"We all know a lieutenant governorship isn't worth a hill of beans," he says, "but they don't."

Acting governors show a vacancy in the lieutenant governorship.

But he is hardly convincing, having publicly likened the lieutenant governorship to being "a potted palm."

The king did, however, acknowledge Nicholson's efforts with the lieutenant governorship of Virginia.

In 1938, he was elected to the lieutenant governorship for the first time, beginning his service in 1939.

The state's present constitution, adopted in 1867, abolished the lieutenant governorship.

Maryland's lieutenant governorship is thus weaker than the office in several, but not all, other states that have one.

Clinton formally resigned the lieutenant governorship, leaving a vacancy.

He was twice elected to the lieutenant governorship, once in 1923 and again in 1939.

(Not to mention the loss of the lieutenant governorship in the President's home state.)