117th New York State Legislature | |||||
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | New York State Legislature | ||||
Jurisdiction | New York, United States | ||||
Term | January 1 – December 31, 1894 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 32 | ||||
President | Lt. Gov. William F. Sheehan (D) | ||||
Temporary President | Charles T. Saxton (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican (19-13) | ||||
Assembly | |||||
Members | 128 | ||||
Speaker | George R. Malby (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican (75-53) | ||||
Sessions | |||||
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The 117th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to April 27, 1894, during the third year of Roswell P. Flower's governorship, in Albany.
Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1846, 32 Senators and 128 assemblymen were elected in single-seat districts; senators for a two-year term, assemblymen for a one-year term. On April 26, 1892, the Legislature re-apportioned the Senate Districts and the number of assemblymen per county. [1] The senatorial districts were made up of entire counties, except New York County (nine districts), Kings County (five districts) and Erie County (two districts). The Assembly districts were made up of entire towns, or city wards, [2] forming a contiguous area, all within the same county.
On January 27, 1893, the Legislature passed "An Act to amend chapter 398, of the Laws of 1892, entitled 'An Act to provide for a convention to revise and amend the Constitution'", calling a Constitutional Convention to meet in 1894. [3]
At this time there were two major political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Prohibition Party, the Socialist Labor Party and a "People's Party" also nominated tickets.
The New York state election, 1893 was held on November 7. All six statewide elective offices up for election were carried by the Republicans. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Secretary of State, was: Republican 545,000; Democratic 521,000; Prohibition 34,000; Socialist Labor 20,000; and People's Party 17,000.
Also elected were 175 delegates to the Constitutional Convention; five delegates in each senatorial district, and 15 delegates-at-large elected statewide.
This was the only election of State Senators under the apportionment of 1892.
The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 2, 1894; and adjourned on April 27.
George R. Malby (R) was elected Speaker.
Charles T. Saxton (R) was elected president pro tempore of the State Senate.
The Constitutional Convention met at the State Capitol in Albany on May 8; and adjourned on September 29. Joseph H. Choate (R) was elected president; and Thomas G. Alvord (R) First Vice President.
The new Constitution increased the number of state senators from 32 to 50, and the number of assemblymen from 128 to 150; and re-apportioned the Senate districts, and the number of assemblymen per county. Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, St. Lawrence and Suffolk counties gained one seat each; Erie County gained two; Kings County three; and New York County five. The new Constitution also shortened the governor's and lieutenant governor's term to two years; and moved the election of state officers and state senators from odd-numbered to even-numbered years.
The new Constitution was submitted to the voters at the New York state election, 1894, and was adopted.
Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Timothy D. Sullivan, Frank A. O'Donnel, Joseph C. Wolff, Thomas C. O'Sullivan and Jacob Rice changed from the Assembly to the Senate.
District | Senator | Party | Notes |
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1st | John Lewis Childs | Republican | |
2nd | Michael J. Coffey | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by William H. Quinn (R) |
3rd | William H. Reynolds | Republican | |
4th | George A. Owens | Republican | |
5th | Daniel Bradley | Ind. Dem. | |
6th | John McCarty* | Democrat | re-elected; contested; seat vacated |
Henry Wolfert [4] | Republican | seated in February | |
7th | Martin T. McMahon* | Democrat | re-elected |
8th | John F. Ahearn* | Democrat | re-elected |
9th | Timothy D. Sullivan* | Democrat | |
10th | Frank A. O'Donnel* | Democrat | |
11th | Joseph C. Wolff* | Democrat | |
12th | Thomas C. O'Sullivan* | Democrat | |
13th | Charles L. Guy | Democrat | |
14th | Jacob A. Cantor* | Democrat | re-elected; Minority Leader |
15th | George W. Robertson | Republican | |
16th | Clarence Lexow | Republican | |
17th | Jacob Rice* | Democrat | |
18th | Michael F. Collins | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by Sheppard Tappan (R) |
19th | Amasa J. Parker Jr.* | Democrat | re-elected |
20th | Harvey J. Donaldson* | Republican | re-elected |
21st | Frederick D. Kilburn | Republican | |
22nd | Joseph Mullin* | Republican | re-elected |
23rd | Henry J. Coggeshall* | Republican | re-elected |
24th | Charles W. Stapleton | Republican | |
25th | Edmund O'Connor* | Republican | re-elected |
26th | Charles T. Saxton* | Republican | re-elected; elected president pro tempore; on November 6, 1894, elected Lieutenant Governor of New York |
27th | Baxter T. Smelzer | Republican | |
28th | Cornelius R. Parsons* | Republican | re-elected |
29th | Cuthbert W. Pound | Republican | |
30th | Charles Lamy | Republican | |
31st | Henry H. Persons | Republican | |
32nd | Frank W. Higgins | Republican | |
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes | |
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Albany | 1st | William Lasch | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by Frank Bloomingdale (R) [5] |
2nd | William A. Carroll | Democrat | ||
3rd | James Brennan | Democrat | ||
4th | Curtis N. Douglas | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by Amos J. Ablett (R) [6] | |
Allegany | Frederick A. Robbins | Republican | ||
Broome | Joseph H. Brownell | Republican | ||
Cattaraugus | Charles W. Terry | Republican | Chairman of Indian Affairs | |
Cayuga | Benjamin M. Wilcox | Republican | ||
Chautauqua | S. Frederick Nixon | Republican | Chairman of Public Institutions | |
Chemung | Robert P. Bush | Democrat | ||
Chenango | David Sherwood | Republican | ||
Clinton | Everett C. Baker | Republican | Chairman of Prisons | |
Columbia | Jacob H. Hoysradt | Democrat | ||
Cortland | Benjamin F. Lee | Republican | ||
Delaware | Wesley Gould | Republican | Chairman of Military Affairs | |
Dutchess | 1st | Edward H. Thompson* | Republican | Chairman of Banks |
2nd | Augustus B. Gray | Republican | Chairman of Federal Relations | |
Erie | 1st | Cornelius Coughlin | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by Jules O'Brien (R) [7] |
2nd | Simon Seibert | Republican | ||
3rd | Charles Braun | Republican | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills | |
4th | Joseph L. Whittet | Republican | ||
5th | Philip Gerst | Republican | Chairman of Canals | |
6th | Charles F. Schoepflin | Republican | Chairman of Public Printing | |
Essex | George A. Stevens* | Republican | Chairman of Public Lands and Forestry | |
Franklin | Allen S. Matthews* | Republican | Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment | |
Fulton and Hamilton | Philip Keck* | Republican | Chairman of General Laws | |
Genesee | Thomas B. Tuttle | Republican | ||
Greene | Ira B. Kerr | Democrat | ||
Herkimer | William C. Prescott* | Republican | Chairman of Codes | |
Jefferson | Harrison Fuller* | Republican | Chairman of Trades and Manufactures | |
Kings | 1st | William J. Plant* | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by William Dwyer (R) [8] |
2nd | John A. Hennessey* | Democrat | ||
3rd | John F. Houghton | Republican | ||
4th | Joseph J. Cahill* | Democrat | ||
5th | John H. Burtis | Republican | Chairman of Charitable and Religious Societies | |
6th | Michael E. Finnigan* | Democrat | ||
7th | William Hughes | Democrat | contested; seat vacated on April 4 [9] | |
Stillman F. Kneeland | Republican | seated on April 4 | ||
8th | John J. Cain | Democrat | ||
9th | William E. Melody* | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by George R. Pasfield (R) [10] | |
10th | Frank F. Schulz | Republican | Chairman of Unfinished Business | |
11th | Harry Schulz | Republican | ||
12th | Joseph F. Loonan | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by Thomas W. Campbell (R) [11] | |
13th | Francis E. Clark | Republican | ||
14th | James Taylor | Republican | Chairman of Public Health | |
15th | Albert A. Wray | Republican | ||
16th | James Graham* | Democrat | contested; seat vacated on February 21 [12] | |
William H. Friday [13] | Republican | seated on February 21 | ||
17th | James Scanlon | Republican | ||
18th | Julius L. Wieman | Republican | ||
Lewis | Melville W. Van Amber | Republican | Chairman of Fisheries and Game | |
Livingston | Otto Kelsey | Republican | ||
Madison | Lambert B. Kern | Republican | ||
Monroe | 1st | Samuel H. Stone* | Republican | Chairman of Claims |
2nd | James M. E. O'Grady* | Republican | Chairman of Public Education | |
3rd | William H. Denniston* | Republican | Chairman of Excise | |
Montgomery | E. Watson Gardiner | Republican | ||
New York | 1st | John H. G. Vehslage | Democrat | |
2nd | Michael J. Callahan | Democrat | ||
3rd | Jacob A. Mittnacht* | Democrat | ||
4th | Patrick H. Roche* | Democrat | ||
5th | Samuel J. Foley* | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by Albert W. Baillie (R) [14] | |
6th | Moses Dinkelspiel* | Democrat | ||
7th | John C. Stein | Democrat | ||
8th | Thomas J. O'Donnell | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by Charles La Maida (R) [15] | |
9th | John F. McDermott | Democrat | ||
10th | William Sulzer* | Democrat | Minority Leader; on November 6, 1894, elected to the 54th U.S. Congress | |
11th | James R. Sheffield | Republican | ||
12th | Edward B. La Fetra | Democrat | ||
13th | James H. Southworth* | Democrat | ||
14th | John P. Corrigan | Democrat | ||
15th | Adolph Schillinger | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by Seth Wilks (R) [16] | |
16th | Victor J. Dowling | Democrat | ||
17th | Patrick F. Trainor | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by Robert Miller (R) [17] | |
18th | Daniel J. Gleason | Democrat | ||
19th | Patrick J. Kerrigan | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by Edward R. Duffy (R) [18] | |
20th | William H. McKeon* | Democrat | ||
21st | Moses Herrman | Democrat | ||
22nd | Michael F. Tobin | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by Henry B. Page (R) [19] | |
23rd | Judson Lawson | Republican | ||
24th | Robert V. Stadtfeld | Democrat | ||
25th | John Keleher* | Democrat | ||
26th | Louis Davidson* | Democrat | ||
27th | Thomas H. Robertson | Republican | ||
28th | James F. Reilly* | Democrat | ||
29th | Arthur C. Butts* | Democrat | ||
30th | Charles C. Marrin* | Democrat | ||
Niagara | John H. Clark | Republican | ||
Oneida | 1st | Henry P. Hoefler | Republican | |
2nd | Joseph Porter | Republican | Chairman of Soldiers' Home | |
Onondaga | 1st | J. Emmett Wells | Republican | |
2nd | Jonathan Wyckoff* | Republican | Chairman of Agriculture | |
3rd | William H. Hotaling* | Republican | Chairman of Labor and Industries | |
Ontario | William L. Parkhurst* | Republican | Chairman of Railroads | |
Orange | 1st | Howard Thornton* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary |
2nd | Joseph Dean | Republican | ||
Orleans | Samuel W. Smith | Republican | ||
Oswego | Danforth E. Ainsworth* | Republican | Majority Leader; Chairman of Ways and Means | |
Otsego | John J. Rider | Republican | ||
Putnam | Hamilton Fish II* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Cities | |
Queens | 1st | James Robinson* | Democrat | |
2nd | James S. Fairbrother | Republican | ||
3rd | Eugene F. Vacheron | Republican | ||
Rensselaer | 1st | William M. Keenan* | Democrat | |
2nd | John M. Chambers* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Villages | |
3rd | John J. Cassin* | Democrat | ||
Richmond | Michael McGuire | Democrat | contested; seat vacated on April 4 | |
Michael Conklin | Republican | seated on April 4 [20] | ||
Rockland | Otis H. Cutler | Republican | ||
St. Lawrence | George R. Malby* | Republican | elected Speaker; Chairman of Rules | |
Saratoga | James Frank Terry* | Republican | Chairman of Revision | |
Schenectady | John C. Myers | Democrat | ||
Schoharie | Charles Chapman | Democrat | ||
Schuyler | George A. Snyder | Republican | ||
Seneca | Harry M. Glen | Republican | ||
Steuben | 1st | Willoughby W. Babcock | Republican | |
2nd | Merritt F. Smith | Republican | ||
Suffolk | Richard Higbie* | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation | |
Sullivan | Uriah S. Messiter* | Republican | Chairman of Internal Affairs | |
Tioga | Epenetus Howe | Republican | ||
Tompkins | Edwin C. Stewart | Republican | ||
Ulster | 1st | Henry McNamee | Democrat | |
2nd | James Lounsbery* | Republican | Chairman of Electricity, Gas and Water Supply | |
Warren | Taylor J. Eldredge | Republican | ||
Washington | William R. Hobbie* | Republican | Chairman of Insurance | |
Wayne | George S. Horton | Republican | Chairman of Privileges and Elections | |
Westchester | 1st | John C. Harrigan | Democrat | |
2nd | John Berry | Democrat | ||
3rd | Edgar L. Ryder* | Democrat | ||
Wyoming | Reuben J. Tilton | Republican | ||
Yates | A. Flagg Robson | Republican | ||
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