title: Vice-President of Council
text: # 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)
  