113th New York State Legislature

113th New York State Legislature
113th New York State Legislature
	New York State Capitol (2009)
Overview
Legislative body	New York State Legislature
Jurisdiction	New York, United States
Term	January 1 – December 31, 1890
Senate
Members	32
President	Lt. Gov. Edward F. Jones (D)
Temporary President	Jacob Sloat Fassett (R)
Party control	Republican (19-13)
Assembly
Members	128
Speaker	James W. Husted (R)
Party control	Republican (71-57)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 7 – May 9, 1890

The 113th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 7 to May 9, 1890, during the sixth year of David B. Hill's governorship, in Albany.

Background[]

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 (seven districts) and Kings County (three 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 Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In New York City, the Democrats were split into two factions: Tammany Hall and the "". The Prohibition Party and the Greenback Party also nominated state tickets.

Elections[]

The New York state election, 1889 was held on November 5. All six statewide elective office up for election was carried by the Democrats. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Secretary of State, was: Democrats 506,000; Republicans 485,000; Prohibition 27,000; and Greenback 1,000.

Sessions[]

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 7, 1890; and adjourned on May 9.

James W. Husted (R) was again elected Speaker, against William F. Sheehan (D).

Jacob Sloat Fassett (R) was re-elected President pro tempore of the State Senate.

State Senate[]

Districts[]

1st District: Queens and Suffolk counties
2nd District: 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th and 22nd Ward of the City of Brooklyn, and the towns of Flatbush, Gravesend and New Utrecht in Kings County
3rd District: 3rd, 4th, 7th, 11th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 23rd Ward of the City of Brooklyn
4th District: 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 24th and 25th Ward of the City of Brooklyn, and the towns of New Lots and Flatlands in Kings County
5th District: Richmond County and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 14th and parts of the 4th and 9th Ward of New York City
6th District: 7th, 11th, 13th and part of the 4th Ward of NYC
7th District: 10th, 17th and part of the 15th, 18th and 21st Ward of NYC
8th District: 16th and part of the 9th, 15th, 18th, 20th and 21st Ward of NYC
9th District: Part of the 18th, 19th and 21st Ward of NYC
10th District: Part of the 12th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd Ward of NYC
11th District: 23rd and 24th, and part of the 12th, 20th and 22nd Ward of NYC
12th District: Rockland and Westchester counties
13th District: Orange and Sullivan counties
14th District: Greene, Schoharie and Ulster counties
15th District: Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam counties
16th District: Rensselaer and Washington counties
17th District: Albany County
18th District: Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga and Schenectady counties
19th District: Clinton, Essex and Warren counties
20th District: Franklin, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties
21st District: Oswego and Jefferson counties
22nd District: Oneida County
23rd District: Herkimer, Madison and Otsego counties
24th District: Chenango, Delaware and Broome counties
25th District: Onondaga and Cortland counties
26th District: Cayuga, Seneca, Tompkins and Tioga counties
27th District: Allegany, Chemung and Steuben counties
28th District: Ontario, Schuyler, Wayne and Yates counties
29th District: Monroe and Orleans counties
30th District: Genesee, Livingston, Niagara and Wyoming counties
31st District: Erie County
32nd District: Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties

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.

Members[]

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Patrick H. McCarren, George F. Roesch, Harvey J. Donaldson, Charles T. Saxton and Greenleaf S. Van Gorder changed from the Assembly to the Senate.

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	Edward Hawkins	Democrat
2nd	John C. Jacobs	Democrat
3rd	James W. Birkett	Republican
4th	Patrick H. McCarren*	Democrat
5th	William L. Brown	Tammany Dem.
6th	John F. Ahearn	County Dem.
7th	George F. Roesch*	Tammany Dem.
8th	Lispenard Stewart	Republican
9th	Charles A. Stadler*	Tammany Dem.	re-elected
10th	Jacob A. Cantor*	Tammany Dem.	re-elected
11th	Eugene S. Ives*	Tammany Dem.	re-elected
12th	William H. Robertson*	Republican	re-elected
13th	William P. Richardson	Republican
14th	John J. Linson*	Democrat	re-elected
15th	Gilbert A. Deane*	Republican	re-elected
16th	Michael F. Collins*	Democrat	re-elected; contested by (R)
17th	Norton Chase	Democrat	contested by George H. Treadwell (R)
18th	Harvey J. Donaldson*	Republican
19th	Louis W. Emerson	Republican
20th	George Z. Erwin*	Republican	re-elected
21st	George B. Sloan*	Republican	re-elected
22nd	Henry J. Coggeshall*	Republican	re-elected
23rd	Titus Sheard	Republican
24th	Edmund O'Connor	Republican
25th	Francis Hendricks*	Republican	re-elected
26th	Thomas Hunter	Republican
27th	J. Sloat Fassett*	Republican	re-elected; re-elected President pro tempore
28th	Charles T. Saxton*	Republican
29th	Donald McNaughton*	Democrat	re-elected
30th	Greenleaf S. Van Gorder*	Republican
31st	John Laughlin*	Republican	re-elected
32nd	Commodore P. Vedder*	Republican	re-elected

Employees[]

Clerk: John S. Kenyon
Sergeant-at-Arms: Charles V. Schram
Doorkeeper: Edward R. Gibbons
Stenographer: George H. Thornton

State Assembly[]

Assemblymen[]

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	Michael J. Nolan	Democrat
	2nd		Republican
	3rd	Galen R. Hitt*	Democrat
	4th		Democrat	contested; seat vacated
	4th		Republican	seated on April 15
Allegany			Republican
Broome		Israel T. Deyo	Republican
Cattaraugus	1st	Burton B. Lewis	Republican
Cattaraugus	2nd	James S. Whipple*	Republican
Cayuga	1st	George W. Dickinson	Republican
Cayuga	2nd	*	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	S. Frederick Nixon*	Republican
Chautauqua	2nd	*	Republican
Chemung		Robert P. Bush*	Democrat
Chenango		*	Republican
Clinton		Alfred Guibord	Republican
Columbia		Aaron B. Gardenier	Republican
Cortland		Rufus T. Peck*	Republican
Delaware		James Ballantine	Republican
Dutchess	1st	Willard H. Mase*	Republican
Dutchess	2nd	Johnston de Peyster*	Republican
Erie	1st	William F. Sheehan*	Democrat	Minority Leader
	2nd	Matthias Endres*	Democrat
	3rd	*	Republican
	4th	Henry H. Guenther*	Democrat
	5th		Republican
Essex		*	Republican
Franklin		William C. Stevens*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		John Christie	Republican
Genesee		Francis T. Miller	Republican
Greene		Omar V. Sage	Democrat
Herkimer		^[2]	Democrat
Jefferson	1st	Henry J. Lane*	Republican
Jefferson	2nd	Isaac Mitchell	Republican
Kings	1st		Democrat
	2nd		Democrat
	3rd	John Cooney	Democrat
	4th	John J. O'Connor	Democrat
	5th	John Kelly*	Democrat
	6th	William E. Shields	Democrat
	7th	*	Democrat
	8th	*	Democrat
	9th		Republican
	10th	Thomas F. Byrnes	Democrat
	11th	George L. Weed	Republican
	12th		Republican
Lewis			Republican
Livingston			Republican
Madison			Republican
Monroe	1st	Frank M. Jones	Republican
	2nd	()	Democrat	did not take his seat; death announced on January 15
	2nd			elected to fill vacancy; seated on February 26
	3rd	*	Republican	died on June 5, 1890
Montgomery		John Knox Stewart	Republican
New York	1st	*	Tammany Dem.
	2nd	Timothy D. Sullivan*	Tammany Dem.
	3rd		County Dem.
	4th		County Dem.
	5th	Dominick F. Mullaney*	Tammany Dem.
	6th		County Dem.
	7th	*	Republican
	8th	Philip Wissig	County Dem.
	9th	*	Democrat
	10th	William Sohmer	Tammany Dem.
	11th		Republican
	12th	Moses Dinkelspiel*	County Dem./Rep.
	13th	Frederick S. Gibbs*	Republican
	14th	William Sulzer	Tammany Dem.
	15th	*	Tammany Dem.
	16th		Tammany Dem.
	17th	John Kerrigan*	Democrat
	18th		Tammany Dem.
	19th	*	Tammany Dem.
	20th	^[3]	Tammany Dem.
	21st		Republican
	22nd	Joseph Blumenthal*	Tammany Dem.
	23rd	George P. Webster	Tammany Dem.
	24th	*	Tammany Dem.
Niagara	1st		Democrat
Niagara	2nd	*	Democrat
Oneida	1st		Republican
	2nd		Democrat
	3rd		Republican
Onondaga	1st		Republican
	2nd		Republican
	3rd		Republican
Ontario			Democrat
Orange	1st	John C. Adams*	Republican
Orange	2nd	George W. Greene*	Democrat
Orleans		Wallace L'Hommedieu	Republican
Oswego	1st	Nevada N. Stranahan	Republican
Oswego	2nd	Wilbur H. Selleck	Republican
Otsego	1st		Democrat
Otsego	2nd		Republican
Putnam		Hamilton Fish II	Republican
Queens	1st	Solomon S. Townsend*	Democrat
Queens	2nd		Republican
Rensselaer	1st	James M. Riley	Democrat
	2nd	*	Republican
	3rd		Democrat	contested by James S. Rowley (R)^[4]
Richmond			Democrat
Rockland		Arthur S. Tompkins	Republican
St. Lawrence	1st	N. Martin Curtis*	Republican
	2nd	*	Republican
	3rd		Republican
Saratoga	1st		Republican
Saratoga	2nd	Frank M. Boyce	Democrat
Schenectady			Democrat
Schoharie			Democrat
Schuyler		Charles T. Willis	Republican
Seneca			Democrat
Steuben	1st		Democrat
Steuben	2nd	Milo M. Acker*	Republican	Chairman of Judiciary
Suffolk		James H. Pierson	Republican
Sullivan			Republican
Tioga		*	Republican
Tompkins		Nelson Stevens	Republican
Ulster	1st		Republican
	2nd	Jacob Rice*	Democrat
	3rd	George H. Bush*	Democrat
Warren		*	Republican
Washington	1st	*	Republican
Washington	2nd		Republican
Wayne	1st		Republican
Wayne	2nd	*	Republican
Westchester	1st	J. Irving Burns	Republican
	2nd	*	Republican
	3rd	James W. Husted*	Republican	elected Speaker
Wyoming		I. Sam Johnson	Republican
Yates			Democrat

Employees[]

Clerk: Charles A. Chickering
Sergeant-at-Arms:
Doorkeeper: Homer B. Webb
Stenographer: Isaac H. Smith

Notes[]

^ Except New York City where the wards were apportioned into election districts, and then some whole wards and some election districts of other wards were gerrymandered together into Assembly districts.
^ John Dryden Henderson (born 1846), grandson of assemblymen (in 1827) and (in 1836), nephew of assemblyman (in 1853)
^ Myer J. Stein, brother of assemblyman (in 1877)
^ see ONE ASSEMBLY SEAT TO BE CONTESTED in NYT on November 10, 1889

Sources[]

The New York Red Book compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; see pg. 384f for senate districts; pg. 403 for senators; pg. 410–417 for Assembly districts; and pg. 507f for assemblymen)
Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac (1890)

[1] Except New York City where the wards were apportioned into election districts, and then some whole wards and some election districts of other wards were gerrymandered together into Assembly districts.

[2] John Dryden Henderson (born 1846), grandson of assemblymen (in 1827) and (in 1836), nephew of assemblyman (in 1853)

[3] Myer J. Stein, brother of assemblyman (in 1877)

[4] see ONE ASSEMBLY SEAT TO BE CONTESTED in NYT on November 10, 1889

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