132nd New York State Legislature

The 132nd New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 6 to April 30, 1909, during the third year of Charles Evans Hughes's governorship, in Albany.

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.

On April 27, 1906, the Legislature re-apportioned the Senate districts, increasing the number to 51.^[1] The apportionment was then contested in the courts.

The Legislature also re-apportioned the number of assemblymen per county. Nassau County was separated from the remainder of Queens County; Albany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oswego and Rensselaer counties lost one seat each; Erie, Monroe and Westchester gained one each; and Kings and Queens counties gained two each.

On April 3, 1907, the new Senate and Assembly apportionment was declared unconstitutional by the New York Court of Appeals.^[2]

On July 26, 1907, the Legislature again re-apportioned the Senate districts, and re-enacted the 1906 Assembly apportionment.^[3]

At this time there were two major political parties: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Independence League, the Socialist Party, the Prohibition Party and the Socialist Labor Party also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1908, was held on November 3. Gov. Charles Evans Hughes was re-elected; and State Senator Horace White was elected Lieutenant Governor; both Republicans. The other six statewide elective offices up for election were also carried by the Republicans. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Republican 805,000; Democratic 735,000; Independence League 43,000; Socialists 34,000; Prohibition 19,000; and Socialist Labor 4,000.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 6, 1909; and adjourned on April 30.

James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (R) was re-elected Speaker.

John Raines (R) was re-elected President pro tempore of the State Senate.

On January 19, the Legislature elected U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root (R) to succeed Thomas C. Platt (R) as U.S. Senator from New York for a six-year term beginning on March 4, 1909.^[4]

State Senate

Districts

1st District: Nassau and Suffolk counties
2nd District: Queens County
3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th District: Parts of Kings County, i.e. the Borough of Brooklyn
11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd District: Parts of New York County, i.e. the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx
23rd District: Richmond and Rockland counties
24th District: Westchester County
25th District: Orange and Sullivan counties
26th District: Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam and counties
27th District: Greene and Ulster counties
28th District: Albany County
29th District: Rensselaer County
30th District: Saratoga and Washington counties
31st District: Montgomery, Schenectady and Schoharie counties
32nd District: Lewis, Fulton, Hamilton and Herkimer counties
33rd District: Clinton, Essex and Warren counties
34th District: Franklin and St. Lawrence counties
35th District: Jefferson and Oswego counties
36th District: Oneida County
37th District: Chenango, Madison and Otsego counties
38th District: Onondaga County
39th District: Broome and Delaware counties
40th District: Cayuga, Cortland and Seneca counties
41st District: Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga and Tompkins counties
42nd District: Ontario, Wayne and Yates counties
43rd District: Steuben and Livingston counties
44th District: Allegany, Genesee and Wyoming counties
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. Orlando Hubbs, Robert F. Wagner, George M. S. Schulz, J. Mayhew Wainwright, George L. Meade and Charles Mann Hamilton changed from the Assembly to the Senate.

Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	Orlando Hubbs*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Villages
2nd	Dennis J. Harte*	Democrat	re-elected
3rd	Thomas H. Cullen*	Democrat	re-elected
4th	Reuben L. Gledhill	Republican
5th	Barth S. Cronin	Democrat
6th	Eugene M. Travis*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Banks
7th	Patrick H. McCarren*	Democrat	re-elected; died on October 23, 1909
8th	Alvah W. Burlingame, Jr.	Republican
9th	John Kissel	Republican
10th	Charles Alt	Republican
11th	Christopher D. Sullivan*	Democrat	re-elected
12th	Timothy D. Sullivan	Democrat
13th	William J. A. Caffrey	Democrat
14th	Thomas F. Grady*	Democrat	re-elected; re-elected Minority Leader
15th	Thomas J. McManus*	Democrat	re-elected
16th	Robert F. Wagner*	Democrat
17th	George B. Agnew*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills
18th	Alexander Brough	Republican
19th	Josiah T. Newcomb	Republican	Chairman of Indian Affairs
20th	James J. Frawley*	Democrat	re-elected
21st	Stephen J. Stilwell	Democrat
22nd	George M. S. Schulz*	Democrat
23rd	Howard R. Bayne	Democrat
24th	J. Mayhew Wainwright*	Republican	Chairman of Miscellaneous Corporations
25th	John B. Rose	Republican	Chairman of Military Affairs
26th	John F. Schlosser	Republican	Chairman of Privileges and Elections
27th	John N. Cordts*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Commerce and Navigation
28th	William J. Grattan*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Insurance
29th	Victor M. Allen	Republican	Chairman of Canals
30th	Edgar T. Brackett	Republican
31st	William A. Gardner	Democrat
32nd	Seth G. Heacock*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Internal Affairs of Towns and Counties
33rd	James A. Emerson*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Penal Institutions
34th	William T. O'Neil*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Revision; died on May 5, 1909
35th	George H. Cobb*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Railroads
36th	Frederick M. Davenport	Republican
37th	Jotham P. Allds*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Finance
38th	Hendrick S. Holden	Republican
39th	Harvey D. Hinman*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Affairs of Cities
40th	Charles J. Hewitt	Republican	Chairman of Public Printing
41st	Benn Conger	Republican	Chairman of Trades and Manufactures
42nd	John Raines*	Republican	re-elected; re-elected President pro tempore; Chairman of Rules; died on December 16, 1909
43rd	Frank C. Platt	Republican	Chairman of Agriculture
44th	George H. Witter	Republican	Chairman of Public Health
45th	George L. Meade*	Republican	Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment
46th	Charles J. White	Republican
47th	James P. Mackenzie	Republican
48th	Henry W. Hill*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Codes
49th	Samuel J. Ramsperger*	Democrat	re-elected
50th	George Allen Davis*	Republican	re-elected; Chairman of Judiciary
51st	Charles Mann Hamilton*	Republican	Chairman of Forest, Fish and Game

Employees

Clerk: Lafayette B. Gleason
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	J. Newton Fiero	Republican
	2nd	William E. Nolan*	Republican
	3rd	Robert B. Waters*	Republican	Chairman of State Prisons
Allegany		Jesse S. Phillips*	Republican	Chairman of Judiciary
Broome		Harry C. Perkins*	Republican
Cattaraugus		Ellsworth J. Cheney	Republican
Cayuga		William B. Reed	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	Augustus F. Allen*	Republican
Chautauqua	2nd	John Leo Sullivan	Republican
Chemung		Seymour Lowman	Republican
Chenango		Julien C. Scott*	Republican
Clinton		William R. Weaver	Republican
Columbia		Albert S. Callan	Republican
Cortland		Charles F. Brown*	Republican
Delaware		Henry J. Williams*	Republican
Dutchess	1st	Myron Smith*	Republican
Dutchess	2nd	Everett H. Travis	Republican
Erie	1st	Orson J. Weimert*	Republican	Chairman of Indian Affairs
	2nd	John Lord O'Brian*	Republican
	3rd	Leo J. Neupert	Democrat
	4th	Edward D. Jackson	Democrat
	5th	Edward P. Costello*	Democrat
	6th	James M. Rozan	Democrat
	7th	Gottfried H. Wende	Democrat
	8th	Clarence MacGregor*	Republican	Chairman of Military Affairs
	9th	Frank B. Thorn*	Republican
Essex		James Shea*	Republican
Franklin		Harry H. Hawley*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		Scott Partridge	Democrat
Genesee		Fred B. Parker*	Republican
Greene		William C. Brady*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Villages
Herkimer		Charles F. Fellows	Republican
Jefferson	1st	Alfred D. Lowe*	Republican	Chairman of Public Lands and Forestry
Jefferson	2nd	Gary H. Wood*	Republican	Chairman of Public Health
Kings	1st	Henry S. Goodspeed	Republican
	2nd	William J. Gillen	Democrat
	3rd	Michael A. O'Neil	Democrat
	4th	George W. Brown	Republican
	5th	Charles J. Weber*	Republican
	6th	Thomas J. Surpless*	Republican	Chairman of Revision
	7th	Thomas J. Geoghegan*	Democrat
	8th	John J. McKeon	Democrat
	9th	George A. Voss*	Republican	Chairman of Labor and Industries
	10th	Charles F. Murphy*	Republican	Chairman of Codes
	11th	William W. Colne*	Republican	Chairman of Canals
	12th	George A. Green*	Republican	Chairman of General Laws
	13th	John H. Donnelly*	Democrat
	14th	James E. Fay*	Democrat
	15th	John J. Schutta*	Democrat
	16th	Robert H. Clarke	Republican
	17th	John R. Farrar*	Republican
	18th	Warren I. Lee*	Republican	Chairman of Public Institutions
	19th	Felix J. Sanner	Democrat
	20th	Harrison C. Glore*	Republican
	21st	Samuel A. Gluck*	Democrat
	22nd	Albert Lachman	Republican
	23rd	Isaac Sargent*	Republican
Lewis		C. Fred Boshart*	Republican	Chairman of Agriculture
Livingston		James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.*	Republican	re-elected Speaker; Chairman of Rules
Madison		Orlando W. Burhyte*	Republican
Monroe	1st	Edward H. White	Republican
	2nd	James L. Whitley*	Republican
	3rd	Louis E. Lazarus	Republican
	4th	Cyrus W. Phillips	Republican
	5th	John J. McInerney	Republican
Montgomery		T. Romeyn Staley*	Republican
Nassau		William G. Miller*	Republican	Chairman of Commerce and Navigation
New York	1st	Thomas B. Caughlan*	Democrat
	2nd	Al Smith*	Democrat
	3rd	James Oliver*	Democrat
	4th	Aaron J. Levy*	Democrat
	5th	John T. Eagleton*	Democrat
	6th	Adolph Stern*	Democrat
	7th	Peter P. McElligott	Democrat
	8th	Moritz Graubard*	Democrat
	9th	John C. Hackett*	Democrat
	10th	Harold Spielberg	Democrat
	11th	Owen W. Bohan	Democrat
	12th	James A. Foley*	Democrat
	13th	James J. Hoey*	Democrat
	14th	John J. Herrick*	Democrat
	15th	William M. Bennett*	Republican
	16th	Martin G. McCue*	Democrat
	17th	Frederick R. Toombs*	Republican
	18th	Mark Goldberg*	Democrat
	19th	Andrew F. Murray	Republican
	20th	Patrick J. McGrath*	Democrat
	21st	Robert S. Conklin*	Republican
	22nd	George W. Baumann	Democrat
	23rd	James A. Francis*	Republican	Chairman of Banks
	24th	Thomas A. Brennan	Democrat
	25th	Artemas Ward, Jr.*	Republican
	26th	Irving J. Joseph	Democrat
	27th	Beverley R. Robinson*	Republican
	28th	Jacob Levy	Democrat
	29th	Lindon Bates, Jr.^[5]	Republican
	30th	Louis A. Cuvillier*	Democrat
	31st	Samuel Marks	Republican
	32nd	Jesse Silbermann*	Democrat
	33rd	Phillip J. Schmidt*	Democrat
	34th	Charles Stein	Democrat
	35th	John V. Sheridan*	Democrat
Niagara	1st	Joseph A. Jordan	Democrat
Niagara	2nd	W. Levell Draper*	Republican	Chairman of Privileges and Elections
Oneida	1st	John W. Manley	Democrat
	2nd	Ladd J. Lewis, Jr.*	Republican
	3rd	C. Robert Edwards	Republican
Onondaga	1st	John C. McLaughlin*	Republican
	2nd	Fred W. Hammond*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Cities
	3rd	J. Henry Walters*	Republican
Ontario		George B. Hemenway*	Republican
Orange	1st	Caleb H. Baumes	Republican
Orange	2nd	Charles A. Evans	Democrat
Orleans		Frank J. Murphy	Republican
Oswego		Frank L. Smith	Republican
Otsego		Charles Smith*	Republican
Putnam		John R. Yale*	Republican	Chairman of Electricity, Gas and Water
Queens	1st	Thomas H. Todd*	Democrat
	2nd	William Klein*	Democrat
	3rd	Conrad Garbe*	Democrat
	4th	William A. DeGroot*	Republican	Chairman of Claims
Rensselaer	1st	Frederick C. Filley*	Republican	Chairman of Public Education
Rensselaer	2nd	Bradford R. Lansing*	Republican	Chairman of Charitable and Religious Societies
Richmond		Thomas J. Lanahan	Democrat
Rockland		Rutledge I. Odell	Republican
St. Lawrence	1st	Fred J. Gray*	Republican	Chairman of Excise
St. Lawrence	2nd	Edwin A. Merritt, Jr.*	Republican	Majority Leader; Chairman of Ways and Means
Saratoga		George H. Whitney*	Republican	Chairman of Internal Affairs
Schenectady		Loren H. White	Democrat
Schoharie		Daniel D. Frisbie	Democrat	Minority Leader
Schuyler		William E. Leffingwell	Democrat
Seneca		Alexander C. Martin	Republican
Steuben	1st	John L. Miller	Republican	Chairman of Soldiers' Home
Steuben	2nd	Charles K. Marlatt*	Republican	Chairman of Unfinished Business
Suffolk	1st	John M. Lupton*	Republican	Chairman of Fisheries and Game
Suffolk	2nd	George L. Thompson	Republican
Sullivan		Calvin Millen	Republican
Tioga		Frank L. Howard*	Republican
Tompkins		William R. Gunderman*	Republican	Chairman of Trades and Manufactures
Ulster	1st	Joseph M. Fowler*	Republican	Chairman of Public Printing
Ulster	2nd	Edward Young	Republican
Warren		William R. Waddell*	Republican	Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment
Washington		James S. Parker*	Republican	Chairman of Railroads
Wayne		Edson W. Hamn*	Republican	Chairman of Insurance
Westchester	1st	Harry W. Haines*	Republican
	2nd	Holland S. Duell	Republican	Chairman of Federal Relations
	3rd	Frank L. Young	Republican
	4th	George W. Mead	Republican
Wyoming		Robert M. McFarlane*	Republican
Yates		Llewellyn J. Barden	Republican

Employees

Clerk: Ray B. Smith
Sergeant-at-Arms: Bernard J. Haggarty

Notes

↑ see APPORTIONMENT PLAN MADE; ODELL BEATEN in NYT on April 27, 1906
↑ OLD APPORTIONMENT IS DECLARED VOID in NYT on April 4, 1907
↑ see HUGHES WINS ON APPORTIONMENT in NYT on July 24, 1907
↑ ROOT IS CHOSEN SENATOR in NYT on January 20, 1909
↑ Lindon Wallace Bates, Jr. (1883–1915), died as a passenger on the RMS Lusitania

Sources

Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; see pg. 356ff for assemblymen; and 366f for senators)
REPUBLICANS GAIN IN LEGISLATURE in NYT on November 4, 1908
Manual of Rules and Practice of the Senate (1909)
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS NAMES WADSWORTH in NYT on January 6, 1909
COMMITTEES ARE NAMED in NYT on January 14, 1909

New York State Legislatures by year convened

1 (1777)
2 (1778)
3 (1779)
4 (1780)
5 (1781)
6 (1782)
7 (1783)
8 (1784)
9 (1785)
10 (1786)
11 (1787)
12 (1788)
13 (1789)
14 (1790)
15 (1791)
16 (1792)
17 (1793)
18 (1794)
19 (1795)
20 (1796)
21 (1797)
22 (1798)
23 (1799)
24 (1800)
25 (1801)
26 (1802)
27 (1803)
28 (1804)
29 (1805)
30 (1806)
31 (1807)
32 (1808)
33 (1809)
34 (1810)
35 (1811)
36 (1812)
37 (1813)
38 (1814)
39 (1815)
40 (1816)
41 (1817)
42 (1818)
43 (1819)
44 (1820)
45 (1821)
46 (1823)
47 (1824)
48 (1825)
49 (1826)
50 (1827)
51 (1828)
52 (1829)
53 (1830)
54 (1831)
55 (1832)
56 (1833)
57 (1834)
58 (1835)
59 (1836)
60 (1837)
61 (1838)
62 (1839)
63 (1840)
64 (1841)
65 (1842)
66 (1843)
67 (1844)
68 (1845)
69 (1846)
70 (1847)
71 (1848)
72 (1849)
73 (1850)
74 (1851)
75 (1852)
76 (1853)
77 (1854)
78 (1855)
79 (1856)
80 (1857)
81 (1858)
82 (1859)
83 (1860)
84 (1861)
85 (1862)
86 (1863)
87 (1864)
88 (1865)
89 (1866)
90 (1867)
91 (1868)
92 (1869)
93 (1870)
94 (1871)
95 (1872)
96 (1873)
97 (1874)
98 (1875)
99 (1876)
100 (1877)
101 (1878)
102 (1879)
103 (1880)
104 (1881)
105 (1882)
106 (1883)
107 (1884)
108 (1885)
109 (1886)
110 (1887)
111 (1888)
112 (1889)
113 (1890)
114 (1891)
115 (1892)
116 (1893)
117 (1894)
118 (1895)
119 (1896)
120 (1897)
121 (1898)
122 (1899)
123 (1900)
124 (1901)
125 (1902)
126 (1903)
127 (1904)
128 (1905)
129 (1906)
130 (1907)
131 (1908)
132 (1909)
133 (1910)
134 (1911)
135 (1912)
136 (1913)
137 (1914)
138 (1915)
139 (1916)
140 (1917)
141 (1918)
142 (1919)
143 (1920)
144 (1921)
145 (1922)
146 (1923)
147 (1924)
148 (1925)
149 (1926)
150 (1927)
151 (1928)
152 (1929)
153 (1930)
154 (1931)
155 (1932)
156 (1933)
157 (1934)
158 (1935)
159 (1936)
160 (1937)
161 (1938)
162 (1939)
163 (1941)
164 (1943)
165 (1945)
166 (1947)
167 (1949)
168 (1951)
169 (1953)
170 (1955)
171 (1957)
172 (1959)
173 (1961)
174 (1963)
175 (1965)
176 (1966)
177 (1967)
178 (1969)
179 (1971)
180 (1973)
181 (1975)
182 (1977)
183 (1979)
184 (1981)
185 (1983)
186 (1985)
187 (1987)
188 (1989)
189 (1991)
190 (1993)
191 (1995)
192 (1997)
193 (1999)
194 (2001)
195 (2003)
196 (2005)
197 (2007)
198 (2009)
199 (2011)
200 (2013)
201 (2015)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, September 28, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.