149th New York State Legislature

149th New York State Legislature
149th 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, 1926
Senate
Members	51
President	Lt. Gov. Seymour Lowman (R)
Temporary President	John Knight (R)
Party control	Republican (29–22)
Assembly
Members	150
Speaker	Joseph A. McGinnies (R)
Party control	Republican (91–59)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 6 – April 23, 1926

The 149th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 6 to April 23, 1926, during the fourth year of Al Smith's second tenure as Governor of New York, in Albany.

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.

Elections[]

The New York state election, 1925, was held on November 3. No statewide elective offices were up for election.

Assemblywoman Rhoda Fox Graves (Rep.), of Gouverneur, a former school teacher who after her marriage became active in women's organisations and politics, was re-elected, and remained the only woman legislator.

Sessions[]

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 6, 1926; and adjourned on April 23.^[1]

Joseph A. McGinnies (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker.

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	on November 2, 1926, elected Register of Queens Co.
4th	Philip M. Kleinfeld*	Democrat
5th	Daniel F. Farrell*	Democrat
6th	James A. Higgins*	Democrat
7th	John A. Hastings*	Democrat
8th	William L. Love*	Democrat
9th	vacant	was elected on November 3, 1925, to the Municipal Court
9th	Charles E. Russell	Democrat	elected on January 7 to fill vacancy^[2]
10th	Jeremiah F. Twomey*	Democrat
11th	Daniel J. Carroll*	Democrat
12th	vacant	Jimmy Walker was elected on November 3, 1925, as Mayor of New York City
12th	Elmer F. Quinn	Democrat	elected on January 7 to fill vacancy^[3]
13th	Thomas F. Burchill*	Democrat
14th	Bernard Downing*	Democrat	Minority Leader
15th	Nathan Straus, Jr.*	Democrat
16th	Thomas I. Sheridan*	Democrat
17th	Courtlandt Nicoll*	Republican
18th	Martin J. Kennedy*	Democrat
19th	Duncan T. O'Brien*	Democrat
20th	Michael E. Reiburn*	Democrat
21st	Henry G. Schackno*	Democrat
22nd	Benjamin Antin*	Democrat
23rd	John J. Dunnigan*	Democrat
24th	Thomas J. Walsh*	Democrat
25th	Walter W. Westall*	Republican
26th	Seabury C. Mastick*	Republican
27th	Caleb H. Baumes*	Republican
28th	J. Griswold Webb*	Republican
29th	Arthur F. Bouton*	Republican
30th	William T. Byrne*	Democrat
31st	John F. Williams*	Republican
32nd	Thomas C. Brown*	Republican
33rd	Mortimer Y. Ferris*	Rep./Dem.
34th	Warren T. Thayer*	Republican
35th	Jeremiah Keck*	Republican
36th	Henry D. Williams*	Republican
37th	Perley A. Pitcher*	Republican
38th	George R. Fearon*	Republican
39th	Willis Wendell*	Republican
40th	B. Roger Wales*	Republican
41st	James S. Truman*	Republican
42nd	Charles J. Hewitt*	Republican
43rd	Ernest E. Cole*	Rep./Soc.	on July 1, 1926, appointed Counsel to the State Education Dept.
44th	John Knight*	Rep./Dem./Soc.	Temporary President
45th	James L. Whitley*	Republican
46th	Homer E. A. Dick*	Republican
47th	William W. Campbell*	Rep./Dem.
48th	William J. Hickey*	Republican
49th	Leonard R. Lipowicz*	Republican
50th	Leonard W. H. Gibbs*	Republican
51st	Leigh G. Kirkland*	Rep./Soc.

Employees[]

Clerk:
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		Democrat
	2nd	*	Democrat
	3rd	*	Republican
Allegany		*	Republican
Bronx	1st	Nicholas J. Eberhard*	Democrat
	2nd		Democrat
	3rd	Julius S. Berg*	Democrat
	4th		Democrat
	5th	*	Democrat
	6th	Thomas J. McDonald*	Democrat
	7th	*	Democrat
	8th	Joseph E. Kinsley*	Democrat
Broome	1st	Edmund B. Jenks*	Republican	Chairman of Codes
Broome	2nd	Forman E. Whitcomb*	Republican
Cattaraugus		James W. Watson*	Republican
Cayuga		Sanford G. Lyon*	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	*	Republican
Chautauqua	2nd	Joseph A. McGinnies*	Republican	re-elected Speaker
Chemung		Hovey E. Copley*	Republican
Chenango		Bert Lord*	Republican
Clinton			Republican
Columbia			Republican
Cortland		Irving F. Rice*	Republican
Delaware		*	Republican
Dutchess	1st	Howard N. Allen*	Republican
Dutchess	2nd	John M. Hackett*	Republican
Erie	1st	*	Republican
	2nd	*	Republican
	3rd	Frank X. Bernhardt*	Republican
	4th	*	Democrat
	5th	Ansley B. Borkowski*	Republican
	6th	Charles A. Freiberg*	Republican
	7th	Edmund F. Cooke*	Republican
	8th	Nelson W. Cheney*	Republican
Essex		Fred L. Porter*	Republican	Chairman of State Re-Organization
Franklin			Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		Eberly Hutchinson*	Republican	Chairman of Ways and Means
Genesee		*	Republican
Greene		Ellis W. Bentley*	Republican
Herkimer		Theodore L. Rogers*	Republican
Jefferson		Jasper W. Cornaire*	Republican
Kings	1st	*	Democrat
	2nd	Murray Hearn*	Democrat
	3rd	Michael J. Gillen	Democrat
	4th		Democrat
	5th		Democrat
	6th	George Blumberg	Republican
	7th	John J. Howard*	Democrat
	8th	*	Democrat
	9th	Richard J. Tonry*	Democrat
	10th		Democrat
	11th	Edward J. Coughlin*	Democrat
	12th	Marcellus H. Evans*	Democrat
	13th	William Breitenbach*	Democrat
	14th		Democrat
	15th		Democrat
	16th	*	Democrat
	17th	*	Republican
	18th	Irwin Steingut*	Democrat
	19th	Jerome G. Ambro*	Democrat
	20th	Frank A. Miller*	Democrat
	21st		Republican
	22nd	Jacob H. Livingston	Democrat
	23rd	*	Republican
Lewis		Clarence L. Fisher*	Republican
Livingston		Lewis G. Stapley*	Republican
Madison		John W. Gates*	Republican
Monroe	1st	*	Republican
	2nd	Simon L. Adler*	Republican	Majority Leader
	3rd	Cosmo A. Cilano*	Republican
	4th	Fred J. Slater*	Republican
	5th	W. Ray Austin*	Republican
Montgomery		Samuel W. McCleary*	Republican
Nassau	1st	*	Republican
Nassau	2nd	F. Trubee Davison*	Republican	in July 1926, appointed as Asst. Secretary of War for Air
New York	1st	Peter J. Hamill*	Democrat
	2nd	Frank R. Galgano*	Democrat
	3rd	*	Democrat
	4th	Samuel Mandelbaum*	Democrat
	5th	Frank A. Carlin*	Democrat
	6th	Morris Weinfeld*	Democrat
	7th	John L. Buckley*	Democrat
	8th	Henry O. Kahan*	Democrat
	9th	John H. Conroy*	Democrat
	10th	Phelps Phelps*	Republican
	11th	Samuel I. Rosenman*	Democrat
	12th		Democrat
	13th	John P. Nugent*	Democrat
	14th	Frederick L. Hackenburg*	Democrat
	15th	Samuel H. Hofstadter*	Republican
	16th	Maurice Bloch*	Democrat	Minority Leader
	17th	Meyer Alterman*	Democrat
	18th		Democrat
	19th	Abraham Grenthal	Republican
	20th	Louis A. Cuvillier*	Democrat
	21st		Democrat
	22nd	Joseph A. Gavagan*	Democrat
	23rd	A. Spencer Feld*	Democrat
Niagara	1st	Mark T. Lambert*	Republican
Niagara	2nd	Frank S. Hall*	Republican
Oneida	1st	Gordon C. Ferguson*	Republican
	2nd	Russell G. Dunmore*	Republican
	3rd	George J. Skinner*	Republican
Onondaga	1st	Horace M. Stone*	Republican	Chairman of Re-Apportionment
	2nd	*	Republican
	3rd	Richard B. Smith*	Republican
Ontario		Robert A. Catchpole*	Republican
Orange	1st	DeWitt C. Dominick*	Republican
Orange	2nd		Republican
Orleans		Frank H. Lattin*	Republican
Oswego		Victor C. Lewis*	Republican
Otsego		*	Republican
Putnam		D. Mallory Stephens	Republican
Queens	1st	*	Democrat
	2nd		Democrat
	3rd	Alfred J. Kennedy*	Democrat
	4th		Democrat
	5th	William F. Brunner*	Democrat
	6th		Democrat
Rensselaer	1st		Republican
Rensselaer	2nd	William D. Thomas*	Republican	on November 2, 1926, elected Treasurer of Rensselaer Co.
Richmond	1st	*	Democrat
Richmond	2nd	*	Democrat
Rockland		Walter S. Gedney*	Republican
St. Lawrence	1st	Rhoda Fox Graves*	Republican	Chairwoman of Public Institutions
St. Lawrence	2nd	Walter L. Pratt*	Republican
Saratoga		Burton D. Esmond*	Republican
Schenectady	1st	Charles W. Merriam*	Republican
Schenectady	2nd	William M. Nicoll*	Republican
Schoharie		Kenneth H. Fake*	Republican
Schuyler			Republican
Seneca		William H. Van Cleef*	Republican
Steuben	1st	Wilson Messer*	Republican
Steuben	2nd	Leon F. Wheatley*	Republican
Suffolk	1st	John G. Downs*	Republican
Suffolk	2nd	John Boyle, Jr.*	Republican
Sullivan		J. Maxwell Knapp*	Republican
Tioga		Daniel P. Witter*	Republican
Tompkins		*	Republican
Ulster		Millard Davis*	Republican
Warren		Richard J. Bolton*	Republican
Washington		Herbert A. Bartholomew*	Republican
Wayne		Harry A. Tellier*	Republican
Westchester	1st	Thomas Channing Moore*	Republican
	2nd	Herbert B. Shonk*	Republican
	3rd	*	Republican
	4th	Alexander H. Garnjost*	Republican
	5th		Democrat
Wyoming		*	Republican
Yates			Republican

Employees[]

Clerk: Fred W. Hammond

Notes[]

^ Governor Takes Ten-Day Rest in NYT on April 25, 1926 (subscription required)
^ SPECIAL ELECTION WON BY DEMOCRATS; C. E. Russell Chosen to Fill Seat of Justice Johnson in NYT on January 8, 1926 (subscription required)
^ SPECIAL ELECTION WON BY DEMOCRATS; Elmer F. Quinn to Succeed Walker in NYT on January 8, 1926 (subscription required)

Sources[]

Members of the New York Senate (1920s) at Political Graveyard
Members of the New York Assembly (1920s) at Political Graveyard
1926 COMMITTEE MEMBERS NAMED in The Cornell Daily Sun on January 12, 1926

[1] Governor Takes Ten-Day Rest in NYT on April 25, 1926 (subscription required)

[2] SPECIAL ELECTION WON BY DEMOCRATS; C. E. Russell Chosen to Fill Seat of Justice Johnson in NYT on January 8, 1926 (subscription required)

[3] SPECIAL ELECTION WON BY DEMOCRATS; Elmer F. Quinn to Succeed Walker in NYT on January 8, 1926 (subscription required)

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