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California Lieutenant Governor

Lieutenant Governors of the State of California, 1850-present

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
1	John McDougall	1849	1851	Independent Democrat
2	David C. Broderick (acting)	1851	1852	Democrat
3	Samuel Purdy	1852	1856	Democrat
4	Robert M. Anderson	1856	1858	American
5	John Walkup	1858	1860	Democrat
6	John Gately Downey	1860	1860	Lecompton Democrat
7	Isaac N. Quinn (acting)	1860	1861	Democrat
8	Pablo de la Guerra (acting)	1861	1862	Democrat
9	John F. Chellis	1862	1863	Republican
10	Tim M. Machin	1863	1867	Unionist Republican
11	William Holden	1867	1871	Democrat
12	Romualdo Pacheco	1871	1875	Republican
13	William Irwin (acting)	1875	1875	Democrat
14	James A. Johnson	1875	1880	Democrat
15	John Mansfield	1880	1883	Republican
16	John Daggett	1883	1887	Democrat
17	Robert Whitney Waterman	1887	1887	Republican
18	Stephen M. White (acting)	1895	1899	Democrat
19	John B. Reddick	1891	1895	Republican
20	Spencer G. Millard	1895	1895	Republican
21	William T. Jeter	1895	1899	Democrat
22	Jacob H. Neff	1899	1903	Republican
23	Alden Anderson	1903	1907	Republican
24	Warren R. Porter	1907	1911	Republican
25	A. J. Wallace	1911	1915	Republican
26	John Morton Eshleman	1915	1916	Progressive
27	William Dennison Stephens	1916	1917	Republican
28	Clement Calhoun Young	1919	1927	Republican
29	Buron Fitts	1927	1928	Republican
30	H. L. Carnahan	1928	1931	Republican
31	Frank Finley Merriam	1931	1934	Republican
32	George J. Hatfield	1935	1939	Republican
33	Ellis E. Patterson	1939	1943	Democrat
34	Frederick F. Houser	1943	1947	Republican
35	Goodwin Jess Knight	1947	1953	Republican
36	Harold J. Powers	1953	1959	Republican
37	Glenn M. Anderson	1959	1967	Democrat
38	Robert Hutchinson Finch	1967	1969	Republican
39	Ed Reinecke	1969	1974	Republican
40	John L. Harmer	1974	1975	Republican
41	Mervyn M. Dymally	1975	1979	Democrat
42	Michael Curb	1979	1983	Republican
43	Leo T. McCarthy	1983	1995	Democrat
44	Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis, Jr.	1995	1999	Democrat
45	Cruz Miguel Bustamante	1999	-	Democrat