Former Lieutenant Governors of Kansas

Name	Origin	Party	Term
Name	Origin	Party	From	To
Joseph Pomeroy Root	Wyandotte	(R)	Feb. 1861	Jan. 1863
Thomas A. Osborn	Elwood	(R)	Jan. 1863	Jan. 1865
James McGrew	Wyandotte	(R)	Jan. 1865	Jan. 1867
Nehemiah Green	Manhattan	(R)	Jan. 1867	Nov. 1868
Charles V. Eskridge	Emporia	(R)	Jan. 1869	Jan. 1871
Peter Percival Elder	Ottawa	(R)	Jan. 1871	Jan. 1873
Elias Sleeper Stover	Council Grove	(R)	Jan. 1873	Jan. 1875
Melville J. Salter	Thayer	(R)	Jan. 1875	Jul. 1877
Lyman Underwood Humphrey *	Independence	(R)	Nov. 1877	Jan. 1881
David W. Finney	Neosho Falls	(R)	Jan. 1881	Jan. 1885
Alexander Pancoast Riddle	Girard	(R)	Jan. 1885	Jan. 1889
Andrew J. Felt	Seneca	(R)	Jan. 1889	Jan. 1893
Percy Daniels	Girard	(P)	Jan. 1893	Jan. 1895
James A. Troutman	Topeka	(R)	Jan. 1895	Jan. 1897
Alexander Miller Harvey	Topeka	(P)	Jan. 1897	Jan. 1899
Harry E. Richter	Council Grove	(R)	Jan. 1899	Jan. 1903
David J. Hanna	Hill City	(R)	Jan. 1903	Jan. 1907
William J. Fitzgerald	Dodge City	(R)	Jan. 1907	Jan. 1911
Richard J. Hopkins	Garden City	(R)	Jan. 1911	Jan. 1913
Sheffield Ingalls	Atchison	(R)	Jan. 1913	Jan. 1915
William Yost Morgan	Hutchinson	(R)	Jan. 1915	Jan. 1919
Charless H. Huffman	Columbus	(R)	Jan. 1919	Jan. 1923
Ben Sanford Paulen	Fredonia	(R)	Jan. 1923	Jan. 1925
D.A.N. Chase	Pleasanton	(R)	Jan. 1925	Jan. 1929
J.W. Graybill	Newton	(R)	Jan. 1929	Jan. 1933
Charles W. Thompson	Topeka	(R)	Jan. 1933	Jan. 1937
W. M. Lindsay	Pittsburg	(D)	Jan. 1937	Jan. 1939
Carl E. Friend	Lawrence	(R)	Jan. 1939	Jan. 1943
Jess C. Denious	Dodge City	(R)	Jan. 1943	Jan. 1947
Frank L. Hagaman **	Fairway	(R)	Jan. 1947	Nov. 1950
Fred Hall	Dodge City	(R)	Jan. 1951	Jan. 1955
John McCuish ***	Newton	(R)	Jan. 1955	Jan. 1957
Joseph W. Henkle, Sr.	Great Bend	(D)	Jan. 1957	Jan. 1961
Harold H. Chase	Salina	(R)	Jan. 1961	Jan. 1965
John Crutcher	Hutchinson	(R)	Jan. 1965	Jan. 1969
James H. De Coursey, Jr.	Mission	(D)	Jan. 1969	Jan. 1971
Reynolds (Ren) Shultz	Lawrence	(R)	Jan. 1971	Jan. 1973
Dave Owen	Overland Park	(R)	Jan. 1973	Jan. 1975
Shelby Smith	Wichita	(R)	Jan. 1975	Jan. 1979
Paul V. Dugan, Sr.	Wichita	(D)	Jan. 1979	Jan. 1983
Thomas R. Docking	Wichita	(D)	Jan. 1983	Jan. 1987
Jack D. Walker, M.D.	Overland Park	(R)	Jan. 1987	Jan. 1991
James Francisco	Mulvane	(D)	Jan. 1991	Jan. 1995
Sheila Frahm ****	Colby	(R)	Jan. 1995	Jun. 1996
Gary Sherrer *****	Wichita	(R)	Jul. 1996	Jan. 2003
John E. Moore	Wichita	(D)	Jan. 2003	Jan. 2007

(Legend: R=Republican; D=Democrat; P=Populist)

*Elected November 6, 1877, to succeed Lt. Governor Salter who resigned July 10, 1877.

**Assumed duties of Governor succeeding Frank Carlson who was elected to the United States Senate.

***Assumed duties of Governor succeeding Fred Hall who was appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court.

****Resigned on June 11, 1996 and was appointed by Governor Bill Graves to fill Bob Dole's United States Senate seat.

*****Appointed Lieutenant Governor by Governor Bill Graves on July 18, 1996 and was elected 1998. Sherrer is the first appointed Lieutenant Governor and the longest serving Lieutenant Governor in state history.

Last Updated December 07, 2007