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Lieutenant governor   /lutˈɛnənt gˈəvərnər/   Listen
Lieutenant governor

noun
1.
An elected official serving as deputy to the governor of a state of the United States.





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"Lieutenant governor" Quotes from Famous Books



... re-arrange my plans. I find it necessary to run up the river for a couple of weeks. In the meantime, thinking that possibly you might like to see something of our country, I have arranged that you should join the party of the Lieutenant Governor on their trip to the interior, and which will take only about four weeks' time. The party are going to visit the most interesting districts of our country, including both the famous mining district of Cariboo and the beautiful valley of the Okanagan. ...
— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor
... was the lieutenant governor of Canada, with headquarters at Detroit. It was his task to let loose the redskins that they might burn the cabins of the settlers on the border, and kill their women and children, or carry them into captivity. The British commander supplied the savages with ...
— Hero Stories from American History - For Elementary Schools • Albert F. Blaisdell
... of our stay in Burma was reached when Lord Chelmsford, the viceroy of India, visited Rangoon, and the lieutenant governor invited us to an afternoon-tea in his honor. The pandal, or reception pavilion, erected at the dock where the viceroy landed and where he was received with a salute of thirty-one guns, had been filled that morning by the elite of Burman ...
— A Tour of the Missions - Observations and Conclusions • Augustus Hopkins Strong


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