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Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence

Led by the late Carol Shields, a group of respected BC writers met with the current Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, the Honourable Iona Campagnolo to initiate a special provincial literary arts award.


1771 in Canada

Lieutenant Governor Michael Francklin of Nova Scotia travels to northern England to seek immigrants to replace those displaced by the Acadian expulsion.

Al Salvi

In his Senate run Salvi defeated Lieutenant Governor Bob Kustra in the Republican primary but was defeated by Democratic U.S. Representative Dick Durbin in the general election.

Aretas William Young

In 1826, Young was made protector of slaves in Demerara and in 1831 was nominated to become Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island off Canada following the sudden death of Sir Murray Maxwell, who briefly held the role.

Beriah Magoffin

Lieutenant governor Linn Boyd had died in office, and Magoffin refused to allow Speaker of the Senate John F. Fisk to succeed him as governor.

Bubby Lyons

Victory went instead to another Democrat, later lieutenant governor and then Governor Kathleen Blanco, who defeated a Republican, Kernan "Skip" Hand in the general election for the position held in conjunction with the 1988 U.S. presidential contest.

Cindy Ossias

However, she did not run, and Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante defeated Kraft Foods heir John Kraft for the Democratic nomination.

David Skrbina

He stood for the office of Lieutenant Governor for the U.S. state of Michigan as the Green Party candidate in 2006, as the running mate of Douglas Campbell.

Davison Home

The Davison family includes hundreds of members living mostly in Texas but extending as far away as Puerto Rico, whose immediate past Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor, Kenneth Davison McClintock is Frank B. Davison's great-grandson.

Diane Denish

In her capacity as Lieutenant Governor, Denish has supported legislation to increase microlending funds and place tighter regulations on payday lenders.

Ed Thompson

Thompson became the Libertarian party nominee in April and ran against Democrat Jim Doyle, the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor Scott McCallum, former Lieutenant Governor who had assumed the office in 2001 after Governor Tommy Thompson left to become U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Fifield, Wisconsin

The town is named after Sam Fifield, a politician and businessperson who served as Wisconsin's 14th Lieutenant Governor.

Fort York

In 1793, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe authorized a garrison on the present site of Fort York, just west of the mouth of Garrison Creek on the north eastern shore of Lake Ontario.

Frank J. Esposito

In the 2009 New Jersey gubernatorial race, Esposito was named by independent candidate Christopher Daggett as his ticket's candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

Genevieve Blatt

She narrowly defeated the 1950 nominee for Lieutenant Governor Michael Musmanno, by about 500 votes out of over 900,000 cast, in the Democratic primary.

George Griswold

As a result Lieutenant Governor Andrew Parsons became Governor and Griswold became the tenth Lieutenant Governor.

Georgia Department of Transportation

In February 2009, Governor Sonny Perdue, Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, and Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson announced a plan that would remove almost all authority from GDOT and the legislature and put it under themselves in a new State Transportation Authority.

Harry Mewhirter

In 1915, the Conservatives were forced to resign from office because a report commissioned by the Lieutenant Governor found the government guilty of corruption in the tendering of contracts for new legislative buildings.

Henry L. Fuqua

The five included future Lieutenant Governor Coleman Lindsey of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, who was affiliated with the Long faction.

Howard Cannon

Cannon was nearly defeated in his first re-election bid in 1964, holding off Republican Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt in one of the closest Senate elections ever.

Iris Kelso

In 1999, Kelso, along with two other New Orleans figures, political scientist and commentator Ed Renwick and former Lieutenant Governor Jimmy Fitzmorris, was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.

Isaac Holmes

Isaac Holmes (1758–1812) was an early American politician from South Carolina, serving as the 14th Lieutenant Governor of that State after the Revolution, as well as serving in both the South Carolina House and Senate.

John Chichester

Chichester won the 1985 Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor, but was defeated in the general election by state senator L. Douglas Wilder, who would go on to become the first African-American state governor since Reconstruction.

Judith Zaffirini

Despite her Democratic heritage, Zaffirini is known for her ability to work across party lines, particularly her friendship with Republican Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, the presiding officer of the state Senate, who lost the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in 2012 to Ted Cruz.

Kim Elton

Elton served in a number of staff positions in state government: he was a staff assistant to the Legislative Ethics Committee, an assistant State Ombudsman, Director of Policy for Lieutenant Governor Terry Miller, and as Executive Director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

Mark J. Green

He faced former HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, former White House Staff Secretary Sean Patrick Maloney, and former lieutenant governor candidate Charles King in the primary.

Massachusetts Governor's Council

If the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor were both vacant, the Council would act as chief executive.

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1958

In the race for Lieutenant Governor, Democrat Robert F. Murphy, defeated Republican Elmer C. Nelson, Prohibition candidate Harold E. Bassett, and Socialist Labor candidate Francis A. Votano.

Merle Boucher

Boucher sought and lost the Democratic-NPL nomination for Governor in 2004 and in 2008, but became the running mate of 2008 nominee Tim Mathern, running on the ticket as the nominee for Lieutenant Governor.

Morganza High School

John B. Fournet, later a supporter of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, lieutenant governor, and associate and Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, was the principal of Morganza High School in the 1916-1917 academic year.

New York state election, 1862

The 1862 New York state election was held on November 4, 1862, to elect the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Canal Commissioner, an Inspector of State Prisons and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.

New York state election, 1864

The 1864 New York state election was held on November 8, 1864, to elect the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Canal Commissioner and an Inspector of State Prisons, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.

New York state election, 1868

The 1868 New York state election was held on November 3, 1868, to elect the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Canal Commissioner, an Inspector of State Prisons and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.

North Carolina Community College System policy on admission of undocumented students

There were concerns from Senator Phil Berger (who was the Republican Leader of the North Carolina Senate at the time), then-Lieutenant Governor Bev Perdue, and North Carolina residents asking the NCCCS board to maintain their admission policy prohibiting undocumented students until they figure out a long-term policy.

Nua Mailo Saoluaga

Utu Abe Malae, the former head of the Development Bank of American Samoa and gubernatorial candidate, chose Saoluaga as his running mate for Lieutenant Governor in the 2008 election for Governor of American Samoa.

Parlange Plantation House

Together they had one son, also named Charles, who survived the Civil War to begin a distinguished career as a State Senator, United States District Attorney, Lieutenant Governor, federal judge, and finally justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Queen Street West

Since the original survey in 1793 by Sir Alexander Aitkin, commissioned by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, Queen Street has had many names.

Robert H. Pruyn

In 1866, he was the Conservative Union candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York.

Robert Stanley Weir

The French version had originally been commissioned in 1880 by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Théodore Robitaille with lyrics by Sir Adolphe Basile Routhier and music composed by Calixa Lavallée in time for the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français which was to be held on St. Jean Baptiste Day of that year.

Royal Alberta Museum

Premier Stelmach and the Alberta government have said that the location of the new building could be used for the terminal of an Edmonton—Calgary high speed rail line, while the old location will be the site for a new residence for the Lieutenant Governor.

Rudolph McCollum Jr.

After a three-year stint as Vice-Mayor, it was announced in late 2001 that he would replace the outgoing Mayor, Tim Kaine, who was elected Lieutenant Governor in the November general election.

Scotty Moylan

Francis Lester "Scotty" Moylan (March 23, 1916 – August 24, 2010) was a Guamanian businessman and patriarch of the Moylan family, which includes his son, former Lieutenant Governor Kurt Moylan, and his grandsons, former Lt. Governor Kaleo Moylan and Guam's first elected attorney general, Douglas Moylan.

Seal of Indiana

Lieutenant Governor Christopher Harrison became acting-governor when Governor Jonathan Jennings was away conducting negotiations with northern Indiana's native tribes.

Sonora, Texas

Former State Senator and Lieutenant Governor Bill Ratliff of Mount Pleasant was reared in Sonora and graduated from high school there.

Summers v. Adams

The fact that the plate idea was not initiated by any group or organization, but by the Lieutenant Governor André Bauer, allowed the court to quickly rule that the government's action did not have a secular purpose.

The Times-Picayune

In the mayoral race of 2006, The Times-Picayune endorsed right-leaning Democrat Ron Forman in the primary election and Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu in the runoff.

United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, 2014

Lieutenant Governor Joseph Garcia and state Senator Gail Schwartz may seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Tipton.

United States Senate election in Alaska, 2004

Mike Miller, younger brother of Terry Miller, involved in the family business in North Pole, also served in the Alaska House of Representatives and Alaska Senate from 1983 to 2001 and was the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 1994

Ward Armstrong

Armstrong considered running for Governor, Lieutenant Governor or Attorney General in the 2013 elections but decided not to.

Xu Guangchun

He has been chosen to host high-level foreign delegations, including an August, 2009 visit to Zhengzhou by seven lieutenant governors from Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota and Puerto Rico.


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134th Delaware General Assembly

This date was January 5, 1987, which was two weeks before the beginning of the third administrative year of Republican Governor Michael N. Castle from New Castle County and the third year for Democratic Lieutenant Governor Shien Biau Woo, also from New Castle County.

3rd Oklahoma Legislature

Lieutenant Governor J. J. McAlester served as the President of the Senate, which gave him a tie-breaking vote and allowed him to serve as a presiding officer.

Aaron Leland

Leland served as Lieutenant Governor from 1822 to 1827, and declined to be nominated for Governor in 1828, preferring instead to continue serving as Pastor of his church.

Barbara Oliver Hagerman

Her duties as Lieutenant Governor were briefly performed by John A. McQuaid from 12–13 March 2008 as the Administrator of Prince Edward Island).

Battle of Fort Cumberland

When the news reached Halifax through the efforts of Thomas Dixson, Lieutenant Governor Marriot Arbuthnot responded by dispatching orders on the 15th for any available ship based at Annapolis to go to Fort Edward in Windsor, to convoy troops to relieve the siege.

Brian Calley

In securing the nomination for lieutenant governor, the state Senate nomination was vacated and former state Representative Judy Emmons was chosen to fill the spot.

British Columbia Youth Parliament

The Premier-elect also appoints various other officers, such as a Lieutenant Governor, a Speaker, a chief clerk, and a Sergeant-At-Arms, among others.

Camp Good Days and Special Times

Several notable public figures have stated their support of the cause, including the Lieutenant Governor of New York and former Rochester mayor Robert Duffy, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, Congressman Tom Reed, Maggie Brooks, James Alesi, and David Koon.

Canterbury, New Hampshire

First granted by Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth in 1727, the town was named for William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Capture of Fort Niagara

In late 1813, Major General Francis de Rottenburg, the British Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, had been alarmed by defeats in the west (the Battle of Lake Erie and the Battle of the Thames) and American concentrations to the east.

Carl Weiss

Felix Pavy was defeated for lieutenant governor by Paul N. Cyr of Iberia Parish, who thereafter turned against Long.

Charles Hastings

Sir Charles Hastings Doyle (1804–1883), British military officer and Lieutenant Governor in Canada

Christopher Dewdney

Dewdney is the son of Canadian artist and author Selwyn Dewdney, brother of Alexander Keewatin Dewdney, and the great-grand-nephew of Edgar Dewdney (Lieutenant-governor: British Columbia 1892—1897, Northwest Territories, 1881—1888).

David Bernier

On November 15, 2012, Governor-elect Alejandro García Padilla appointed Bernier to succeed Kenneth McClintock as Puerto Rico's 23rd Secretary of State, which also entails the role of lieutenant governor.

Economy of Kazakhstan

In 2006, North Dakotan Lieutenant Governor Jack Dalrymple led an 18-member delegation of the North Dakota Trade Office representing seven North Dakota companies and Dickinson State University on a trip to Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia.

Edward Chandler

Edward Barron Chandler (1800–1880), Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick

Ethan Berkowitz

He and running mate for Lieutenant Governor Diane E. Benson faced incumbent Republican Governor Sean Parnell in the November general election and were defeated by a margin of 59% to 38%.

Eyreton

It is named after Edward John Eyre, who at one time was the lieutenant governor of the South Island (then known as New Munster).

Fort Dummer

The fort was named after Lieutenant Governor William Dummer, who was acting governor of Massachusetts at the time of the fort's construction.

Frank Esposito

Frank J. Esposito, college history professor and independent candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey

Frank Hayes

Frank L. Hays (1922–2003), 35th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, United States

Frederick Temple

Temple was born in Santa Maura, one of the Ionian Islands, the son of Major Octavius Temple, who was subsequently appointed lieutenant-governor of Sierra Leone.

George Hoskins

George Gilbert Hoskins (1824–1893), Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1880–1883

Head, Clara and Maria

The township of Head was named in honour of Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet who served as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick 1847-1854 and Governor-General of Canada 1854-1861.

James Aikins

James Albert Manning Aikins (1851–1929), the son, leader of the Manitoba Conservative Party, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba

James Harry Michael Jr.

Michael was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 1973 but lost to Republican John N. Dalton.

James Morris Colquhoun Colvin

Their extended family was long established in the British East Indies as soldiers and administrators, and included Sir John Russell Colvin, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces during the Indian Mutiny, his sons Sir Auckland, K.C.S.I. and Sir Elliot Graham, K.C.S.I., as well as their cousin, the writer and curator Sir Sidney Colvin.

John James Grant

Grant was appointed the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia on February 16, 2012 by Governor General of Canada David Johnston.

John McCurdy

John Alexander Douglas McCurdy (1886–1961), lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia and aviator

Joseph O'Brien

Joseph Leonard O'Brien, (1895–1973), former Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick

Kim Elton

He left the Assembly in 1994 to run for an open seat in the Alaska House of Representatives, which incumbent Fran Ulmer had given up to successfully run for lieutenant governor.

Laxalt

Paul Laxalt (born August 2, 1922), former American District Attorney, Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, Governor of Nevada and U.S. Senator

Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

In 1938, following the resignation of lieutenant governor Henry Gunderson, Governor Philip La Follette appointed Herman Ekern lieutenant governor to fill the vacancy.

Lynch-Staunton

Frank C. Lynch-Staunton, AOE (1905–1990), the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 1979 to 1985

Navarre, New Orleans

A portion of the Navarre neighborhood is also included within the boundaries of the City Park / N. O. Museum Cultural District, designated by Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu on November 1, 2008.

Pennsylvania Dutch

After the American Revolution, John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, invited pacifists from the former American Colonies, including Mennonites and German Baptist Brethren to settle in British North American territory on the promise of exemption from military service and the swearing of judicial oaths.

Peter M. Liba

He stepped down as lieutenant-governor just before the federal election of 2004, and was replaced by outgoing Liberal MP John Harvard.

Petition of Free Negroes

Because the grants were spread around the province, isolating the freed men among the otherwise-white settlers, on June 29, 1794, nineteen men from the Niagara region submitted a petition to Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe hoping to address this.

Philip Cannon

Philip L. Cannon (1850–1929), first Lieutenant Governor of Delaware

Rod Shealy

In 2006, Shealy ran the Republican primary campaign of André Bauer for lieutenant governor.

Saik'uz First Nation

Her 1989 memoir "Stoney Creek Woman" won the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing, and she was also the recipient of the Order of Canada.

Strickler

Daniel B. Strickler (1897–1992), American politician from Pennsylvania; lieutenant governor 1947–51

Timothy L. Woodruff

In the process Woodruff became the only Lieutenant Governor in New York history to serve under three different Governors — Frank S. Black, Theodore Roosevelt, and Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. As Lieutenant Governor, Woodruff took a leadership role in the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, helping to protect the forests there from the devastation of clear cutting and large scale damming projects.

Whitchurch, Herefordshire

Within the village is the Old Court Hotel which was the ancestral home of the Gwillim family, and was lived in for a while by John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (1791–1796) and founder of Toronto.

William Bolling

Bill Bolling (born 1957), Republican Lieutenant Governor of the US State of Virginia

William Harris Rule

The Jews eventually withdrew on religious grounds and Rule was involved when the Lieutenant Governor William Houston set up the first official free school on Flat Bastion Road in 1832 and he sent his own children there.

William Maturin

He and his brother Augustus arrived in Adelaide on the brig Elizabeth Buckham on 22 June 1843, and took the place of W. C. Darling in the Commisariat Department under administrator Sir Henry E. Fox Young, acting as his private secretary and holding the position of Deputy Assistant Commissary General and Auditor General, was promoted to Assistant Director in 1847, then Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor in 1851.

William Osgoode

When Prescott was recalled, he came into conflict with Prescott's successor, Lieutenant Governor Robert Shore Milnes.

William Plunkett

William C. Plunkett, former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1854-55)

William Thorne

William P. Thorne (1845–1928) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1903–1907)