150th New York State Legislature
150th 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, 1927 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 51 | ||||
President | Lt. Gov. Edwin Corning (D) | ||||
Temporary President | John Knight (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican (27–24) | ||||
Assembly | |||||
Members | 150 | ||||
Speaker | Joseph A. McGinnies (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican (84–66) | ||||
Sessions | |||||
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The 150th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 5 to March 25, 1927, during the fifth year of Al Smith's second tenure as Governor of New York, in Albany.
Background
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 Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Socialist Party, the Prohibition Party, the Workers Party and the Socialist Labor Party also nominated tickets.
Elections
The New York state election, 1926, was held on November 2. Governor Al Smith (Dem.) was re-elected. Lieutenant Governor Seymour Lowman (Rep.) was defeated for re-election by Smith's running mate Edwin Corning (Dem.). Of the other five statewide elective offices, three were carried by Democrats and two by Republicans. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Democrats 1,520,000; Republicans 1,280,000; Socialists 83,000; Prohibition 21,000; Workers 5,500; and Socialist Labor 3,500.
Assemblywoman Rhoda Fox Graves (Rep.), of Gouverneur, a former school teacher who after her marriage became active in women's organisations and politics, was re-elected, and remained the only woman legislator.
Sessions
The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 5, 1927; and adjourned on March 25.[1]
Joseph A. McGinnies (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker.
John Knight (Rep.) was re-elected Temporary President of the State Senate.
State Senate
Districts
Members
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Alfred J. Kennedy, Marcellus H. Evans, John L. Buckley, A. Spencer Feld, John W. Gates, Leon F. Wheatley and Charles A. Freiberg 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 | re-elected; Chairman of Conservation |
2nd | Stephen F. Burkard | Democrat | |
3rd | Alfred J. Kennedy* | Democrat | |
4th | Philip M. Kleinfeld* | Democrat | re-elected |
5th | Daniel F. Farrell* | Democrat | re-elected |
6th | Marcellus H. Evans* | Democrat | |
7th | John A. Hastings* | Democrat | re-elected |
8th | William L. Love* | Democrat | re-elected |
9th | Charles E. Russell* | Democrat | re-elected |
10th | Jeremiah F. Twomey* | Democrat | re-elected |
11th | Daniel J. Carroll* | Democrat | re-elected; died on March 6, 1927 |
12th | Elmer F. Quinn* | Democrat | re-elected |
13th | Thomas F. Burchill* | Democrat | re-elected |
14th | Bernard Downing* | Democrat | re-elected; Minority Leader |
15th | John L. Buckley* | Democrat | |
16th | Thomas I. Sheridan* | Democrat | re-elected |
17th | Abraham Greenberg | Democrat | contested by Courtlandt Nicoll (R)[2] |
18th | Martin J. Kennedy* | Democrat | re-elected |
19th | Duncan T. O'Brien* | Democrat | re-elected |
20th | A. Spencer Feld* | Democrat | |
21st | Henry G. Schackno* | Democrat | re-elected |
22nd | Benjamin Antin* | Democrat | re-elected |
23rd | John J. Dunnigan* | Democrat | re-elected |
24th | Thomas J. Walsh* | Democrat | re-elected |
25th | Walter W. Westall* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Internal Affairs |
26th | Seabury C. Mastick* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment |
27th | Caleb H. Baumes* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Codes |
28th | J. Griswold Webb* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Public Health |
29th | Arthur H. Wicks | Republican | |
30th | William T. Byrne* | Democrat | re-elected |
31st | John F. Williams* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Affairs of Villages |
32nd | Thomas C. Brown* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Penal Institutions |
33rd | Henry E. H. Brereton | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation |
34th | Warren T. Thayer* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Public Service |
35th | Jeremiah Keck* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Public Printing |
36th | Henry D. Williams* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Military Affairs; Chairman of Privileges and Elections |
37th | Perley A. Pitcher* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Civil Service; Chairman of Re-Organization of State Government |
38th | George R. Fearon* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Judiciary |
39th | John W. Gates* | Republican | |
40th | B. Roger Wales* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Insurance |
41st | James S. Truman* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Labor and Industry |
42nd | Charles J. Hewitt* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Finance |
43rd | Leon F. Wheatley* | Republican | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills |
44th | John Knight* | Republican | re-elected; re-elected Temporary President; Chairman of Rules |
45th | James L. Whitley* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Affairs of Cities |
46th | Homer E. A. Dick* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Public Education |
47th | William W. Campbell* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Banks; Chairman of Re-Apportionment |
48th | William J. Hickey* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of General Laws |
49th | Leonard R. Lipowicz* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Canals |
50th | Charles A. Freiberg* | Republican | Chairman of Revision |
51st | Leigh G. Kirkland* | Rep./Soc. | re-elected; Chairman of Agriculture |
Employees
- Clerk: Ernest A. Fay
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Charles R. Hotaling
State Assembly
Assemblymen
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes | |
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Albany | 1st | William J. Snyder* | Democrat | |
2nd | John P. Hayes* | Democrat | ||
3rd | Rudolph I. Roulier | Democrat | ||
Allegany | Cassius Congdon* | Republican | Chairman of Soldiers Home | |
Bronx | 1st | Nicholas J. Eberhard* | Democrat | |
2nd | William F. Smith* | Democrat | ||
3rd | Julius S. Berg* | Democrat | ||
4th | Herman M. Albert* | Democrat | ||
5th | Harry A. Samberg* | Democrat | ||
6th | Thomas J. McDonald* | Democrat | ||
7th | John F. Reidy* | Democrat | ||
8th | Joseph E. Kinsley* | Democrat | ||
Broome | 1st | Edmund B. Jenks* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary |
2nd | Forman E. Whitcomb* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Cities | |
Cattaraugus | James W. Watson* | Republican | ||
Cayuga | Sanford G. Lyon* | Republican | ||
Chautauqua | 1st | Adolf F. Johnson* | Republican | Chairman of Revision |
2nd | Joseph A. McGinnies* | Rep./Soc. | re-elected Speaker; Chairman of Rules | |
Chemung | G. Archie Turner | Republican | ||
Chenango | Bert Lord* | Republican | ||
Clinton | Ezra Trepanier* | Republican | ||
Columbia | Henry M. James* | Republican | ||
Cortland | Irving F. Rice* | Republican | Chairman of Public Education | |
Delaware | Ralph H. Loomis* | Republican | ||
Dutchess | 1st | Howard N. Allen* | Republican | Chairman of Charitable and Religious Societies |
2nd | John M. Hackett* | Republican | Chairman of Public Service | |
Erie | 1st | Charles I. Martina | Democrat | |
2nd | Henry W. Hutt* | Republican | Chairman of Re-Apportionment | |
3rd | Frank X. Bernhardt* | Republican | ||
4th | John J. Meegan* | Democrat | ||
5th | Ansley B. Borkowski* | Republican | Chairman of General Laws | |
6th | Howard W. Dickey | Republican | ||
7th | Edmund F. Cooke* | Republican | ||
8th | Nelson W. Cheney* | Republican | Chairman of Banks | |
Essex | Fred L. Porter* | Republican | Chairman of Re-Organization of State Government | |
Franklin | John E. Redwood* | Republican | ||
Fulton and Hamilton | Eberly Hutchinson* | Republican | Chairman of Ways and Means | |
Genesee | Charles P. Miller* | Republican | Chairman of Labor and Industries | |
Greene | Ellis W. Bentley* | Republican | ||
Herkimer | Theodore L. Rogers* | Republican | ||
Jefferson | Alfred E. Emerson | Republican | ||
Kings | 1st | Charles F. Cline* | Democrat | |
2nd | Murray Hearn* | Democrat | ||
3rd | Michael J. Gillen* | Democrat | ||
4th | George E. Dennen* | Democrat | ||
5th | John J. Cooney* | Democrat | ||
6th | Jacob J. Schwartzwald | Democrat | ||
7th | John J. Howard* | Democrat | ||
8th | Joseph J. Larkin | Democrat | ||
9th | Richard J. Tonry* | Democrat | ||
10th | William C. McCreery* | Democrat | ||
11th | Edward J. Coughlin* | Democrat | ||
12th | Edward S. Moran, Jr. | Democrat | ||
13th | William Breitenbach* | Democrat | ||
14th | Jacob P. Nathanson | Democrat | ||
15th | Edward P. Doyle* | Democrat | ||
16th | Maurice Z. Bungard* | Democrat | ||
17th | Edward E. Fay* | Republican | ||
18th | Irwin Steingut* | Democrat | ||
19th | Jerome G. Ambro* | Democrat | ||
20th | Frank A. Miller* | Democrat | ||
21st | Emory F. Dyckman* | Republican | ||
22nd | Jacob H. Livingston* | Democrat | ||
23rd | Joseph F. Ricca* | Rep./Dem. | Chairman of Claims | |
Lewis | Clarence L. Fisher* | Republican | ||
Livingston | A. Grant Stockweather | Republican | ||
Madison | Harold O. Whitnall | Republican | ||
Monroe | 1st | Arthur T. Pammenter* | Republican | |
2nd | Harry J. McKay | Republican | ||
3rd | Cosmo A. Cilano* | Republican | ||
4th | Fred J. Slater* | Republican | ||
5th | W. Ray Austin* | Republican | Chairman of Military Affairs | |
Montgomery | Rufus Richtmyer | Republican | ||
Nassau | 1st | Edwin W. Wallace* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Villages |
2nd | Leonard W. Hall | Republican | ||
New York | 1st | Peter J. Hamill* | Democrat | |
2nd | Frank R. Galgano* | Democrat | ||
3rd | Sylvester A. Dineen* | Democrat | ||
4th | Samuel Mandelbaum* | Democrat | ||
5th | Frank A. Carlin* | Democrat | ||
6th | Morris Weinfeld* | Democrat | ||
7th | Saul S. Streit | Democrat | ||
8th | Henry O. Kahan* | Democrat | ||
9th | John H. Conroy* | Democrat | ||
10th | Phelps Phelps* | Republican | ||
11th | Maurice F. Cantor | Democrat | ||
12th | John A. Byrnes* | Democrat | ||
13th | John P. Nugent* | Democrat | ||
14th | Frederick L. Hackenburg* | Democrat | ||
15th | Samuel H. Hofstadter* | Republican | ||
16th | Maurice Bloch* | Democrat | Minority Leader | |
17th | Meyer Alterman* | Democrat | ||
18th | Vincent H. Auleta* | Democrat | ||
19th | Abraham Grenthal* | Republican | ||
20th | Louis A. Cuvillier* | Democrat | ||
21st | Albert Grossman* | Democrat | ||
22nd | Joseph A. Gavagan* | Democrat | ||
23rd | Alexander A. Falk | Democrat | ||
Niagara | 1st | William Bewley | Republican | |
2nd | Frank S. Hall* | Republican | Chairman of Social Welfare | |
Oneida | 1st | Martin J. Lutz | Democrat | |
2nd | Russell G. Dunmore* | Republican | Majority Leader | |
3rd | George J. Skinner* | Republican | ||
Onondaga | 1st | Horace M. Stone* | Republican | Chairman of Insurance |
2nd | Willis H. Sargent* | Republican | ||
3rd | Richard B. Smith* | Republican | Chairman of Public Printing | |
Ontario | Robert A. Catchpole* | Republican | ||
Orange | 1st | DeWitt C. Dominick* | Republican | |
2nd | Alexander G. Hall* | Republican | ||
Orleans | Frank H. Lattin* | Republican | Chairman of Public Health | |
Oswego | Victor C. Lewis* | Republican | Chairman of Canals | |
Otsego | Frank M. Smith* | Republican | ||
Putnam | D. Mallory Stephens* | Republican | ||
Queens | 1st | Carl Deutschmann | Democrat | |
2nd | Frank B. Hendel | Democrat | ||
3rd | Charles W. Posthauer | Democrat | ||
4th | Jere F. Ryan* | Democrat | ||
5th | William F. Brunner* | Democrat | ||
6th | Paul P. Gallagher* | Democrat | ||
Rensselaer | 1st | Michael F. Breen | Democrat | |
2nd | Maurice Whitney | Republican | ||
Richmond | 1st | William S. Hart* | Democrat | |
2nd | William L. Vaughan* | Democrat | ||
Rockland | Walter S. Gedney* | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation | |
St. Lawrence | 1st | Rhoda Fox Graves* | Republican | Chairwoman of Public Institutions |
2nd | Walter L. Pratt* | Republican | Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment | |
Saratoga | Burton D. Esmond* | Republican | ||
Schenectady | 1st | Charles W. Merriam* | Republican | |
2nd | William M. Nicoll* | Republican | ||
Schoharie | Kenneth H. Fake* | Republican | ||
Schuyler | Jacob W. Winters* | Republican | ||
Seneca | William H. Van Cleef* | Republican | ||
Steuben | 1st | Wilson Messer* | Republican | |
2nd | Webster Edmunds | Republican | ||
Suffolk | 1st | John G. Downs* | Republican | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills |
2nd | John Boyle, Jr.* | Republican | ||
Sullivan | Guernsey T. Cross | Democrat | ||
Tioga | Daniel P. Witter* | Republican | Chairman of Agriculture | |
Tompkins | James R. Robinson* | Republican | ||
Ulster | Millard Davis* | Republican | ||
Warren | Powel J. Smith | Democrat | ||
Washington | Herbert A. Bartholomew* | Republican | Chairman of Internal Affairs | |
Wayne | Harry A. Tellier* | Republican | Chairman of Excise | |
Westchester | 1st | William C. Olsen | Republican | |
2nd | Herbert B. Shonk* | Republican | ||
3rd | Milan E. Goodrich* | Republican | Chairman of Penal Institutions | |
4th | Alexander H. Garnjost* | Republican | ||
5th | Arthur I. Miller* | Democrat | ||
Wyoming | Joe R. Hanley | Republican | ||
Yates | Edwin C. Nutt* | Republican |
Employees
- Clerk: Fred W. Hammond
Notes
- ^ GOV. SMITH WARNS OF POWER BILL VETO in the New York Times on March 25, 1927 (subscription required)
- ^ Nicoll Contests Greenberg's Seat in the New York Times on January 6, 1927 (subscription required)
Sources
- Members of the New York Senate (1920s) at Political Graveyard
- Members of the New York Assembly (1920s) at Political Graveyard
- COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS ANNOUNCED in the Plattsburgh Sentinel, of Plattsburgh, on January 14, 1927