145th New York State Legislature

The 145th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 4 to August 29, 1922, during the second year of Nathan L. Miller's governorship, in Albany.

145th New York State Legislature
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New York State Capitol (2009)
Overview
Legislative body	New York State Legislature
Jurisdiction	New York, United States
Term	January 1 – December 31, 1922
Senate
Members	51
President	Lt. Gov. Jeremiah Wood (R)
Temporary President	Clayton R. Lusk (R)
Party control	Republican (39–11–1)
Assembly
Members	150
Speaker	H. Edmund Machold (R)
Party control	Republican (96–53–1)
Sessions
1st January 4 – March 17, 1922 2nd August 28 – 29, 1922

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 also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1921, was held on November 8. The only statewide elective office up for election was a judgeship on the New York Court of Appeals which was carried by Republican William Shankland Andrews. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Judge of the Court of Appeals, was: Republicans 1,146,000; Democrats 1,081,000; and Socialists 146,000.

The only assemblywoman of 1921, Marguerite L. Smith (Rep.), an athletics teacher, of Harlem, was defeated for re-election, and no women were elected to the Legislature of 1922.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 4, 1922; and adjourned on March 17.

H. Edmund Machold (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker.

The Legislature met for a special session at the State Capitol in Albany on August 28 and 29, 1922.^[1] This session was called to deal with the shortage of coal. The Legislature created the office of State Fuel Administrator, and William H. Woodin was appointed by Governor Miller to the post.^[2] Woodin resigned on January 8, 1923, and Governor Al Smith appointed George W. Goethals to succeed.^[3] The post was abolished by Smith, effective on April 1, 1923.^[4]

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.

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

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	George L. Thompson*	Republican
2nd	John L. Karle*	Republican
3rd	Peter J. McGarry*	Democrat
4th	Maxwell S. Harris*	Republican
5th	Daniel F. Farrell*	Democrat
6th	William T. Simpson*	Republican
7th	Charles C. Lockwood*	Republican
8th	Alvah W. Burlingame Jr.*	Republican
9th	George M. Reischmann*	Republican	died on February 7, 1922[5]
10th	Jeremiah F. Twomey*	Democrat
11th	Abraham L. Katlin*	Republican
12th	Jimmy Walker*	Democrat	Minority Leader
13th	John J. Boylan*	Democrat	on November 7, 1922, elected to the 68th U.S. Congress
14th	Bernard Downing*	Democrat
15th	Nathan Straus Jr.*	Democrat
16th	Thomas I. Sheridan	Democrat	elected to fill vacancy, in place of Martin G. McCue
17th	Schuyler M. Meyer*	Republican
18th	Salvatore A. Cotillo*	Democrat
19th	William Duggan*	Republican
20th	Ward V. Tolbert*	Republican
21st	Henry G. Schackno*	Democrat
22nd	Edmund Seidel*	Socialist
23rd	John J. Dunnigan*	Democrat
24th	C. Ernest Smith*	Republican
25th	George T. Burling*	Republican
26th	Holland S. Duell*	Republican
27th	Caleb H. Baumes*	Republican
28th	James E. Towner*	Republican
29th	Charles W. Walton*	Republican
30th	Frank L. Wiswall*	Republican
31st	Frederick E. Draper*	Republican
32nd	Frederick W. Kavanaugh*	Republican
33rd	Mortimer Y. Ferris*	Republican
34th	Warren T. Thayer*	Republican
35th	Theodore Douglas Robinson*	Republican
36th	Frederick M. Davenport*	Republican
37th	Fred B. Pitcher*	Republican
38th	George R. Fearon*	Republican
39th	Allen J. Bloomfield*	Republican
40th	Clayton R. Lusk*	Republican	Temporary President
41st	Seymour Lowman*	Republican
42nd	Charles J. Hewitt*	Republican
43rd	William A. Carson*	Republican
44th	John Knight*	Republican
45th	James L. Whitley*	Republican
46th	Homer E. A. Dick	Rep./Proh.	elected to fill vacancy, in place of John B. Mullan
47th	William W. Campbell*	Republican
48th	Parton Swift*	Republican
49th	William E. Martin*	Republican
50th	Leonard W. H. Gibbs*	Republican
51st	DeHart H. Ames*	Republican

Employees

• Clerk: Ernest A. Fay
• Sergeant-at-Arms:
• Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms:
• Principal Doorkeeper:
• First Assistant Doorkeeper:
• Stenographer:

State Assembly

Assemblymen

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

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	Edgar C. Campbell*	Republican
	2nd	John T. Merrigan*	Democrat
	3rd	James M. Gaffers*	Republican	Chairman of Public Institutions
Allegany		William Duke Jr.*	Republican	Chairman of Codes
Bronx	1st	Nicholas J. Eberhard	Democrat
	2nd	Lester W. Patterson	Democrat
	3rd	Benjamin Antin*	Democrat
	4th	Louis A. Schoffel	Dem./Rep.
	5th	William Lyman*	Dem./Rep.
	6th	Thomas J. McDonald*	Democrat
	7th	Joseph V. McKee*	Democrat
	8th	Edward J. Walsh*	Democrat
Broome	1st	Edmund B. Jenks*	Republican
	2nd	Forman E. Whitcomb*	Republican	Chairman of Soldiers' Home
Cattaraugus		Leigh G. Kirkland*	Republican
Cayuga		L. Ford Hager*	Republican	Chairman of Internal Affairs
Chautauqua	1st	Judson S. Wright*	Republican
	2nd	Joseph A. McGinnies*	Republican	Chairman of Ways and Means
Chemung		John J. Richford*	Republican	Chairman of General Laws
Chenango		Charles L. Banks	Republican
Clinton		Charles M. Harrington*	Republican
Columbia		Roscoe C. Waterbury	Republican
Cortland		Irving F. Rice*	Republican	Chairman of Revision
Delaware		Lincoln R. Long*	Republican	Chairman of Excise
Dutchess	1st	J. Griswold Webb*	Republican	Chairman of Charitable and Religious Societies
	2nd	John M. Hackett	Republican
Erie	1st	William J. Hickey	Republican
	2nd	John W. Slacer*	Republican
	3rd	August Seelbach*	Republican
	4th	Andrew T. Beasley*	Democrat
	5th	Alexander A. Patrzykowski	Dem./Rep./Proh.
	6th	George H. Rowe*	Republican	Chairman of Judiciary
	7th	Herbert A. Zimmerman*	Republican	Chairman of Canals
	8th	Nelson W. Cheney*	Republican	Chairman of Banks
Essex		Fred L. Porter*	Republican
Franklin		Anson H. Ellsworth*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		Eberly Hutchinson*	Republican	Chairman of Insurance
Genesee		Charles P. Miller*	Republican	Chairman of Labor and Industries
Greene		George W. Osborn	Republican
Herkimer		Frederic S. Cole	Republican
Jefferson		H. Edmund Machold*	Republican	re-elected Speaker; Chairman of Rules
Kings	1st	Francis J. Cronin	Democrat
	2nd	Edmund H. Alexander	Republican
	3rd	Frank J. Taylor*	Democrat
	4th	Peter A. McArdle*	Democrat
	5th	James H. Caulfield Jr.*	Republican	Chairman of Commerce and Navigation
	6th	John R. Crews*	Republican
	7th	John J. Howard	Democrat
	8th	Michael J. Reilly*	Democrat
	9th	Richard J. Tonry	Democrat
	10th	Bernard F. Gray	Democrat
	11th	James F. Bly*	Republican	Chairman of Social Welfare
	12th	Marcellus H. Evans	Democrat
	13th	John J. Wackerman*	Democrat
	14th	Andrew B. Yacenda	Democrat
	15th	John J. McLoughlin*	Democrat
	16th	Philip M. Kleinfeld	Democrat
	17th	Frederick A. Wells*	Republican	Chairman of Military Affairs
	18th	Irwin Steingut	Democrat
	19th	Charles L. Fasullo	Democrat
	20th	Frank A. Miller	Democrat
	21st	Walter F. Clayton*	Republican
	22nd	Howard C. Franklin	Democrat
	23rd	Joseph F. Ricca	Rep./Dem.
Lewis		Miller B. Moran*	Republican
Livingston		Lewis G. Stapley	Republican
Madison		J. Arthur Brooks*	Republican
Monroe	1st	James A. Harris*	Republican	Chairman of Public Education
	2nd	Simon L. Adler*	Republican	Majority Leader
	3rd	Vincent B. Murphy	Republican
	4th	Gilbert L. Lewis*	Republican
	5th	Franklin W. Judson*	Republican	Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment
Montgomery		Samuel W. McCleary*	Republican
Nassau	1st	Thomas A. McWhinney*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Villages
	2nd	F. Trubee Davison	Republican
New York	1st	Peter J. Hamill*	Democrat
	2nd	Frank R. Galgano*	Democrat
	3rd	Thomas F. Burchill*	Democrat
	4th	Samuel Dickstein*	Democrat	on November 7, 1922, elected to the 68th U.S. Congress
	5th	Charles D. Donohue*	Democrat	Minority Leader
	6th	Sol Ullman*	Republican
	7th	Victor R. Kaufmann	Republican
	8th	Henry O. Kahan	Democrat
	9th	Edward R. Rayher*	Republican
	10th	Bernard Aronson*	Republican
	11th	Samuel I. Rosenman	Democrat
	12th	John J. O'Connor*	Democrat
	13th	John P. Nugent	Democrat
	14th	Frederick L. Hackenburg*	Democrat
	15th	Joseph Steinberg*	Republican	Chairman of Claims
	16th	Maurice Bloch*	Democrat
	17th	Murray Felenstein	Democrat	contested; seat vacated on February 27[6]
		August Claessens	Socialist	seated on February 28
	18th	Owen M. Kiernan*	Democrat
	19th	James Male	Democrat
	20th	Louis A. Cuvillier	Democrat
	21st	Horace W. Palmer	Republican
	22nd	Michael E. Reiburn*	Democrat
	23rd	George N. Jesse*	Republican
Niagara	1st	David E. Jeffery*	Republican
	2nd	Frank S. Hall	Republican
Oneida	1st	Hartwell W. Booth*	Republican
	2nd	Russell G. Dunmore	Republican
	3rd	Chauncey J. Williams*	Republican
Onondaga	1st	Manuel J. Soule*	Republican	Chairman of Penal Institutions
	2nd	Gardner J. Chamberlin*	Republican
	3rd	Thomas K. Smith*	Republican
Ontario		Charles C. Sackett*	Republican
Orange	1st	Arthur E. Brundage*	Republican
	2nd	George R. Farrell	Republican
Orleans		Frank H. Lattin*	Republican	Chairman of Public Health
Oswego		Ezra A. Barnes*	Republican
Otsego		Julian C. Smith*	Republican
Putnam		John R. Yale*	Republican	Chairman of Railroads
Queens	1st	Peter A. Leininger*	Democrat
	2nd	Owen J. Dever	Democrat
	3rd	Joseph V. Loscalzo	Democrat
	4th	Joseph H. S. Thomas	Democrat
	5th	William F. Brunner	Democrat
	6th	Joseph E. Cosgrove	Democrat
Rensselaer	1st	John F. Rourke	Democrat
	2nd	Arthur Cowee*	Republican
Richmond	1st	Thomas F. Cosgrove*	Democrat
	2nd	William L. Vaughan	Democrat
Rockland		Pierre H. DePew	Republican
St. Lawrence	1st	William A. Laidlaw	Republican
	2nd	Edward A. Everett*	Republican	Chairman of Conservation
Saratoga		Burton D. Esmond	Republican
Schenectady	1st	Charles T. Male	Republican
	2nd	William W. Campbell*	Republican
Schoharie		Wallace H. Sidney	Democrat
Schuyler		Clarence W. Hausner*	Republican
Seneca		George A. Dobson*	Republican
Steuben	1st	Ernest E. Cole*	Republican	Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills
	2nd	Leon F. Wheatley	Republican
Suffolk	1st	John G. Peck	Republican
	2nd	Paul N. Westerbeke	Republican
Sullivan		Guernsey T. Cross	Democrat
Tioga		Daniel P. Witter*	Republican	Chairman of Agriculture
Tompkins		Casper Fenner*	Republican	Chairman of Electricity, Gas and Water Supply
Ulster		Simon B. Van Wagenen*	Republican
Warren		Milton N. Eldridge	Republican
Washington		Herbert A. Bartholomew*	Republican
Wayne		Charles H. Betts*	Republican	Chairman of Public Printing
Westchester	1st	Thomas Channing Moore*	Republican
	2nd	Walter W. Westall*	Republican
	3rd	Seabury C. Mastick*	Republican
	4th	Russell B. Livermore	Republican
	5th	George Blakely*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Cities
Wyoming		Webb A. Joiner	Republican
Yates		James M. Lown*	Republican

Employees

• Clerk: Fred W. Hammond
• Postmaster: James H. Underwood^[7]

Notes

1. LEGISLATURE GETS COAL BILL in NYT on August 29, 1922
2. WOODIN AND HYLAN AGREE ON COAL PLAN in NYT on September 8, 1922
3. GOETHALS BECOMES STATE FUEL HEAD WITH BROAD POWERS in NYT on January 10, 1923 (subscription required)
4. ENDS COAL DISTRIBUTION in NYT on March 28, 1923 (subscription required)
5. "Geo M. Reischmann, State Senator, Dies". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. New York, N.Y. February 7, 1922. p. 3 – via Brooklyn Public Library: Historical Newspapers.
6. ASSEMBLY VOTES TO SEAT CLAESSENS in NYT on February 28, 1922
7. Malcolm, James (1922). The New York Red Book. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 148 – via Google Books.

Sources

• CITIZENS UNION GIVES LINE ON CANDIDATES in NYT on October 26, 1921
• Journal of the Assembly (145th Session) (1922; Vol. II; from March 1 to 14)
• ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES in The Troy Times, of Troy, on January 10, 1922
• Members of the New York Assembly (1920s) at Political Graveyard