147th New York State Legislature

The 147th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to April 11, 1924, during the second year of Al Smith's second tenure as Governor of New York, in Albany.

147th 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, 1924
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 (87–63)
Sessions
1st January 2 – April 11, 1924

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 consisted either of 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 also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1923, was held on November 6. The only statewide elective office up for election was a judgeship on the New York Court of Appeals which was carried by Democrat Irving Lehman who had been endorsed by the Republicans.

No women were elected to the Legislature.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 2, 1924; and adjourned in the morning of April 11.[1]

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

State Senate

Districts

• 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

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.

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

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	George L. Thompson*	Republican
2nd	Frank Giorgio*	Democrat	Chairman of Public Printing
3rd	Peter J. McGarry*	Democrat	Chairman of Internal Affairs
4th	Philip M. Kleinfeld*	Democrat	Chairman of Revision
5th	Daniel F. Farrell*	Democrat	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	Chairman of Public Service
11th	Daniel J. Carroll*	Democrat	Chairman of Public Health
12th	Jimmy Walker*	Democrat	Temporary President; Chairman of Rules
13th	Ellwood M. Rabenold*	Democrat	Chairman of Conservation
14th	Bernard Downing*	Democrat	Chairman of Finance
15th	Nathan Straus, Jr.*	Democrat	Chairman of Agriculture
16th	Thomas I. Sheridan*	Democrat	Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment
17th	Meyer Levy*	Democrat	Chairman of General Laws
18th	vacant	Salvatore A. Cotillo was elected on Nov. 6, 1923, to the NY Supreme Court
	Martin J. Kennedy	Democrat	elected to fill vacancy on January 8, 1924[2]
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	Chairman of Judiciary
22nd	Benjamin Antin*	Democrat	Chairman of Education
23rd	John J. Dunnigan*	Democrat	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
28th	J. Griswold Webb*	Republican
29th	Arthur F. Bouton*	Republican
30th	William T. Byrne*	Democrat	Chairman of Codes
31st	John P. Ryan*	Democrat	Chairman of Affairs of Villages
32nd	Frederick W. Kavanaugh*	Republican
33rd	Mortimer Y. Ferris*	Republican
34th	Warren T. Thayer*	Republican
35th	Theodore Douglas Robinson*	Republican
36th	Frederick M. Davenport*	Republican	on November 4, 1924, elected to the 69th U.S. Congress
37th	Willard S. Augsbury*	Republican
38th	George R. Fearon*	Republican
39th	Allen J. Bloomfield*	Republican
40th	Clayton R. Lusk*	Republican	Minority Leader
41st	Seymour Lowman*	Republican	on November 4, 1924, elected Lieutenant Governor
42nd	Charles J. Hewitt*	Republican
43rd	Ernest E. Cole*	Republican
44th	John Knight*	Republican
45th	James L. Whitley*	Republican
46th	Homer E. A. Dick*	Republican
47th	William W. Campbell*	Republican
48th	Parton Swift*	Republican
49th	Robert C. Lacey*	Democrat	Chairman of Canals
50th	Leonard W. H. Gibbs*	Republican
51st	DeHart H. Ames*	Republican

Employees

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

State Assembly

Assemblymen

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

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	William J. Snyder	Democrat
	2nd	John A. Boyle*	Democrat
	3rd	Frank A. Wilson*	Democrat
Allegany		Cassius Congdon	Republican
Bronx	1st	Nicholas J. Eberhard*	Democrat
	2nd	Lester W. Patterson*	Democrat
	3rd	Julius S. Berg*	Democrat
	4th	Louis A. Schoffel*	Democrat
	5th	Harry A. Samberg	Democrat
	6th	Thomas J. McDonald*	Democrat
	7th	John F. Reidy	Democrat
	8th	Joseph E. Kinsley	Democrat
Broome	1st	Edmund B. Jenks*	Republican	Chairman of Judiciary
	2nd	Forman E. Whitcomb*	Republican	Chairman of Soldiers' Home
Cattaraugus		Leigh G. Kirkland*	Republican	Chairman of Excise
Cayuga		Sanford G. Lyon*	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	Adolf F. Johnson*	Republican
	2nd	Joseph A. McGinnies*	Republican	Chairman of Ways and Means
Chemung		Hovey E. Copley	Republican
Chenango		Bert Lord	Republican
Clinton		George W. Gilbert*	Republican
Columbia		Lewis F. Harder	Republican
Cortland		Irving F. Rice*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Villages
Delaware		Ralph H. Loomis	Republican
Dutchess	1st	Howard N. Allen*	Republican
	2nd	John M. Hackett*	Republican	Chairman of General Laws
Erie	1st	William J. Hickey*	Republican
	2nd	Henry W. Hutt*	Republican
	3rd	Charles D. Stickney	Republican	died on March 2, 1924
	4th	John J. Meegan*	Democrat
	5th	Ansley B. Borkowski	Republican
	6th	Charles A. Freiberg*	Republican
	7th	Edmund F. Cooke*	Republican
	8th	Nelson W. Cheney*	Republican	Chairman of Banks
Essex		Fred L. Porter*	Republican
Franklin		George J. Moore	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		Eberly Hutchinson*	Republican	Chairman of Insurance
Genesee		Charles P. Miller*	Republican	Chairman of Labor and Industry
Greene		Ellis W. Bentley*	Republican
Herkimer		Frederic S. Cole*	Republican	Chairman of Public Education
Jefferson		H. Edmund Machold*	Republican	re-elected Speaker; Chairman of Rules
Kings	1st	Charles F. Cline	Democrat
	2nd	Murray Hearn	Democrat
	3rd	Frank J. Taylor*	Democrat
	4th	Peter A. McArdle*	Democrat
	5th	Joseph C. H. Flynn	Republican
	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	John E. McCarthy	Democrat
	16th	Maurice Z. Bungard	Democrat
	17th	Julius Ruger*	Democrat
	18th	Irwin Steingut*	Democrat
	19th	Anthony L. Palma	Democrat
	20th	Frank A. Miller*	Democrat
	21st	Walter F. Clayton*	Republican	Chairman of Charitable and Religious Societies
	22nd	Howard C. Franklin*	Democrat
	23rd	Joseph F. Ricca*	Republican
Lewis		Miller B. Moran*	Republican
Livingston		Lewis G. Stapley*	Republican	Chairman of Motor Vehicles
Madison		J. Arthur Brooks*	Republican
Monroe	1st	Russell B. Griffith*	Republican
	2nd	Simon L. Adler*	Republican	Majority Leader
	3rd	Vincent B. Murphy*	Republican	Chairman of Cities; on November 4, 1924, elected State Comptroller
	4th	Gilbert L. Lewis*	Republican
	5th	W. Ray Austin*	Republican
Montgomery		Samuel W. McCleary*	Republican	Chairman of Public Printing
Nassau	1st	Edwin W. Wallace	Republican
	2nd	F. Trubee Davison*	Republican	Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment
New York	1st	Peter J. Hamill*	Democrat
	2nd	Frank R. Galgano*	Democrat
	3rd	Thomas F. Burchill*	Democrat
	4th	Samuel Mandelbaum*	Democrat
	5th	Frank A. Carlin	Democrat
	6th	Morris Weinfeld	Democrat
	7th	Victor R. Kaufmann*	Republican	Chairman of Military Affairs
	8th	Henry O. Kahan*	Democrat
	9th	John H. Conroy*	Democrat
	10th	Phelps Phelps	Republican
	11th	Samuel I. Rosenman*	Democrat
	12th	Paul T. Kammerer, Jr.	Democrat
	13th	John P. Nugent*	Democrat
	14th	Frederick L. Hackenburg*	Democrat
	15th	Joseph Steinberg*	Republican
	16th	Maurice Bloch*	Democrat	Minority Leader
	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	Nelson Ruttenberg	Democrat
Niagara	1st	Mark T. Lambert	Republican
	2nd	Frank S. Hall*	Republican	Chairman of Social Welfare
Oneida	1st	John C. Devereux	Republican
	2nd	Russell G. Dunmore*	Republican	Chairman of Claims
	3rd	George J. Skinner	Republican
Onondaga	1st	Horace M. Stone*	Republican
	2nd	George M. Haight	Democrat
	3rd	Richard B. Smith	Republican
Ontario		Charles C. Sackett*	Republican	Chairman of Revision
Orange	1st	Clemence C. Smith*	Republican	Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills
	2nd	Charles L. Mead*	Republican	Chairman of Public Institutions
Orleans		Frank H. Lattin*	Republican	Chairman of Public Health
Oswego		Victor C. Lewis	Republican
Otsego		Julian C. Smith*	Republican
Putnam		John R. Yale*	Republican	Chairman of Public Service
Queens	1st	Henry M. Dietz	Democrat
	2nd	Owen J. Dever*	Democrat
	3rd	Alfred J. Kennedy*	Democrat
	4th	D. Lacy Dayton	Republican
	5th	William F. Brunner*	Democrat
	6th	Paul P. Gallagher*	Democrat
Rensselaer	1st	John H. Westbrook	Democrat
	2nd	Henry Meurs	Republican
Richmond	1st	William S. Hart	Democrat
	2nd	William L. Vaughan*	Democrat
Rockland		Walter S. Gedney	Republican
St. Lawrence	1st	William A. Laidlaw*	Republican
	2nd	Walter L. Pratt*	Republican
Saratoga		Burton D. Esmond*	Republican	Chairman of Codes
Schenectady	1st	Charles W. Merriam	Republican
	2nd	William M. Nicoll	Republican
Schoharie		Kenneth H. Fake*	Republican
Schuyler		William Wickham	Republican
Seneca		William H. Van Cleef	Republican
Steuben	1st	Wilson Messer	Republican
	2nd	Leon F. Wheatley*	Republican
Suffolk	1st	John G. Peck*	Republican	Chairman of Conservation
	2nd	John Boyle, Jr.	Republican
Sullivan		Guernsey T. Cross*	Democrat
Tioga		Daniel P. Witter*	Republican	Chairman of Agriculture
Tompkins		James R. Robinson*	Republican
Ulster		Simon B. Van Wagenen*	Republican	Chairman of Internal Affairs
Warren		Milton N. Eldridge*	Republican
Washington		Herbert A. Bartholomew*	Republican	Chairman of Canals
Wayne		George S. Johnson	Republican
Westchester	1st	Thomas Channing Moore*	Republican	Chairman of Commerce and Navigation
	2nd	Herbert B. Shonk*	Republican
	3rd	Milan E. Goodrich*	Republican	Chairman of Penal Institutions
	4th	Alexander H. Garnjost	Republican
	5th	Arthur I. Miller*	Democrat
Wyoming		Webb A. Joiner*	Republican
Yates		James H. Underwood	Republican

Employees

• Clerk: Fred W. Hammond

Notes

1. LEGISLATURE QUITS IN DAY BREAK RUSH in NYT on April 12, 1924 (subscription required)
2. Kennedy Is Elected to Cotillo's Seat; Democrats Hold State Senate Majority in NYT on January 9, 1924 (subscription required)

Sources

• Members of the New York Assembly (1920s) at Political Graveyard
• HUTCHINSON HEADS INSURANCE COMMITTEE AND MADE MEMBER OF IMPORTANT WAYS AND MEANS in The Morning Herald, of Gloversville, on January 8, 1924 (pg. 8)