query: position_held john p. s. gobin
supports: Michael Joseph 'Mike' Stack III (born June 5, 1963) is an American politician who is the 33rd and current Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. A Democrat, he was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, representing the 5th District, from 2001 to 2015. John Peter Shindel Gobin ( January 21 , 1837 -- May 1 , 1910 ) was an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War , and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania . The lieutenant governor is a constitutional officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The lieutenant governor is elected for a four year term in the same year as the governor. Each party picks a candidate for lieutenant governor independently of the governors. The winners of the party primaries are then teamed together in a governor/lieutenant governor ticket which runs together in the fall general election. Michael J. Stack III is the incumbent lieutenant governor. The lieutenant governor presides in the Senate and is first in the line of succession to the governor; in the event the governor dies, resigns, or otherwise leaves office, the lieutenant governor becomes governor.
candidates: lieutenant governor member of the pennsylvania state senate officer politician senate
answer: member of the pennsylvania state senate