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Massachusetts: Lieutenant Governors

Lieutenant Governors of Massachusetts, 1780-2012 (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 Thomas P. O'Neill III 1975-83 John F. Kerry 1983-85 Paul Cellucci 1991-97 Jane M. Swift 1999-2001 Kerry Healey 2003-06 Tim Murray 2007-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1788 Feb 28: Thomas Cushing, died in office.
  • 1800 May 20: Moses Gill, died in office.
  • 1873: John Quincy Adams (Dem), defeated.
  • 1880: Alpha E. Thompson (Dem), defeated.
  • 1888: John W. Corcoran (Dem), defeated.
  • 1889: John W. Corcoran (Dem), defeated.
  • 1890: John W. Corcoran (Dem), defeated.
  • 1891: John W. Corcoran (Dem), defeated.
  • 1894: Samuel B. Shapleigh (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1898: John L. Kilborn (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1899: John H. Mack (Dem), defeated.
  • 1901: John W. Coughlin (Dem), defeated.
  • 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.
  • 1904 Nov 8: Curtis Guild, Jr. (Rep), elected; John C. Crosby (Dem), defeated; Olof Bokelund (Socialist), defeated; Frank P. Dyer (Prohibition), defeated; Moritz E. Ruther (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1905 Nov 7: Eben S. Draper (Rep), elected; Henry M. Whitney (Dem), defeated; Patrick Mahoney (Socialist), defeated; Thomas F. Brennan (Socialist Labor), defeated; John H. Smith (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1911: David I. Walsh (Dem), defeated.
  • 1913: August H. Goetting (Rep), defeated.
  • 1915: Edward P. Barry (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.
  • 1932: Edward P. Barry, defeated.
  • 1934: John W. Haigis (Rep), defeated.
  • 1936: Leverett Saltonstall, defeated.
  • 1946: Albert Cole (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 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; Robert 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 Sep 15: Warren E. Tolman (Dem), nominated; Dorothy Kelly Gay (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1998 Sep 15: Jane M. Swift (Rep), nominated; Janet E. Jeghelian (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1998 Nov 3: Jane M. Swift (Rep), elected; Warren E. Tolman (Dem), defeated; Eli Israel (Libertarian), defeated.
  • 2002 Nov 5: Kerry Healey (Rep), elected; Christopher F. Gabrielli (Dem), defeated; Anthony F. Lorenzen (Green), defeated; Richard P. Aucoin (Libertarian), defeated; Joseph F. Schebel (Ind), defeated.
  • 2006 Sep 19: Tim Murray (Dem), nominated.
  • 2006 Nov 7: Tim Murray (Dem), elected.
  • 2010 Nov 2: Tim Murray (Dem), elected.
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