Lieutenant Governors of Michigan, 1835-2022 (May be
incomplete!)
Edward
Mundy 1835-40
James
Wright Gordon 1840-41
Origen
D. Richardson 1842-46
William
L. Greenly 1846-47
William
M. Fenton 1848-51
Calvin
Britain 1852-53
Andrew
Parsons 1853
George
A. Coe 1855-58
Edmund
B. Fairfield 1859-60
James
Birney 1861
Charles
S. May 1863-64
Ebenezer
O. Grosvenor 1865-66
Dwight
May 1867-68
Morgan
Bates 1869-72
Henry
H. Holt 1873-76
Alonzo
Sessions 1877-80
Moreau
S. Crosby 1881-84
Archibald
Buttars 1885-86
James
H. McDonald 1887-89
John
Strong, Jr. 1891-92
J.
Wight Giddings 1893-94
Alfred
Milnes 1894-95
Thomas
B. Dunstan 1897-98
Orrin
W. Robinson 1899-1902
Alexander
Maitland 1903-06
Patrick
H. Kelley 1907-10
John
Q. Ross 1911-14
Luren
D. Dickinson 1915-20
Thomas
Read 1921-24
George
W. Welsh 1925-26
Luren
D. Dickinson 1927-32
Allen
E. Stebbins 1933-34
Thomas
Read 1935-36
Leo
J. Nowicki 1937-38
Luren
D. Dickinson 1939
Matilda
R. Wilson 1940
Frank
Murphy 1941-42
Eugene
C. Keyes 1943-44
Vernon
J. Brown 1945-46
Eugene
C. Keyes 1947-48
John
W. Connolly 1949-50
William
C. Vandenberg 1951-52
Clarence
A. Reid 1953-54
Philip
A. Hart 1955-58
John
B. Swainson 1959-60
T.
John Lesinski 1961-64
William
G. Milliken 1965-69
James
H. Brickley 1971-74
James
J. Damman 1975-78
James
H. Brickley 1979-82
Martha
W. Griffiths 1983-90
Connie
Binsfeld 1991-98
Dick
Posthumus 1999-2002
John
D. Cherry, Jr. 2003-
Brian
N. Calley 2011-18
Garlin
D. Gilchrist II 2019-
Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)
1839:
Thomas
Fitzgerald, defeated.
1864:
Ebenezer
O. Grosvenor (Rep), elected.
1868:
John
G. Parkhurst, defeated.
1876:
Julius
Houseman (Dem), defeated.
1878:
Alfred
P. Swineford (Dem), defeated;
Lysander
Woodward, defeated.
1880:
Sullivan
Armstrong, defeated.
1886 Nov 2:
James
H. McDonald (Rep), elected;
Solomon
S. Curry (Fusion), defeated;
Charles
Mosher (Prohibition), defeated.
1889 Jan 19:
James
H. McDonald, died in office.
1890:
William
S. Linton (Rep), defeated.
1894:
Perry
Mayo (Rep), defeated.
1898 Nov 8:
Orrin
W. Robinson (Rep), elected;
Michael
F. McDonald (Fusion), defeated;
N.
Norton Clark (Prohibition), defeated;
Austin
S. Randall (People's), defeated;
Joel
Dregrey (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1900:
Jonathan
G. Ramsdell (Dem), defeated.
1906 Nov 6:
Patrick
H. Kelley (Rep), elected;
Thomas
N. Rogers (Dem), defeated;
Henry
H. Moore (Prohibition), defeated;
Philip
Engle (Socialist), defeated;
Michael
Huber (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1910 Nov 8:
John
Q. Ross (Rep), elected;
Stephen
D. Williams (Dem), defeated;
Gerrit
Masselink (Prohibition), defeated;
Benjamin
V. Lawrence (Socialist), defeated;
Shepard
B. Cowles (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1912:
James
W. Helme, Jr. (Dem), defeated;
William
D. Gordon (Progressive), defeated.
1914 Nov 3:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;
Emmet
L. Beach (Dem), defeated;
James
N. McBride (Progressive), defeated;
Edward
A. Kosten (Socialist), defeated;
Harry
C. Doane (Prohibition), defeated.
1916 Aug 29:
John
P. Kirk (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1916 Aug 29:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;
David
E. Heineman (Rep), defeated in primary;
William
D. Gordon (Rep), defeated in primary;
Frank
P. Bohn (Rep), defeated in primary;
Robert
Y. Ogg (Rep), defeated in primary.
1916 Aug 29:
Thomas
H. Coxe (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
1916 Aug 29:
John
F. Eesley (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
1916 Aug 29:
James
H. Hunt (Socialist Labor), nominated unopposed.
1916 Nov 7:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;
John
S. Smith (Dem), defeated;
Thomas
H. Coxe (Socialist), defeated;
John
F. Eesley (Prohibition), defeated;
James
H. Hunt (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Charles
H. Coxe (Progressive), defeated.
1918 Aug 25:
Ewart
L. Gardiner (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1918 Aug 25:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;
David
E. Heineman (Rep), defeated in primary.
1918 Aug 25:
Harvey
A. Hedden (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
1918 Aug 25:
John
Y. Johnston (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
1918 Aug 25:
James
M. Lee (Socialist Labor), nominated unopposed.
1918 Nov 5:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;
Ewart
L. Gardiner (Dem), defeated;
Harvey
A. Hedden (Socialist), defeated;
John
Y. Johnston (Prohibition), defeated;
James
M. Lee (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1920:
Charles
B. Scully (Rep), defeated in primary.
1922 Sep 12:
Walter
I. McKenzie (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1922 Sep 12:
Thomas
Read (Rep), nominated unopposed.
1922 Sep 12:
Edith
R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
1922 Sep 12:
Logan
M. Cunningham (Socialist Labor), nominated unopposed.
1922 Nov 7:
Thomas
Read (Rep), elected;
Walter
I. McKenzie (Dem), defeated;
Edith
R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), defeated;
Logan
M. Cunningham (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1924:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), defeated in primary;
G.
Elmer McArthur (Rep), defeated in primary;
Franklin
Moore (Rep), defeated in primary.
1924:
Michael
J. Doyle (Dem), defeated.
1926 Sep 14:
Gerrit
Masselink (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1926 Sep 14:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;
George
W. Welsh (Rep), defeated in primary;
Fred
B. Wells (Rep), defeated in primary;
Oscar
A. Riopelle (Rep), defeated in primary.
1926 Sep 14:
Edith
R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
1926 Nov 2:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;
Gerrit
Masselink (Dem), defeated;
Edith
R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), defeated.
1928 Sep 4:
Frank
J. Sawyer (Dem), nominated;
Theodore
H. Elferdink (Dem), defeated in primary.
1928 Sep 4:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;
Fred
L. Woodworth (Rep), defeated in primary;
G.
Elmer McArthur (Rep), defeated in primary.
1928 Sep 4:
Edith
R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
1928 Sep 4:
George
M. Campbell (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
1928 Sep 4:
Wilfred
Newman (Workers), nominated unopposed.
1928 Sep 4:
Theodore
Gramaticoff (Socialist Labor), nominated unopposed.
1928 Nov 6:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;
Frank
J. Sawyer (Dem), defeated;
George
M. Campbell (Socialist), defeated;
Wilfred
Newman (Workers), defeated;
Edith
R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), defeated;
Theodore
Gramaticoff (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1930 Sep 9:
Frank
J. Sawyer (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1930 Sep 9:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;
Thomas
Read (Rep), defeated in primary;
Fred
M. Breen (Rep), defeated in primary;
Ethan
M. Thompson (Rep), defeated in primary.
1930 Sep 9:
Ida
S. Wilson (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
1930 Sep 9:
Benjamin
A. Faulkner (Workers), nominated unopposed.
1930 Sep 9:
Norman
Wager (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
1930 Nov 4:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;
Frank
J. Sawyer (Dem), defeated;
Benjamin
A. Faulkner (Workers), defeated;
Ida
S. Wilson (Socialist), defeated;
Norman
Wager (Prohibition), defeated.
1932:
Charles
A. Sink (Rep), defeated in primary;
Virgil
A. Fitch (Rep), defeated in primary.
1932:
E.
M. Loose (Prohibition), defeated;
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), defeated.
1934 Sep 11:
Allen
E. Stebbins (Dem), nominated;
John
T. Bailey (Dem), defeated in primary;
Patrick
H. Kane (Dem), defeated in primary.
1934 Sep 11:
Thomas
Read (Rep), nominated;
Fred
R. Ming (Rep), defeated in primary;
Ernest
T. Conlon (Rep), defeated in primary.
1934 Nov 6:
Thomas
Read (Rep), elected;
Allen
E. Stebbins (Dem), defeated;
Roy
E. Mathews (Socialist), defeated;
John
Maki (Communist), defeated;
C.
C. Willett (Farmer-Labor), defeated;
Richard
A. O'Brien (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Maurice
C. Latta (Commonwealth), defeated;
George
W. Starkweather (People's Progressive), defeated;
Cliffie
D. Willis (National), defeated;
Walter
A. Woods (American), defeated.
1936 Sep 15:
Leo
J. Nowicki (Dem), nominated;
Leon
D. Case (Dem), defeated in primary;
Charles
F. Hemans (Dem), defeated in primary;
Henry
C. Glasner (Dem), defeated in primary.
1936 Sep 15:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;
Thomas
Read (Rep), defeated in primary.
1936 Nov 3:
Leo
J. Nowicki (Dem), elected;
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), defeated;
Nahum
Burnett (Socialist), defeated;
Wesley
Ried (Farmer-Labor), defeated;
Frank
Sykes (Communist), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Frank
E. Ellsworth (American), defeated.
1938 Sep 13:
Leo
J. Nowicki (Dem), nominated;
George
A. Schroeder (Dem), defeated in primary.
1938 Sep 13:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), nominated;
Thomas
Read (Rep), defeated in primary;
Arthur
F. Moore (Rep), defeated in primary;
Joseph
A. Powers (Rep), defeated in primary;
Edward
W. Fehling (Rep), defeated in primary;
Horace
T. Barnaby (Rep), defeated in primary.
1938 Nov 8:
Luren
D. Dickinson (Rep), elected;
Leo
J. Nowicki (Dem), defeated;
Kermit
Johnson (Socialist), defeated;
Frank
J. Sawyer (Constitutional Democratic), defeated;
Anthony
Koss (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Charles
E. Shaver (Square Deal), defeated;
Blanche
Winters (American), defeated;
E.
M. Loose (Commonwealth), defeated;
Roy
Dent (Protestants United), defeated.
1940 Sep 10:
Frank
Murphy (Dem), nominated;
Anthony
J. Wilkowski (Dem), defeated in primary;
David
M. Martin (Dem), defeated in primary;
James
L. Murphy (Dem), defeated in primary;
Don
W. Canfield (Dem), defeated in primary;
Edward
T. Kane (Dem), defeated in primary;
Charles
J. Rydzewski (Dem), defeated in primary;
Arthur
C. E. Strom (Dem), defeated in primary;
Frank
J. Berka (Dem), defeated in primary.
1940 Sep 10:
Eugene
C. Keyes (Rep), nominated;
Arthur
E. Wood (Rep), defeated in primary;
Felix
H. H. Flynn (Rep), defeated in primary;
James
F. Thomson (Rep), defeated in primary;
Elton
R. Eaton (Rep), defeated in primary;
Arthur
F. Moore (Rep), defeated in primary;
R.
N. Holsaple (Rep), defeated in primary;
Horace
T. Barnaby (Rep), defeated in primary;
George
W. Schudlich (Rep), defeated in primary.
1940 Nov 5:
Frank
Murphy (Dem), elected;
Eugene
C. Keyes (Rep), defeated;
Charles
Walters (Socialist), defeated;
Benjamin
J. Faulkner (Communist), defeated;
LeRoy
M. Lowell (Prohibition), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1942 Sep 15:
Frank
Murphy (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1942 Sep 15:
Eugene
C. Keyes (Rep), nominated;
Thomas
Read (Rep), defeated in primary;
D.
Hale Brake (Rep), defeated in primary.
1942 Nov 3:
Eugene
C. Keyes (Rep), elected;
Frank
Murphy (Dem), defeated;
E.
Harold Munn (Prohibition), defeated.
1944 Jul 11:
James
H. Lee (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1944 Jul 11:
Vernon
J. Brown (Rep), nominated;
Eugene
C. Keyes (Rep), defeated in primary.
1944 Nov 7:
Vernon
J. Brown (Rep), elected;
James
H. Lee (Dem), defeated;
Harold
A. Lindahl (Prohibition), defeated;
Samuel
Leinbach (Socialist), defeated;
George
R. Vose (America First), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1946 Jun 18:
Osmund
Kelly (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1946 Jun 18:
Eugene
C. Keyes (Rep), nominated;
Howard
Nugent (Rep), defeated in primary;
Owen
J. Cleary (Rep), defeated in primary;
George
N. Higgins (Rep), defeated in primary.
1946 Nov 5:
Eugene
C. Keyes (Rep), elected;
Osmund
Kelly (Dem), defeated;
Harold
A. Lindahl (Prohibition), defeated;
W.
Clifford Bentley (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1948 Sep 14:
John
W. Connolly (Dem), nominated;
Victor
Targonski (Dem), defeated in primary.
1948 Sep 14:
Eugene
C. Keyes (Rep), nominated unopposed.
1948 Nov 2:
John
W. Connolly (Dem), elected;
Eugene
C. Keyes (Rep), defeated;
Perry
Hayden (Prohibition), defeated;
Leonard
Klue (Socialist), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1950 Sep 12:
John
W. Connolly (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1950 Sep 12:
William
C. Vandenberg (Rep), nominated;
Harry
Henderson (Rep), defeated in primary;
Dan
Mills (Rep), defeated in primary;
Laverne
Laubengayer (Rep), defeated in primary.
1950 Nov 7:
William
C. Vandenberg (Rep), elected;
John
W. Connolly (Dem), defeated;
Richard
E. DeMille (Prohibition), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Sol
Dollinger (Socialist Workers), defeated.
1952 Aug 5:
John
W. Connolly (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1952 Aug 5:
Clarence
A. Reid (Rep), nominated;
George
W. Welsh (Rep), defeated in primary;
Harry
Henderson (Rep), defeated in primary;
David
E. Young (Rep), defeated in primary.
1952 Nov 4:
Clarence
A. Reid (Rep), elected;
John
W. Connolly (Dem), defeated;
Harold
A. Lindahl (Prohibition), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1954 Aug 3:
Philip
A. Hart (Dem), nominated;
George
S. Fitzgerald (Dem), defeated in primary.
1954 Aug 3:
Clarence
A. Reid (Rep), nominated unopposed.
1954 Nov 2:
Philip
A. Hart (Dem), elected;
Clarence
A. Reid (Rep), defeated;
Harold
A. Lindahl (Prohibition), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1956 Aug 7:
Philip
A. Hart (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1956 Aug 7:
Clarence
A. Reid (Rep), nominated unopposed.
1956 Nov 6:
Philip
A. Hart (Dem), elected;
Clarence
A. Reid (Rep), defeated;
Harold
A. Lindahl (Prohibition), defeated.
1958 Aug 5:
John
B. Swainson (Dem), nominated;
Michael
T. Mohardt (Dem), defeated in primary.
1958 Nov 4:
John
B. Swainson (Dem), elected;
Donald
A. Brown (Rep), defeated;
Herbert
E. Crouter (Prohibition), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Larry
Dolinski (Socialist Workers), defeated.
1960 Aug 2:
T.
John Lesinski (Dem), nominated;
Richard
F. Vander Veen (Dem), defeated in primary;
George
H. Dougherty (Dem), defeated in primary;
William
J. Coughlin (Dem), defeated in primary.
1960 Aug 2:
Clarence
A. Reid (Rep), nominated;
Edward
Hutchinson (Rep), defeated in primary.
1960 Nov 8:
T.
John Lesinski (Dem), elected;
Clarence
A. Reid (Rep), defeated;
W.
Clifford Bentley (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Evelyn
Sell (Socialist Workers), defeated;
Laverne
Laubengayer (Tax Cut), defeated;
Phillip
E. Fisher (Prohibition), defeated;
Basil
C. Sherlock (Independent American), defeated.
1962 Aug 7:
T.
John Lesinski (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1962 Aug 7:
Clarence
A. Reid (Rep), nominated;
John
H. Stahlin (Rep), defeated in primary;
Rockwell
T. Gust, Jr. (Rep), defeated in primary.
1962 Nov 6:
T.
John Lesinski (Dem), elected;
Clarence
A. Reid (Rep), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1964 Nov 3:
William
G. Milliken (Rep), elected;
Robert
A. Derengoski (Dem), defeated;
Harriet
Talan (Socialist Workers), defeated;
James
Jackson (Freedom Now), defeated;
W.
Clifford Bentley (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1966 Nov 8:
William
G. Milliken (Rep), elected;
John
B. Bruff (Dem), defeated;
W.
Clifford Bentley (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1970 Nov 3:
James
H. Brickley (Rep), elected;
Edward
H. McNamara (Dem), defeated;
Robert
E. Cauley (American Independent), defeated;
Evelyn
Kirsch (Socialist Workers), defeated;
W.
Clifford Bentley (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1974 Nov 5:
James
J. Damman (Rep), elected;
Paul
W. Brown (Dem), defeated;
Regina
McNulty (Human Rights), defeated;
Josephine
A. Chapman (American Independent), defeated;
Al
G. Terwilliger (Conservative), defeated;
Ruth
C. Getts (Socialist Workers), defeated;
Alfred
W. Wegener (Socialist Labor), defeated;
William
Allan (Communist), defeated;
R.
Wayne Evans (U.S. Labor), defeated.
1978:
Olivia
Maynard (Dem), defeated.
1982:
Clair
A. White (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;
Martha
W. Griffiths (Dem), elected;
Thomas
E. Brennan (Rep), defeated.
1982 Dec 27:
James
H. Brickley, resigned.
1986:
Colleen
Engler (Rep), defeated;
Martha
W. Griffiths (Dem), elected.
1990 Nov 6:
Connie
Binsfeld (Rep), elected;
Olivia
Maynard (Dem), defeated;
Kirby
(Workers World), defeated.
1994 Nov 8:
Connie
Binsfeld (Rep), elected;
Debbie
Stabenow (Dem), defeated.
1998 Nov 3:
Dick
Posthumus (Rep), elected;
James
G. Agee (Dem), defeated.
2002 Nov 5:
John
D. Cherry, Jr. (Dem), elected;
Loren
N. Bennett (Rep), defeated;
Adrianna
Buonarroti (Green), defeated;
Clara
C. Pilchak (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated.
2006:
Scotty
Boman (Libertarian), defeated.
2010 Nov 2:
Brian
N. Calley (Rep), elected;
Brenda
L. Lawrence (Dem), defeated;
Erwin
J. Haas (Libertarian), defeated;
Chris
Levels (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;
Lynn
Meadows (Green), defeated.
2018 Nov 6:
Garlin
D. Gilchrist II (Dem), elected;
Lisa
Posthumus Lyons (Rep), defeated;
Angelique
Chaiser Thomas (Libertarian), defeated;
Earl
P. Lackie (Libertarian), defeated;
Charin
H. Davenport (Green), defeated;
Raymond
H. Warner (Natural Law), defeated.
2022 Nov 8:
Garlin
D. Gilchrist II (Dem), elected;
Shane
Hernandez (Rep), defeated;
Brian
Ellison (Libertarian), defeated;
Melissa
Carone (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;
Destiny
Clayton (Green), defeated;
Doug
Dern (Natural Law), defeated.
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