The Political Graveyard: Massachusetts: Lieutenant Governors

Massachusetts: Lieutenant Governors

Lieutenant Governors of Massachusetts, 1780-2004 (May be incomplete!)
Thomas Cushing 1780-88 Benjamin Lincoln 1788-89 Samuel Adams 1789-94 Moses Gill 1794-1800 Samuel Phillips 1801-02 Edward H. Robbins 1802-06 Levi Lincoln 1807-09 David Cobb 1809-10 William Gray 1810-12 William Phillips 1812-23 Levi Lincoln, Jr. 1823-24 Marcus Morton 1824-25 Thomas L. Winthrop 1826-33 Samuel T. Armstrong 1833-36 George Hull 1836-43 Henry H. Childs 1843-44 John Reed 1844-51 Henry W. Cushman 1851-53 Elisha Huntington 1853-54 William C. Plunkett 1854-55 Simon Brown 1855-56 Henry W. Benchley 1856-58 Eliphalet Trask 1858-61 John Z. Goodrich 1861 John Nesmith 1862 Joel Hayden 1863-66 William Claflin 1866-69 Joseph Tucker 1869-73 Thomas Talbot 1873-75 Horatio G. Knight 1875-79 John D. Long 1879-80 Byron Weston 1880-83 Oliver Ames 1883-87 John Q. A. Brackett 1887-90 William H. Haile 1890-93 Roger Wolcott 1893-97 W. Murray Crane 1897-1900 John L. Bates 1900-03 Curtis Guild, Jr. 1903-06 Eben S. Draper 1906-09 Louis A. Frothingham 1909-12 Robert Luce 1912-13 David I. Walsh 1913-14 Edward P. Barry 1914-15 Grafton D. Cushing 1915-16 Calvin Coolidge 1916-19 Channing H. Cox 1919-21 Alvan T. Fuller 1921-25 Frank G. Allen 1925-29 William S. Youngman 1929-33 Gaspar G. Bacon 1933-35 Joseph L. Hurley 1935-37 Francis E. Kelly 1937-39 Horace T. Cahill 1939-45 Robert F. Bradford 1945-47 Arthur W. Coolidge 1947-49 Charles F. Sullivan 1949-53 Sumner G. Whittier 1953-57 Robert F. Murphy 1957-60 Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr. 1961-63 Francis X. Bellotti 1963-65 Elliot L. Richardson 1965-67 Francis W. Sargent 1967-69 Donald R. Dwight 1971-75 John F. Kerry 1983-85 Paul Cellucci 1991-97 Jane M. Swift 1999-2001 Kerry Murphy Healey 2004

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1788 Feb 28: Thomas Cushing, died in office.

1800 May 20: Moses Gill, died in office.

1903: Curtis Guild, Jr. (Rep), elected; Richard Olney II (Dem), defeated; John Quincy Adams (Socialist), defeated; Moritz E. Ruther (Socialist Labor), defeated; W. F. Merrill (Prohibition), defeated.

1911: David I. Walsh (Dem), defeated.

1918: Joseph H. O'Neil, defeated.

1922 Nov 7: Alvan T. Fuller (Rep), elected; John F. Doherty (Dem), defeated; Thomas Nicholson (Socialist), defeated; Oscar Kinsalas (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1924: Frank G. Allen (Rep), elected.

1934: John W. Haigis (Rep), defeated.

1936: Leverett Saltonstall, defeated.

1948 Nov 2: Charles F. Sullivan (Dem), elected; Arthur W. Coolidge (Rep), defeated; Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor), defeated; Guy S. Williams (Prohibition), defeated.

1950: Robert F. Welch (Rep), defeated in primary.

1958 Nov 4: Robert F. Murphy (Dem), elected; Elmer C. Nelson (Rep), defeated; Francis A. Votano (Socialist Labor), defeated; Harold E. Bassett (Prohibition), defeated.

1966 Nov 8: Francis W. Sargent, elected.

1970: Michael S. Dukakis, defeated.

1976: Eva B. Hester (Dem), defeated in primary.

1998: Jane M. Swift (Rep), elected.

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