146th New York State Legislature

New York state legislative session

146th 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, 1923
Senate
Members| 51
President| Lt. Gov. George R. Lunn (D)
Temporary President| Jimmy Walker (D)
Party control| Democratic (26–25)
Assembly
Members| 150
Speaker| H. Edmund Machold (R)
Party control| Republican (81–69)
Sessions
| 1st| January 3 – May 4, 1923

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The 146th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 3 to May 4, 1923, during the first year of Al Smith's second tenure as Governor of New York, in Albany.

## Background

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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 of either 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 nominated a fusion ticket with the Farmer–Labor Party. The Prohibition Party and the Socialist Labor Party also nominated tickets.

## Elections

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The 1922 New York state election, was held on November 7. Ex-Governor Al Smith (Dem.) unseated the incumbent Governor Nathan L. Miller (Rep.); and Mayor of Schenectady George R. Lunn (Dem.) was elected lieutenant governor. The other six statewide elective offices up for election were also carried by the Democrats. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Democrats 1,398,000; Republicans 1,012,000; Socialists/Farmer-Labor 108,000; Prohibition 10,000; and Socialist Labor 4,000.

No women were elected to the legislature.

## Sessions

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The legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 3, 1923; and adjourned on May 4.[1]

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

Jimmy Walker (Dem.) was elected Temporary President of the State Senate.

## State Senate

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### Districts

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* 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

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Partisan composition of the Senate.

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Philip M. Kleinfeld, Michael E. Reiburn, Benjamin Antin, Walter W. Westall, Seabury C. Mastick, J. Griswold Webb and Ernest E. Cole 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  | George L. Thompson*  | Republican  | re-elected
2nd  | Frank Giorgio | Democrat  | Chairman of Public Printing
3rd  | Peter J. McGarry*  | Democrat  | re-elected; Chairman of Internal Affairs
4th  | Philip M. Kleinfeld*  | Democrat  | Chairman of Revision
5th  | Daniel F. Farrell*  | Democrat  | re-elected; Chairman of Affairs of Cities
6th  | James A. Higgins | Democrat  | Chairman of Privileges and Elections
7th  | John A. Hastings | Democrat  | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills
8th  | William L. Love | Democrat  | Chairman of Penal Institutions
9th  | Charles E. Russell | Democrat  | Chairman of Banks
10th  | Jeremiah F. Twomey*  | Democrat  | re-elected; Chairman of Public Service
11th  | Daniel J. Carroll | Democrat  | Chairman of Public Health
12th  | Jimmy Walker*  | Democrat  | re-elected; elected Temporary President; Chairman of Rules
13th  | Ellwood M. Rabenold | Democrat  | Chairman of Conservation
14th  | Bernard Downing*  | Democrat  | re-elected; Chairman of Finance
15th  | Nathan Straus Jr.*  | Democrat  | re-elected; Chairman of Agriculture
16th  | Thomas I. Sheridan*  | Democrat  | re-elected; Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment
17th  | Meyer Levy | Democrat  | Chairman of General Laws
18th  | Salvatore A. Cotillo*  | Democrat  | re-elected; Chairman of Judiciary;
on November 6, 1923, elected to the New York Supreme Court
19th  | Duncan T. O'Brien | Democrat  | Chairman of Military Affairs
20th  | Michael E. Reiburn*  | Democrat  | Chairman of Labor and Industries
21st  | Henry G. Schackno*  | Democrat  | re-elected; Chairman of Codes
22nd  | Benjamin Antin | Democrat  | Chairman of Education
23rd  | John J. Dunnigan*  | Democrat  | re-elected; Chairman of Insurance
24th  | Mark W. Allen | Democrat  | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation
25th  | Walter W. Westall*  | Republican  |
26th  | Seabury C. Mastick*  | Republican  |
27th  | Caleb H. Baumes*  | Republican  | re-elected
28th  | J. Griswold Webb*  | Republican  |
29th  | Arthur F. Bouton | Republican  |
30th  | William T. Byrne | Democrat  | Chairman of Civil Service
31st  | John P. Ryan | Democrat  | Chairman of Affairs of Villages
32nd  | Frederick W. Kavanaugh*  | Republican  | re-elected
33rd  | Mortimer Y. Ferris*  | Republican  | re-elected
34th  | Warren T. Thayer*  | Republican  | re-elected
35th  | Theodore Douglas Robinson*  | Republican  | re-elected
36th  | Frederick M. Davenport*  | Republican  | re-elected
37th  | Willard S. Augsbury | Republican  |
38th  | George R. Fearon*  | Republican  | re-elected
39th  | Allen J. Bloomfield*  | Republican  | re-elected
40th  | Clayton R. Lusk*  | Republican  | re-elected; Minority Leader
41st  | Seymour Lowman*  | Republican  | re-elected
42nd  | Charles J. Hewitt*  | Republican  | re-elected
43rd  | Ernest E. Cole*  | Republican  |
44th  | John Knight*  | Republican  | re-elected
45th  | James L. Whitley*  | Republican  | re-elected
46th  | Homer E. A. Dick*  | Republican  | re-elected
47th  | William W. Campbell*  | Republican  | re-elected
48th  | Parton Swift*  | Republican  | re-elected
49th  | Robert C. Lacey | Democrat  | Chairman of Canals
50th  | Leonard W. H. Gibbs*  | Republican  | re-elected
51st  | DeHart H. Ames*  | Republican  | re-elected

### Employees

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* Clerk: Dominick F. Mullaney
* Sergeant-at-Arms: Ralph D. Paoli
* Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms:
* Principal Doorkeeper:
* First Assistant Doorkeeper:
* Stenographer: Michael Degnan

## State Assembly

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### Assemblymen

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

District  | Assemblymen  | Party  | Notes

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Albany | 1st  | Edgar C. Campbell*  | Republican  |
2nd  | John A. Boyle | Democrat  |
3rd  | Frank A. Wilson | Democrat  |
Allegany | William Duke Jr.*  | Republican  |
Bronx | 1st  | Nicholas J. Eberhard*  | Democrat  |
2nd  | Lester W. Patterson*  | Democrat  |
3rd  | Julius S. Berg | Democrat  |
4th  | Louis A. Schoffel*  | Democrat  |
5th  | William Lyman*  | Democrat  |
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  |
Cattaraugus | Leigh G. Kirkland*  | Republican  |
Cayuga | Sanford G. Lyon | Republican  |
Chautauqua | 1st  | Adolf F. Johnson | Republican  |
2nd  | Joseph A. McGinnies*  | Republican  |
Chemung | Oscar Kahler | Democrat  |
Chenango | Charles L. Banks*  | Republican  |
Clinton | George W. Gilbert | Republican  |
Columbia | Robert Reginald Livingston | Democrat  |
Cortland | Irving F. Rice*  | Republican  |
Delaware | Lincoln R. Long*  | Republican  |
Dutchess | 1st  | Howard N. Allen | Republican  |
2nd  | John M. Hackett*  | Republican  |
Erie | 1st  | William J. Hickey*  | Republican  |
2nd  | Henry W. Hutt | Republican  |
3rd  | August Seelbach*  | Republican  |
4th  | John J. Meegan | Democrat  |
5th  | John Krysinski | Democrat  |
6th  | Charles A. Freiberg | Republican  |
7th  | Edmund F. Cooke | Republican  |
8th  | Nelson W. Cheney*  | Republican  |
Essex | Fred L. Porter*  | Republican  |
Franklin | Anson H. Ellsworth*  | Republican  |
Fulton and Hamilton | Eberly Hutchinson*  | Republican  |
Genesee | Charles P. Miller*  | Republican  |
Greene | Ellis W. Bentley | Republican  |
Herkimer | Frederic S. Cole*  | Republican  |
Jefferson | H. Edmund Machold*  | Republican  | re-elected Speaker
Kings | 1st  | Francis J. Cronin*  | Democrat  |
2nd  | John Lucey | Democrat  |
3rd  | Frank J. Taylor*  | Democrat  |
4th  | Peter A. McArdle*  | Democrat  |
5th  | John Cashmore | Democrat  |
6th  | Joseph Reich | Democrat  |
7th  | John J. Howard*  | Democrat  |
8th  | Michael J. Reilly*  | Democrat  |
9th  | Richard J. Tonry*  | Democrat  |
10th  | Bernard F. Gray*  | Democrat  |
11th  | Edward J. Coughlin | Democrat  |
12th  | Marcellus H. Evans*  | Democrat  |
13th  | William A. Donnelly | Democrat  |
14th  | Joseph R. Blake | Democrat  |
15th  | Gerald F. Dunne | Democrat  |
16th  | James F. Kiernan | Democrat  |
17th  | Julius Ruger | Democrat  |
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*  | Republican  |
Lewis | Miller B. Moran*  | Republican  |
Livingston | Lewis G. Stapley*  | Republican  |
Madison | J. Arthur Brooks*  | Republican  |
Monroe | 1st  | Russell B. Griffith | Republican  |
2nd  | Simon L. Adler*  | Republican  | Majority Leader
3rd  | Vincent B. Murphy*  | Republican  |
4th  | Gilbert L. Lewis*  | Republican  |
5th  | W. Ray Austin | Republican  |
Montgomery | Samuel W. McCleary*  | Republican  |
Nassau | 1st  | Thomas A. McWhinney*  | Republican  |
2nd  | F. Trubee Davison*  | Republican  |
New York | 1st  | Peter J. Hamill*  | Democrat  |
2nd  | Frank R. Galgano*  | Democrat  |
3rd  | Thomas F. Burchill*  | Democrat  |
4th  | Samuel Mandelbaum | Democrat  |
5th  | Charles D. Donohue*  | Democrat  | Minority Leader; on November 6, 1923, elected
to the New York Supreme Court
6th  | Sol Ullman*  | Republican  |
7th  | Victor R. Kaufmann*  | Republican  |
8th  | Henry O. Kahan*  | Democrat  |
9th  | John H. Conroy | Democrat  |
10th  | Joseph T. Flynn | Democrat  |
11th  | Samuel I. Rosenman*  | Democrat  |
12th  | John J. O'Connor*  | Democrat  | on November 6, 1923, elected to the 68th U.S. Congress
13th  | John P. Nugent*  | Democrat  |
14th  | Frederick L. Hackenburg*  | Democrat  |
15th  | Joseph Steinberg*  | Republican  |
16th  | Maurice Bloch*  | Democrat  |
17th  | Meyer Alterman | Democrat  |
18th  | Owen M. Kiernan*  | Democrat  |
19th  | James Male*  | Democrat  |
20th  | Louis A. Cuvillier*  | Democrat  |
21st  | Henri W. Shields | Democrat  |
22nd  | Joseph A. Gavagan | Democrat  |
23rd  | George N. Jesse*  | Republican  |
Niagara | 1st  | David E. Jeffery*  | Republican  |
2nd  | Frank S. Hall*  | Republican  |
Oneida | 1st  | Michael J. Kernan | Democrat  |
2nd  | Russell G. Dunmore*  | Republican  |
3rd  | Chauncey J. Williams*  | Republican  |
Onondaga | 1st  | Horace M. Stone | Republican  |
2nd  | Gardner J. Chamberlin*  | Republican  |
3rd  | Arthur Benson | Republican  |
Ontario | Charles C. Sackett*  | Republican  |
Orange | 1st  | Clemence C. Smith | Republican  |
2nd  | Charles L. Mead | Republican  |
Orleans | Frank H. Lattin*  | Republican  |
Oswego | Ezra A. Barnes*  | Republican  |
Otsego | Julian C. Smith*  | Republican  |
Putnam | John R. Yale*  | Republican  |
Queens | 1st  | Peter A. Leininger*  | Democrat  |
2nd  | Owen J. Dever*  | Democrat  |
3rd  | Alfred J. Kennedy | Democrat  |
4th  | Charles P. Sullivan | Democrat  |
5th  | William F. Brunner*  | Democrat  |
6th  | Paul P. Gallagher | Democrat  |
Rensselaer | 1st  | John F. Rourke*  | Democrat  |
2nd  | Thomas J. Coleman | Democrat  |
Richmond | 1st  | Thomas F. Cosgrove*  | Democrat  |
2nd  | William L. Vaughan*  | Democrat  |
Rockland | James A. Farley | Democrat  |
St. Lawrence | 1st  | William A. Laidlaw*  | Republican  |
2nd  | Walter L. Pratt | Republican  |
Saratoga | Burton D. Esmond*  | Republican  |
Schenectady | 1st  | Charles T. Male*  | Republican  |
2nd  | William W. Campbell*  | Republican  |
Schoharie | Kenneth H. Fake | Republican  |
Schuyler | John W. Gurnett Jr. | Democrat  |
Seneca | George A. Dobson*  | Republican  |
Steuben | 1st  | Edwin J. Carpenter | Republican  |
2nd  | Leon F. Wheatley*  | Republican  |
Suffolk | 1st  | John G. Peck*  | Republican  |
2nd  | Cecil W. Proctor | Republican  |
Sullivan | Guernsey T. Cross*  | Democrat  |
Tioga | Daniel P. Witter*  | Republican  |
Tompkins | James R. Robinson | Republican  |
Ulster | Simon B. Van Wagenen*  | Republican  |
Warren | Milton N. Eldridge*  | Republican  |
Washington | Herbert A. Bartholomew*  | Republican  |
Wayne | George S. Johnson | Republican  |
Westchester | 1st  | Thomas Channing Moore*  | Republican  |
2nd  | Herbert B. Shonk | Republican  |
3rd  | Milan E. Goodrich | Republican  |
4th  | Russell B. Livermore*  | Republican  |
5th  | Arthur I. Miller | Democrat  |
Wyoming | Webb A. Joiner*  | Republican  |
Yates | Franklin S. Sampson | Republican  |

### Employees

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* Clerk: Fred W. Hammond
* Postmaster: James H. Underwood[2]

## Notes

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1. ^ DRY LAW REPEAL IS EXPECTED TODAY; TRANSIT HOPE GONE in NYT on May 4, 1923 (subscription required)
2. ^ Malcolm, James (1923). The New York Red Book. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 132 – via Google Books.

## Sources

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* COMMITTEES FOR SENATE NAMED in the Geneva Daily Times, of Geneva, New York, on January 10, 1923
* Members of the New York Assembly (1920s) at Political Graveyard

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