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The lieutenant governor of Colorado is the second-highest-ranking member of the executive department of the Colorado state government, below only the Governor of Colorado. The lieutenant governor, who acts as governor in his absence and succeeds to the governorship in case of vacancy, is elected on a partisan ticket with the governor. The present lieutenant governor is Barbara O'Brien, a Democrat, who has held the post since 2007.

[edit] List of Lieutenant Governors of the State of Colorado

#	Name	From	To	Party	Notes
1	Lafayette Head	1877	1879	Republican
2	Horace Austin Warner Tabor	1879	1883	Republican
3	William H. Meyer	1883	1885	Republican
4	Peter W. Breene	1885	1887	Republican
5	Norman H. Meldrum	1887	1889	Democratic
6	William Grover Smith	1889	1891	Republican
7	William Story	1891	1893	Republican
8	David Hopkinson Nichols	1893	1895	Populist
9	Jared L. Brush	1895	1899	Republican	Namesake of Brush, Colorado.
10	Francis Patrick Carney	1899	1901	Populist
11	David Courtney Coates	1901	1902	Democratic
12	Warren A. Haggott	1902	1903	Republican
13	Jesse F. McDonald	1903	1905	Republican
14	Arthur Cornforth	1905	1905	Republican
15	Fred W. Parks	1905	1907	Republican
16	Erastus Harper	1907	1909	Republican
17	Stephen R. Fitzgarrald	1909	1915	Democratic
18	Moses E. Lewis	1915	1917	Republican
19	James A. Pulliam	1917	1919	Democratic
20	George Stepham	1919	1921	Republican
21	Earl Cooley	1921	1923	Republican
22	Robert F. Rockwell	1923	1925	Republican
23	Sterling Byrd Lacy	1925	1927	Democratic
24	George Milton Corlett	1927	1931	Republican
25	Edwin C. Johnson	1931	1932	Democratic
26	Raymond Herbert Talbot	1933	1937	Democratic
27	Frank J. Hayes	1937	1939	Democratic
28	John Charles Vivian	1939	1943	Republican	Elected to serve as Governor 1943-1947.
29	William Eugene Higby	1943	1947	Republican
30	Homer L. Pearson	1947	1949	Democratic
31	Walter Walford Johnson	1949	1950	Democratic	Served as Governor 1950-1951 following the resignation of Governor William Lee Knous.
32	Charles P. Murphy	1950	1950	Republican
33	Gordon L. Allott	1950	1955	Republican
34	Stephen L.R. McNichols	1955	1957	Democratic	Elected to serve as Governor 1957-1963.
35	Frank L. Hays	1957	1959	Republican
36	Robert Lee Knous	1959	1967	Democratic
37	Mark Anthony Hogan	1967	1971	Democratic
38	John David Vanderhoof	1971	1973	Republican	Served as Governor 1973-1975 following resignation of Governor John Arthur Love.
39	Ted L. Strickland	1973	1975	Republican
40	George L. Brown	1975	1979	Democratic
41	Nancy E. Dick	1979	1987	Democratic
42	Mike Callihan	1987	1994	Democratic
43	Samuel H. Cassidy	1994	1995	Democratic
44	Gail S. Schoettler	1995	1999	Democratic
45	Joe Rogers	1999	2003	Republican
46	Jane E. Norton	2003	2007	Republican
47	Barbara O'Brien	2007	Incumbent	Democratic

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State of Colorado website
- Office of the Lieutenant Governor of the State of Colorado
  - Biographies of the Lieutenant Governors of the State of Colorado from the Colorado State Archives

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[edit] List of Lieutenant Governors of the State of Colorado

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