126th New York State Legislature | |||||
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Legislative body | New York State Legislature | ||||
Jurisdiction | New York, United States | ||||
Term | January 1 – December 31, 1903 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 50 | ||||
President | Lt. Gov. Frank W. Higgins (R) | ||||
Temporary President | John Raines (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican (28-22) | ||||
Assembly | |||||
Members | 150 | ||||
Speaker | S. Frederick Nixon (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican (89-61) | ||||
Sessions | |||||
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The 126th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 7 to April 23, 1903, during the third year of Benjamin B. Odell Jr.'s governorship, in Albany.
Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1894, 50 Senators and 150 assemblymen were elected in single-seat districts; senators for a two-year term, assemblymen for a one-year term. The senatorial districts were made up of entire counties, except New York County (twelve districts), Kings County (seven districts), Erie County (three districts) and Monroe County (two districts). The Assembly districts were made up of contiguous area, all within the same county.
At this time there were two major political parties: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Social Democratic Party, the Prohibition Party, the Socialist Labor Party, and a "Liberal Democratic" faction also nominated tickets.
The New York state election, 1902, was held on November 4. Gov. Benjamin B. Odell Jr. was re-elected; and State Senator Frank W. Higgins was elected Lieutenant Governor; both Republicans. Of the other six statewide elective offices up for election, four were carried by the Republicans and two by the Democrats. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Republicans 665,000; Democrats 656,000; Social Democrats 23,000; Prohibition 20,000; Socialist Labor 16,000; and Liberal Democrats 2,000.
The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 7, 1903; and adjourned on April 23.
S. Frederick Nixon (R) was re-elected Speaker.
John Raines (R) was elected president pro tempore of the State Senate with 25 votes for and 24 against him. Republican senators Edgar T. Brackett, Walter L. Brown and Nathaniel A. Elsberg voted against Raines. [1]
On January 20, the Legislature re-elected Thomas C. Platt (R) to a second term as U.S. Senator from New York, for a six-year term beginning on March 4, 1903. [2]
Note: In 1897, New York County (the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx), Kings County (the borough of Brooklyn), Richmond County (the borough of Staten Island) and the Western part of Queens County (the borough of Queens) were consolidated into the present-day City of New York. The Eastern part of Queens County (the non-consolidated part) was separated in 1899 as Nassau County. Parts of the 1st and 2nd Assembly districts of Westchester County were annexed by New York City in 1895, and became part of the Borough of the Bronx in 1898.
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Luke A. Keenan, Jotham P. Allds and Albert T. Fancher changed from the Assembly to the Senate.
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
District | Senator | Party | Notes |
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1st | Edwin Bailey Jr. | Democrat | |
2nd | Luke A. Keenan* | Democrat | |
3rd | Thomas H. Cullen* | Democrat | |
4th | Thomas C. Whitlock | Democrat | |
5th | James H. McCabe* | Democrat | |
6th | Walter C. Burton | Democrat | |
7th | Patrick H. McCarren* | Democrat | |
8th | Henry Marshall* | Republican | Chairman of Insurance |
9th | Joseph Wagner* | Democrat | |
10th | Daniel J. Riordan | Democrat | |
11th | John C. Fitzgerald | Democrat | |
12th | Samuel J. Foley* | Democrat | |
13th | Bernard F. Martin* | Democrat | |
14th | Thomas F. Grady* | Democrat | Minority Leader |
15th | Nathaniel A. Elsberg* | Republican | Chairman of Codes |
16th | vacant | Senator-elect Patrick F. Trainor (D) died on December 25, 1902 | |
Peter J. Dooling | Democrat | elected on January 27, 1903, to fill vacancy [3] | |
17th | George W. Plunkitt* | Democrat | |
18th | Victor J. Dowling* | Democrat | |
19th | John W. Russell | Democrat | |
20th | James J. Frawley | Democrat | |
21st | John A. Hawkins | Democrat | |
22nd | Charles P. McClelland | Democrat | seat vacated on August 21, upon appointment to the Board of General Appraisers |
23rd | Louis F. Goodsell* | Republican | Chairman of Miscellaneous Corporations |
24th | Henry S. Ambler* | Republican | Chairman of Agriculture |
25th | Frank J. Lefevre | Republican | Chairman of Revision |
26th | Jotham P. Allds* | Republican | |
27th | Spencer K. Warnick | Republican | Chairman of Privileges and Elections |
28th | Edgar T. Brackett* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary |
29th | James B. McEwan* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Villages |
30th | William D. Barnes* | Republican | Chairman of Penal Institutions |
31st | Spencer G. Prime* | Republican | Chairman of Banks |
32nd | George R. Malby* | Republican | Chairman of Finance |
33rd | Walter L. Brown | Republican | Chairman of Engrossed Bills |
34th | William Townsend | Democrat | |
35th | Elon R. Brown* | Republican | Chairman of Forest, Fish and Game |
36th | Horace White* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Cities |
37th | Francis H. Gates | Republican | Chairman of Military Affairs |
38th | George E. Green* | Republican | Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment |
39th | Benjamin M. Wilcox* | Republican | Chairman of Railroads |
40th | Edwin C. Stewart* | Republican | Chairman of Public Health |
41st | Franklin D. Sherwood* | Republican | Chairman of Public Printing |
42nd | John Raines* | Republican | elected President pro tempore; Chairman of Rules |
43rd | Merton E. Lewis* | Republican | Chairman of Public Education |
44th | William W. Armstrong* | Republican | Chairman of Internal Affairs |
45th | Irving L'Hommedieu | Republican | Chairman of Trades and Manufactures |
46th | Frederick C. Stevens | Republican | Chairman of Roads and Bridges |
47th | Henry W. Hill* | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation |
48th | Samuel J. Ramsperger* | Democrat | |
49th | George Allen Davis* | Republican | Chairman of Canals |
50th | Albert T. Fancher* | Republican | Chairman of Indian Affairs |
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes | |
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Albany | 1st | Charles W. Mead | Republican | |
2nd | Abram S. Coon* | Republican | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills | |
3rd | William V. Cooke | Democrat | ||
4th | William J. Grattan | Republican | ||
Allegany | Jesse S. Phillips* | Republican | Chairman of Codes | |
Broome | 1st | James T. Rogers* | Republican | Majority Leader; Chairman of Ways and Means |
2nd | Fred E. Allen* | Republican | ||
Cattaraugus | 1st | Theodore Hayden | Republican | |
2nd | James C. Sheldon | Republican | ||
Cayuga | 1st | Ernest G. Treat* | Republican | Chairman of State Prisons |
2nd | Charles J. Hewitt* | Republican | ||
Chautauqua | 1st | J. Samuel Fowler* | Republican | Chairman of General Laws |
2nd | S. Frederick Nixon* | Republican | re-elected Speaker; Chairman of Rules | |
Chemung | Sherman Moreland | Republican | ||
Chenango | Edgar A. Pearsall | Republican | ||
Clinton | H. Wallace Knapp | Republican | ||
Columbia | Edward W. Scovill | Republican | ||
Cortland | Henry A. Dickinson* | Republican | Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment | |
Delaware | James R. Cowan* | Republican | ||
Dutchess | 1st | John T. Smith* | Republican | Chairman of Banks |
2nd | Francis G. Landon* | Republican | Chairman of Public Education | |
Erie | 1st | John H. Bradley* | Democrat | |
2nd | Robert L. Cox | Republican | ||
3rd | Anthony F. Burke* | Democrat | ||
4th | Charles V. Lynch | Democrat | ||
5th | Charles W. Hinson | Democrat | ||
6th | George Ruehl* | Republican | ||
7th | John K. Patton* | Republican | Chairman of Canals | |
8th | Elijah Cook* | Republican | Chairman of Privileges and Elections | |
Essex | James M. Graeff* | Republican | Chairman of Agriculture | |
Franklin | Halbert D. Stevens* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Villages | |
Fulton and Hamilton | Clarence W. Smith* | Republican | ||
Genesee | S. Percy Hooker* | Republican | Chairman of Indian Affairs | |
Greene | Charles E. Nichols | Republican | ||
Herkimer | Samuel M. Allston* | Republican | Chairman of Fisheries and Game | |
Jefferson | 1st | William A. Denison | Republican | |
2nd | James A. Outterson* | Republican | ||
Kings | 1st | John Hill Morgan* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary |
2nd | John McKeown* | Democrat | ||
3rd | James J. McInerney* | Democrat | ||
4th | John E. Bullwinkel | Democrat | ||
5th | Fortescue C. Metcalfe | Democrat | ||
6th | Frank J. Ulrich | Democrat | ||
7th | William Keegan | Democrat | ||
8th | John C. L. Daly* | Democrat | ||
9th | James J. Kehoe | Democrat | ||
10th | Francis J. Byrne | Democrat | ||
11th | William S. Shanahan | Democrat | ||
12th | John F. Kearney | Democrat | ||
13th | Thomas F. Mathews | Democrat | ||
14th | John B. Ferre* | Democrat | ||
15th | Harry H. Dale* | Democrat | ||
16th | Gustavus C. Weber* | Republican | ||
17th | Edward C. Dowling | Republican | ||
18th | Jacob D. Remsen* | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation | |
19th | John Wolf* | Democrat | ||
20th | Louis J. Zettler | Democrat | ||
21st | Edward A. Miller | Democrat | ||
Lewis | Lewis H. Stiles* | Republican | ||
Livingston | William Y. Robinson | Republican | ||
Madison | Avery M. Hoadley* | Republican | Chairman of Public Institutions | |
Monroe | 1st | Martin Davis* | Republican | Chairman of Federal Relations |
2nd | George H. Smith* | Republican | ||
3rd | Eugene J. Dwyer | Republican | ||
4th | John Pallace Jr. | Democrat | ||
Montgomery | John W. Candee* | Republican | ||
New York | 1st | Andrew J. Doyle | Democrat | |
2nd | Joseph P. Bourke* | Democrat | ||
3rd | Dominick F. Mullaney | Democrat | ||
4th | William H. Burns* | Democrat | ||
5th | Edward R. Finch* | Republican | ||
6th | Harry E. Oxford* | Democrat | ||
7th | Peter P. Sherry | Democrat | ||
8th | Isidor Cohn | Democrat | ||
9th | Richard J. Butler | Democrat | ||
10th | John F. McCullough* | Democrat | ||
11th | Hugh Dolan | Democrat | ||
12th | Edward Rosenstein | Democrat | ||
13th | John C. Hackett | Democrat | ||
14th | Henry W. Doll* | Democrat | ||
15th | Thomas J. McManus | Democrat | ||
16th | Samuel Prince* | Democrat | ||
17th | John F. Curry | Democrat | ||
18th | George P. Richter* | Democrat | ||
19th | Charles F. Bostwick | Republican | ||
20th | John H. Fitzpatrick* | Democrat | ||
21st | Frederick E. Wood | Republican | ||
22nd | William H. Hornidge | Democrat | ||
23rd | Eugene J. McCarthy | Democrat | ||
24th | Leo P. Ulmann* | Democrat | ||
25th | Howard Conkling | Republican | previously a member from Warren Co. | |
26th | Myron Sulzberger* | Democrat | ||
27th | George B. Agnew | Republican | ||
28th | John T. Dooling* | Democrat | ||
29th | George B. Clark | Republican | ||
30th | Gotthardt A. Litthauer* | Democrat | ||
31st | Lewis A. Abrams | Democrat | ||
32nd | Matthew F. Neville* | Democrat | ||
33rd | James O. Farrell | Democrat | ||
34th | William J. Ellis | Democrat | ||
35th | Peter J. Everett | Democrat | ||
Niagara | 1st | Joseph M. Hoffman | Democrat | |
2nd | John H. Leggett* | Republican | Chairman of Claims | |
Oneida | 1st | Thomas A. Mortimer | Democrat | |
2nd | Fred J. Brill* | Republican | ||
3rd | John C. Evans | Republican | ||
Onondaga | 1st | James F. Williams* | Republican | |
2nd | Frederick D. Traub* | Republican | Chairman of Public Printing | |
3rd | Martin L. Cadin* | Republican | ||
4th | Fred W. Hammond* | Republican | Chairman of Revision | |
Ontario | Jean L. Burnett* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Cities | |
Orange | 1st | John Orr* | Republican | Chairman of Unfinished Business |
2nd | Louis Bedell* | Republican | Chairman of Railroads | |
Orleans | Charles S. Bridgeman | Republican | ||
Oswego | 1st | Thomas D. Lewis* | Republican | Chairman of Insurance |
2nd | Thomas M. Costello* | Republican | Chairman of labor and Industries | |
Otsego | John B. Conkling* | Republican | ||
Putnam | John R. Yale* | Republican | ||
Queens | 1st | Joseph Sullivan | Democrat | |
2nd | Francis X. Duer* | Democrat | ||
Queens and Nassau | George W. Doughty* | Republican | Chairman of Internal Affairs | |
Rensselaer | 1st | John M. Chambers* | Republican | Chairman of Charitable and Religious Societies |
2nd | John J. McCarthy | Democrat | ||
3rd | Charles W. Reynolds* | Republican | Chairman of Trades and Manufactures | |
Richmond | Charles J. McCormack | Democrat | ||
Rockland | Thomas Finegan | Democrat | ||
St. Lawrence | 1st | Charles S. Plank* | Republican | Chairman of Excise |
2nd | Edwin A. Merritt Jr.* | Republican | ||
Saratoga | George H. Whitney | Republican | ||
Schenectady | William W. Wemple | Republican | ||
Schoharie | George M. Palmer* | Democrat | Minority Leader | |
Schuyler | Olin T. Nye* | Republican | Chairman of Public Health | |
Seneca | Daniel W. Moran* | Republican | ||
Steuben | 1st | Frank C. Platt* | Republican | Chairman of Soldiers' Home |
2nd | Gordon M. Patchin* | Republican | ||
Suffolk | 1st | Willis A. Reeve* | Republican | |
2nd | Orlando Hubbs | Republican | ||
Sullivan | John F. Simpson | Republican | ||
Tioga | Edwin S. Hanford* | Republican | Chairman of Public Lands and Forestry | |
Tompkins | George E. Monroe* | Republican | ||
Ulster | 1st | Charles T. Coutant | Republican | |
2nd | Solomon P. Thorn | Republican | ||
Warren | Loyal L. Davis | Republican | ||
Washington | William H. Hughes* | Republican | Chairman of Military Affairs | |
Wayne | Addison P. Smith | Republican | ||
Westchester | 1st | John J. Sloane* | Democrat | |
2nd | J. Mayhew Wainwright* | Republican | ||
3rd | James K. Apgar* | Republican | Chairman of Electricity, Gas and Water Supply | |
Wyoming | Henry J. McNair* | Republican | ||
Yates | Cyrus C. Harvey | Republican | ||
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