107th New York State Legislature

New York state legislative session February 2025 October 2019 107th January 1 December 31, 1884 Lt. Gov. David B. Hill (D) Dennis McCarthy (R) Titus Sheard (R) 32 128 Republican (19-13) Republican (72-56) 1st January 1 May 16, 1884 106th 108th The 107th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 1 to May 16, 1884, during the second year of Grover Cleveland'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,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. forming a contiguous area, all within the same county. At this time there were two major political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In New York City the Democrats were split into three factions: Tammany Hall, "Irving Hall" and the "County Democrats". The Prohibition Party and the Greenback Party also nominated tickets. Elections The 1883 New York state election was held on November 6. Of the five statewide elective offices up for election, four were carried by the Democrats, and one by a Republican. The approximate party strength at this election was: Democratic 446,000; Republican 430,000; Prohibition 18,000; and Greenback 7,000. Sessions The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 1, 1884; and adjourned on May 16. Titus Sheard (R) was elected Speaker against Frank Rice (D). Dennis McCarthy (R) was elected president pro tempore of the State Senate. State Senate Districts 30em 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. Michael C. Murphy and Timothy J. Campbell changed from the Assembly to the Senate. District Senator Party Notes1stJames Otis Republican2ndJohn J. Kiernan* Democratre-elected3rdAlbert Daggett Republican4thJohn C. Jacobs* Democratre-elected5thMichael C. Murphy* County/Irv. H. Dem.6thTimothy J. Campbell* County/Irv. H. Dem.7thJames Daly* County Dem.re-elected8thFrederick S. Gibbs Republican9thJohn J. Cullen Tammany Dem.10thJ. Hampden Robb Democrat11thGeorge W. Plunkitt Tammany Dem.12thHenry C. Nelson* Democratre-elected13thHenry R. Low Republican14thJohn Van Schaick Democrat15thThomas Newbold Democrat16thAlbert C. Comstock Republican17thJohn B. Thacher Democrat18thJames Arkell Republican19thShepard P. Bowen* Republicanre-elected20thJohn I. Gilbert Republican21stFrederick Lansing* Republicanre-elected22ndHenry J. Coggeshall Republican23rdAndrew Davidson Republican24thEdward B. Thomas* Republicanre-elected25thDennis McCarthy* Republicanre-elected; elected president pro tempore26thEdward S. Esty Republican27thJ. Sloat Fassett Republican28thThomas Robinson Republican29thCharles S. Baker Republicanon November 4, 1884, elected to the 49th U.S. Congress30thTimothy E. Ellsworth* Republicanre-elected31stRobert C. Titus* Democratre-elected32ndCommodore P. Vedder Republican Employees Clerk: John W. Vrooman Sergeant-at-Arms: George A. Goss Doorkeeper: David W. Bogert Stenographer: Hudson C. Tanner Postmaster: A. E. Darrow Janitor: A. L. Neidick Chaplain: S. V. Leech State Assembly Assemblymen The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature. District Assemblymen Party Notes Albany1stJohn Zimmerman Rep./Citizens2ndHiram Becker Republican3rdEdward A. Maher* Democrat4thJames Forsyth Jr. Republican AlleganyCharles S. Hall* Republican BroomeWilliam H. Olin Republican Cattaraugus1stFrederick W. Kruse Republican2ndEugene A. Nash Republican Cayuga1stWilloughby B. Priddy Republican2ndWilliam Howland* Republican Chautauqua1stDana P. Horton Republican2ndOscar F. Price* Republican ChemungJonas S. Van Duzer Republican ChenangoCharles W. Brown Democrat ClintonWilliam E. Smith Democrat ColumbiaGilbert A. Deane Republican CortlandA. Judson Kneeland Republican DelawareSilas S. Cartwright Republican Dutchess1stJames Kent Jr.James Kent (born 1854 NYC), grandson of Chancellor James Kent Republican2ndEdward B. Osborne Democrat Erie1stCornelius Donohue* Democrat2ndFrank Sipp Republican3rdGeorge ClintonGeorge Clinton (born 1846 in Buffalo), son of Mayor George W. Clinton; see The Clinton Family Republican4thTimothy W. Jackson* Democrat5thDavid J. Wilcox* Democrat EssexNathaniel C. Boynton* Republican FranklinWilliam T. O'Neil* Republican Fulton and HamiltonLinn L. Boyce Republican GeneseeLucien R. Bailey Republican GreeneBradley S. McCabe Democrat HerkimerTitus Sheard Republicanelected Speaker Jefferson1stIsaac L. Hunt Jr.* Republican2ndEli J. Seeber Republican Kings1stMichael E. Butler* Democrat2ndRichard Nagle Democrat3rdPeter J. Kelly Democrat4thPatrick Burns* Democrat5thMichael J. Coffey Democrat6thThomas F. Farrell Democrat7thGeorge H. Lindsay* Democrat8thGeorge H. Nason Republican9thAlfred Hodges*Alfred Hodges (born 1846), son of assemblyman Andrew B. Hodges (in 1869); great-grandson of Congressman John Hathorn Republican10thJames Taylor* Republican11thHenry Heath Republican12thMortimer C. Earl* Democrat LewisCharles M. Allen Democrat LivingstonKidder M. Scott* Republican MadisonEdward F. Haskell Republican Monroe1stWalter S. Hubbell Republican2ndCharles R. Pratt Republican3rdPhilip Garbutt Republican MontgomeryMartin Walrath Jr. Democrat New York1stPatrick H. Duffy County/Irv. H. Dem.2ndJames Oliver County/Irv. H. Dem.3rdJohn C. Brogan Tam./Irv. H. Dem.4thPatrick H. Roche* Irving H. Dem.5thDominick F. Mullaney* Tammany Dem.6thPeter Henry Jobes County/Irv. H. Dem.7thLucas L. Van Allen* Republican8thCharles Smith Republican9thFrederick B. House* Republican10thCharles A. Binder Republican11thWalter Howe* Republican12thSolomon D. Rosenthal County/Irv. H. Dem.13thIsaac Dayton Republican14thJohn E. Donnelly Tammany Dem.15thJames F. Higgins* County Dem.16thPeter F. Murray County/Irv. H. Dem.17thRichard J. Lewis Republican18thThomas Murphy Irving H. Dem.19thDow S. Kittle Republican20thJames Haggerty* Tammany Dem.21stTheodore Roosevelt* RepublicanChairman of Affairs of Cities22ndJohn T. McDonald Tammany Dem.23rdDaniel M. Van Cott Democrat24thJohn J. Clarke* Tam./Irv. H. Dem. Niagara1stJacob A. Driess Democrat2ndThomas Vincent Welch* Democrat Oneida1stJoseph Joyce Labor Reform/Rep.2ndJoseph Ackroyd Democrat3rdT. James Owens Republican Onondaga1stJames Geddes* Republican2ndFrancis Hendricks Republican3rdConrad Shoemaker Republican OntarioFrank Rice* DemocratMinority Leader Orange1stJ. Chauncey Odell* Democrat2ndJacob H. Dimmick* Democrat OrleansJ. Marshall Dibble Republican Oswego1stDeWitt C. Littlejohn Republican2ndGouverneur M. Sweet Republican Otsego1stWilliam Caryl Ely* Democrat2ndHartford D. Nelson* Democrat PutnamHenry D. ClappHenry Drew Clapp (born 1859), son of Assemblyman William S. Clapp (in 1873) Republican Queens1stLouis K. Church* Democrat2ndEdward A. Darragh Democrat Rensselaer1stJames P. Hooley Dem./Labor Reform2ndSylvanus D. Locke Republican3rdWilliam T. Miles Democrat RichmondEdward A. Moore Democrat RocklandJohn W. Felter Democrat St. Lawrence1stN. Martin Curtis Republican2ndMorell D. Beckwith* Republican3rdGeorge Z. Erwin* Republican Saratoga1stDaniel C. Briggs Republican2ndThomas Noxon Republican SchenectadyJohn W. Vedder Republican SchoharieJames H. Brown Democrat SchuylerJ. Franklin Barnes Democrat SenecaGeorge W. Jones Republican Steuben1stGeorge E. Whiteman Democrat2ndAndrew B. Craig* Democrat SuffolkSimeon S. Hawkins Republican SullivanGeorge B. Childs* Democrat TiogaCharles F. Barager Republican TompkinsJohn E. Cady* Democrat Ulster1stThomas H. Tremper* Republican2ndGilbert D. B. Hasbrouck Republican3rdGeorge R. Johnson Democrat WarrenLorenzo R. Locke* Republican Washington1stDaniel M. Westfall Republican2ndCharles K. Baker Republican Wayne1stAmmon S. Farnum Republican2ndSilas S. Pierson Republican Westchester1stNorton P. Otis Republican2ndSamuel W. Johnson* Democrat3rdJames W. Husted Republican WyomingGeorge M. Palmer Republican YatesHenry C. Harpending Democrat Employees Clerk: Charles A. Chickering Sergeant-at-Arms: Henry Wheeler Doorkeeper: Michael Maher First Assistant Doorkeeper: James Robinson Second Assistant Doorkeeper: John P. Earl Stenographer: Emory P. Close Notes 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. 382 for assemblymen) Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac (1884) MR. SHEARD TO BE SPEAKER in NYT on January 1, 1884 THE LEGISLATURE OF 1884 in NYT on January 2, 1884 107 Category:1884 in New York (state) Category:1884 U.S. legislative sessions