The lieutenant governor of South Carolina is the second-in-command to the governor of South Carolina. This is a list of lieutenant governors of the U.S. state of South Carolina, 1730 to present. [1] [2]
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.
No. | Image | Lieutenant Governor | Term in office | Governor | Notes | Monarch |
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1 | Thomas Broughton | January 1, 1730 – November 22, 1737 | Arthur Middleton | Died in office | George II | |
Robert Johnson | ||||||
2 | William Bull I | December 23, 1738 – March 21, 1755 | James Glen | Died in office | ||
3 | William Bull II | March 21, 1755 – March 26, 1776 | Son of his predecessor Died in office | |||
William Lyttelton | George III | |||||
Thomas Boone | ||||||
Lord Charles Montagu | ||||||
Lord William Campbell | ||||||
The General Assembly chose the vice president for a term of two years.
No party (2)
No. | Image | Vice President | Party | Term in office | President | Notes | ||
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4 | Henry Laurens | Independent | March 26, 1776 – January 10, 1777 | John Rutledge | Officially titled "Vice President" | |||
Vacant | until June 24, 1777 | |||||||
5 | James Parsons | Independent | June 24, 1777 – January 9, 1779 | Officially titled "Vice President" | ||||
Rawlins Lowndes |
The General Assembly chose the lieutenant governor for a term of two years.
No party (6) Federalist (5) Democratic-Republican (16) Nullifier (Democratic) (3) Democratic (16)
No. | Image | Lieutenant Governor | Party | Term in office | Governor | Notes | ||
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6 | Thomas Bee | Independent | January 9, 1779 – January 24, 1780 | John Rutledge | ||||
7 | Christopher Gadsden | Independent | January 24, 1780 – January 31, 1782 | |||||
8 | Richard Hutson | Independent | January 31, 1782 – February 4, 1783 | John Mathews | ||||
9 | Richard Beresford | Independent | February 4, 1783 – March 15, 1783 | Benjamin Guerard | Shortest term (39 days) Resigned [lower-alpha 1] | |||
- | Vacant | until February 16, 1784 | ||||||
10 | William Moultrie | Independent | February 16, 1784 – February 11, 1785 | |||||
11 | Charles Drayton | Independent | February 11, 1785 – February 20, 1787 | William Moultrie | ||||
12 | Thomas Gadsden | Federalist | February 20, 1787 – January 26, 1789 | Thomas Pinckney | ||||
13 | Alexander Gillon | Federalist | January 26, 1789 – February 15, 1791 | Charles Pinckney | ||||
14 | Isaac Holmes | Federalist | February 15, 1791 – December 5, 1792 | |||||
15 | James Ladson | Federalist | December 5, 1792 – December 17, 1794 | William Moultrie | ||||
16 | Lewis Morris | Federalist | December 17, 1794 – December 8, 1796 | Arnoldus Vanderhorst | ||||
17 | Robert Anderson | Democratic-Republican | December 8, 1796 – December 18, 1798 | Charles Pinckney | ||||
18 | John Drayton | Democratic-Republican | December 18, 1798 – January 23, 1800 | Edward Rutledge | Succeeded to governorship [lower-alpha 2] | |||
- | Vacant | until December 4, 1800 | ||||||
19 | Richard Winn | Democratic-Republican | December 4, 1800 – December 8, 1802 | John Drayton | ||||
20 | Ezekiel Pickens | Democratic-Republican | December 8, 1802 – December 7, 1804 | James Burchill Richardson | ||||
21 | Thomas Sumter Jr. | Democratic-Republican | December 7, 1804 – December 9, 1806 | Paul Hamilton | ||||
22 | John Hopkins | Democratic-Republican | December 9, 1806 – December 10, 1808 | Charles Pinckney | ||||
23 | Frederick Nance | Democratic-Republican | December 10, 1808 – December 8, 1810 | John Drayton | ||||
24 | Samuel Farrow | Democratic-Republican | December 8, 1810 – December 10, 1812 | Henry Middleton | ||||
25 | Eldred Simkins | Democratic-Republican | December 10, 1812 – December 10, 1814 | Joseph Alston | ||||
26 | Robert Creswell | Democratic-Republican | December 10, 1814 – December 5, 1816 | David Rogerson Williams | ||||
27 | John A. Cuthbert | Democratic-Republican | December 5, 1816 – December 8, 1818 | Andrew Pickens | ||||
28 | William Youngblood | Democratic-Republican | December 8, 1818 – December 7, 1820 | John Geddes | ||||
29 | William Pinckney | Democratic-Republican | December 7, 1820 – December 7, 1822 | Thomas Bennett Jr. | ||||
30 | Henry Bradley | Democratic-Republican | December 7, 1822 – December 3, 1824 | John Lyde Wilson | ||||
31 | William Bull | Democratic-Republican | December 3, 1824 – December 9, 1826 | Richard Irvine Manning I | ||||
32 | James Witherspoon | Democratic-Republican | December 9, 1826 – December 10, 1828 | John Taylor | ||||
33 | Thomas Williams | Nullifier (Democratic) | December 10, 1828 – December 9, 1830 | Stephen Decatur Miller | ||||
34 | Patrick Noble | Nullifier (Democratic) | December 9, 1830 – December 10, 1832 | James Hamilton Jr. | ||||
35 | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney II | Nullifier (Democratic) | December 10, 1832 – December 9, 1834 | Robert Young Hayne | ||||
36 | Whitemarsh B. Seabrook | Democratic | December 9, 1834 – December 10, 1836 | George McDuffie | ||||
37 | William DuBose | Democratic | December 10, 1836 – December 7, 1838 | Pierce Mason Butler | ||||
38 | Barnabas Kelet Henagan | Democratic | December 7, 1838 – April 7, 1840 | Patrick Noble | Succeeded to governorship [lower-alpha 3] | |||
- | Vacant | until December 9, 1840 | ||||||
39 | William K. Clowney | Democratic | December 9, 1840 – December 8, 1842 | John Peter Richardson II | ||||
40 | Isaac Donnom Witherspoon | Democratic | December 8, 1842 – December 7, 1844 | James Henry Hammond | ||||
41 | J.F. Ervin | Democratic | December 7, 1844 – December 7, 1846 | William Aiken | ||||
42 | William Cain | Democratic | December 8, 1846 – December 12, 1848 | David Johnson | ||||
43 | William Henry Gist | Democratic | December 12, 1848 – December 13, 1850 | Whitemarsh B. Seabrook | ||||
44 | Joshua John Ward | Democratic | December 13, 1850 – December 9, 1852 | John Hugh Means | ||||
45 | James Irby | Democratic | December 9, 1852 – December 11, 1854 | John Lawrence Manning | ||||
46 | Richard de Treville | Democratic | December 11, 1854 – December 9, 1856 | James Hopkins Adams | ||||
47 | Gabriel Cannon | Democratic | December 9, 1856 – December 10, 1858 | Robert F.W. Allston | ||||
48 | M. E. Carn | Democratic | December 10, 1858 – December 14, 1860 | William Henry Gist | ||||
49 | William Harllee | Confederate Democratic | December 14, 1860 – December 17, 1862 | Francis Wilkinson Pickens | ||||
50 | Plowden Weston | Confederate Democratic | December 17, 1862 – January 25, 1864 | Milledge Luke Bonham | Died in office [lower-alpha 4] | |||
- | Vacant | until December 18, 1864 | ||||||
51 | Robert McCaw | Confederate Democratic | December 18, 1864 – May 25, 1865 | Andrew Gordon Magrath | Overthrown by Union Army at the end of the Civil War; government disestablished. | |||
- | Office abolished until government reinstated under new constitution November 30, 1865 | |||||||
First Constitution of South Carolina to provide for the direct election of the lieutenant governor.
Legend: Democratic (32) Republican (9) No party (1)
No. | Image | Lieutenant Governor | Party | Term in office | Election | Governor | Notes | ||
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52 | William Porter | Independent | November 30, 1865 – July 6, 1868 | 1865 | James Lawrence Orr | First popularly elected lieutenant governor | |||
53 | Lemuel Boozer | Republican | July 6, 1868 – December 3, 1870 | 1868 | Robert Kingston Scott | ||||
54 | Alonzo J. Ransier | Republican | December 3, 1870 – December 7, 1872 | 1870 | First black lieutenant governor | ||||
55 | Richard Howell Gleaves | Republican | December 7, 1872 – December 14, 1876 | 1872 | Franklin J. Moses, Jr. | Second black lieutenant governor Haitian-American | |||
1874 | Daniel Henry Chamberlain | ||||||||
- | Disputed | Disputed between Gleaves and William Dunlap Simpson. Two governments were formed during this time. | |||||||
56 | William Dunlap Simpson | Democratic | December 14, 1876 – February 26, 1879 | 1876 | Wade Hampton III | Succeeded to governorship [lower-alpha 6] | |||
1878 | |||||||||
- | Vacant | until November 30, 1880 | |||||||
57 | John D. Kennedy | Democratic | November 30, 1880 – December 1, 1882 | 1880 | Johnson Hagood | ||||
58 | John Calhoun Sheppard | Democratic | December 1, 1882 – July 10, 1886 | 1882 | Hugh Smith Thompson | Succeeded to governorship [lower-alpha 7] | |||
1884 | |||||||||
- | Vacant | until November 30, 1886 | |||||||
59 | William L. Mauldin | Democratic | December 30, 1886 – December 4, 1890 | 1886 | Hugh Smith Thompson | ||||
1888 | |||||||||
60 | Eugene B. Gary | Democratic | December 4, 1890 – December 22, 1893 | 1890 | Benjamin Tillman | Resigned [lower-alpha 8] | |||
1892 | |||||||||
61 | Washington H. Timmerman | Democratic | December 22, 1893 – January 18, 1897 | ||||||
1894 | John Gary Evans | ||||||||
62 | Miles Benjamin McSweeney | Democratic | January 18, 1897 – June 2, 1899 | 1896 | William Haselden Ellerbe | Succeeded to governorship [lower-alpha 9] | |||
1898 | |||||||||
63 | Robert B. Scarborough | Democratic | June 2, 1899 – January 15, 1901 | Miles Benjamin McSweeney | Not elected | ||||
64 | James Tillman | Democratic | January 15, 1901 – January 20, 1903 | 1900 | |||||
65 | John Sloan | Democratic | January 20, 1903 – January 15, 1907 | 1902 | Duncan Clinch Heyward | ||||
1904 | |||||||||
66 | Thomas Gordon McLeod | Democratic | January 15, 1907 – January 17, 1911 | 1906 | Martin Frederick Ansel | ||||
1908 | |||||||||
67 | Charles Aurelius Smith | Democratic | January 17, 1911 – January 14, 1915 | 1910 | Coleman Livingston Blease | Succeeded to governorship [lower-alpha 10] | |||
1912 | |||||||||
- | Vacant | until January 19, 1915 | |||||||
68 | Andrew Bethea | Democratic | January 19, 1915 – January 21, 1919 | 1914 | Richard Irvine Manning III | ||||
1916 | |||||||||
69 | Junius T. Liles | Democratic | January 21, 1919 – January 18, 1921 | 1918 | Robert Archer Cooper | ||||
70 | Wilson Godfrey Harvey | Democratic | January 18, 1921 – May 20, 1922 | 1920 | Succeeded to governorship [lower-alpha 11] | ||||
- | Vacant | until January 16, 1923 | |||||||
71 | E. B. Jackson | Democratic | January 16, 1923 – January 18, 1927 | 1922 | Thomas Gordon McLeod | ||||
1924 | |||||||||
72 | Thomas Bothwell Butler | Democratic | January 18, 1927 – January 5, 1931 [4] | 1926 | John Gardiner Richards, Jr. | First elected to four-year term Died in office | |||
- | Vacant | until January 20, 1931 | |||||||
73 | James O. Sheppard | Democratic | January 20, 1931 – January 15, 1935 | 1930 | Ibra Charles Blackwood | ||||
74 | Joseph Emile Harley | Democratic | January 15, 1935 – November 4, 1941 | 1934 | Olin D. Johnston | Succeeded to governorship [lower-alpha 12] | |||
1938 | Burnet R. Maybank | ||||||||
- | Vacant | until January 19, 1943 | |||||||
75 | Ransome Judson Williams | Democratic | January 19, 1943 – January 2, 1945 | 1942 | Olin D. Johnston | Succeeded to governorship [lower-alpha 13] | |||
- | Vacant | until January 21, 1947 | |||||||
76 | George Bell Timmerman, Jr. | Democratic | January 21, 1947 – January 18, 1955 | 1946 | Strom Thurmond | ||||
1950 | James F. Byrnes | ||||||||
77 | Fritz Hollings | Democratic | January 18, 1955 – January 20, 1959 | 1954 | George Bell Timmerman, Jr. | ||||
78 | Burnet R. Maybank Jr. | Democratic | January 20, 1959 – January 15, 1963 | 1958 | Fritz Hollings | ||||
79 | Robert Evander McNair | Democratic | January 15, 1963 – April 22, 1965 | 1962 | Donald S. Russell | Succeeded to governorship [lower-alpha 14] | |||
- | Vacant | until January 17, 1967 | |||||||
80 | John C. West | Democratic | January 17, 1967 – January 19, 1971 | 1966 | Robert Evander McNair | ||||
81 | Earle Morris, Jr. | Democratic | January 19, 1971 – January 21, 1975 | 1970 | John C. West | ||||
82 | W. Brantley Harvey, Jr. | Democratic | January 21, 1975 – January 10, 1979 | 1974 | James B. Edwards | ||||
83 | Nancy Stevenson | Democratic | January 10, 1979 – January 12, 1983 | 1978 | Richard Riley | First female lieutenant governor | |||
84 | Michael R. Daniel | Democratic | January 12, 1983 – January 14, 1987 | 1982 | |||||
85 | Nick Theodore | Democratic | January 14, 1987 – January 11, 1995 | 1986 | Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. | ||||
1990 | |||||||||
86 | Bob Peeler | Republican | January 11, 1995 – January 15, 2003 | 1994 | David Beasley | ||||
1998 | Jim Hodges | ||||||||
87 | André Bauer | Republican | January 15, 2003 – January 12, 2011 | 2002 | Mark Sanford | ||||
2006 | |||||||||
88 | Ken Ard | Republican | January 12, 2011 – March 9, 2012 | 2010 | Nikki Haley | Resigned [lower-alpha 15] | |||
- | Vacant | until March 13, 2012 | |||||||
89 | Glenn F. McConnell | Republican | March 13, 2012 – June 18, 2014 | Resigned [lower-alpha 16] | |||||
90 | Yancey McGill [lower-alpha 17] | Democratic | June 18, 2014 – January 14, 2015 | ||||||
91 | Henry McMaster | Republican | January 14, 2015 – January 24, 2017 | 2014 | Succeeded to governorship [lower-alpha 18] | ||||
- | Vacant | until January 25, 2017 | |||||||
92 | Kevin L. Bryant | Republican | January 25, 2017 – January 9, 2019 | Henry McMaster | |||||
93 | Pamela Evette | Republican | January 9, 2019 – Present | 2018 | First elected on same ticket as governor [5] | ||||
2022 |
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