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The current lieutenant governor of Rhode Island is Sabina Matos, who was sworn in on April 14, 2021, after Daniel McKee succeeded to the office of governor. The first lieutenant governor was George Brown.
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In Rhode Island, the lieutenant governor and governor of Rhode Island are elected on separate tickets.
Seven lieutenant governors have served during a vacancy in the office of governor under the current 1842 constitution: Francis M. Dimond (1853), William C. Cozzens (1863), Charles D. Kimball (1901), Norman Case (1928), John Pastore (1945), and John S. McKiernan (1950).[1]
The Royal Charter was suspended from 1686 until 1689.
Image | Name | Party | Term start | Term end | Residence |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | William Bradford | Nov. 1775 | May 1778 | Bristol | |
![]() | Jabez Bowen | May 1778 | May 1780 | Providence | |
William West | May 1780 | May 1781 | Scituate | ||
![]() | Jabez Bowen | May 1781 | May 1786 | Providence | |
Daniel Owen | May 1786 | May 1790 | Glocester | ||
Samuel J. Potter | May 1790 | Feb. 1799 | S. Kingstown |
The title of the office was changed to Lieutenant Governor in 1798.
Image | Name | Party | Term start | Term end | Residence | Governor(s) served under |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
George Brown | 1799 | 1800 | S. Kingstown | Arthur Fenner | ||
Samuel J. Potter | 1800 | 1803 | S. Kingstown | Arthur Fenner | ||
Paul Mumford | 1803 | 1805 | Newport | Arthur Fenner | ||
![]() | Isaac Wilbour | 1806 | 1807 | Little Compton | Isaac Wilbour | |
Constant Taber | 1807 | 1808 | Newport | James Fenner | ||
Simeon Martin | Federalist | 1808 | 1810 | Newport | James Fenner | |
![]() | Isaac Wilbour | Democratic-Republican | 1810 | 1811 | Little Compton | James Fenner |
Simeon Martin | Federalist | 1811 | 1816 | Newport | William Jones | |
Jeremiah Thurston | Federalist | 1816 | 1817 | Hopkinton | William Jones | |
Edward Wilcox | Democratic-Republican | 1817 | 1821 | Charlestown | Nehemiah R. Knight | |
Caleb Earle | Democratic-Republican | 1821 | 1824 | Providence | William C. Gibbs | |
Charles Collins | 1824 | 1833 | Newport | James Fenner Lemuel H. Arnold | ||
Jeffrey Hazard | Democratic | 1833 | 1835 | Exeter | John B. Francis | |
George Engs | Whig | 1835 | 1836 | Newport | John B. Francis | |
Jeffrey Hazard | Democratic | 1836 | 1837 | Exeter | John B. Francis | |
Benjamin Babock Thurston | Democratic | 1837 | 1838 | Hopkinton | John B. Francis | |
Joseph Childs | Whig | 1838 | 1839 | Portsmouth | William Sprague III | |
![]() | Byron Diman | Whig | 1840 | 1842 | Bristol | Samuel Ward King |
Nathaniel Bullock | 1842 | 1843 | Bristol | Samuel Ward King |
No. | Image | Name | Party | Term start | Term end | Governor(s) served under | Residence |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | Byron Diman | Law & Order | 1843 | 1846 | James Fenner Charles Jackson | Bristol |
2 | ![]() | Elisha Harris | Whig | 1846 | 1847 | Byron Diman | Coventry |
3 | Edward W. Lawton | Whig | 1847 | 1849 | Elisha Harris | Newport | |
4 | Thomas Whipple | Whig | 1849 | 1851 | Henry B. Anthony | Coventry | |
5 | ![]() | William Beach Lawrence | Democratic | 1851 | 1852 | Philip Allen | Newport |
6 | ![]() | Samuel G. Arnold | Whig | 1852 | 1853 | Philip Allen | Providence |
7 | ![]() | Francis M. Dimond | Democratic | 1853 | 1854 | himself | Bristol |
8 | John J. Reynolds | Whig | 1854 | 1855 | William W. Hoppin | N. Kingstown | |
9 | Anderson C. Rose | American | 1855 | 1856 | William W. Hoppin | New Shoreham | |
10 | ![]() | Nicholas Brown III | American | 1856 | 1857 | William W. Hoppin | Warwick |
11 | ![]() | Thomas G. Turner | Republican | 1857 | 1859 | Elisha Dyer | Warren |
12 | Isaac Saunders | American Republican | 1859 | 1860 | Thomas G. Turner | Scituate | |
13 | ![]() | J. Russell Bullock | Democratic | 1860 | 1861 | William Sprague IV | Bristol |
14 | ![]() | Samuel G. Arnold | Democratic & Constitutional Unionist | 1861 | 1862 | William Sprague IV | Providence |
15 | ![]() | Seth Padelford | Republican | 1863 | 1865 | William C. Cozzens James Y. Smith | Providence |
16 | Duncan Pell | 1865 | 1866 | James Y. Smith | Newport | ||
17 | ![]() | William Greene | Republican | 1866 | 1868 | Ambrose Everett Burnside | Warwick |
18 | Pardon Stevens | Republican | 1868 | 1872 | Ambrose Everett Burnside Seth Padelford | Newport | |
19 | Charles Cutler | Democratic | 1872 | 1873 | Seth Padelford | Warren | |
20 | ![]() | Charles C. Van Zandt | Republican | 1873 | 1875 | Henry Howard | Newport |
21 | ![]() | Henry Tillinghast Sisson | Republican | 1875 | 1877 | Henry Lippitt | Little Compton |
22 | Albert Howard | Republican | 1877 | 1880 | Charles C. Van Zandt | E. Providence | |
23 | Henry Fay | Republican | 1880 | 1883 | Alfred H. Littlefield | Newport | |
24 | Oscar Rathbun | Republican | 1883 | 1885 | Augustus O. Bourn | Woonsocket | |
25 | ![]() | Lucius B. Darling | Republican | 1885 | 1887 | George P. Wetmore | Pawtucket |
26 | Samuel R. Honey | Democratic | 1887 | 1888 | John W. Davis | Newport | |
27 | Enos Lapham | Republican | 1888 | 1889 | Royal C. Taft | Warwick | |
28 | ![]() | Daniel Littlefield | Republican | 1889 | 1890 | Herbert W. Ladd | Central Falls |
29 | William T. C. Wardwell | Democratic | 1890 | 1891 | John W. Davis | Bristol | |
30 | ![]() | Henry A. Stearns | Republican | 1891 | 1892 | Herbert W. Ladd | Lincoln |
31 | ![]() | Melville Bull | Republican | 1892 | 1894 | D. Russell Brown | Middletown |
32 | ![]() | Edwin Allen | Republican | 1894 | 1897 | D. Russell Brown Charles W. Lippitt | Hopkinton |
33 | ![]() | Aram J. Pothier | Republican | 1897 | 1898 | Elisha Dyer, Jr. | Woonsocket |
34 | ![]() | William Gregory | Republican | 1898 | 1900 | Elisha Dyer, Jr. | N. Kingstown |
35 | ![]() | Charles D. Kimball | Republican | 1900 | 1901 | William Gregory | Providence |
36 | George L. Shepley | Republican | 1902 | 1903 | Charles D. Kimball | Providence | |
37 | Adelard Archambault | Democratic | 1903 | 1904 | Lucius F. C. Garvin | Woonsocket | |
38 | ![]() | George H. Utter | Republican | 1904 | 1905 | Lucius F. C. Garvin | Westerly |
39 | Frederick H. Jackson | Republican | 1905 | 1908 | George H. Utter | Providence | |
40 | Ralph Watrous | Republican | 1908 | 1909 | James H. Higgins | Warwick | |
41 | ![]() | Arthur W. Dennis | Republican | 1909 | 1910 | Aram J. Pothier | Providence |
42 | Zenas Work Bliss | Republican | 1910 | 1913 | Aram J. Pothier | Cranston | |
43 | Rosewell Burchard | Republican | 1913 | 1915 | Aram J. Pothier | L. Compton | |
44 | ![]() | Emery J. San Souci | Republican | 1915 | 1921 | R. Livingston Beeckman | Providence |
45 | Harold Gross | Republican | 1921 | 1923 | Emery J. San Souci | Providence | |
46 | ![]() | Felix A. Toupin | Democratic | 1923 | 1925 | William S. Flynn | Lincoln |
47 | Nathaniel W. Smith | Republican | 1925 | 1927 | Aram J. Pothier | S. Kingstown | |
48 | ![]() | Norman S. Case | Republican | 1927 | 1928 | Aram J. Pothier | Providence |
49 | ![]() | James G. Connolly | Republican | 1929 | 1933 | Norman S. Case | Pawtucket |
50 | ![]() | Robert E. Quinn | Democratic | 1933 | 1937 | Theodore Francis Green | W. Warwick |
51 | Raymond E. Jordan | Democratic | 1937 | 1939 | Robert E. Quinn | Pawtucket | |
52 | James O. McManus | Republican | 1939 | 1941 | William Henry Vanderbilt III | W. Warwick | |
53 | Louis W. Cappelli | Democratic | 1941 | 1944 | J. Howard McGrath | Providence | |
54 | ![]() | John O. Pastore | Democratic | 1945 | 1945 | J. Howard McGrath | Providence |
55 | ![]() | John S. McKiernan | Democratic | 1945 | 1957 | John O. Pastore himself Dennis J. Roberts | Providence |
56 | Armand H. Cote | Democratic | 1957 | 1959 | Dennis J. Roberts | Pawtucket | |
57 | ![]() | John A. Notte, Jr. | Democratic | 1959 | 1961 | Christopher Del Sesto | Providence |
58 | ![]() | Edward P. Gallogly | Democratic | 1961 | 1965 | John A. Notte, Jr. John Chafee | Providence |
59 | Giovanni Folcarelli | Democratic | 1965 | 1967 | John Chafee | Scituate | |
60 | Joseph O'Donnell, Jr. | Republican | 1967 | 1969 | John Chafee | N. Smithfield | |
61 | ![]() | J. Joseph Garrahy | Democratic | 1969 | 1977 | Frank Licht Philip W. Noel | Providence |
62 | Thomas R. DiLuglio | Democratic | 1977 | 1985 | J. Joseph Garrahy | Johnston | |
63 | Richard A. Licht | Democratic | 1985 | 1989 | Edward D. DiPrete | Providence | |
64 | Roger N. Begin | Democratic | 1989 | 1993 | Edward D. DiPrete Bruce Sundlun | Woonsocket | |
65 | ![]() | Robert Weygand | Democratic | 1993 | 1997 | Bruce Sundlun Lincoln C. Almond | E. Providence |
66 | Bernard Jackvony | Republican | 1997 | 1999 | Lincoln C. Almond | E. Greenwich | |
67 | Charles Fogarty | Democratic | 1999 | 2007 | Lincoln C. Almond Donald Carcieri | Glocester | |
68 | ![]() | Elizabeth H. Roberts | Democratic | 2007 | 2015 | Donald Carcieri Lincoln Chafee | Cranston |
69 | ![]() | Daniel McKee | Democratic | 2015 | 2021 | Gina Raimondo | Cumberland |
70 | ![]() | Sabina Matos | Democratic | 2021 | present | Daniel McKee | Providence |
During the 2010 elections, the Cool Moose Party of Rhode Island submitted Bob Healey as candidate for lieutenant governor. He ran on the proposition that he would attempt to abolish the office of lieutenant governor itself.[2]
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