| Lieutenant Governor
Current Maryland Manual On-Line information:
http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/08conoff/html/02ltgovf.html
In Maryland, the office of Lieutenant Governor originally was created by the Constitution of 1864 and functioned from 1865 to 1868. The office was reestablished by Constitutional amendment in 1970 (Chapter 532, Acts of 1970, ratified Nov. 3, 1970).
Constitutions:
1864 Constitution Art. II Sec. 6-10
Current Constitution Art. II
Dan Friedman notes that the 1864 Constitution did not require that the Governor and Lt. Governor be from the same political party. He states "In fact, for one term under the 1864 constitution, the incumbents were from different parties. This created a difficult and embarrassing political situation and the office of Lieutenant Governor was abolished in the 1867 Maryland Constitution." (Friedman, 60). However, biographies of Thomas Swann and Christopher C. Cox indicate they were both members of the Union Party. Frank White's biography of Gov. Swann in The Governors of Maryland even refers to them as running mates. (White, 167). The distinction may be that Swann became a Democrat around 1866, while it appears Cox remained a Unionist.
pp. 59-69 of Dan Friedman, The Maryland State Constitution (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006).
Discussion of the creation of Office of the Lieutenant Governor from James Warner Harry. The Maryland Constitution of 1851. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Eds. J. M. Vincent, J. H. Hollander, and W. W. Willoughby. Series XX, Nos. 7-8. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1902. (http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000667/html/am667--69.html) |
