Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina

Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
Incumbent Pamela Evette since January 9, 2019
Style	Lieutenant Governor (informal) The Honorable (formal)
Term length	Four years, no limit
Inaugural holder	Thomas Broughton (1730)
Formation	South Carolina Constitution
Succession	First
Salary	$46,545 (2016) [1]

The Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina is the second-in-command to the Governor of South Carolina. The current lieutenant governor is Pamela Evette, who took office January 9, 2019.

List

Legend:   Democratic (32)   Republican (9)   No party (1)

Lieutenant governors of the State of South Carolina (1865 to 1868)

No.	Lieutenant Governor		Party	Term in office	Election	Governor		Notes
52		W.D. Porter	Independent	November 30, 1865 – July 6, 1868	1865		James Lawrence Orr	First popularly elected lieutenant governor
53		Lemuel Boozer	Republican	July 6, 1868 – December 3, 1870	1868		Robert Kingston Scott
54		Alonzo J. Ransier	Republican	December 3, 1870 – December 7, 1872	1870			First black lieutenant governor
55		Richard Howell Gleaves	Republican	December 7, 1872 – December 14, 1876	1872		Franklin J. Moses, Jr.	Second black lieutenant governor Haitian-American Lost reelection[a][2]
					1874		Daniel Henry Chamberlain
-	Disputed				Disputed between Gleaves and William Dunlap Simpson. Two governments were formed during this time. See the main article: Disputed government of South Carolina of 1876-77
56		William Dunlap Simpson	Democratic	December 14, 1876 – February 26, 1879	1876		Wade Hampton III	Succeeded to governorship[b]
					1878
-	Vacant			until November 30, 1880
57		John D. Kennedy	Democratic	November 30, 1880 – December 1, 1882	1880		Johnson Hagood
58		John Calhoun Sheppard	Democratic	December 1, 1882 – July 10, 1886	1882		Hugh Smith Thompson	Succeeded to governorship[c]
					1884
-	Vacant			until November 30, 1886
59		William L. Mauldin	Democratic	December 30, 1886 – December 4, 1890	1886		Hugh Smith Thompson
					1888
60		Eugene B. Gary	Democratic	December 4, 1890 – December 22, 1893	1890		Benjamin Tillman	Resigned[d]
					1892
61		Washington H. Timmerman	Democratic	December 22, 1893 – January 18, 1897
					1894		John Gary Evans
62		Miles Benjamin McSweeney	Democratic	January 18, 1897 – June 2, 1899	1896		William Haselden Ellerbe	Succeeded to governorship[e]
					1898
63		Robert B. Scarborough	Democratic	June 2, 1899 – January 15, 1901			Miles Benjamin McSweeney	Not elected
64		James Tillman	Democratic	January 15, 1901 – January 20, 1903	1900
65		John Sloan	Democratic	January 20, 1903 – January 15, 1907	1902		Duncan Clinch Heyward
					1904
66		Thomas Gordon McLeod	Democratic	January 15, 1907 – January 17, 1911	1906		Martin Frederick Ansel
					1908
67		Charles Aurelius Smith	Democratic	January 17, 1911 – January 14, 1915	1910		Coleman Livingston Blease	Succeeded to governorship[f]
					1912
-	Vacant			until January 19, 1915
68		Andrew Bethea	Democratic	January 19, 1915 – January 21, 1919	1914		Richard Irvine Manning III
					1916
69		J.T. Liles	Democratic	January 21, 1919 – January 18, 1921	1918		Robert Archer Cooper
70		Wilson Godfrey Harvey	Democratic	January 18, 1921 – May 20, 1922	1920			Succeeded to governorship[g]
-	Vacant			until January 16, 1923
71		E.B. Jackson	Democratic	January 16, 1923 – January 18, 1927	1922		Thomas Gordon McLeod
					1924
72		Thomas Bothwell Butler	Democratic	January 18, 1927 – January 20, 1931	1926		John Gardiner Richards, Jr.	First elected to four-year term
73		James Sheppard	Democratic	January 20, 1931 – January 15, 1935	1930		Ibra Charles Blackwood
74		Joseph Emile Harley	Democratic	January 15, 1935 – November 4, 1941	1934		Olin D. Johnston	Succeeded to governorship[h]
					1938		Burnet R. Maybank
-	Vacant			until January 19, 1943
75		Ransome Judson Williams	Democratic	January 19, 1943 – January 2, 1945	1942		Olin D. Johnston	Succeeded to governorship[i]
-	Vacant			until January 21, 1947
76		George Bell Timmerman, Jr.	Democratic	January 21, 1947 – January 18, 1955	1946		Strom Thurmond
					1950		James F. Byrnes
77		Fritz Hollings	Democratic	January 18, 1955 – January 20, 1959	1954		George Bell Timmerman, Jr.
78		Burnet R. Maybank Jr.	Democratic	January 20, 1959 – January 15, 1963	1958		Fritz Hollings
79		Robert Evander McNair	Democratic	January 15, 1963 – April 22, 1965	1962		Donald S. Russell	Succeeded to governorship[j]
-	Vacant			until January 17, 1967
80		John C. West	Democratic	January 17, 1967 – January 19, 1971	1966		Robert Evander McNair
81		Earle Morris, Jr.	Democratic	January 19, 1971 – January 21, 1975	1970		John C. West
82		W. Brantley Harvey, Jr.	Democratic	January 21, 1975 – January 10, 1979	1974		James B. Edwards
83		Nancy Stevenson	Democratic	January 10, 1979 – January 12, 1983	1978		Richard Riley	First female lieutenant governor
84		Michael R. Daniel	Democratic	January 12, 1983 – January 14, 1987	1982
85		Nick Theodore	Democratic	January 14, 1987 – January 11, 1995	1986		Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.
					1990
86		Bob Peeler	Republican	January 11, 1995 – January 15, 2003	1994		David Beasley
					1998		Jim Hodges
87		André Bauer	Republican	January 15, 2003 – January 12, 2011	2002		Mark Sanford
					2006
88		Ken Ard	Republican	January 12, 2011 – March 9, 2012	2010		Nikki Haley	Resigned[k]
-	Vacant			until March 13, 2012
89		Glenn F. McConnell	Republican	March 13, 2012 – June 18, 2014				Resigned[l]
90		Yancey McGill[m]	Democratic	June 18, 2014 – January 14, 2015
91		Henry McMaster	Republican	January 14, 2015 – January 24, 2017	2014			Succeeded to governorship[n]
92		Kevin L. Bryant	Republican	January 25, 2017 – January 9, 2019			Henry McMaster
93		Pamela Evette	Republican	January 9, 2019 – Present	2018			First elected on same ticket as governor[3]

Notes

1. Gleaves lost by 359 votes. Initially, the Republicans claimed that the Democrats committed voter fraud and that their majority was invalid. However, Republicans lost electoral support and were forced to concede. Gleaves, by all accounts of sources, did not refuse to leave office as Governor Daniel Henry Chamberlain did.
2. Succeeded to the governorship when Governor Wade Hampton III resigned to become a U.S. Senator
3. Succeeded to the governorship when Governor Hugh Thompson resigned to become the assistant Secretary of the Treasury under the Grover Cleveland administration.
4. Resigned to take position of associate justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
5. Succeeded to governorship when Governor William Ellerbe died in office.
6. Succeeded to governorship for five days when Governor Coleman Blease resigned to avoid attending the innaguration of his successor
7. Succeeded to governorship when Governor Robert Cooper resigned to take a position on the Federal Farm Loan Board.
8. Succeeded to governorship when Governor Burnet Maybank resigned to become a United States Senator.
9. Succeeded to governorship when Governor Olin Johnston resigned to become a United States Senator.
10. Succeeded to governorship when Governor Donald Russell resigned to become a United States Senator.
11. Resigned after the South Carolina ethics commission charged him with 69 counts of using campaign money for personal use and 23 counts of failing to disclose campaign expenses during the 2010 election for lieutenant governor.
12. Resigned to become the president of the College of Charleston.
13. McGill was a Democrat while lieutenant governor, but he switched parties after leaving office.
14. Succeeded to the governorship after Governor Nikki Haley resigned to become the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

References

1. "South Carolina state government salary". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
2. Reports of Committees of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Columbia: South Carolina Government. 1876. p. 125.
3. "SC voters in favor of governor-lieutenant governor ticket". wmbfnews.com. Retrieved October 31, 2013.