List of lieutenant governors of New York

Last updated February 10, 2024

This is a complete list of the people who have served as lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of New York.

The Lieutenant Governor of New York, who is the president of the New York State Senate, is the second-highest position in the New York state government; the officeholder is first in line to succeed to the governorship should the governor resign, die or be removed from office via impeachment conviction. The lieutenant governor also assumes the gubernatorial powers and duties as acting governor if the governor is unable to perform those powers and duties.

New York currently has the highest-paid lieutenant governor in the country, with an annual salary of $220,000 as of 2021.^[1] As of May 25, 2022, Antonio Delgado is lieutenant governor.

List of lieutenant governors of New York

		Term in office	Party
	Pierre Van Cortlandt	1777–1795	Democratic-Republican Party	George Clinton
	Stephen Van Rensselaer	1795–1801	Federalist Party	John Jay
	Jeremiah Van Rensselaer	1801–1804	Democratic-Republican Party	George Clinton
	John Broome	July 1804 – August 8, 1810	Democratic-Republican Party	Morgan Lewis
	John Broome	July 1804 – August 8, 1810	Democratic-Republican Party	Daniel Tompkins
Office vacant August 8, 1810 – January 29, 1811
–	John Tayler	January 29, 1811 – May 2, 1811	Democratic-Republican Party
	DeWitt Clinton	May 2, 1811 – July 1, 1813	Democratic-Republican Party
	John Tayler	July 1, 1813 – February 24, 1817	Democratic-Republican Party
–	Philetus Swift	February 24, 1817 – June 30, 1817	Democratic-Republican Party	John Tayler (Acting)
	John Tayler	July 1, 1817 – December 31, 1822	Democratic-Republican Party	DeWitt Clinton
	Erastus Root	January 1, 1823 – December 31, 1823	Democratic-Republican Party	Joseph C. Yates
	James Tallmadge Jr.	January 1, 1825 – December 31, 1826	Democratic-Republican Party	DeWitt Clinton
	Nathaniel Pitcher	January 1, 1827 – February 10, 1828	Democratic-Republican Party	DeWitt Clinton
–	Peter R. Livingston	February 11, 1828 – October 17, 1828	Democratic-Republican Party	Nathaniel Pitcher
–	Charles Dayan	October 17, 1828 – December 31, 1828	Democratic-Republican Party	Nathaniel Pitcher
	Enos T. Throop	January 1, 1829 – March 12, 1829	Democratic Party	Martin Van Buren
–	Charles Stebbins	1829–1829	Democratic Party	Enos T. Throop
–	William M. Oliver	1830–1830	Democratic Party
	Edward P. Livingston	1831–1832	Democratic Party
	John Tracy	January 1, 1831 – December 31, 1838	Democratic Party	William L. Marcy
	Luther Bradish	January 1, 1839 – December 31, 1842	Whig Party	William H. Seward
	Daniel S. Dickinson	January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844	Democratic Party	William C. Bouck
	Addison Gardiner	January 1, 1845 – July 5, 1847	Democratic Party	Silas Wright
	Addison Gardiner	January 1, 1845 – July 5, 1847	Democratic Party	John Young
–	Albert Lester	July 5, 1847 – December 31, 1847	Whig Party
	Hamilton Fish	January 1, 1848 – December 31, 1848	Whig Party
	George W. Patterson	January 1, 1849 – December 31, 1850	Whig Party	Hamilton Fish
	Sanford E. Church	January 1, 1851 – December 31, 1854	Democratic Party	Washington Hunt
	Sanford E. Church	January 1, 1851 – December 31, 1854	Democratic Party	Horatio Seymour
	Henry J. Raymond	January 1, 1855 – December 31, 1856	Whig Party	Myron H. Clark
	Henry R. Selden	January 1, 1857 – December 31, 1858	Republican Party	John A. King
	Robert Campbell	January 1, 1859 – December 31, 1862	Republican Party	Edwin D. Morgan
	David R. Floyd-Jones	January 1, 1863 – December 31, 1864	Democratic Party	Horatio Seymour
	Thomas G. Alvord	January 1, 1865 – December 31, 1866	Union Party	Reuben Fenton
	Stewart L. Woodford	January 1, 1867 – December 31, 1868	Union Party	Reuben Fenton
	Allen C. Beach	January 1, 1869 – December 31, 1872	Democratic Party	John T. Hoffman
	John C. Robinson	January 1, 1873 – December 31, 1874	Republican Party	John A. Dix
	William Dorsheimer	January 1, 1875 – December 31, 1879	Democratic Party	Samuel Tilden
	William Dorsheimer	January 1, 1875 – December 31, 1879	Democratic Party	Lucius Robinson
	George G. Hoskins	January 1, 1880 – December 31, 1882	Republican Party	Alonzo B. Cornell
	David B. Hill	January 1, 1883 – January 6, 1885	Democratic Party	Grover Cleveland
–	Dennis McCarthy	January 6, 1885 – December 31, 1885	Republican Party	David B. Hill
	Edward F. Jones	January 1, 1886 – December 31, 1891	Democratic Party	David B. Hill
	William F. Sheehan	January 1, 1892 – December 31, 1894	Democratic Party	Roswell P. Flower
	Charles T. Saxton	January 1, 1895 – December 31, 1896	Republican Party	Levi P. Morton
	Timothy L. Woodruff	January 1, 1897 – December 31, 1902	Republican Party	Frank S. Black
				Theodore Roosevelt
				Benjamin Odell
	Frank W. Higgins	January 1, 1903 – December 31, 1904	Republican Party	Benjamin Odell
	Matthew L. Bruce	January 1, 1905 – December 5, 1906	Republican Party	Frank W. Higgins
–	John Raines	December 5, 1906 – December 31, 1906	Republican Party	Frank W. Higgins
	Lewis S. Chanler	January 1, 1907 – December 31, 1908	Democratic Party	Charles Evans Hughes
	Horace White	January 1, 1909 – October 6, 1910	Republican Party	Charles Evans Hughes
–	George H. Cobb	October 6, 1910 – December 31, 1910	Republican Party	Horace White
	Thomas F. Conway	January 1, 1911 – December 31, 1912	Democratic Party	John A. Dix
	Martin H. Glynn	January 1, 1913 – October 17, 1913	Democratic Party	William Sulzer
–	Robert F. Wagner	October 17, 1913 – December 31, 1914	Democratic Party	Martin H. Glynn
	Edward Schoeneck	January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918	Republican Party	Charles S. Whitman
	Harry C. Walker	January 1, 1919 – December 31, 1920	Democratic Party	Al Smith
	Jeremiah Wood	January 1, 1921 – September 26, 1922	Republican Party	Nathan L. Miller
–	Clayton R. Lusk	September 26, 1922 – December 31, 1922	Republican Party	Nathan L. Miller
	George R. Lunn	January 1, 1923 – December 31, 1924	Democratic Party	Al Smith
	Seymour Lowman	January 1, 1925 – December 31, 1926	Republican Party
	Edwin Corning	January 1, 1927 – December 31, 1928	Democratic Party
	Herbert H. Lehman	January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932	Democratic Party	Franklin D. Roosevelt
	M. William Bray	January 1, 1933 – December 31, 1938	Democratic Party	Herbert H. Lehman
	Charles Poletti	January 1, 1939 – December 3, 1942	Democratic Party	Herbert H. Lehman
–	Joe R. Hanley	December 3, 1942 – December 31, 1942	Republican Party	Charles Poletti
	Thomas W. Wallace	January 1, 1943 – November 2, 1943	Republican Party	Thomas E. Dewey
	Joe R. Hanley	November 2, 1943 – December 31, 1950	Republican Party
	Frank C. Moore	January 1, 1950 – September 30, 1953	Republican Party
–	Arthur H. Wicks	September 30, 1953 – November 18, 1953	Republican Party
–	Walter J. Mahoney	November 18, 1953 – December 31, 1954	Republican Party
	George DeLuca	January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1958	Democratic Party	W. Averell Harriman
	Malcolm Wilson	January 1, 1959 – December 18, 1973	Republican Party	Nelson Rockefeller
–	Warren M. Anderson	December 18, 1973 – December 31, 1974	Republican Party	Malcolm Wilson
	Mary Anne Krupsak	January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1978	Democratic Party	Hugh Carey
	Mario Cuomo	January 1, 1979 – December 31, 1982	Democratic Party	Hugh Carey
	Alfred DelBello	January 1, 1983 – February 1, 1985	Democratic Party	Mario Cuomo
–	Warren M. Anderson	February 1, 1985 – December 31, 1986	Republican Party
	Stan Lundine	January 1, 1987 – December 31, 1994	Democratic Party
	Betsy McCaughey Ross	January 1, 1995 – December 31, 1998	Republican Party	George Pataki
	Mary Donohue	January 1, 1999 – December 31, 2006	Republican Party	George Pataki
	David Paterson	January 1, 2007 – March 17, 2008	Democratic Party	Eliot Spitzer
–	Joseph Bruno	March 17, 2008 – June 24, 2008	Republican Party	David Paterson
–	Dean Skelos	June 24, 2008 – December 31, 2008	Republican Party
Office vacant January 1, 2009 – January 7, 2009
–	Malcolm Smith	January 7, 2009 – June 8, 2009	Democratic Party
–	Pedro Espada	June 8, 2009 – July 8, 2009	Democratic Party
	Richard Ravitch	July 8, 2009 – December 31, 2010	Democratic Party
	Robert Duffy	January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2014	Democratic Party	Andrew Cuomo
	Kathy Hochul	January 1, 2015 – August 23, 2021	Democratic Party	Andrew Cuomo
–	Andrea Stewart-Cousins	August 24, 2021 – September 9, 2021	Democratic Party	Kathy Hochul
	Brian Benjamin	September 9, 2021 – April 12, 2022	Democratic Party
–	Andrea Stewart-Cousins	April 12, 2022 – May 25, 2022	Democratic Party
	Antonio Delgado	May 25, 2022 – Incumbent	Democratic Party

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↑ "Andrew Cuomo Earned $225,000 Last Year And Is Highest Paid Governor In American History", Forbes , April 20, 2021.

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