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: Jehu Patterson, 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 1843-44: James Patterson, Monmouth (1844 elections were for the new New Jersey Senate that met in January 1845)
References List from "Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey", date: various (pre 1950)
External links The New Jersey Constitution of 1776