142nd New York State Legislature

142nd 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, 1919
Senate
Members	51
President	Harry C. Walker (D)
Temporary President	J. Henry Walters (R)
Party control	Republican (29–22)
Assembly
Members	150
Speaker	Thaddeus C. Sweet (R)
Party control	Republican ()
Sessions
1st January 1 – , 1919

The 142nd New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 1 to , 1919, during the first year of Al Smith's governorship, 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 were made up of entire counties, except New York County (nine districts), Kings County (eight), Bronx County (three), Erie County (three), Queens County (two) and Monroe County (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, the Prohibition Party and the Socialist Labor Party also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1918, was held on November 5. This was the first election at which women had the right to vote.

Al Smith and Harry C. Walker were elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor, both Democrats. The incumbent Governor Charles S. Whitman ran on the Republican and the Prohibition tickets for re-election, but was defeated by Smith in a tight race, with a plurality of about 15,000 votes out of more than two million.

The other five statewide elective offices up for election were carried by the Republicans. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Democrats 1,010,000; Republicans 956,000; Socialists 122,000; Prohibition 39,000; and Socialist Labor 5,000.

In New York City, where in November 1917 ten Socialists had been elected to the Assembly by pluralities in three-way races, Republicans and Democrats decided to stem the "red flood", and nominated joint candidates in the "Socialist" districts. Thus they managed to outpoll the Socialists in eight of the ten districts; only August Claessens and Charles Solomon polled majorities in their districts.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 1, 1919; and adjourned on .

Thaddeus C. Sweet (R) was re-elected Speaker.

J. Henry Walters (R) was elected President pro tempore of the State Senate.

State Senate

Districts

2

Members

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Peter J. McGarry, Kenneth F. Sutherland, Daniel F. Farrell, Jeremiah F. Twomey and Burt Z. Kasson changed from the Assembly to the Senate.

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

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	George L. Thompson*	Republican	re-elected
2nd	Frank F. Adel	Democrat	resigned his seat and ran unsuccessfully for Municipal Court Judge in the 3rd District of Queens
3rd	Peter J. McGarry*	Democrat
4th	Kenneth F. Sutherland*	Democrat
5th	Daniel F. Farrell*	Democrat
6th	Loring M. Black, Jr.	Democrat
7th	Charles C. Lockwood*	Republican	re-elected
8th	Alvah W. Burlingame, Jr.*	Republican	re-elected
9th	Charles E. Russell	Democrat
10th	Jeremiah F. Twomey*	Democrat
11th	Daniel J. Carroll*	Democrat	re-elected
12th	Jimmy Walker*	Democrat	re-elected
13th	John J. Boylan*	Democrat	re-elected
14th	Bernard Downing*	Democrat	re-elected
15th	Abraham Kaplan	Democrat
16th	James A. Foley*	Democrat	re-elected; Minority Leader; resigned; on November 4, 1919, elected Surrogate of New York Co.
17th	Julius Miller	Democrat
18th	Salvatore A. Cotillo*	Democrat	re-elected
19th	Edward J. Dowling*	Democrat	re-elected
20th	William C. Dodge	Democrat
21st	Henry G. Schackno	Democrat
22nd	Peter A. Abeles	Republican
23rd	John J. Dunnigan*	Democrat	re-elected
24th	John A. Lynch	Democrat
25th	George T. Burling	Republican
26th	Walter W. Law, Jr.	Republican
27th	Caleb H. Baumes	Republican
28th	James E. Towner*	Republican	re-elected
29th	Charles W. Walton*	Republican	re-elected
30th	Henry M. Sage*	Republican	re-elected
31st	John J. Mackrell	Democrat
32nd	James W. Yelverton*	Republican	re-elected
33rd	Mortimer Y. Ferris	Republican
34th	N. Monroe Marshall*	Republican	re-elected
35th	Burt Z. Kasson*	Republican
36th	Frederick M. Davenport	Republican
37th	Fred B. Pitcher	Republican
38th	J. Henry Walters*	Republican	re-elected; elected President pro tempore
39th	Adon P. Brown*	Republican	re-elected
40th	Clayton R. Lusk	Republican
41st	Seymour Lowman	Republican
42nd	Charles J. Hewitt*	Republican	re-elected
43rd	William A. Carson*	Republican	re-elected
44th	John Knight*	Republican	re-elected
45th	James L. Whitley	Republican
46th	John B. Mullan*	Republican	re-elected
47th	George F. Thompson*	Republican	re-elected
48th	Ross Graves*	Republican	re-elected; resigned on December 27, after his election as Commissioner of Finance and Accounts of Buffalo
49th	Samuel J. Ramsperger*	Democrat	re-elected
50th	Leonard W. H. Gibbs*	Republican	re-elected
51st	J. Samuel Fowler*	Republican	re-elected

Employees

• Clerk: Ernest A. Fay
• Sergeant-at-Arms: Charles R. Hotaling
• Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms:
• Principal Doorkeeper:
• First Assistant Doorkeeper:
• Stenographer: John K. Marshall

State Assembly

Employees

• Clerk: Fred W. Hammond
• Sergeant-at-Arms: Harry W. Haines
• Principal Doorkeeper:
• First Assistant Doorkeeper:
• Second Assistant Doorkeeper:
• Stenographer:

Sources

• NOMINEES ANALYZED BY CITIZENS UNION in NYT on October 27, 1918
• THE NEXT LEGISLATURE in NYT on November 6, 1918
• REPUBLICANS' LEAD CUT IN LEGISLATURE in NYT on November 7, 1918
• "WETS" WIN IN SENATE CAUCUS in NYT on January 1, 1919