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The 85th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 7 to April 23, 1862, during the fourth year of Edwin D. Morgan'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, 1862 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 32 | ||||
President | Lt. Gov. Robert Campbell (R) | ||||
Temporary President | James A. Bell (U), from February 11 | ||||
Party control | Union (25-7) | ||||
Assembly | |||||
Members | 128 | ||||
Speaker | Henry J. Raymond (U) | ||||
Party control | Union (90-38) | ||||
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 (four districts) and Kings County (two districts). The Assembly districts were made up of entire towns, or city wards, 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 Democrats split over the civil war issue. The War Democrats nominated an "Independent People's" ticket which was almost completely endorsed by the Republicans, and became known as the Union ticket; the rump Democratic Party, favoring a compromise with the South and later known as Copperheads, nominated an opposing ticket. In New York City the Democrats were split into two factions: Tammany Hall and Mozart Hall.
The New York state election, 1861 was held on November 5. Of the nine statewide elective offices up for election, eight were carried by Union men, and one by a Democrat. The approximate party strength at this election, as gathered from the vote for Secretary of State and the short-term Canal Commissioner was: Democrats 190,000; Republicans 180,000; and War Democrats 117,000.
The Legislature met for the regular session at the Old State Capitol in Albany on January 7, 1862; and adjourned on April 23.
Henry J. Raymond (U) was elected again Speaker with 88 votes against 36 for Horatio Seymour (D).
On January 30, the Legislature elected Victor M. Rice to succeed Henry H. Van Dyck as Superintendent of Public Instruction.
On February 11, James A. Bell was elected president pro tempore of the State Senate.
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Richard B. Connolly, Hezekiah D. Robertson, Joseph H. Ramsey, Charles C. Montgomery, James A. Bell, Allen Munroe and Lyman Truman were re-elected. Christian B. Woodruff, Richard K. Sanford and Wilkes Angel changed from the Assembly to the Senate.
Party affiliations as published by the New York Tribune;[1] those marked "Republican" were elected in opposition to "Union" candidates. Senate officers and a Regent of USNY were elected without opposition.
District | Senator | Party | Notes |
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1st | Monroe Henderson | Union | due to ill health, absent from January 31 |
2nd | Jesse C. Smith | Union | |
3rd | Henry C. Murphy | Fusion | elected unopposed |
4th | Christian B. Woodruff* | Democrat | |
5th | Charles G. Cornell | Democrat | from December 3, 1862, also New York City Street Commissioner |
6th | John J. Bradley | Democrat | |
7th | Richard B. Connolly* | Democrat | |
8th | Hezekiah D. Robertson* | Union | |
9th | Henry R. Low | Union | |
10th | Jacob S. Freer | Democrat | |
11th | William H. Tobey | Union | |
12th | Ralph Richards | Union | |
13th | John V. L. Pruyn | Democrat | |
14th | Joseph H. Ramsey* | Union | |
15th | John Willard | Fusion | elected unopposed; died on August 31, 1862 |
16th | Russell M. Little | Union | |
17th | Charles C. Montgomery* | Union | |
18th | James A. Bell* | Union | on February 11, elected president pro tempore |
19th | Alexander H. Bailey | Union | |
20th | George A. Hardin | Republican | |
21st | Richard K. Sanford* | Fusion | elected unopposed |
22nd | Allen Munroe* | Republican | |
23rd | Henry A. Clark | Union | |
24th | Lyman Truman* | Union | |
25th | Chauncey M. Abbott | Republican | |
26th | Charles J. Folger | Union | |
27th | Charles Cook | Union | |
28th | Lysander Farrar | Fusion | elected unopposed |
29th | Almanzor Hutchinson | Union | |
30th | Wilkes Angel* | Republican | |
31st | John Ganson | Democrat | on November 4, 1862, elected to the 38th U.S. Congress |
32nd | Horace C. Young | Republican | |
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.
Party affiliations follow the vote for Speaker.
District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes | |
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Albany | 1st | vacant | Assemblyman-elect John Vanderzee died on December 3, 1861 | |
Willet Serls[2] | Democrat | elected to fill vacancy; seated on February 6 | ||
2nd | Almerin J. Cornell | Union | ||
3rd | A. Bleecker Banks | Democrat | ||
4th | William Doyle | Democrat | ||
Allegany | 1st | Alvah E. Cruttenden | Union | |
2nd | Edward D. Loveridge | Union | ||
Broome | George Bartlett | Union | ||
Cattaraugus | 1st | Andrew L. Allen | Union | |
2nd | Addison G. Rice | Union | ||
Cayuga | 1st | William A. Halsey | Union | |
2nd | Smith Anthony* | Union | ||
Chautauqua | 1st | Emry Davis | Union | |
2nd | Henry C. Lake | Union | ||
Chemung | Tracy Beadle | Union | ||
Chenango | 1st | David B. Parce | Union | |
2nd | Francis B. Fisher | Union | ||
Clinton | Lemuel Stetson | Union | ||
Columbia | 1st | Jacob Ten Broeck | Democrat | |
2nd | Samuel Wilbor | Union | ||
Cortland | Thomas Barry | Union | ||
Delaware | 1st | Nelson K. Wheeler | Union | |
2nd | Daniel Waterbury* | Union | ||
Dutchess | 1st | John B. Dutcher* | Union | |
2nd | Edmund Green | Union | ||
Erie | 1st | John W. Murphy | Democrat | |
2nd | Horatio Seymour | Democrat | ||
3rd | Ezra P. Goslin | Union | ||
4th | John A. Case | Union | ||
Essex | Palmer E. Havens | Union | ||
Franklin | Albert Andrus | Union | ||
Fulton and Hamilton | James H. Burr* | Union | ||
Genesee | Benjamin Pringle | Union | ||
Greene | Jonathan B. Cowles | Democrat | ||
Herkimer | 1st | Orson Moore | Union | |
2nd | George Springer | Union | ||
Jefferson | 1st | Jonathan M. Ackley | Union | |
2nd | George W. Hazelton | Union | ||
3rd | William Dewey | Union | ||
Kings | 1st | Andrew J. Provost* | Union | |
2nd | Richard J. Lalor | Democrat | ||
3rd | William M. Thomas | Union | ||
4th | James Darcy* | Democrat | ||
5th | Charles L. Benedict | Union | ||
6th | Samuel T. Maddox | Union | ||
7th | Edgar McMullen | Union | ||
Lewis | Henry D. H. Snyder Jr. | Union | ||
Livingston | 1st | Matthew Wiard* | Union | |
2nd | Samuel Skinner | Union | ||
Madison | 1st | William H. Brand | Union | |
2nd | Albert G. Purdy | Union | ||
Monroe | 1st | George E. McGonegal | Union | |
2nd | Eliphaz Trimmer | Democrat | ||
3rd | Benjamin R. Wells* | Union | ||
Montgomery | Nicholas Newkirk | Democrat | ||
New York | 1st | John Callahan* | Democrat | |
2nd | Daniel Leamy | Democrat | ||
3rd | George L. Loutrel | Democrat | ||
4th | William J. C. Kenny* | Democrat | ||
5th | James W. Bush | Union | ||
6th | William J. Coey | Democrat | ||
7th | Henry J. Raymond | Union | elected Speaker | |
8th | William G. Olvany | Democrat | ||
9th | Alexander McLeod | Union | ||
10th | Daniel M. O'Brien | Democrat | ||
11th | Noah A. Childs | Union | ||
12th | Andrew Smith | Democrat | ||
13th | Alexander Ward | Democrat | ||
14th | Royal Phelps | Union | ||
15th | David S. Coddington | Democrat | ||
16th | Dennis McCabe | Union | ||
17th | Edward Jones[3] | Democrat | ||
Niagara | 1st | Benjamin H. Fletcher | Democrat | |
2nd | Peter A. Porter | Union | ||
Oneida | 1st | Charles M. Scholefield | Union | |
2nd | Eli Avery | Union | ||
3rd | Thomas D. Penfield | Union | ||
4th | Jeremiah Sweet | Union | ||
Onondaga | 1st | Frederick A. Lyman | Union | |
2nd | Thomas G. Alvord | Union | ||
3rd | R. Nelson Gere | Union | ||
Ontario | 1st | David Picket | Union | |
2nd | Francis O. Mason | Union | ||
Orange | 1st | Daniel R. Hudson | Union | |
2nd | John Van Etten Jr. | Democrat | ||
Orleans | Nicholas E. Darrow | Union | ||
Oswego | 1st | Elias Root | Union | |
2nd | Willard Johnson | Democrat | ||
3rd | Benjamin E. Bowen | Union | ||
Otsego | 1st | LeRoy E. Bowe | Union | |
2nd | Cornelius A. Church | Union | ||
Putnam | Thomas H. Reed | Union | ||
Queens | 1st | Isaac Coles | Union | |
2nd | Henry D. Hall | Democrat | ||
Rensselaer | 1st | Charles J. Saxe* | Democrat | |
2nd | David G. Maxon | Union | ||
3rd | Sylvester Waterbury | Democrat | ||
Richmond | Smith Ely[4] | Democrat | ||
Rockland | James S. Haring | Democrat | ||
St. Lawrence | 1st | Elias P. Townsley | Union | |
2nd | James Redington | Union | ||
3rd | Calvin T. Hulburd | Union | on November 4, 1862, elected to the 38th U.S. Congress | |
Saratoga | 1st | John Fulton* | Union | |
2nd | Nathaniel M. Houghton | Union | ||
Schenectady | Simon J. Schermerhorn | Union | ||
Schoharie | William Lamont | Democrat | ||
Schuyler | Alvin C. Hause | Union | ||
Seneca | Peter J. Van Vleet | Democrat | ||
Steuben | 1st | Daniel B. Bryan* | Union | |
2nd | Henry Sherwood | Union | ||
3rd | Samuel M. Alley | Union | ||
Suffolk | 1st | John C. Davis | Union | |
2nd | John S. Havens | Democrat | ||
Sullivan | Benjamin L. Ludington | Union | ||
Tioga | Benjamin F. Tracy | Union | ||
Tompkins | Ezra Cornell | Union | ||
Ulster | 1st | Jesse F. Bookstaver | Democrat | |
2nd | George T. Pierce* | Union | ||
3rd | Ebenezer Westbrook | Democrat | ||
Warren | Thomas S. Gray | Democrat | ||
Washington | 1st | George H. Taylor | Union | |
2nd | Philip H. Neher | Union | ||
Wayne | 1st | Eron N. Thomas | Union | |
2nd | Abram Pryne | Union | ||
Westchester | 1st | Pierre C. Talman | Democrat | |
2nd | Newberry D. Halsted | Democrat | ||
3rd | Chauncey M. Depew | Union | ||
Wyoming | Lucius Peck | Union | ||
Yates | Darius A. Ogden | Union | ||
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