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Virginia: Lieutenant Governors


Lieutenant Governors of Virginia, 1782-1989 (May be incomplete!)
Samuel Hardy 1782- Peter Vivian Daniel 1818- Shelton Farrar Leake 1851- Robert Latane Montague 1860- Robert Enoch Withers 186? John Francis Lewis 1869- James A. Walker 187? Edward Echols 1899 Joseph E. Willard 1902-06 James Taylor Ellyson 1910-14 Junius Edgar West 1927 James H. Price 1930-38 William M. Tuck 1942-46 L. Preston Collins 1946-52 A. E. S. Stephens 1958-62 Mills E. Godwin, Jr. 1962-66 Fred C. Pollard 1966-67 Henry Evans Howell, Jr. 1971-73 Charles S. Robb 1978-82 Richard J. Davis, Jr. 1981-85

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1925: Carl A. Marshall (Rep), defeated.
  • 1945: Carl A. Marshall (Rep), defeated.
  • 1949: L. Preston Collins (Dem), elected.
  • 1952 Sep 20: L. Preston Collins, died in office.
  • 1971: Robert Fitzgerald (Dem), defeated for nomination.
  • 1981: Herbert H. Bateman (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1985: L. Douglas Wilder (Dem), elected.
  • 1989: Edwina Dalton (Rep), defeated.

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