105th New York State Legislature
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| 105th 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, 1882 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 32 | ||||
| President | Lt. Gov. George G. Hoskins (R) | ||||
| Temporary President | vacant | ||||
| Party control | Democratic (17-15) | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 128 | ||||
| Speaker | Charles E. Patterson (D) | ||||
| Party control | Democratic (67-61) | ||||
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The 105th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 3 to June 2, 1882, during the third year of Alonzo B. Cornell'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 Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Greenback Party and the Prohibition Party also nominated tickets.
Elections
The New York state election, 1881 was held on November 8. Of the statewide elective offices up for election, five were carried by the Republicans and one by a Democrat. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Secretary of State, was: Republican 417,000; Democratic 404,000; Greenback 16,000; and Prohibition 4,500.
Sessions
The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 3, 1880; and adjourned on June 2.
On February 2, Charles E. Patterson (D) was elected Speaker.
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. Charles H. Russell, John W. Browning and Shepard P. Bowen changed from the Assembly to the Senate.
| District | Senator | Party | Notes |
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| 1st | James W. Covert | D | |
| 2nd | John J. Kiernan | D | |
| 3rd | Charles H. Russell* | Republican | |
| 4th | John C. Jacobs* | Democrat | re-elected |
| 5th | John G. Boyd | Tammany | |
| 6th | Thomas F. Grady | Tammany | |
| 7th | James Daly | D | |
| 8th | John W. Browning* | Democrat | |
| 9th | James Fitzgerald | D | |
| 10th | Joseph Koch | D | |
| 11th | Frank P. Treanor | Tammany | |
| 12th | Henry C. Nelson | D | |
| 13th | James Mackin | Democrat | |
| 14th | Addison P. Jones | Democrat | |
| 15th | Homer A. Nelson | Democrat | |
| 16th | Charles L. MacArthur | R | |
| 17th | Abraham Lansing | Democrat | |
| 18th | Webster Wagner* | Republican | re-elected; died on January 13, 1882 |
| Alexander B. Baucus | Republican | elected to fill vacancy | |
| 19th | Shepard P. Bowen* | Republican | |
| 20th | Dolphus S. Lynde* | Republican | re-elected |
| 21st | Frederick Lansing | Republican | |
| 22nd | Robert H. Roberts | D | |
| 23rd | Alexander M. Holmes | R | |
| 24th | Edward B. Thomas | Republican | |
| 25th | Dennis McCarthy* | Republican | re-elected |
| 26th | David H. Evans | R | |
| 27th | Sumner Baldwin | R | |
| 28th | George P. Lord* | Republican | re-elected |
| 29th | Edmund L. Pitts* | Republican | re-elected |
| 30th | Timothy E. Ellsworth | Republican | |
| 31st | Robert C. Titus | D | |
| 32nd | Norman M. Allen | Republican |
Employees
- Clerk: John W. Vrooman
- Sergeant-at-Arms: John W. Corning
- Doorkeeper: Charles F. Brady
- Stenographer: Hudson C. Tanner
State Assembly
Assemblymen
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.
Employees
- Clerk: Edward M. Johnson, from February 15
- Sergeant-at-Arms: vacant
- Doorkeeper: Henry Wheeler
- Stenographer: James M. Ruso
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.
- ^ Elisha Martin Johnson (born 1844), nephew of assemblymen James G. Johnson (in 1848), Marcus H. Johnson (in 1844 and 1848) and Elisha A. Martin (in 1848)
- ^ J. Stanley Browne, see Bio until 1892
Sources
- Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York compiled by Edgar Albert Werner (1884; see pg. 276 for Senate districts; pg. 291 for senators; pg. 298–304 for Assembly districts; and pg. 380f for assemblymen)
- Sketches of the Members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac (1882)
- Speaker election in NYT on February 3, 1882
