The Political Graveyard: Missouri: Lieutenant Governors

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Missouri: Lieutenant Governors

Lieutenant Governors of Missouri, 1820-2018 (May be incomplete!)
William H. Ashley 1820-24 Benjamin Harrison Reeves 1824-28 Daniel Dunklin 1828-32 Lilburn W. Boggs 1832-36 Franklin Cannon 1836-40 Meredith M. Marmaduke 1840-44 James Young 1844-48 Thomas L. Price 1848-52 Wilson Brown 1853-55 Hancock Lee Jackson 1857-61 Thomas C. Reynolds 1860-61 Willard P. Hall 1861-64 George Smith 1865-69 Edwin O. Stanard 1869-71 Joseph J. Gravely 1871-72 Charles P. Johnson 1873-75 Norman J. Colman 1875-77 Henry C. Brockmeyer 1877-81 Robert A. Campbell 1881-85 Albert P. Morehouse 1885-89 David A. Ball 1887 Stephen H. Claycomb 1889-93 John B. O'Meara 1893-97 August H. Bolte 1897-1901 John A. Lee 1901-03 Thomas L. Rubey 1903-04 John C. McKinley 1905-09 Jacob F. Gmelich 1909-13 William R. Painter 1913-17 Wallace Crossley 1917-21 Hiram Lloyd 1921-25 Philip A. Bennett 1925-29 Edward H. Winter 1929-33 Frank G. Harris 1933-44 Walter Naylor Davis 1945-49 James T. Blair, Jr. 1949-57 Edward V. Long 1957-60 Hilary A. Bush 1961-65 Thomas F. Eagleton 1965-69 William S. Morris 1969-73 William C. Phelps 1973-81 Kenneth J. Rothman 1981-85 Harriett Woods 1985-89 Mel Carnahan 1989-93 Roger B. Wilson 1993-2000 Michael L. Parson 2017-18

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1820: William H. Ashley (Dem), elected.

1824: Benjamin Harrison Reeves (Dem), elected.

1828: Daniel Dunklin (Dem), elected.

1836: Franklin Cannon, elected.

1840: Meredith M. Marmaduke (Dem), elected.

1844: James Young (Dem), elected.

1855 Aug 27: Wilson Brown, died in office.

1860: Thomas C. Reynolds, elected.

1864 Nov 8: George Smith (Rep), elected.

1868 Nov 3: Edwin O. Stanard (Rep), elected; Norman J. Colman, defeated.

1870 Nov 8: Joseph J. Gravely (Rep), elected.

1872 Apr 28: Joseph J. Gravely, died in office.

1872 Nov 5: Charles P. Johnson, elected.

1874 Nov 3: Norman J. Colman (Dem), elected.

1876 Nov 7: Henry C. Brockmeyer (Dem), elected.

1880 Nov 2: Robert A. Campbell (Dem), elected; Milo Blair (Rep), defeated; Homer F. Fellows (Greenback), defeated.

1903 Apr 27: John A. Lee, resigned.

1904: John C. McKinley (Rep), elected.

1916 Aug 1: Wallace Crossley (Dem), nominated; Joseph J. Crites (Dem), defeated in primary; Philip McCollum (Dem), defeated in primary.

1916 Aug 1: Roy F. Britton (Rep), nominated; William O. Atkeson (Rep), defeated in primary; James J. Kyle (Rep), defeated in primary.

1916 Aug 1: Charles Christian Bell (Progressive), nominated unopposed, but withdrew.

1916 Aug 1: James DeWitt Carpenter (Socialist), nominated unopposed.

1916 Aug 1: Edward T. Middlecoff (Socialist Labor), nominated unopposed.

1916 Nov 7: Wallace Crossley (Dem), elected; Roy F. Britton (Rep), defeated; James DeWitt Carpenter (Socialist), defeated; Edward T. Middlecoff (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1920 Nov 2: Hiram Lloyd (Rep), elected; Carter M. Buford (Dem), defeated; Louis Schneider (Socialist), defeated; E. H. Wessler (Farmer-Workers), defeated; Theodore Baeff (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1924 Nov 4: Philip A. Bennett (Rep), elected; Carter M. Buford (Dem), defeated; William Ungerer (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1928: Karl Oberheu (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1928 Aug 7: Frank G. Harris (Dem), nominated.

1928 Nov 6: Frank G. Harris (Dem), defeated.

1932 Aug 2: Frank G. Harris (Dem), nominated.

1932 Nov 8: Theodore Baeff (Socialist Labor), defeated; Frank G. Harris (Dem), elected.

1936 Nov 3: Frank G. Harris (Dem), elected; Manvel H. Davis (Rep), defeated; George A. Kovaka (Socialist), defeated; Vanderbilt Belton (Communist), defeated; Karl Oberheu (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1940 Aug 6: Frank G. Harris (Dem), nominated; John G. Christy (Dem), defeated in primary; Dan D. Porter (Dem), defeated in primary.

1940 Aug 6: William P. Elmer (Rep), nominated; James E. Ford (Rep), defeated in primary; Julius J. Scheske (Rep), defeated in primary; George Bartholomaeus (Rep), defeated in primary.

1940 Nov 5: Frank G. Harris (Dem), elected; William P. Elmer (Rep), defeated; Ada M. Demaree (Socialist), defeated; William J. Cady (Prohibition), defeated; Michael L. Hiltner (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1944 Aug 1: Walter Naylor Davis (Dem), nominated; Dan D. Porter (Dem), defeated in primary; David B. Russell (Dem), defeated in primary; Cullen S. Duncan (Dem), defeated in primary; Redmond S. Brennan (Dem), defeated in primary.

1944 Aug 1: James G. Blaine (Rep), nominated; Joseph T. Tate (Rep), defeated in primary; Orland K. Armstrong (Rep), defeated in primary; Claude L. Lambert (Rep), defeated in primary; Henry B. Hart (Rep), defeated in primary; E. A. Duensing (Rep), defeated in primary; Aaron J. Rehkop (Rep), defeated in primary.

1944 Nov 7: Walter Naylor Davis (Dem), elected; James G. Blaine (Rep), defeated; Edith F. Stevens (Socialist), defeated; Michael L. Hiltner (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1944 Dec 30: Frank G. Harris, died in office.

1952 Aug 5: James T. Blair, Jr. (Dem), nominated; William J. Becker (Dem), defeated in primary.

1952 Aug 5: Henry Arthur (Rep), nominated; Harry Kemp (Rep), defeated in primary; Thomas G. Woolsey (Rep), defeated in primary.

1952 Nov 4: James T. Blair, Jr. (Dem), elected; Henry Arthur (Rep), defeated; Sol Derman (Progressive), defeated; E. F. Moore (Socialist), defeated; O. M. Tanner (Christian Nationalist), defeated; R. H. Shadwell (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1956 Nov 6: Edward V. Long (Dem), elected; Richard M. Webster (Rep), defeated.

1964 Nov 3: Thomas F. Eagleton (Dem), elected; Jewett M. Fulkerson (Rep), defeated.

1968 Aug 6: Lem T. Jones, Jr. (Rep), nominated.

1968 Nov 5: Lem T. Jones, Jr. (Rep), defeated.

1972: James P. Aylward, Jr. (Dem), defeated.

1984: Mel Hancock (Rep), defeated.

1988: Richard B. Grisham (Rep), defeated.

1988 Aug 2: Mel Carnahan (Dem), nominated.

1988 Nov 8: Mel Carnahan (Dem), elected.

1992 Nov 3: Roger B. Wilson (Dem), elected.

1996 Nov 5: Roger B. Wilson (Dem), elected.

2000 Aug 8: R. Wendell Bailey (Rep), nominated.

2000 Nov 7: R. Wendell Bailey (Rep), defeated.

2012 Aug 7: Susan Montee (Dem), nominated; Judy Baker (Dem), defeated in primary; William Haas (Dem), defeated in primary; Sara Lampe (Dem), defeated in primary; Dennis Weisenburger (Dem), defeated in primary; Jackie Townes McGee (Dem), defeated in primary; Becky Lee Plattner (Dem), defeated in primary; Fred Kratky (Dem), defeated in primary.

2012 Aug 7: Peter Kinder (Rep), nominated; Brad Lager (Rep), defeated in primary; Mike Carter (Rep), defeated in primary; Charles W. Kullman (Rep), defeated in primary.

2012 Aug 7: Cynthia L. Davis (Constitution), nominated unopposed.

2012 Aug 7: Matthew Copple (Libertarian), nominated unopposed.

2012 Nov 6: Peter Kinder (Rep), elected; Susan Montee (Dem), defeated; Matthew Copple (Libertarian), defeated; Cynthia L. Davis (Constitution), defeated; Charles R. Jackson, defeated.

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