138th New York State Legislature
138th New York State Legislature | |||
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Duration: January 1 – December 31, 1915 | |||
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President of the State Senate: | Edward Schoeneck (R) | ||
Temporary President of the State Senate: | Elon R. Brown (R) | ||
Speaker of the State Assembly: | Thaddeus C. Sweet (R) | ||
Members: | 51 Senators 150 Assemblymen |
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Senate Majority: | Republican (34-17) | ||
Assembly Majority: | Republican (99-49-2) | ||
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1st: January 6 – April 24, 1915 | |||
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The 138th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 6 to April 24, 1915, during the first year of Charles S. Whitman's governorship, in Albany.
Contents
Background
Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1894, re-apportioned in 1906 and 1907, 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 were made up of entire counties, except New York County (twelve districts), Kings County (eight 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. Assemblyman William Sulzer, who had been removed from the office of Governor in 1913, founded an American Party and ran also on the Prohibition Party ticket for Governor. The Independence League, the Progressive Party, the Socialist Party and the Socialist Labor Party also nominated tickets.
Elections
The New York state election, 1914, was held on November 3. D.A. of New York County Charles S. Whitman and Edward Schoeneck were elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor; both Republicans. Of the other seven statewide elective offices, six were carried by Republicans and one by a Democrat. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Republicans 687,000; Democrats 412,000; Independence League 125,000; American 71,000; Prohibition 54,000; Progressives 46,000; Socialists 38,000; and Socialist Labor 2,000.
Also elected were 34 Republicans and 17 Democrats to the State Senate; 99 Republicans, 49 Democrats and two Progressives to the State Assembly; and 168 delegates (15 at-large; and three per senatorial district) to the Constitutional Convention.
Sessions
The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 6, 1915; and adjourned on April 24.
Thaddeus C. Sweet (R) was re-elected Speaker,
Elon R. Brown (R) was elected Temporary President of the Senate.
On April 6, the Constitutional Convention met at the State Capitol in Albany;[1] and adjourned on September 4.[2] All proposed amendments to the Constitution were rejected by the voters at the state election on November 2, 1915.
State Senate
Districts
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Senators
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Charles C. Lockwood, Alvah W. Burlingame Jr., Jimmy Walker, Franklin W. Cristman, Samuel A. Jones, Clinton T. Horton and William P. Greiner 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 | George L. Thompson | Republican | |
2nd | Bernard M. Patten* | Democrat | contested by Christian Weiland |
3rd | Thomas H. Cullen* | Democrat | |
4th | Charles C. Lockwood* | Republican | Chairman of Public Education |
5th | William J. Heffernan* | Democrat | |
6th | William B. Carswell* | Democrat | |
7th | Daniel J. Carroll* | Democrat | |
8th | Alvah W. Burlingame, Jr.* | Republican | Chairman of Revision |
9th | Robert R. Lawson | Republican | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills |
10th | Alfred J. Gilchrist | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation |
11th | Christopher D. Sullivan* | Democrat | |
12th | Henry W. Doll | Democrat | |
13th | Jimmy Walker* | Democrat | |
14th | James A. Foley* | Democrat | also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
15th | John J. Boylan* | Democrat | |
16th | Robert F. Wagner* | Democrat | Minority Leader; also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
17th | Ogden L. Mills | Rep./Progr. | |
18th | William M. Bennett | Rep./Progr. | |
19th | George W. Simpson* | Democrat | |
20th | Irving J. Joseph | Democrat | |
21st | John J. Dunnigan | Democrat | |
22nd | James A. Hamilton | Democrat | |
23rd | George Cromwell | Republican | |
24th | George A. Slater | Republican | |
25th | John D. Stivers* | Republican | Chairman of Military Affairs |
26th | James E. Towner* | Republican | Chairman of Insurance |
27th | Charles W. Walton | Republican | |
28th | Henry M. Sage* | Republican | Chairman of Finance |
29th | Walter A. Wood, Jr. | Republican | Chairman of Conservation; died on October 8, 1915 |
30th | George H. Whitney* | Republican | Chairman of Public Health |
31st | Arden L. Norton | Republican | Chairman of Canals |
32nd | Franklin W. Cristman* | Republican | Chairman of Privileges and Elections |
33rd | James A. Emerson* | Republican | Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment |
34th | N. Monroe Marshall | Republican | Chairman of Banks |
35th | Elon R. Brown* | Republican | elected Temporary President; Chairman of Rules |
36th | Charles W. Wicks | Republican | |
37th | Samuel A. Jones* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Villages |
38th | J. Henry Walters* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary |
39th | William H. Hill | Rep./Progr. | |
40th | Charles J. Hewitt* | Republican | Chairman of Internal Affairs |
41st | Morris S. Halliday | Republican | Chairman of Penal Institutions |
42nd | Thomas B. Wilson* | Republican | Chairman of Agriculture |
43rd | Charles D. Newton | Republican | Chairman of Codes |
44th | Archie D. Sanders | Republican | |
45th | George F. Argetsinger* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Cities |
46th | John B. Mullan | Republican | Chairman of Public Printing |
47th | George F. Thompson* | Republican | Chairman of Public Service |
48th | Clinton T. Horton* | Republican | Chairman of Civil Service |
49th | Samuel J. Ramsperger* | Democrat | |
50th | William P. Greiner* | Democrat | |
51st | George E. Spring | Republican | Chairman of Labor and Industry |
Employees
- Clerk: Ernest A. Fay
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Charles R. Hotaling[3]
- Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: Samuel Russell
- Principal Doorkeeper: Lee V. Gardner
- First Assistant Doorkeeper: George W. Van Hyning
- Stenographer: John K. Marshall (also Stenographer of the Constitutional Convention)
State Assembly
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
Assemblymen
District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes | |
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Albany | 1st | Harold J. Hinman* | Republican | Majority Leader; also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
2nd | John G. Malone* | Republican | Chairman of Excise | |
3rd | William C. Baxter* | Republican | Chairman of Villages | |
Allegany | Elmer E. Ferry* | Republican | ||
Broome | Simon P. Quick* | Republican | ||
Cattaraugus | DeHart H. Ames | Republican | ||
Cayuga | William F. Whitman | Republican | ||
Chautauqua | 1st | A. Morelle Cheney* | Republican | |
2nd | John Leo Sullivan* | Republican | Chairman of Internal Affairs | |
Chemung | Horace K. Walker | Rep./Progr. | ||
Chenango | Bert Lord | Republican | ||
Clinton | Alexander W. Fairbank* | Republican | ||
Columbia | William Wallace Chace | Republican | ||
Cortland | George H. Wiltsie | Republican | ||
Delaware | Edwin A. Mackey* | Republican | ||
Dutchess | 1st | James C. Allen | Rep./Progr. | |
2nd | Francis G. Landon | Republican | Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment | |
Erie | 1st | Allen Keeney | Republican | |
2nd | Ross Graves | Republican | ||
3rd | Nicholas J. Miller | Republican | Chairman of Public Institutions | |
4th | James M. Mead | Democrat | ||
5th | Arthur G. McElroy | Democrat | ||
6th | Peter C. Jezewski | Rep./Progr. | ||
7th | John F. Heim | Republican | ||
8th | Leonard W. H. Gibbs | Republican | ||
9th | Frank B. Thorn* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary | |
Essex | Raymond T. Kenyon* | Republican | ||
Franklin | Alexander Macdonald* | Republican | Chairman of Ways and Means | |
Fulton and Hamilton | James H. Wood* | Republican | Chairman of Claims | |
Genesee | Louis H. Wells* | Republican | ||
Greene | George H. Chase* | Republican | ||
Herkimer | Selden C. Clobridge | Republican | ||
Jefferson | 1st | H. Edmund Machold* | Republican | Chairman of Conservation |
2nd | Willard S. Augsbury | Republican | ||
Kings | 1st | R. Hunter McQuistion* | Rep./Progr. | |
2nd | William J. Gillen* | Democrat | ||
3rd | Frank J. Taylor* | Democrat | ||
4th | Peter A. McArdle | Democrat | ||
5th | Fred G. Milligan, Jr. | Republican | ||
6th | Nathan D. Shapiro | Republican | ||
7th | Daniel F. Farrell* | Democrat | ||
8th | John J. McKeon* | Democrat | ||
9th | Frederick S. Burr | Democrat | ||
10th | Fred M. Ahern* | Rep./Progr. | Chairman of General Laws | |
11th | George R. Brennan* | Republican | Chairman of Insurance | |
12th | William T. Simpson* | Republican | ||
13th | Herman Kramer* | Democrat | ||
14th | John Peter La Frenz* | Democrat | ||
15th | James J. Phelan* | Democrat | ||
16th | Samuel R. Green* | Republican | ||
17th | Frederick A. Wells | Republican | ||
18th | Almeth W. Hoff* | Republican | Chairman of Cities | |
19th | William A. Bacher | Democrat | ||
20th | August C. Flamman* | Rep./Progr. | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills | |
21st | Isaac Mendelsohn | Democrat | ||
22nd | Charles H. Duff | Republican | ||
23rd | Nathan B. Finkelstein | Rep./Progr. | ||
Lewis | Henry L. Grant* | Republican | ||
Livingston | Edward M. Magee* | Republican | Chairman of Revision | |
Madison | Morell E. Tallett* | Republican | Chairman of Education | |
Monroe | 1st | James A. Harris | Republican | |
2nd | Simon Louis Adler* | Republican | Chairman of Banks | |
3rd | John R. Powers | Republican | ||
4th | Frank Dobson | Republican | ||
5th | Franklin W. Judson | Republican | ||
Montgomery | Erastus Corning Davis | Republican | ||
Nassau | Thomas A. McWhinney | Republican | ||
New York | 1st | John J. Ryan | Democrat | |
2nd | Al Smith* | Democrat | Minority Leader; also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention; on November 2, 1915, elected Sheriff of New York Co. |
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3rd | Carmine J. Marasco | Democrat | ||
4th | Henry S. Schimmel* | Democrat | ||
5th | Maurice McDonald | Democrat | ||
6th | Nathan D. Perlman | Rep./Progr. | ||
7th | Peter P. McElligott* | Democrat | ||
8th | Sidney Scharlin | Democrat | ||
9th | Charles D. Donohue* | Democrat | ||
10th | Walter M. Friedland | Democrat | ||
11th | John Kerrigan* | Democrat | ||
12th | Joseph D. Kelly* | Democrat | ||
13th | James C. Campbell* | Democrat | ||
14th | Robert Lee Tudor* | Democrat | ||
15th | Abram Ellenbogen* | Republican | ||
16th | Martin G. McCue* | Democrat | ||
17th | Martin Bourke | Republican | ||
18th | Mark Goldberg* | Democrat | ||
19th | Patrick F. Cotter | Democrat | ||
20th | Frank Aranow | Democrat | ||
21st | Harold C. Mitchell | Republican | ||
22nd | Maurice Bloch | Democrat | ||
23rd | Daniel C. Oliver | Democrat | ||
24th | Owen M. Kiernan* | Democrat | ||
25th | Francis R. Stoddard, Jr.* | Republican | Chairman of Military Affairs | |
26th | Joseph Steinberg* | Progr./Rep. | ||
27th | Charles E. Rice, Jr. | Republican | ||
28th | Salvatore A. Cotillo | Democrat | ||
29th | Howard Conkling* | Republican | Chairman of Canals | |
30th | Dennis G. Donovan | Democrat | ||
31st | Aaron A. Feinberg | Republican | ||
Bronx | 32nd | William S. Evans | Democrat | |
33rd | Earl H. Miller | Democrat | ||
34th | M. Maldwin Fertig | Democrat | ||
35th | Joseph M. Callahan | Democrat | ||
Niagara | 1st | William Bewley* | Republican | |
2nd | Alan V. Parker | Republican | ||
Oneida | 1st | Fred Frank Emden* | Democrat | |
2nd | Charles J. Fuess* | Republican | ||
3rd | John Brayton Fuller* | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation | |
Onondaga | 1st | Edward Arnts* | Republican | |
2nd | J. Leslie Kincaid | Republican | ||
3rd | Jacob R. Buecheler* | Republican | ||
Ontario | Heber E. Wheeler* | Republican | ||
Orange | 1st | James B. Montgomery* | Republican | Chairman of Soldiers' Home |
2nd | Charles J. Boyd* | Republican | ||
Orleans | A. Allen Comstock | Republican | ||
Oswego | Thaddeus C. Sweet* | Rep./Progr. | re-elected Speaker; Chairman of Rules | |
Otsego | Allen J. Bloomfield | Republican | ||
Putnam | Hamilton Fish III* | Progr./Dem. | ||
Queens | 1st | Nicholas Nehrbauer, Jr.* | Democrat | |
2nd | Peter J. McGarry* | Democrat | ||
3rd | William H. O'Hare | Democrat | ||
4th | George E. Polhemus | Democrat | ||
Rensselaer | 1st | John F. Shannon | Democrat | |
2nd | Edwin S. Comstock | Republican | ||
Richmond | Stephen D. Stephens | Democrat | ||
Rockland | Frederick George Grimme | Democrat | ||
St. Lawrence | 1st | Frank L. Seaker* | Republican | Chairman of Railroads |
2nd | Edward A. Everett | Republican | ||
Saratoga | Gilbert T. Seelye* | Republican | Chairman of Health | |
Schenectady | Walter S. McNab | Republican | ||
Schoharie | Edward A. Dox* | Democrat | ||
Schuyler | Henry S. Howard* | Republican | Chairman of Charitable and Religious Societies | |
Seneca | William J. Maier* | Republican | Chairman of Electricity, Gas and Water Supply | |
Steuben | 1st | Reuben B. Oldfield | Republican | |
2nd | Richard M. Prangen | Republican | ||
Suffolk | 1st | DeWitt C. Talmage* | Republican | Chairman of Labor |
2nd | Henry A. Murphy* | Republican | ||
Sullivan | H. Blake Stratton | Dem./Progr. | ||
Tioga | Wilson S. Moore* | Republican | ||
Tompkins | John W. Preswick* | Republican | ||
Ulster | 1st | Henry R. DeWitt* | Republican | |
2nd | Abram P. Lefevre* | Republican | ||
Warren | Henry E. H. Brereton* | Republican | Chairman of Privileges and Elections | |
Washington | Charles O. Pratt* | Republican | ||
Wayne | Riley A. Wilson* | Republican | Chairman of Printing | |
Westchester | 1st | George Blakely* | Republican | |
2nd | William S. Coffey | Republican | ||
3rd | Walter W. Law, Jr.* | Republican | Chairman of Penal Institutions | |
4th | Floy D. Hopkins* | Republican | Chairman of Social Welfare | |
Wyoming | John Knight* | Republican | Chairman of Codes | |
Yates | Edward C. Gillett* | Republican | Chairman of Agriculture |
Employees
- Clerk: Fred W. Hammond
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Harry W. Haines (also Sergeant-at-Arms of the Constitutional Convention)
- Principal Doorkeeper:
- First Assistant Doorkeeper:
- Second Assistant Doorkeeper:
- Stenographer:
Notes
- ↑ ROOT POINTS WAY FOR LAW REVISION in NYT on April 7, 1915
- ↑ FINISH WORK ON NEW ORGANIC LAW in NYT on September 5, 1915
- ↑ "Journal of the Senate. State of New York ... January 6, 1915", p. 6
Sources
- FULL TICKETS OF THE PARTIES in NYT on October 25, 1914
- THE LEGISLATURE RESUMES WORK in The Yonkers Statesman on January 14, 1915
- Journal of the Senate (138th Session) (1915; Vol. I, from January 6 to March 31)
- Journal of the Senate (138th Session) (1915; Vol. II, from March 31 to April 24)
- Laws of the State of New York (138th Session) (1915)
- Documents of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York 1915 (1915)