161st 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, 1938 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 51 | ||||
President | Lt. Gov. M. William Bray (D) | ||||
Temporary President | John J. Dunnigan (D) | ||||
Party control | Democratic (29–22) | ||||
Assembly | |||||
Members | 150 | ||||
Speaker | Oswald D. Heck (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican (84–61–5) | ||||
Sessions | |||||
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The 161st New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 5 to March 19, 1938, during the sixth year of Herbert H. Lehman's governorship, in Albany.
Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1894, re-apportioned in 1917, 51 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 consisted either of one or more entire counties; or a contiguous area within a single county. The counties which were divided into more than one senatorial district were New York (nine districts), Kings (eight), Bronx (three), Erie (three), Monroe (two), Queens (two) and Westchester (two). The Assembly districts were made up of contiguous area, all within the same county.
At this time there were two major political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The American Labor Party and the Socialist Party also nominated tickets. In New York City, a "Trades Union", an "Anti-Communist", and a "City Fusion" ticket were also nominated.
The New York state election, 1937, was held on November 2. The only statewide elective office up for election was a judgeship on the New York Court of Appeals. The Democratic incumbent, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman's brother Irving Lehman, was re-elected with Republican and American Labor endorsement.
At the same time, an amendment to the State Constitution to increase of the term in office of the members of the New York State Assembly to two years, and of the statewide elected state officers (Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Comptroller, Attorney General) to four years, was accepted. Also, delegates for a Constitutional Convention, to be held later that year after the legislative session, were elected.
Assemblywoman Jane H. Todd (Rep.), of Tarrytown, was re-elected.
The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 5, 1938; and adjourned in the evening of March 19. [2]
Oswald D. Heck (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker, with 83 votes against 55 for Irwin Steingut (Dem.) and 4 for Nathaniel M. Minkoff (Am. Labor). [3]
The Constitutional Convention met at the State Capitol in Albany on April 5; [4] and adjourned on August 26. [5]
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
District | Senator | Party | Notes |
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1st | George L. Thompson* | Republican | |
2nd | Joseph D. Nunan Jr.* | Democrat | also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
3rd | Peter T. Farrell* | Democrat | |
4th | Philip M. Kleinfeld* | Democrat | also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
5th | John J. Howard* | Democrat | |
6th | Edward J. Coughlin* | Democrat | |
7th | Jacob J. Schwartzwald* | Democrat | |
8th | Joseph A. Esquirol* | Democrat | |
9th | Jacob H. Livingston* | Democrat | also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention; on November 8, 1938, elected to the City Court (Brooklyn) |
10th | Jeremiah F. Twomey* | Democrat | Chairman of Finance |
11th | James J. Crawford* | Democrat | |
12th | Elmer F. Quinn* | Democrat | |
13th | Thomas F. Burchill* | Democrat | |
14th | William J. Murray* | Democrat | |
15th | John L. Buckley* | Democrat | |
16th | John J. McNaboe* | Democrat | |
17th | Leon A. Fischel* | Democrat | |
18th | John T. McCall* | Democrat | also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
19th | Duncan T. O'Brien* | Democrat | died on September 14, 1938 |
20th | A. Spencer Feld* | Democrat | Chairman of Public Education |
21st | Lazarus Joseph* | Democrat | |
22nd | Julius S. Berg* | Democrat | committed suicide on July 20, 1938 |
23rd | John J. Dunnigan* | Democrat | Temporary President; also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
24th | Rae L. Egbert* | Democrat | |
25th | Pliny W. Williamson* | Republican | |
26th | James A. Garrity* | Dem./Am. L. | |
27th | Thomas C. Desmond* | Republican | |
28th | Frederic H. Bontecou* | Republican | also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
29th | Arthur H. Wicks* | Republican | |
30th | Erastus Corning 2nd* | Democrat | |
31st | Clifford C. Hastings* | Republican | |
32nd | Edwin E. Miller* | Republican | |
33rd | Benjamin F. Feinberg* | Republican | also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
34th | Rhoda Fox Graves* | Republican | |
35th | Harry F. Dunkel* | Republican | |
36th | William H. Hampton* | Republican | |
37th | Perley A. Pitcher* | Republican | Minority Leader; also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
38th | Francis L. McElroy* | Dem./Am. L. | |
39th | Walter W. Stokes* | Republican | |
40th | Roy M. Page* | Republican | |
41st | C. Tracey Stagg* | Republican | |
42nd | Charles J. Hewitt* | Republican | |
43rd | Earle S. Warner* | Republican | |
44th | Joe R. Hanley* | Republican | |
45th | Emmett L. Doyle* | Dem./Am. L. | |
46th | George F. Rogers* | Dem./Am. L. | |
47th | William H. Lee* | Republican | |
48th | Walter J. Mahoney* | Republican | |
49th | Stephen J. Wojtkowiak* | Dem./Am. L. | |
50th | Nelson W. Cheney* | Republican | |
51st | Leigh G. Kirkland* | Republican | |
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes | |
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Albany | 1st | George W. Foy* | Democrat | |
2nd | John P. Hayes* | Democrat | ||
3rd | James J. Carroll | Dem./Am. L. | ||
Allegany | William H. MacKenzie* | Republican | ||
Bronx | 1st | Matthew J. H. McLaughlin* | Dem./T.U./A.-C. | |
2nd | Patrick J. Fogarty | Dem./T.U./A.-C. | ||
3rd | Carl Pack* | Dem./T.U./A.-C. | ||
4th | Isidore Dollinger* | Dem./T.U./A.-C. | ||
5th | Nathaniel M. Minkoff | Am. L./Soc. | American Labor Leader | |
6th | Peter A. Quinn* | Dem./T.U./A.-C. | ||
7th | Gerard J. Muccigrosso | Am. L./Soc./C.F. | ||
8th | John A. Devany Jr.* | Dem./T.U./A.-C. | ||
Broome | 1st | Edward F. Vincent* | Republican | Chairman of Public Institutions |
2nd | James E. Hill* | Republican | ||
Cattaraugus | James W. Riley* | Rep./Soc. | Chairman of Military Affairs | |
Cayuga | Andrew D. Burgdorf* | Republican | Chairman of Public Health | |
Chautauqua | 1st | Lloyd J. Babcock* | Republican | Chairman of Pensions |
2nd | Carl E. Darling* | Republican | Chairman of Revision | |
Chemung | Chauncey B. Hammond* | Republican | Chairman of Penal Institutions | |
Chenango | Irving M. Ives* | Republican | Majority Leader | |
Clinton | Emmett J. Roach* | Democrat | ||
Columbia | Frederick A. Washburn* | Republican | Chairman of Labor and Industries | |
Cortland | John B. Briggs* | Republican | ||
Delaware | William T. A. Webb | Republican | ||
Dutchess | 1st | Howard N. Allen* | Republican | Chairman of Agriculture |
2nd | Emerson D. Fite* | Republican | Chairman of Charitable and Religious Societies | |
Erie | 1st | Frank A. Gugino* | Republican | |
2nd | Harold B. Ehrlich* | Rep./Am. L. | Chairman of Claims | |
3rd | William J. Butler | Rep./Am. L. | ||
4th | Anthony J. Canney* | Democrat | also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention | |
5th | Frank Kwiatkowski | Dem./Am. L. | ||
6th | Jerome C. Kreinheder* | Republican | ||
7th | Charles O. Burney Jr.* | Republican | ||
8th | R. Foster Piper* | Rep./Soc. | Chairman of Insurance; also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention | |
Essex | Thomas A. Leahy* | Republican | ||
Franklin | John H. Black* | Republican | ||
Fulton and Hamilton | Denton D. Lake* | Republican | Chairman of Aviation | |
Genesee | Herbert A. Rapp* | Republican | Chairman of Motor Vehicles | |
Greene | Paul Fromer* | Republican | ||
Herkimer | Leo A. Lawrence* | Republican | ||
Jefferson | Russell Wright* | Republican | ||
Kings | 1st | Crawford W. Hawkins* | Dem./T.U./A.-C. | |
2nd | Benjamin Brenner | Am. L./City F. | ||
3rd | Michael J. Gillen* | Dem./T.U./A.-C. | ||
4th | Bernard Austin* | Democrat | ||
5th | Charles R. McConnell* | Democrat | ||
6th | Robert J. Crews | Rep./City F. | Chairman of Affairs of the City of New York | |
7th | William Kirnan* | Democrat | ||
8th | Charles J. Beckinella | Democrat | ||
9th | Edgar F. Moran* | Democrat | ||
10th | William C. McCreery* | Democrat | ||
11th | Bernard J. Moran* | Democrat | ||
12th | Edward S. Moran Jr.* | Democrat | on June 24, arrested and accused of taking bribes [6] | |
13th | Ralph Schwartz* | Democrat | ||
14th | Harry Gittleson | Democrat | ||
15th | John Smolenski | Democrat | ||
16th | Salvatore T. DeMatteo | Am. Labor | ||
17th | Fred G. Moritt | Democrat | ||
18th | Irwin Steingut* | Democrat | Minority Leader; also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention | |
19th | Max M. Turshen* | Democrat | ||
20th | Roy H. Rudd* | Democrat | ||
21st | Charles H. Breitbart* | Democrat | ||
22nd | Peter H. Ruvolo | Democrat | ||
23rd | Frank Monaco | Am. L./Rep. | ||
Lewis | Fred A. Young* | Republican | ||
Livingston | James J. Wadsworth* | Republican | Chairman of Public Relief and Welfare | |
Madison | Wheeler Milmoe* | Republican | Chairman of Public Printing | |
Monroe | 1st | Frank J. Sellmayer Jr. | Republican | |
2nd | Abraham Schulman | Republican | ||
3rd | Earl C. Langenbacher* | Democrat | ||
4th | Pat E. Provenzano | Republican | ||
5th | Walter H. Wickins* | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation | |
Montgomery | L. James Shaver* | Republican | Chairman of Canals | |
Nassau | 1st | John D. Bennett | Republican | |
2nd | Leonard W. Hall* | Republican | Chairman of Re-Apportionment; on November 8, 1938, elected to the 76th U.S. Congress | |
New York | 1st | James J. Dooling* | Democrat | |
2nd | Nicholas A. Rossi* | Democrat | also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention | |
3rd | Phelps Phelps* | Democrat | ||
4th | Leonard Farbstein* | Democrat | ||
5th | John F. Killgrew* | Democrat | ||
6th | Meyer Goldberg | Republican | ||
7th | William T. Middleton | Republican | ||
8th | Stephen J. Jarema* | Democrat | ||
9th | Ira H. Holley* | Democrat | ||
10th | MacNeil Mitchell | Rep./City F. | ||
11th | Patrick H. Sullivan* | Democrat | ||
12th | Edmund J. Delany* | Democrat | also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention | |
13th | William J. Sheldrick* | Democrat | ||
14th | Francis J. McCaffrey Jr.* | Democrat | ||
15th | Abbot Low Moffat* | Republican | Chairman of Ways and Means: also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention | |
16th | Robert F. Wagner Jr. | Democrat | ||
17th | Oscar Garcia Rivera | Rep./Am. L. | ||
18th | Salvatore A. Farenga* | Democrat | ||
19th | Robert W. Justice* | Democrat | ||
20th | Walter V. Fitzgerald | Rep./Am. L. | ||
21st | William T. Andrews* | Democrat | ||
22nd | Daniel Flynn* | Democrat | ||
23rd | William J. A. Glancy* | Democrat | ||
Niagara | 1st | Fayette E. Pease* | Republican | Chairman of Conservation |
2nd | Harry D. Suitor* | Republican | Chairman of Codes | |
Oneida | 1st | John J. Walsh | Democrat | |
2nd | William R. Williams* | Republican | ||
3rd | C. Dean Williams | Republican | ||
Onondaga | 1st | Leo W. Breed* | Republican | |
2nd | George B. Parsons* | Republican | ||
3rd | Frank J. Costello* | Republican | ||
Ontario | Harry R. Marble* | Republican | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills | |
Orange | 1st | Lee B. Mailler* | Republican | Chairman of Mortgage and Real Estate |
2nd | Charles N. Hammond | Republican | ||
Orleans | John S. Thompson* | Republican | Chairman of Public Service | |
Oswego | Ernest J. Lonis* | Republican | ||
Otsego | Chester T. Backus* | Republican | ||
Putnam | D. Mallory Stephens* | Republican | Chairman of Banks | |
Queens | 1st | Mario J. Cariello* | Democrat | |
2nd | Timothy P. Kirwan | Democrat | ||
3rd | John V. Downey* | Democrat | ||
4th | Daniel E. Fitzpatrick* | Democrat | ||
5th | William F. Dailey | Democrat | ||
6th | Joseph P. Teagle | Democrat | ||
Rensselaer | 1st | Philip J. Casey* | Democrat | |
2nd | Maurice Whitney* | Republican | Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment | |
Richmond | 1st | Charles Bormann* | Democrat | |
2nd | Herman Methfessel* | Democrat | ||
Rockland | Lawrence J. Murray Jr. | Democrat | ||
St. Lawrence | 1st | W. Allan Newell* | Republican | Chairman of Civil Service |
2nd | Warren O. Daniels* | Republican | ||
Saratoga | Richard J. Sherman | Republican | ||
Schenectady | 1st | Oswald D. Heck* | Republican | re-elected Speaker |
2nd | Harold Armstrong* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Cities | |
Schoharie | Arthur L. Parsons* | Republican | ||
Schuyler | Dutton S. Peterson* | Republican | ||
Seneca | Lawrence W. Van Cleef* | Republican | ||
Steuben | 1st | Guy W. Cheney* | Republican | |
2nd | William M. Stuart* | Republican | ||
Suffolk | 1st | Edmund R. Lupton* | Republican | |
2nd | Elisha T. Barrett* | Republican | ||
Sullivan | William A. Chandler | Republican | ||
Tioga | Myron D. Albro | Republican | ||
Tompkins | Stanley C. Shaw* | Republican | ||
Ulster | J. Edward Conway* | Republican | Chairman of General Laws | |
Warren | Harry A. Reoux* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary | |
Washington | Herbert A. Bartholomew* | Republican | Chairman of Internal Affairs | |
Wayne | Harry L. Averill* | Republican | Chairman of Public Education | |
Westchester | 1st | Christopher H. Lawrence | Republican | |
2nd | Theodore Hill Jr. | Republican | ||
3rd | James E. Owens | Republican | ||
4th | Jane H. Todd* | Republican | Chairwoman of Social Welfare | |
5th | Arthur J. Doran* | Democrat | ||
Wyoming | Harold C. Ostertag* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Villages | |
Yates | Fred S. Hollowell* | Republican | Chairman of Excise | |
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