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The 102nd New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 7 to May 22, 1879, during the third year of Lucius Robinson's governorship, in Albany.
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | New York State Legislature | ||||
Jurisdiction | New York, United States | ||||
Term | January 1 – December 31, 1879 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 32 | ||||
President | Lt. Gov. William Dorsheimer (D) | ||||
Temporary President | William H. Robertson (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican (20-12) | ||||
Assembly | |||||
Members | 128 | ||||
Speaker | Thomas G. Alvord (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican (98-27-3) | ||||
Sessions | |||||
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Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1846, 32 Senators and 128 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 (five districts) and Kings County (two districts). The Assembly districts were made up of entire towns, or city wards,[1] forming a contiguous area, all within the same county.
At this time there were two major political parties: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Prohibition Party and the Greenback Party also nominated tickets.
The New York state election, 1878 was held on November 5. The only statewide elective office up for election was carried by a Republican. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Judge of the Court of Appeals, was: Republican 391,000; Democratic 356,000; Greenback 75,000;[2] and Prohibition 4,000.
The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 7, 1879; and adjourned on May 22.
On January 7, senators and assemblymen met at the Old Capitol and then marched together to the New Capitol, taking officially possession of the new accommodations. The New Capitol was then still under construction, being finished only in 1899; and the Senate met for the time being in the Court of Appeals chamber. Due to heavy snowfall, many members had not arrived yet from the Western parts of the State, and the Legislature adjourned.
On January 9, Thomas G. Alvord (R) was again elected Speaker, with 94 votes against 24 for Erastus Brooks (D).
On January 21, the Legislature re-elected U.S. Senator Roscoe Conkling (R) to a third six-year term, beginning on March 4, 1879.[3]
On April 23, the Legislature re-apportioned the Senate districts; and the Assembly seats per county. Columbia, Delaware, Madison, Oneida, Ontario and Oswego counties lost one seat each; Kings and New York counties gained three seats each.[4]
Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.
District | Senator | Party | Notes |
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1st | James M. Oakley* | Democrat | |
2nd | James F. Pierce* | Democrat | |
3rd | John C. Jacobs* | Democrat | |
4th | Edward Hogan* | Democrat | |
5th | Alfred Wagstaff Jr.* | Democrat | |
6th | Louis S. Goebel* | Republican | |
7th | Thomas Murphy | Republican | elected to fill vacancy, in place of John Morrissey |
8th | Thomas C. E. Ecclesine* | Democrat | |
9th | William H. Robertson* | Republican | President pro tempore |
10th | Daniel B. St. John* | Democrat | |
11th | Stephen H. Wendover* | Republican | |
12th | Charles Hughes* | Democrat | |
13th | Hamilton Harris* | Republican | |
14th | Addison P. Jones* | Democrat | |
15th | Webster Wagner* | Republican | |
16th | William W. Rockwell* | Republican | |
17th | Dolphus S. Lynde* | Republican | |
18th | Henry E. Turner* | Republican | |
19th | Alexander T. Goodwin* | Democrat | |
20th | Samuel S. Edick* | Republican | |
21st | John W. Lippitt* | Republican | |
22nd | Dennis McCarthy* | Republican | |
23rd | Nathaniel C. Marvin* | Republican | |
24th | Peter W. Hopkins* | Republican | died on February 7, 1879 |
Edwin G. Halbert | Republican | elected to fill vacancy, seated on April 2 | |
25th | Theodore M. Pomeroy* | Republican | |
26th | Edwin Hicks* | Republican | |
27th | Ira Davenport* | Republican | |
28th | George Raines* | Democrat | |
29th | Lewis S. Payne* | Democrat | |
30th | James H. Loomis* | Republican | |
31st | Ray V. Pierce* | Republican | on November 5, 1878, elected to the 46th U.S. Congress |
32nd | Loren B. Sessions* | Republican | also Supervisor of the Town of Harmony |
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.
District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes | |
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Albany | 1st | Hiram Griggs* | Republican | |
2nd | Charles R. Knowles | Republican | ||
3rd | Thomas H. Greer | Republican | ||
4th | Waters W. Braman | Republican | ||
Allegany | Hiram H. Wakely* | Republican | ||
Broome | Henry Marean | Republican | ||
Cattaraugus | 1st | William F. Wheeler | Republican | |
2nd | Simeon V. Pool* | Republican | ||
Cayuga | 1st | William A. Halsey | Republican | |
2nd | William Leslie Noyes* | Republican | ||
Chautauqua | 1st | Charles P. Ingersoll | Republican | |
2nd | James Prendergast[5] | Republican | ||
Chemung | John Bandfield | Greenback | ||
Chenango | Oscar H. Curtis | Republican | ||
Clinton | William P. Mooers* | Republican | ||
Columbia | 1st | Jacob W. Hoysradt | Republican | |
2nd | Perkins F. Cady | Republican | ||
Cortland | George H. Arnold | Greenback | ||
Delaware | 1st | Albert E. Sullard | Republican | |
2nd | John S. McNaught | Republican | ||
Dutchess | 1st | Obed Wheeler* | Republican | |
2nd | Cornelius Pitcher | Republican | ||
Erie | 1st | Bernard F. Gentsch | Republican | |
2nd | Simon P. Swift | Republican | ||
3rd | James A. Roberts | Republican | ||
4th | Harvey J. Hurd* | Republican | ||
5th | William Alfred Johnson | Republican | ||
Essex | Warren French Weston | Republican | ||
Franklin | William D. Brennan | Republican | ||
Fulton and Hamilton | John W. Peek* | Republican | ||
Genesee | John Sanders | Republican | ||
Greene | George S. Stevens | Democrat | ||
Herkimer | Titus Sheard* | Republican | ||
Jefferson | 1st | Charles R. Skinner* | Republican | |
2nd | George D. McAllaster | Republican | ||
Kings | 1st | John M. Clancy* | Democrat | |
2nd | Jonathan Ogden | Republican | ||
3rd | Thomas J. Sheridan | Democrat | ||
4th | Charles T. Trowbridge | Republican | unsuccessfully contested by James G. Tighe (D)[6] | |
5th | William W. Stephenson | Republican | ||
6th | Lewis R. Stegman | Republican | ||
7th | Maurice B. Flynn* | Democrat | ||
8th | John H. Douglass* | Democrat | ||
9th | Daniel W. Tallmadge | Republican | ||
Lewis | Charles A. Chickering | Republican | ||
Livingston | James W. Wadsworth* | Republican | on November 4, 1879, elected New York State Comptroller | |
Madison | 1st | Augustus L. Saunders | Republican | |
2nd | George Berry | Democrat | ||
Monroe | 1st | Samuel Beckwith | Republican | |
2nd | Charles S. Baker | Republican | ||
3rd | Henry W. Davis | Democrat | ||
Montgomery | John Warner | Republican | ||
New York | 1st | James H. Madigan | Democrat | |
2nd | Thomas F. Grady* | Democrat | ||
3rd | William H. McIntyre | Democrat | ||
4th | John Galvin* | Democrat | ||
5th | Thomas Bogan | Democrat | ||
6th | Jacob Seebacher* | Democrat | ||
7th | Isaac Israel Hayes* | Republican | ||
8th | Daniel Patterson* | Democrat | unsuccessfully contested by John E. Brodsky (R)[7] | |
9th | George B. Deane, Sr. | Republican | ||
10th | Ferdinand Eidman | Republican | ||
11th | James M. Varnum | Republican | ||
12th | Maurice F. Holahan* | Democrat | ||
13th | Robert H. Strahan | Republican | ||
14th | P. Henry Dugro | Democrat | ||
15th | Michael J. Dougherty | Democrat | ||
16th | Edward P. Hagan | Democrat | ||
17th | Stephen N. Simonson | Republican | ||
18th | Joseph P. McDonough* | Democrat | ||
19th | Anthony Feehan | Democrat | ||
20th | Walter H. Ackerman | Republican | ||
21st | J. C. Julius Langbein | Republican | ||
Niagara | 1st | Thomas N. Van Valkenburgh | Republican | |
2nd | James Low | Republican | ||
Oneida | 1st | Benjamin Allen | Republican | |
2nd | Frank Sang | Republican | ||
3rd | Thomas D. Penfield | Democrat | ||
4th | H. Dwight Grant | Republican | ||
Onondaga | 1st | Thomas G. Alvord* | Republican | elected Speaker |
2nd | Samuel Willis* | Republican | ||
3rd | Henry L. Duguid | Republican | ||
Ontario | 1st | John Robson | Republican | |
2nd | Charles R. Case | Republican | ||
Orange | 1st | Morgan Shuit | Republican | |
2nd | Franklin R. Brodhead | Democrat | ||
Orleans | Henry A. Glidden | Republican | ||
Oswego | 1st | George B. Sloan | Republican | |
2nd | George E. Williams | Greenback | ||
3rd | William H. Steele | Republican | ||
Otsego | 1st | Azro Chase* | Republican | |
2nd | Nathan Bridges | Republican | ||
Putnam | Hamilton Fish II* | Republican | ||
Queens | 1st | William J. Youngs | Republican | |
2nd | William E. Pearse | Democrat | ||
Rensselaer | 1st | Francis N. Mann Jr. | Republican | |
2nd | Eli Perry | Republican | ||
3rd | Thomas B. Simmons | Republican | ||
Richmond | Erastus Brooks* | Democrat | ||
Rockland | James W. Husted* | Republican | previously a member from Westchester County | |
St. Lawrence | 1st | Daniel Peck | Republican | |
2nd | A. Barton Hepburn* | Republican | ||
3rd | Rufus S. Palmer* | Republican | ||
Saratoga | 1st | Edward Stewart[8] | Republican | |
2nd | Daniel H. Deyoe* | Republican | ||
Schenectady | Daniel P. McQueen | Republican | ||
Schoharie | Duryea Beekman | Democrat | ||
Schuyler | Abram V. Mekeel* | Republican | ||
Seneca | David H. Evans | Republican | ||
Steuben | 1st | Azariah C. Brundage* | Republican | |
2nd | George R. Sutherland* | Republican | ||
Suffolk | Charles T. Duryea | Democrat | contested; seat vacated | |
George F. Carman | Republican | seated on February 6[9] | ||
Sullivan | Roderick Morison | Democrat | ||
Tioga | John Theodore Sawyer* | Republican | ||
Tompkins | Charles M. Titus | Republican | ||
Ulster | 1st | George H. Sharpe | Republican | |
2nd | Theodore Millspaugh | Republican | ||
3rd | Leonard Davis | Democrat | ||
Warren | Barclay Thomas | Republican | ||
Washington | 1st | Abram Reynolds* | Republican | |
2nd | George L. Terry* | Republican | ||
Wayne | 1st | John A. Munson | Republican | |
2nd | Jefferson Sherman | Republican | ||
Westchester | 1st | James L. Wells | Republican | |
2nd | David Ogden Bradley[10] | Republican | ||
3rd | David W. Travis | Republican | ||
Wyoming | Orange L. Tozier | Republican | ||
Yates | Joel M. Clark* | Republican | ||
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