The Office of the Lieutenant Governor in Utah was created in 1976. There have only been seven Lieutenant Governors in Utah's history. Prior to the creation of the Lieutenant Governor's office, the succession to the Governorship of Utah was held by the Utah Secretary of State. The office of Utah's Secretary of State was abolished by the legislature in 1976 and those duties given to the newly created Office of the Lieutenant Governor.

[edit] Duties

Because Utah currently has no Secretary of State[1], many of the functions that would commonly be served by a state Secretary of State are fulfilled by Utah's Lieutenant Governor [2]. Accordingly, the Lieutenant Governor's statutory duties include the oversight of all Notaries Public [3], the legal authentication of documents [4], maintaining oversight and regulation of registered lobbyists [5], certifying municipal annexations [6], and serving as the "keeper" of The Great Seal of the State of Utah [7]. Arguably the most important duty of the Utah Lieutenant Governor is to maintain general oversight authority over all elections [8]—federal, state, or local—that take place in Utah.

[edit] List of Utah Lieutenant Governors

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
1	Clyde L. Miller	1975	1977	Democratic
2	David S. Monson	1977	1985	Republican
3	W. Val Oveson	1985	1993	Republican
4	Olene S. Walker	1993	2003	Republican
5	Gayle McKeachnie	2003	2005	Republican
6	Gary R. Herbert	2005	2009	Republican
6	Greg Bell	2009	Incumbent	Republican

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