150th New York State Legislature

150th New York State Legislature
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New York State Capitol (2009)
Overview
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
1st January 5 – March 25, 1927

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.

Contents

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  1 Background
  


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  2 Elections
  


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  3 Sessions
  


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  4 State Senate
  
  
  
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    4.1 Districts
    
  
  
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    4.2 Members
    
  
  
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    4.3 Employees
    
  
  
  
  


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  5 State Assembly
  
  
  
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    5.1 Assemblymen
    
  
  
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    5.2 Employees
    
  
  
  
  


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  6 Notes
  


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  7 Sources
  

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

• 1st District: Nassau and Suffolk counties


• 2nd and 3rd District: Parts of Queens County, i.e. the Borough of Queens
  


• 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th District: Parts of Kings County, i.e. the Borough of Brooklyn
  


• 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th District: Parts of New York County, i.e. the Borough of Manhattan
  


• 21st, 22nd and 23rd District: Parts of Bronx County, i.e. the Borough of the Bronx
  


• 24th District: Richmond County, i.e. the Borough of Richmond (now the Borough of Staten Island), and Rockland County
  


• 25th District: Part of Westchester County
  


• 26th District: Cortlandt, Greenburgh, Mount Pleasant, Ossining and part of Yonkers; in Westchester County
  


• 27th District: Orange and Sullivan counties


• 28th District: Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam counties


• 29th District: Delaware, Greene and Ulster counties


• 30th District: Albany County
  


• 31st District: Rensselaer County
  


• 32nd District: Saratoga and Schenectady counties


• 33rd District: Clinton, Essex, Warren and Washington counties


• 34th District: Franklin and St. Lawrence counties


• 35th District: Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer and Lewis counties


• 36th District: Oneida County
  


• 37th District: Jefferson and Oswego counties


• 38th District: Onondaga County
  


• 39th District: Madison, Montgomery, Otsego and Schoharie counties


• 40th District: Broome, Chenango and Cortland counties


• 41st District: Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga and Tompkins counties


• 42nd District: Cayuga, Seneca and Wayne counties


• 43rd District: Ontario, Steuben and Yates counties


• 44th District: Allegany, Genesee, Livingston and Wyoming
  


• 45th and 46th District: Monroe County
  


• 47th District: Niagara and Orleans counties


• 48th, 49th and 50th District: Erie County
  


• 51st District: Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties

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
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
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

1. 
   ^ GOV. SMITH WARNS OF POWER BILL VETO in The New York Times on March 25, 1927 (subscription required)
   


2. 
   ^ 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

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