125th New York State Legislature
125th New York State Legislature | |||
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Duration: January 1 – December 31, 1902 | |||
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President of the State Senate: | Lt. Gov. Timothy L. Woodruff (R) | ||
Temporary President of the State Senate: | Timothy E. Ellsworth (R) | ||
Speaker of the State Assembly: | S. Frederick Nixon (R) | ||
Members: | 50 Senators 150 Assemblymen |
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Senate Majority: | Republican (35-15) | ||
Assembly Majority: | Republican (106-42–2) | ||
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1st: January 1 – March 27, 1902 | |||
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The 125th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 1 to March 27, 1902, during the second year of Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.'s governorship, in Albany.
Contents
Background
Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1894, 50 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 were made up of entire counties, except New York County (twelve districts), Kings County (seven districts), Erie County (three districts) and Monroe County (two districts). 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, 1901, was held on November 5. No statewide elective offices were up for election.
Sessions
The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 1, 1902; and adjourned on March 27.
S. Frederick Nixon (R) was re-elected Speaker.
State Senate
Districts
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Note: In 1897, New York County (the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx), Kings County (the borough of Brooklyn), Richmond County (the borough of Staten Island) and the Western part of Queens County (the borough of Queens) were consolidated into the present-day City of New York. The Eastern part of Queens County (the non-consolidated part) was separated in 1899 as Nassau County. Parts of the 1st and 2nd Assembly districts of Westchester County were annexed by New York City in 1895, and became part of the Borough of the Bronx in 1898.
Members
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Merton E. Lewis changed from the Assembly to the Senate.
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
District | Senator | Party | Notes |
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1st | William M. McKinney* | Republican | |
2nd | William W. Cocks* | Republican | |
3rd | Thomas H. Cullen* | Democrat | |
4th | Arthur J. Audett* | Republican | Chairman of Public Health |
5th | James H. McCabe* | Democrat | |
6th | Rudolph C. Fuller* | Republican | Chairman of Revision |
7th | Patrick H. McCarren* | Democrat | |
8th | Henry Marshall* | Republican | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills |
9th | Joseph Wagner* | Democrat | |
10th | John F. Ahearn* | Democrat | |
11th | Timothy D. Sullivan* | Democrat | on November 4, 1902, elected to the 58th U.S. Congress |
12th | Samuel J. Foley* | Democrat | |
13th | Bernard F. Martin* | Democrat | |
14th | Thomas F. Grady* | Democrat | Minority Leader |
15th | Nathaniel A. Elsberg* | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation |
16th | Patrick F. Trainor* | Democrat | died on December 25, 1902 |
17th | George W. Plunkitt* | Democrat | |
18th | Victor J. Dowling* | Democrat | |
19th | Samuel S. Slater* | Republican | Chairman of Trades and Manufactures |
20th | Thomas F. Donnelly* | Democrat | |
21st | Joseph P. Hennessy* | Democrat | |
22nd | Isaac N. Mills* | Republican | |
23rd | Louis F. Goodsell* | Republican | Chairman of Miscellaneous Corporations |
24th | Henry S. Ambler* | Republican | Chairman of Agriculture |
25th | William S. C. Wiley* | Republican | |
26th | William L. Thornton* | Republican | Chairman of Privileges and Elections |
27th | Hobart Krum* | Republican | Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment |
28th | Edgar T. Brackett* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary |
29th | James B. McEwan* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Villages |
30th | William D. Barnes | Republican | elected to fill vacancy, in place of Michael Russell; Chairman of Indian Affairs |
31st | Spencer G. Prime* | Republican | |
32nd | George R. Malby* | Republican | Chairman of Insurance |
33rd | James D. Feeter* | Republican | Chairman of Internal Affairs of Towns and Counties |
34th | Garry A. Willard* | Republican | |
35th | Elon R. Brown* | Republican | Chairman of Forest, Fish and Game Laws |
36th | Horace White* | Republican | Chairman of Codes |
37th | Nevada N. Stranahan* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Cities; seat vacated on April 3, upon taking office as Collector of the Port of New York |
38th | George E. Green* | Republican | |
39th | Benjamin M. Wilcox* | Republican | Chairman of Penal Institutions |
40th | Edwin C. Stewart* | Republican | |
41st | Franklin D. Sherwood* | Republican | Chairman of Public Printing |
42nd | John Raines* | Republican | Chairman of Railroads |
43rd | Merton E. Lewis* | Republican | elected to fill vacancy, in place of Cornelius R. Parsons; Chairman of Public Education |
44th | William W. Armstrong* | Republican | Chairman of Roads and Bridges |
45th | Timothy E. Ellsworth* | Republican | President pro tempore; Chairman of Rules |
46th | Lester H. Humphrey* | Republican | Chairman of Banks; died on March 17, 1902 |
47th | Henry W. Hill* | Republican | Chairman of Military Affairs |
48th | Samuel J. Ramsperger* | Democrat | |
49th | George Allen Davis* | Republican | Chairman of Canals |
50th | Frank W. Higgins* | Republican | Chairman of Finance; on November 4, 1902, elected Lieutenant Governor |
Employees
- Clerk: James S. Whipple
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Charles R. Hotaling
- Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: William W. Adams
- Doorkeeper: John E. Gorss
- First Assistant Doorkeeper: R. C. Duell
- Stenographer: A. B. Sackett
- Assistant Clerk: Lafayette B. Gleason
- Journal Clerk: Ernest A. Fay
- Index Clerk: A. Miner Wellman
- Clerk of the Finance Committee: Girvease A. Matteson
State Assembly
Assemblymen
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes | |
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Albany | 1st | William L. Coughtry* | Republican | Chairman of Insurance |
2nd | Abram S. Coon* | Republican | ||
3rd | Robert J. Higgins | Ind. Dem. | ||
4th | Thomas G. Ross* | Republican | ||
Allegany | Jesse S. Phillips* | Republican | ||
Broome | 1st | James T. Rogers* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary |
2nd | Fred E. Allen | Republican | ||
Cattaraugus | 1st | Myron E. Fisher* | Republican | Chairman of Public Health |
2nd | Albert T. Fancher* | Republican | Chairman of Indian Affairs | |
Cayuga | 1st | Ernest G. Treat* | Republican | |
2nd | Charles J. Hewitt | Republican | ||
Chautauqua | 1st | J. Samuel Fowler* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Villages |
2nd | S. Frederick Nixon* | Republican | re-elected Speaker; Chairman of Rules | |
Chemung | Charles H. Knipp* | Republican | Chairman of Excise | |
Chenango | Jotham P. Allds* | Republican | Majority Leader; Chairman of Ways and Means | |
Clinton | John F. O'Brien* | Republican | on November 4, 1902, elected Secretary of State | |
Columbia | Elbert Payne | Republican | ||
Cortland | Henry A. Dickinson* | Republican | ||
Delaware | James R. Cowan | Republican | ||
Dutchess | 1st | John T. Smith* | Republican | Chairman of Banks |
2nd | Francis G. Landon* | Republican | ||
Erie | 1st | John H. Bradley* | Democrat | |
2nd | Edward R. O'Malley* | Republican | ||
3rd | Anthony F. Burke | Democrat | ||
4th | William Schneider* | Republican | ||
5th | Charles F. Brooks* | Republican | ||
6th | George Ruehl* | Republican | ||
7th | John K. Patton* | Republican | Chairman of Charitable and Religious Societies | |
8th | Elijah Cook* | Republican | Chairman of Privileges and Elections | |
Essex | James M. Graeff* | Republican | Chairman of Agriculture | |
Franklin | Halbert D. Stevens* | Republican | ||
Fulton and Hamilton | Clarence W. Smith | Republican | ||
Genesee | S. Percy Hooker | Republican | ||
Greene | William W. Rider* | Democrat | ||
Herkimer | Samuel M. Allston* | Republican | ||
Jefferson | 1st | Lewis W. Day | Democrat | |
2nd | James A. Outterson | Republican | ||
Kings | 1st | John Hill Morgan* | Republican | Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment |
2nd | John McKeown* | Democrat | ||
3rd | James J. McInerney* | Democrat | ||
4th | Charles H. Cotton* | Republican | Chairman of Military Affairs | |
5th | George Langhorst | Republican | ||
6th | Simon Ash | Republican | ||
7th | Peter J. Lally | Democrat | ||
8th | John C. L. Daly* | Democrat | ||
9th | William P. Fitzpatrick* | Democrat | ||
10th | John Rainey* | Republican | ||
11th | Waldo R. Blackwell* | Republican | ||
12th | Howard L. Woody | Republican | ||
13th | James M. Manee | Republican | ||
14th | John B. Ferre | Democrat | ||
15th | Harry H. Dale | Democrat | ||
16th | Gustavus C. Weber* | Republican | ||
17th | Harris Wilson* | Republican | Chairman of Claims | |
18th | Jacob D. Remsen* | Republican | ||
19th | John Wolf | Democrat | ||
20th | William H. Pendry | Republican | ||
21st | Joseph H. Adams* | Republican | Chairman of Federal Relations | |
Lewis | Lewis H. Stiles | Republican | ||
Livingston | Otto Kelsey* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Cities | |
Madison | Avery M. Hoadley | Republican | ||
Monroe | 1st | Martin Davis | Republican | |
2nd | George H. Smith | Republican | ||
3rd | Richard Gardiner* | Republican | Chairman of Revision | |
4th | Isaac W. Salyerds* | Republican | ||
Montgomery | John W. Candee | Republican | ||
New York | 1st | Thomas F. Baldwin | Democrat | |
2nd | Joseph P. Bourke | Democrat | ||
3rd | Anthony J. Barrett | Democrat | ||
4th | William H. Burns* | Democrat | ||
5th | Edward R. Finch | Republican | ||
6th | Harry E. Oxford | Democrat | ||
7th | James E. Duross* | Democrat | ||
8th | Charles S. Adler* | Republican | Chairman of Trades and Manufactures | |
9th | James A. Allen | Republican | ||
10th | John F. McCullough | Democrat | ||
11th | Clarence McAdam | Democrat | ||
12th | Leon Sanders* | Democrat | ||
13th | Richard S. Reilley* | Democrat | ||
14th | Henry W. Doll | Democrat | ||
15th | James E. Smith* | Democrat | ||
16th | Samuel Prince* | Democrat | ||
17th | James J. Fitzgerald* | Democrat | ||
18th | George P. Richter* | Democrat | ||
19th | Julius H. Seymour* | Republican | ||
20th | John H. Fitzpatrick | Democrat | ||
21st | William S. Bennet* | Republican | ||
22nd | William F. Meeks | Democrat | ||
23rd | Josiah T. Newcomb | Republican | ||
24th | Leo P. Ulmann* | Democrat | ||
25th | John A. Weekes, Jr.* | Republican | Chairman of Codes | |
26th | Myron Sulzberger | Democrat | ||
27th | Gherardi Davis* | Republican | Chairman of Public Lands and Forestry | |
28th | John T. Dooling* | Democrat | ||
29th | Bainbridge Colby | Republican | ||
30th | Gotthardt A. Litthauer | Democrat | ||
31st | Arthur L. Sherer* | Republican | ||
32nd | Matthew F. Neville | Democrat | ||
33rd | John J. Egan* | Democrat | ||
34th | John J. Scanlon* | Democrat | ||
35th | Franklin Grady | Ind. Dem. | ||
Niagara | 1st | John T. Darrison* | Republican | Chairman of Public Printing |
2nd | John H. Leggett* | Republican | ||
Oneida | 1st | Michael J. McQuade* | Republican | |
2nd | Fred J. Brill* | Republican | ||
3rd | Edward M. Marson* | Republican | Chairman of Fisheries and Game | |
Onondaga | 1st | James F. Williams | Republican | |
2nd | Frederick D. Traub* | Republican | ||
3rd | Martin L. Cadin* | Republican | ||
4th | Fred W. Hammond* | Republican | ||
Ontario | Jean L. Burnett* | Republican | Chairman of General Laws | |
Orange | 1st | John Orr* | Republican | |
2nd | Louis Bedell* | Republican | Chairman of Railroads | |
Orleans | William W. Phipps* | Republican | ||
Oswego | 1st | Thomas D. Lewis* | Republican | Chairman of Canals |
2nd | Thomas M. Costello* | Republican | Chairman of Labor and Industries | |
Otsego | John B. Conkling | Republican | ||
Putnam | John R. Yale | Republican | ||
Queens | 1st | Luke A. Keenan* | Democrat | |
2nd | Francis X. Duer | Democrat | ||
Queens and Nassau | George W. Doughty* | Republican | Chairman of Internal Affairs | |
Rensselaer | 1st | John M. Chambers | Republican | |
2nd | John F. Ahearn* | Republican | Chairman of Public Institutions | |
3rd | Charles W. Reynolds* | Republican | ||
Richmond | Ferdinand C. Townsend | Republican | ||
Rockland | George Dickey* | Democrat | ||
St. Lawrence | 1st | Charles S. Plank* | Republican | Chairman of State Prisons |
2nd | Edwin A. Merritt, Jr. | Republican | ||
Saratoga | William K. Mansfield* | Republican | ||
Schenectady | Andrew J. McMillan* | Republican | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills | |
Schoharie | George M. Palmer | Democrat | Minority Leader | |
Schuyler | Olin T. Nye* | Republican | ||
Seneca | Daniel W. Moran | Republican | ||
Steuben | 1st | Frank C. Platt* | Republican | Chairman of Soldiers' Home |
2nd | Gordon M. Patchin | Republican | ||
Suffolk | 1st | Willis A. Reeve | Republican | |
2nd | George A. Robinson* | Republican | ||
Sullivan | Edwin R. Dusinbery* | Republican | Chairman of Unfinished Business | |
Tioga | Edwin S. Hanford* | Republican | ||
Tompkins | George E. Monroe | Republican | ||
Ulster | 1st | Robert A. Snyder* | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation |
2nd | Sands Haviland | Republican | ||
Warren | James L. Fuller | Republican | ||
Washington | William H. Hughes | Republican | ||
Wayne | Frederick W. Griffith* | Republican | Chairman of Public Education | |
Westchester | 1st | John J. Sloane | Democrat | |
2nd | J. Mayhew Wainwright | Republican | ||
3rd | James K. Apgar* | Republican | Chairman of Electricity, Gas and Water Supply | |
Wyoming | Henry J. McNair | Republican | ||
Yates | Ernest R. Bordwell | Democrat |
Employees
- Clerk: Archie E. Baxter
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Frank J. Johnston
- Doorkeeper: Jacob Kemple
- First Assistant Doorkeeper: Andrew Kehn
- Second Assistant Doorkeeper: Charles C. Gray
- Stenographer: Henry C. Lammert
- Assistant Clerk: Ray B. Smith
- Chief of the Engrossing Department: Charles H. Betts
Notes
Sources
- The New York Red Book by Edgar L. Murlin (J. B. Lyon Co., Albany NY; 1902; see pg. 55–96 for senators' bios; between pg. 80 and 81 for senators' portraits; pg. 97–182 for assemblymen's bios; between pg. 112 and 113 for assemblymen's portraits; pg. 546 for senators; pg. 570ff for senate and assemblymen's committees; and pg. 575–578 for assemblymen)
- Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; see pg. 345f for assemblymen; and 364 for senators)
- Laws of the State of New York (125th Session) (1902)
- REPUBLICAN INCREASE IN THE ASSEMBLY; ...Republicans Elect ... Senators in the Thirtieth and Forty-third Districts to Fill Vacancies in NYT on November 6, 1901
- ASSEMBLYMEN ELECTED in NYT on November 6, 1901
- LEGISLATIVE CAUCUSES ARE HELD AT ALBANY in NYT on January 1, 1902
- OPENING DAY OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE in NYT on January 2, 1902