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The 1847 New York state election was held on November 2, 1847, to elect the lieutenant governor, the secretary state, the state comptroller, the attorney general, the state treasurer, the state engineer, three Canal Commissioners and three Inspectors of State Prisons, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.
The New York State Constitution of 1846 legislated the incumbent state officers and members of legislature out of office. It required a number of state officers, who had been elected by the state legislature, to be elected by general ballot.
At the first judicial election under the Constitution of 1846, Lieutenant Governor Addison Gardiner was elected to the New York Court of Appeals, and took office on July 4, 1847, thus vacating the lieutenant governorship. To fill the vacancy, on September 27, an Act by the state legislature authorized a special election, to be held at the annual state election. [1]
The Democratic state convention met in September in Syracuse, New York. The party split over the slavery question, and the Barnburners abandoned the convention. Orville Hungerford defeated Azariah C. Flagg for the nomination for Comptroller with 59 votes to 47.
The Barnburners held a separate state convention on October 26 at Herkimer, New York, but did not nominate a ticket. They told their followers "to vote as they must do when no regular nominations have been made," suggesting to support the Whig nominees rather than the Hunkers on the Democratic ticket. [2]
The Anti-Rent state convention nominated Shepard for Lieutenant Governor with 11 votes for him, and 10 for Fish, on the second ballot. [2]
The whole Whig state ticket was elected. [3] None of the incumbents ran for re-election this time.
The Canal Commissioners and Prison Inspectors, upon taking office, were classified by drawing lots, so that every following year one commissioner and one inspector would be elected to a three-year term. Cook and Gedney drew the one-year term, Hinds and Comstock the two-year term, and Beach and Spencer the three-year term.
24 Whigs and 8 Democrats were elected to a two-year term (1848–1849) in the New York State Senate.
93 Whigs and 35 Democrats were elected to the New York State Assembly of the 71st New York State Legislature.
| Office | Whig ticket | Democratic ticket | Anti-Rent ticket | Liberty ticket | National Reform ticket | |||||
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| Lieutenant Governor | Hamilton Fish | 170,072 | Nathan Dayton | 139,623 | Charles O. Shepard | 8,518 | Charles O. Shepard | 4,911 | Hugh T. Brooks | |
| Secretary of State | Christopher Morgan | 169,470 | Edward Sanford | 144,133 | Edward Sanford | |||||
| Comptroller | Millard Fillmore | 174,756 | Orville Hungerford | 136,027 | Millard Fillmore | |||||
| Attorney General | Ambrose L. Jordan | 174,763 | Levi S. Chatfield | 139,481 | Ambrose L. Jordan | |||||
| Treasurer | Alvah Hunt | 169,422 | George W. Cuyler | 145,966 | George W. Cuyler | |||||
| State Engineer | Charles B. Stuart | 173,003 | Orville W. Childs | 134,944 | Charles B. Stuart | |||||
| Canal Commissioners | Charles Cook | 169,860 | John C. Mather | 147,124 | John C. Mather | |||||
| Jacob Hinds | 175,095 | Elisha B. Smith | 139,395 | Jacob Hinds | ||||||
| Nelson J. Beach | 174,948 | Frederick Follett | 139,217 | Nelson J. Beach | ||||||
| Inspector of State Prisons [4] | John B. Gedney | Norman B. Smith [5] | ||||||||
| Isaac N. Comstock | George Caldwell [6] | |||||||||
| David D. Spencer | John Fisher [7] | |||||||||
The 1848 United States presidential election was the 16th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1848. In the aftermath of the Mexican–American War, General Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party defeated Senator Lewis Cass of the Democratic Party.
The Commission to Explore a Route for a Canal to Lake Erie and Report, known as the Erie Canal Commission, was a body created by the New York State Legislature in 1810 to plan the Erie Canal. In 1817 a Canal Fund led by Commissioners of the Canal Fund was established to oversee the funding of construction of the canal. In 1826 a Canal Board, of which both the planning commissioners and the Canal Fund commissioners were members, was created to take control of the operational canal. The term "Canal Commission" was at times applied to any of these bodies. Afterwards the canal commissioners were minor state cabinet officers responsible for the maintenance and improvements of the state's canals.
The 1850 New York state election was held on Tuesday November 5, 1850, to elect the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Canal Commissioner, an Inspector of State Prisons and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.
The 1852 New York state election was held on November 2, 1852, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, a Canal Commissioner and an Inspector of State Prisons, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.
The 1854 New York state election was held on November 7, 1854, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, a Canal Commissioner and an Inspector of State Prisons, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.
The 1870 New York state election was held on November 8, 1870, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the New York State Comptroller, two Canal Commissioners and an Inspector of State Prisons, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.
The 1846 New York state election was held on November 3, 1846, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor and two Canal Commissioners, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and eight members of the New York State Senate.
The 1848 New York state election took place on November 7, 1848, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, a Canal Commissioner and an Inspector of State Prisons, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.
The 1849 New York state election was held on November 6, 1849, to elect the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Engineer, a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, a Canal Commissioner and an Inspector of State Prisons, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.
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The 1853 New York state election was held on November 8, 1853, to elect the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Engineer, two Judges of the New York Court of Appeals, a Canal Commissioner, an Inspector of State Prisons and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.
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The 1849 United States Senate election in New York was held on February 6, 1849, by the New York State Legislature to elect a U.S. Senator to represent the State of New York in the United States Senate.
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