Vice-President of Council
# Vice-President of Council

The Vice-President of Council of the New Jersey Legislature would succeed the Governor (who was the President of the Council) if a vacancy occurred in that office.

## List of past vice-presidents of Council

The following is a list of past vice-presidents of the New Jersey Council from the adoption of the 1776 State Constitution.

* 1776-81: John Stevens, Hunterdon
* 1782: John Cox, Burlington
* 1783-84: Philemon Dickinson, Hunterdon
* 1785-88: Robert Lettis Hooper, Hunterdon
* 1789-92: Elisha Lawrence, Monmouth (acting Governor 1790)
* 1793-94: Thomas Henderson, Monmouth (acting Governor 1793 & 1794)
* 1795: Elisha Lawrence, Monmouth
* 1796-97: James Linn, Somerset
* 1798-1800: George Anderson, Burlington
* 1801-04: John Lambert, Hunterdon (acting Governor 1802-03)
* 1805: Thomas Little, Monmouth
* 1806: George Anderson, Burlington
* 1807: Ebenezer Elmer, Cumberland
* 1808: Ebenezer Seeley, Cumberland
* 1809: Thomas Ward, Essex
* 1810-11: Charles Clark, Essex (acting Governor 1812)
* 1812: James Schureman, Middlesex
* 1813: Charles Clark, Essex
* 1814-15: William Kennedy, Sussex (acting Governor 1815)
* 1816-22: Jesse Upson, Morris
* 1823-25: Peter J. Stryker, Somerset
* 1826: Ephraim Bateman, Cumberland
* 1827: Silas Cook, Morris
* 1828: Caleb Newbold, Burlington
* 1829-30: Edward Condict, Morris
* 1831-32: Elias P. Seeley, Cumberland (acting Governor 1833)
* 1833: Mahlon Dickerson, Morris
* 1834: John Patterson (New Jersey), Monmouth
* 1835: Charles Sitgreaves, Warren
* 1836: Jeptha P. Munn, Morris
* 1837-38: Andrew Parsons, Passaic
* 1839-40: Joseph Porter, Gloucester
* 1841: John Cassedy, Bergen
* 1842: William Chetwood, Essex
* 1843: Jehu Patterson, Monmouth
* (1844 elections were for the new New Jersey Senate that met in January 1845)
