168th New York State Legislature | |||||||
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Overview | |||||||
Legislative body | New York State Legislature | ||||||
Jurisdiction | New York, United States | ||||||
Term | January 1, 1951 – December 31, 1952 | ||||||
Senate | |||||||
Members | 56 | ||||||
President | Lt. Gov. Frank C. Moore (R) | ||||||
Temporary President | Arthur H. Wicks (R) | ||||||
Party control | Republican (33–23) | ||||||
Assembly | |||||||
Members | 150 | ||||||
Speaker | Oswald D. Heck (R) | ||||||
Party control | Republican (87–63) | ||||||
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The 168th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 3, 1951, to March 20, 1952, during the ninth and tenth years of Thomas E. Dewey's governorship, in Albany.
Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1938, re-apportioned in 1943, 56 Senators and 150 assemblymen were elected in single-seat districts for two-year terms. 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 Kings (nine districts), New York (six), Bronx (five), Queens (four), Erie (three), Westchester (three), Monroe (two) and Nassau (two). The Assembly districts consisted either of a single entire county (except Hamilton Co.), or of contiguous area within one county.
At this time there were two major political parties: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Liberal Party, the American Labor Party, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Socialist Labor Party (running under the name of "Industrial Government Party") also nominated tickets.
The New York state election, 1950, was held on November 7. Governor Thomas E. Dewey (Rep.) was re-elected. New York State Comptroller Frank C. Moore (Rep.) was elected lieutenant governor. Of the other three statewide elective offices up for election, two were carried by the Republicans. The Democratic/Liberal incumbent U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman defeated his Republican challenger lieutenant governor Joe R. Hanley. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for governor, was: Republicans 2,820,000; Democrats 1,981,000; Liberals 266,000; American Labor 222,000; Socialist Workers 13,000; and Industrial Government 7,000.
Five of the seven women members of the previous legislature—Assemblywomen Mary A. Gillen (Dem.), of Brooklyn; Janet Hill Gordon (Rep.), a lawyer of Norwich; Genesta M. Strong (Rep.), of Plandome Heights; Mildred F. Taylor (Rep.), a coal dealer of Lyons; and Maude E. Ten Eyck (Rep.), of Manhattan—were re-elected.
The New York state election, 1951, was held on November 6. No statewide elective offices were up for election. Four vacancies in the Assembly were filled.
The Legislature met for the first regular session (the 174th) at the State Capitol in Albany on January 3, 1951; [1] and adjourned on March 16. [2]
Oswald D. Heck (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker.
Arthur H. Wicks (Rep.) was re-elected Temporary President of the State Senate.
The Legislature met for a special session at the State Capitol in Albany on December 6, 1951, to enact the re-apportionment of congressional seats according to the 1950 U.S. census. [3]
The Legislature met for the second regular session (the 175th) at the State Capitol in Albany on January 9, 1952; [4] and adjourned on March 20. [5]
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Frank S. McCullough changed from the Assembly to the Senate at the beginning of this Legislature. Assemblyman Orlo M. Brees was elected to fill a vacancy in the Senate.
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
District | Senator | Party | Notes |
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1st | S. Wentworth Horton* | Republican | |
2nd | John D. Bennett* | Republican | |
3rd | William S. Hults Jr.* | Republican | |
4th | Seymour Halpern* | Republican | |
5th | James F. Fitzgerald* | Democrat | |
6th | Frank D. O'Connor* | Democrat | |
7th | William N. Conrad* | Democrat | |
8th | James J. Crawford* | Democrat | |
9th | Harry Gittleson* | Democrat | |
10th | Herbert I. Sorin* | Democrat | |
11th | Fred G. Moritt* | Democrat | |
12th | Samuel L. Greenberg* | Democrat | |
13th | John F. Furey* | Democrat | |
14th | Mario M. DeOptatis* | Democrat | |
15th | Louis L. Friedman* | Democrat | |
16th | William Rosenblatt* | Democrat | |
17th | John M. Braisted Jr.* | Democrat | |
18th | Elmer F. Quinn* | Democrat | Minority Leader; died on September 2, 1952 |
19th | Francis J. Mahoney* | Democrat | on September 12, 1952, chosen Minority Leader [6] |
20th | MacNeil Mitchell* | Republican | |
21st | Harold I. Panken* | Democrat | |
22nd | William J. Bianchi | Rep./Am. Labor | |
23rd | Joseph Zaretzki* | Democrat | |
24th | John J. Donovan Jr. | Democrat | |
25th | Arthur Wachtel* | Democrat | |
26th | Nathaniel T. Helman* | Democrat | |
27th | Enzo Gaspari | Democrat | |
28th | Francis J. McCaffrey | Democrat | |
29th | William F. Condon* | Republican | |
30th | Frank S. McCullough* | Republican | |
31st | Pliny W. Williamson* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary |
32nd | Thomas C. Desmond* | Republican | |
33rd | Ernest I. Hatfield* | Republican | |
34th | Arthur H. Wicks* | Republican | re-elected Temporary President |
35th | Peter J. Dalessandro* | Democrat | |
36th | Gilbert T. Seelye* | Republican | |
37th | Thomas F. Campbell* | Republican | |
38th | Henry Neddo* | Republican | |
39th | Paul D. Graves* | Republican | |
40th | Walter Van Wiggeren* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Villages |
41st | Fred J. Rath | Republican | |
42nd | Henry A. Wise* | Republican | Chairman of Public Relief and Welfare |
43rd | John H. Hughes* | Republican | |
44th | Walter W. Stokes* | Republican | |
45th | Floyd E. Anderson* | Republican | on January 3, 1952, appointed to the New York Supreme Court [7] |
Orlo M. Brees* | Republican | on February 13, 1952, elected to fill vacancy; [8] took his seat on February 18, 1952 [9] | |
46th | Chauncey B. Hammond* | Republican | died on February 11, 1952 |
47th | George R. Metcalf | Republican | |
48th | Fred S. Hollowell* | Republican | |
49th | Austin W. Erwin* | Republican | |
50th | George T. Manning* | Republican | |
51st | Frank E. Van Lare | Republican | |
52nd | Earl W. Brydges* | Republican | |
53rd | Walter J. Mahoney* | Republican | Chairman of Finance |
54th | Stanley J. Bauer | Republican | |
55th | John H. Cooke | Republican | |
56th | George H. Pierce* | Republican | |
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes | |
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Albany | 1st | D-Cady Herrick 2nd* | Democrat | |
2nd | James J. McGuiness | Democrat | ||
3rd | James F. Dillon* | Democrat | ||
Allegany | William H. MacKenzie* | Republican | ||
Bronx | 1st | Bernard C. McDonnell* | Democrat | |
2nd | Richard M. Goldwater* | Democrat | ||
3rd | Edward T. Galloway* | Democrat | ||
4th | Jacob H. Gilbert | Democrat | ||
5th | David Ross | Democrat | ||
6th | Julius J. Gans* | Democrat | ||
7th | Louis Peck* | Democrat | ||
8th | John T. Satriale* | Democrat | ||
9th | James J. O'Brien | Democrat | ||
10th | Charles H. McHugh | Democrat | ||
11th | Clarke S. Ryan | Democrat | ||
12th | Nathan A. Lashin* | Democrat | on July 31, 1951, appointed to the Municipal Court [10] | |
Mitchell J. Sherwin | Democrat | on November 6, 1951, elected to fill vacancy | ||
13th | William Kapelman | Democrat | ||
Broome | 1st | Richard H. Knauf* | Republican | |
2nd | Orlo M. Brees* | Republican | on February 13, 1952, elected to the State Senate | |
Cattaraugus | Leo P. Noonan* | Republican | ||
Cayuga | Charles A. Cusick* | Republican | ||
Chautauqua | E. Herman Magnuson* | Republican | ||
Chemung | Harry J. Tifft* | Republican | ||
Chenango | Janet Hill Gordon* | Republican | ||
Clinton | James A. FitzPatrick* | Republican | ||
Columbia | Willard C. Drumm* | Republican | ||
Cortland | Louis H. Folmer | Republican | ||
Delaware | Elmer J. Kellam* | Republican | ||
Dutchess | Robert Watson Pomeroy* | Republican | ||
Erie | 1st | Thomas J. Runfola | Republican | |
2nd | Justin C. Morgan* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary | |
3rd | William J. Butler* | Republican | ||
4th | Frank J. Caffery* | Democrat | ||
5th | Philip V. Baczkowski* | Dem./Lib. | ||
6th | George F. Dannebrock* | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation | |
7th | Julius Volker* | Republican | ||
8th | William Sadler | Republican | ||
Essex | L. Judson Morhouse* | Republican | resigned to become Exec. Dir. of the NY Good Roads Association | |
Grant W. Johnson | Republican | on November 6, 1951, elected to fill vacancy | ||
Franklin | Robert G. Main | Republican | ||
Fulton and Hamilton | Joseph R. Younglove* | Republican | ||
Genesee | John E. Johnson* | Republican | ||
Greene | William E. Brady* | Republican | ||
Herkimer | Leo A. Lawrence* | Republican | ||
Jefferson | Orin S. Wilcox* | Republican | ||
Kings | 1st | Max M. Turshen* | Democrat | |
2nd | J. Sidney Levine* | Democrat | ||
3rd | Mary A. Gillen* | Democrat | ||
4th | Bernard Austin* | Dem./Lib. | ||
5th | Harry Morr* | Democrat | ||
6th | John J. Ryan* | Democrat | ||
7th | Louis Kalish* | Democrat | ||
8th | Frank Composto* | Democrat | ||
9th | Frank J. McMullen* | Republican | ||
10th | Lewis W. Olliffe* | Republican | ||
11th | Eugene F. Bannigan* | Democrat | ||
12th | James W. Feely* | Democrat | resigned to run for the Municipal Court | |
Herbert Samuels | Democrat | on November 6, 1951, elected to fill vacancy | ||
13th | Lawrence P. Murphy* | Democrat | ||
14th | Edward S. Lentol* | Democrat | ||
15th | John Smolenski* | Democrat | ||
16th | Frank J. Pino* | Democrat | ||
17th | Bertram L. Baker* | Democrat | ||
18th | Irwin Steingut* | Democrat | Minority Leader; died on September 26, 1952 | |
19th | Philip J. Schupler* | Democrat | ||
20th | Joseph R. Corso* | Democrat | ||
21st | Thomas A. Dwyer* | Democrat | ||
22nd | Anthony J. Travia* | Democrat | ||
23rd | Alfred A. Lama* | Democrat | ||
24th | Ben Werbel* | Democrat | ||
Lewis | Benjamin H. Demo* | Republican | Chairman of Banks | |
Livingston | Joseph W. Ward* | Republican | ||
Madison | Wheeler Milmoe* | Republican | ||
Monroe | 1st | J. Eugene Goddard* | Republican | |
2nd | A. Gould Hatch* | Republican | ||
3rd | Raymond H. Combs* | Republican | ||
4th | Andrew J. Schell | Republican | ||
Montgomery | Donald A. Campbell | Republican | ||
Nassau | 1st | Frank J. Becker* | Republican | on November 4, 1952, elected to the 83rd U.S. Congress |
2nd | Joseph F. Carlino* | Republican | ||
3rd | Genesta M. Strong* | Republican | ||
4th | David S. Hill Jr.* | Republican | resigned on October 6, 1951 [11] | |
John J. Burns | Republican | on November 6, 1951, elected to fill vacancy | ||
New York | 1st | Maude E. Ten Eyck* | Republican | |
2nd | Louis DeSalvio* | Democrat | ||
3rd | John J. Mangan | Democrat | ||
4th | Leonard Farbstein* | Democrat | ||
5th | Ludwig Teller | Democrat | ||
6th | Francis X. McGowan* | Democrat | ||
7th | Daniel M. Kelly | Democrat | ||
8th | Archibald Douglas Jr.* | Republican | ||
9th | John R. Brook* | Republican | ||
10th | Herman Katz* | Democrat | ||
11th | Joseph Pinckney | Democrat | ||
12th | Elijah Crump* | Democrat | ||
13th | Orest V. Maresca | Democrat | ||
14th | Hulan E. Jack* | Democrat | ||
15th | Samuel Roman* | Republican | ||
16th | Louis A. Cioffi* | Democrat | ||
Niagara | 1st | Jacob E. Hollinger* | Republican | |
2nd | Ernest Curto* | Republican | ||
Oneida | 1st | Francis J. Alder | Republican | |
2nd | William S. Calli | Republican | ||
Onondaga | 1st | Searles G. Shultz* | Republican | |
2nd | Donald H. Mead* | Republican | ||
3rd | Lawrence M. Rulison* | Republican | ||
Ontario | Thompson M. Scoon | Republican | ||
Orange | 1st | Lee B. Mailler* | Republican | Majority Leader |
2nd | Wilson C. Van Duzer* | Republican | ||
Orleans | Alonzo L. Waters* | Republican | ||
Oswego | Henry D. Coville* | Republican | ||
Otsego | Paul L. Talbot* | Republican | Chairman of Canals and Waterways | |
Putnam | D. Mallory Stephens* | Republican | Chairman of Ways and Means | |
Queens | 1st | Alexander Del Giorno* | Democrat | on January 1, 1952, appointed as a City Magistrate [12] |
Thomas V. LaFauci | Democrat | on February 19, 1952, elected to fill vacancy [13] | ||
2nd | William E. Clancy* | Democrat | ||
3rd | Anthony R. Carus* | Democrat | ||
4th | Thomas A. Duffy* | Democrat | ||
5th | William G. Giaccio* | Democrat | ||
6th | William F. Bowe* | Democrat | ||
7th | Anthony P. Savarese Jr.* | Republican | ||
8th | Samuel Rabin* | Republican | ||
9th | Fred W. Preller* | Republican | ||
10th | Angelo Graci* | Republican | ||
11th | Thomas Fitzpatrick* | Democrat | ||
12th | J. Lewis Fox* | Democrat | ||
Rensselaer | Thomas H. Brown* | Republican | ||
Richmond | 1st | William N. Reidy* | Democrat | |
2nd | Edward V. Curry* | Democrat | ||
Rockland | Robert Walmsley* | Republican | ||
St. Lawrence | Allan P. Sill* | Republican | ||
Saratoga | John L. Ostrander* | Republican | ||
Schenectady | Oswald D. Heck* | Republican | re-elected Speaker | |
Schoharie | Sharon J. Mauhs* | Dem./Lib. | ||
Schuyler | Jerry W. Black* | Republican | ||
Seneca | Lawrence W. Van Cleef* | Republican | ||
Steuben | William M. Stuart* | Republican | ||
Suffolk | 1st | Edmund R. Lupton* | Republican | |
2nd | Elisha T. Barrett* | Republican | ||
Sullivan | Hyman E. Mintz | Republican | ||
Tioga | Myron D. Albro* | Republican | ||
Tompkins | Ray S. Ashbery* | Republican | ||
Ulster | John F. Wadlin* | Republican | ||
Warren | Stuart F. Hawley | Republican | ||
Washington | William J. Reid* | Republican | ||
Wayne | Mildred F. Taylor* | Republican | ||
Westchester | 1st | Malcolm Wilson* | Republican | |
2nd | Edward H. Innet | Republican | ||
3rd | Harold D. Toomey* | Republican | ||
4th | Hunter Meighan | Republican | ||
5th | Samuel Faile* | Republican | ||
6th | Theodore Hill Jr.* | Republican | Chairman of Internal Affairs | |
Wyoming | Harold L. Peet | Republican | ||
Yates | Vernon W. Blodgett* | Republican | ||
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