenly 1846-47William M. Fenton 1848-51Calvin Britain 1852-53Andrew Parsons 1853George A. Coe 1855-58Edmund B. Fairfield 1859-60James Birney 1861Charles S. May 1863-64Ebenezer O. Grosvenor 1865-66Dwight May 1867-68Morgan Bates 1869-72Henry H. Holt 1873-76Alonzo Sessions 1877-80Moreau S. Crosby 1881-84Archibald Buttars 1885-86James H. McDonald 1887-89John Strong, Jr. 1891-92J. Wight Giddings 1893-94Alfred Milnes 1894-95Thomas B. Dunstan 1897-98Orrin W. Robinson 1899-1902Alexander Maitland 1903-06Patrick H. Kelley 1907-10John Q. Ross 1911-14Luren D. Dickinson 1915-20Thomas Read 1921-24George W. Welsh 1925-26Luren D. Dickinson 1927-32Allen E. Stebbins 1933-34Thomas Read 1935-36Leo J. Nowicki 1937-38Luren D. Dickinson 1939Matilda R. Wilson 1940Frank Murphy 1941-42Eugene C. Keyes 1943-44Vernon J. Brown 1945-46Eugene C. Keyes 1947-48John W. Connolly 1949-50William C. Vandenberg 1951-52Clarence A. Reid 1953-54Philip A. Hart 1955-58John B. Swainson 1959-60T. John Lesinski 1961-64William G. Milliken 1965-69James H. Brickley 1971-74James J. Damman 1975-78James H. Brickley 1979-82Martha W. Griffiths 1983-90Connie Binsfeld 1991-98Dick Posthumus 1999-2002John D. Cherry, Jr. 2003-Brian N. Calley 2011-18Garlin D. Gilchrist II 2019-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

• 1839: Thomas Fitzgerald, defeated.
• 1864: Ebenezer O. Grosvenor (Rep), elected.
• 1868: John G. Parkhurst, defeated.
• 1876: Julius Houseman (Dem), defeated.
• 1878: Alfred P. Swineford (Dem), defeated;Lysander Woodward, defeated.
• 1880: Sullivan Armstrong, defeated.
• 1886 Nov 2: James H. McDonald (Rep), elected;Solomon S. Curry (Fusion), defeated;Charles Mosher (Prohibition), defeated.
• 1889 Jan 19: James H. McDonald, died in office.
• 1890: William S. Linton (Rep), defeated.
• 1894: Perry Mayo (Rep), defeated.
• 1898 Nov 8: Orrin W. Robinson (Rep), elected;Michael F. McDonald (Fusion), defeated;N. Norton Clark (Prohibition), defeated;Austin S. Randall (People's), defeated;Joel Dregrey (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1900: Jonathan G. Ramsdell (Dem), defeated.
• 1906 Nov 6: Patrick H. Kelley (Rep), elected;Thomas N. Rogers (Dem), defeated;Henry H. Moore (Prohibition), defeated;Philip Engle (Socialist), defeated;Michael Huber (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1910 Nov 8: John Q. Ross (Rep), elected;Stephen D. Williams (Dem), defeated;Gerrit Masselink (Prohibition), defeated;Benjamin V. Lawrence (Socialist), defeated;Shepard B. Cowles (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1912: James W. Helme, Jr. (Dem), defeated;William D. Gordon (Progressive), defeated.
• 1914 Nov 3: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;Emmet L. Beach (Dem), defeated;James N. McBride (Progressive), defeated;Edward A. Kosten (Socialist), defeated;Harry C. Doane (Prohibition), defeated.
• 1916 Aug 29: John P. Kirk (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1916 Aug 29: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;David E. Heineman (Rep), defeated in primary;William D. Gordon (Rep), defeated in primary;Frank P. Bohn (Rep), defeated in primary;Robert Y. Ogg (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1916 Aug 29: Thomas H. Coxe (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
• 1916 Aug 29: John F. Eesley (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
• 1916 Aug 29: James H. Hunt (Socialist Labor), nominated unopposed.
• 1916 Nov 7: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;John S. Smith (Dem), defeated;Thomas H. Coxe (Socialist), defeated;John F. Eesley (Prohibition), defeated;James H. Hunt (Socialist Labor), defeated;Charles H. Coxe (Progressive), defeated.
• 1918 Aug 25: Ewart L. Gardiner (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1918 Aug 25: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;David E. Heineman (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1918 Aug 25: Harvey A. Hedden (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
• 1918 Aug 25: John Y. Johnston (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
• 1918 Aug 25: James M. Lee (Socialist Labor), nominated unopposed.
• 1918 Nov 5: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;Ewart L. Gardiner (Dem), defeated;Harvey A. Hedden (Socialist), defeated;John Y. Johnston (Prohibition), defeated;James M. Lee (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1920: Charles B. Scully (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1922 Sep 12: Walter I. McKenzie (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1922 Sep 12: Thomas Read (Rep), nominated unopposed.
• 1922 Sep 12: Edith R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
• 1922 Sep 12: Logan M. Cunningham (Socialist Labor), nominated unopposed.
• 1922 Nov 7: Thomas Read (Rep), elected;Walter I. McKenzie (Dem), defeated;Edith R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), defeated;Logan M. Cunningham (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1924: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), defeated in primary;G. Elmer McArthur (Rep), defeated in primary;Franklin Moore (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1924: Michael J. Doyle (Dem), defeated.
• 1926 Sep 14: Gerrit Masselink (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1926 Sep 14: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;George W. Welsh (Rep), defeated in primary;Fred B. Wells (Rep), defeated in primary;Oscar A. Riopelle (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1926 Sep 14: Edith R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
• 1926 Nov 2: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;Gerrit Masselink (Dem), defeated;Edith R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), defeated.
• 1928 Sep 4: Frank J. Sawyer (Dem), nominated;Theodore H. Elferdink (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 1928 Sep 4: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;Fred L. Woodworth (Rep), defeated in primary;G. Elmer McArthur (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1928 Sep 4: Edith R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
• 1928 Sep 4: George M. Campbell (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
• 1928 Sep 4: Wilfred Newman (Workers), nominated unopposed.
• 1928 Sep 4: Theodore Gramaticoff (Socialist Labor), nominated unopposed.
• 1928 Nov 6: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;Frank J. Sawyer (Dem), defeated;George M. Campbell (Socialist), defeated;Wilfred Newman (Workers), defeated;Edith R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), defeated;Theodore Gramaticoff (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1930 Sep 9: Frank J. Sawyer (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1930 Sep 9: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;Thomas Read (Rep), defeated in primary;Fred M. Breen (Rep), defeated in primary;Ethan M. Thompson (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1930 Sep 9: Ida S. Wilson (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
• 1930 Sep 9: Benjamin A. Faulkner (Workers), nominated unopposed.
• 1930 Sep 9: Norman Wager (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
• 1930 Nov 4: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;Frank J. Sawyer (Dem), defeated;Benjamin A. Faulkner (Workers), defeated;Ida S. Wilson (Socialist), defeated;Norman Wager (Prohibition), defeated.
• 1932: Charles A. Sink (Rep), defeated in primary;Virgil A. Fitch (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1932: E. M. Loose (Prohibition), defeated;Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), defeated.
• 1934 Sep 11: Allen E. Stebbins (Dem), nominated;John T. Bailey (Dem), defeated in primary;Patrick H. Kane (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 1934 Sep 11: Thomas Read (Rep), nominated;Fred R. Ming (Rep), defeated in primary;Ernest T. Conlon (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1934 Nov 6: Thomas Read (Rep), elected;Allen E. Stebbins (Dem), defeated;Roy E. Mathews (Socialist), defeated;John Maki (Communist), defeated;C. C. Willett (Farmer-Labor), defeated;Richard A. O'Brien (Socialist Labor), defeated;Maurice C. Latta (Commonwealth), defeated;George W. Starkweather (People's Progressive), defeated;Cliffie D. Willis (National), defeated;Walter A. Woods (American), defeated.
• 1936 Sep 15: Leo J. Nowicki (Dem), nominated;Leon D. Case (Dem), defeated in primary;Charles F. Hemans (Dem), defeated in primary;Henry C. Glasner (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 1936 Sep 15: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;Thomas Read (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1936 Nov 3: Leo J. Nowicki (Dem), elected;Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), defeated;Nahum Burnett (Socialist), defeated;Wesley Ried (Farmer-Labor), defeated;Frank Sykes (Communist), defeated;James C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated;Frank E. Ellsworth (American), defeated.
• 1938 Sep 13: Leo J. Nowicki (Dem), nominated;George A. Schroeder (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 1938 Sep 13: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;Thomas Read (Rep), defeated in primary;Arthur F. Moore (Rep), defeated in primary;Joseph A. Powers (Rep), defeated in primary;Edward W. Fehling (Rep), defeated in primary;Horace T. Barnaby (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1938 Nov 8: Luren D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;Leo J. Nowicki (Dem), defeated;Kermit Johnson (Socialist), defeated;Frank J. Sawyer (Constitutional Democratic), defeated;Anthony Koss (Socialist Labor), defeated;Charles E. Shaver (Square Deal), defeated;Blanche Winters (American), defeated;E. M. Loose (Commonwealth), defeated;Roy Dent (Protestants United), defeated.
• 1940 Sep 10: Frank Murphy (Dem), nominated;Anthony J. Wilkowski (Dem), defeated in primary;David M. Martin (Dem), defeated in primary;James L. Murphy (Dem), defeated in primary;Don W. Canfield (Dem), defeated in primary;Edward T. Kane (Dem), defeated in primary;Charles J. Rydzewski (Dem), defeated in primary;Arthur C. E. Strom (Dem), defeated in primary;Frank J. Berka (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 1940 Sep 10: Eugene C. Keyes (Rep), nominated;Arthur E. Wood (Rep), defeated in primary;Felix H. H. Flynn (Rep), defeated in primary;James F. Thomson (Rep), defeated in primary;Elton R. Eaton (Rep), defeated in primary;Arthur F. Moore (Rep), defeated in primary;R. N. Holsaple (Rep), defeated in primary;Horace T. Barnaby (Rep), defeated in primary;George W. Schudlich (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1940 Nov 5: Frank Murphy (Dem), elected;Eugene C. Keyes (Rep), defeated;Charles Walters (Socialist), defeated;Benjamin J. Faulkner (Communist), defeated;LeRoy M. Lowell (Prohibition), defeated;James C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1942 Sep 15: Frank Murphy (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1942 Sep 15: Eugene C. Keyes (Rep), nominated;Thomas Read (Rep), defeated in primary;D. Hale Brake (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1942 Nov 3: Eugene C. Keyes (Rep), elected;Frank Murphy (Dem), defeated;E. Harold Munn (Prohibition), defeated.
• 1944 Jul 11: James H. Lee (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1944 Jul 11: Vernon J. Brown (Rep), nominated;Eugene C. Keyes (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1944 Nov 7: Vernon J. Brown (Rep), elected;James H. Lee (Dem), defeated;Harold A. Lindahl (Prohibition), defeated;Samuel Leinbach (Socialist), defeated;George R. Vose (America First), defeated;James C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1946 Jun 18: Osmund Kelly (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1946 Jun 18: Eugene C. Keyes (Rep), nominated;Howard Nugent (Rep), defeated in primary;Owen J. Cleary (Rep), defeated in primary;George N. Higgins (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1946 Nov 5: Eugene C. Keyes (Rep), elected;Osmund Kelly (Dem), defeated;Harold A. Lindahl (Prohibition), defeated;W. Clifford Bentley (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1948 Sep 14: John W. Connolly (Dem), nominated;Victor Targonski (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 1948 Sep 14: Eugene C. Keyes (Rep), nominated unopposed.
• 1948 Nov 2: John W. Connolly (Dem), elected;Eugene C. Keyes (Rep), defeated;Perry Hayden (Prohibition), defeated;Leonard Klue (Socialist), defeated;James C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1950 Sep 12: John W. Connolly (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1950 Sep 12: William C. Vandenberg (Rep), nominated;Harry Henderson (Rep), defeated in primary;Dan Mills (Rep), defeated in primary;Laverne Laubengayer (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1950 Nov 7: William C. Vandenberg (Rep), elected;John W. Connolly (Dem), defeated;Richard E. DeMille (Prohibition), defeated;James C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated;Sol Dollinger (Socialist Workers), defeated.
• 1952 Aug 5: John W. Connolly (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1952 Aug 5: Clarence A. Reid (Rep), nominated;George W. Welsh (Rep), defeated in primary;Harry Henderson (Rep), defeated in primary;David E. Young (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1952 Nov 4: Clarence A. Reid (Rep), elected;John W. Connolly (Dem), defeated;Harold A. Lindahl (Prohibition), defeated;James C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1954 Aug 3: Philip A. Hart (Dem), nominated;George S. Fitzgerald (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 1954 Aug 3: Clarence A. Reid (Rep), nominated unopposed.
• 1954 Nov 2: Philip A. Hart (Dem), elected;Clarence A. Reid (Rep), defeated;Harold A. Lindahl (Prohibition), defeated;James C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1956 Aug 7: Philip A. Hart (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1956 Aug 7: Clarence A. Reid (Rep), nominated unopposed.
• 1956 Nov 6: Philip A. Hart (Dem), elected;Clarence A. Reid (Rep), defeated;Harold A. Lindahl (Prohibition), defeated.
• 1958 Aug 5: John B. Swainson (Dem), nominated;Michael T. Mohardt (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 1958 Nov 4: John B. Swainson (Dem), elected;Donald A. Brown (Rep), defeated;Herbert E. Crouter (Prohibition), defeated;James C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated;Larry Dolinski (Socialist Workers), defeated.
• 1960 Aug 2: T. John Lesinski (Dem), nominated;Richard F. Vander Veen (Dem), defeated in primary;George H. Dougherty (Dem), defeated in primary;William J. Coughlin (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 1960 Aug 2: Clarence A. Reid (Rep), nominated;Edward Hutchinson (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1960 Nov 8: T. John Lesinski (Dem), elected;Clarence A. Reid (Rep), defeated;W. Clifford Bentley (Socialist Labor), defeated;Evelyn Sell (Socialist Workers), defeated;Laverne Laubengayer (Tax Cut), defeated;Phillip E. Fisher (Prohibition), defeated;Basil C. Sherlock (Independent American), defeated.
• 1962 Aug 7: T. John Lesinski (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 1962 Aug 7: Clarence A. Reid (Rep), nominated;John H. Stahlin (Rep), defeated in primary;Rockwell T. Gust, Jr. (Rep), defeated in primary.
• 1962 Nov 6: T. John Lesinski (Dem), elected;Clarence A. Reid (Rep), defeated;James C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1964 Nov 3: William G. Milliken (Rep), elected;Robert A. Derengoski (Dem), defeated;Harriet Talan (Socialist Workers), defeated;James Jackson (Freedom Now), defeated;W. Clifford Bentley (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1966 Nov 8: William G. Milliken (Rep), elected;John B. Bruff (Dem), defeated;W. Clifford Bentley (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1970 Nov 3: James H. Brickley (Rep), elected;Edward H. McNamara (Dem), defeated;Robert E. Cauley (American Independent), defeated;Evelyn Kirsch (Socialist Workers), defeated;W. Clifford Bentley (Socialist Labor), defeated.
• 1974 Nov 5: James J. Damman (Rep), elected;Paul W. Brown (Dem), defeated;Regina McNulty (Human Rights), defeated;Josephine A. Chapman (American Independent), defeated;Al G. Terwilliger (Conservative), defeated;Ruth C. Getts (Socialist Workers), defeated;Alfred W. Wegener (Socialist Labor), defeated;William Allan (Communist), defeated;R. Wayne Evans (U.S. Labor), defeated.
• 1978: Olivia Maynard (Dem), defeated.
• 1982: Clair A. White (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;Martha W. Griffiths (Dem), elected;Thomas E. Brennan (Rep), defeated.
• 1982 Dec 27: James H. Brickley, resigned.
• 1986: Colleen Engler (Rep), defeated;Martha W. Griffiths (Dem), elected.
• 1990 Nov 6: Connie Binsfeld (Rep), elected;Olivia Maynard (Dem), defeated;Kirby(Workers World), defeated.
• 1994 Nov 8: Connie Binsfeld (Rep), elected;Debbie Stabenow (Dem), defeated.
• 1998 Nov 3: Dick Posthumus (Rep), elected;James G. Agee (Dem), defeated.
• 2002 Nov 5: John D. Cherry, Jr. (Dem), elected;Loren N. Bennett (Rep), defeated;Adrianna Buonarroti (Green), defeated;Clara C. Pilchak (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated.
• 2006: Scotty Boman (Libertarian), defeated.
• 2010 Nov 2: Brian N. Calley (Rep), elected;Brenda L. Lawrence (Dem), defeated;Erwin J. Haas (Libertarian), defeated;Chris Levels (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;Lynn Meadows (Green), defeated.
• 2018 Nov 6: Garlin D. Gilchrist II (Dem), elected;Lisa Posthumus Lyons (Rep), defeated;Angelique Chaiser Thomas (Libertarian), defeated;Earl P. Lackie (Libertarian), defeated;Charin H. Davenport (Green), defeated;Raymond H. Warner (Natural Law), defeated.
• 2022 Nov 8: Garlin D. Gilchrist II (Dem), elected;Shane Hernandez (Rep), defeated;Brian Ellison (Libertarian), defeated;Melissa Carone (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;Destiny Clayton (Green), defeated;Doug Dern (Natural Law), defeated.

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