119th New York State Legislature

The 119th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 1 to April 30, 1896, during the second year of Levi P. Morton's governorship, in Albany.

Background

Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1894, 50 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 (twelve districts), Kings County (seven districts), Erie County (three districts) and Monroe County (two districts). 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 Prohibition Party, the Socialist Labor Party and the People's Party also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1895 was held on November 5. The state officers and state senators were elected to an exceptional three-year term (for the sessions of 1896, 1897 and 1898), so that the election of these officers would be held, beginning in 1898, in even-numbered years, at the same time as the gubernatorial election.

All six statewide elective offices up for election was carried by the Republicans. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Secretary of State, was: Republican 601,000; Democratic 511,000; Prohibition 25,000; Socialist Labor 21,000; and People's Party 7,000.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 1, 1896; and adjourned on April 30.

Hamilton Fish II (R) was re-elected Speaker.

Timothy E. Ellsworth (R) was elected President pro tempore of the State Senate.

State Senate

Districts

1st District: Richmond and Suffolk counties
2nd District: Queens County
3rd District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Ward of Brooklyn
4th District: 7th, 13th, 19th and 21st Ward of Brooklyn
5th District: 8th, 10th, 12th and 30th Ward of Brooklyn, and the annexed former Town of Gravesend
6th District: 9th, 11th, 20th and 22nd Ward of Brooklyn
7th District: 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Ward of Brooklyn
8th District: 23rd, 24th, 25th and 29th Ward of the City of Brooklyn; and the Town of Flatlands
9th District: 18th, 26th, 27th and 28th Ward of Brooklyn
10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st District: Parts of the City of New York, defined geographically by their bordering streets, regardless of Wards or Assembly districts
22nd District: Westchester County
23rd District: Orange and Rockland counties
24th District: Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam and counties
25th District: Greene and Ulster counties
26th District: Chenango, Delaware and Sullivan counties
27th District: Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery and Schoharie counties
28th District: Saratoga, Schenectady and Washington counties
29th District: Albany County
30th District: Rensselaer County
31st District: Clinton, Essex and Warren counties
32nd District: Franklin and St. Lawrence counties
33rd District: Otsego and Herkimer counties
34th District: Oneida County
35th District: Jefferson and Lewis counties
36th District: Onondaga County
37th District: Oswego and Madison counties
38th District: Broome, Cortland and Tioga counties
39th District: Cayuga and Seneca counties
40th District: Chemung, Schuyler and Tompkins counties
41st District: Steuben and Yates counties
42nd District: Ontario and Wayne counties
43rd District: 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th Ward of Rochester; and the towns of Brighton, Henrietta, Irondequoit, Menden, Penfield, Perinton, Pittsford, Rush and Webster, in Monroe County
44th District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 19th and 20th Ward of Rochester; and the towns of Chili, Clarkson, Gates, Greece, Hamlin, Ogden, Parma, Riga, Sweden and Wheatland, in Monroe County
45th District: Genesee, Niagara and Orleans counties
46th District: Allegany, Livingston and Wyoming counties
47th District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 15th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th Ward of Buffalo
48th District: 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 16th Ward of Buffalo
49th District: 17th, 18th and 25th Ward of the City of Buffalo; and all area in Erie County outside Buffalo
50th 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. Richard Higbie, Frank Gallagher, George W. Brush, Albert A. Wray, Julius L. Wieman, Samuel J. Foley, Frank D. Pavey, J. Irving Burns, George R. Malby, Benjamin M. Wilcox, Edwin C. Stewart and Simon Seibert changed from the Assembly to the Senate.

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	Richard Higbie*	Republican
2nd	Theodore Koehler	Democrat
3rd	Frank Gallagher*	Democrat
4th	George W. Brush*	Republican
5th	Michael J. Coffey*	Democrat	re-elected
6th	Peter H. McNulty	Democrat
7th	Patrick H. McCarren	Democrat
8th	Albert A. Wray*	Republican
9th	Julius L. Wieman*	Republican
10th	John F. Ahearn*	Democrat	re-elected
11th	Timothy D. Sullivan*	Democrat	re-elected
12th	Samuel J. Foley*	Democrat
13th	Bernard F. Martin	Democrat
14th	Thomas F. Grady	Democrat
15th	Frank D. Pavey*	Republican
16th	Louis Munzinger	Democrat
17th	Charles B. Page	Republican
18th	Maurice Featherson	Democrat
19th	John Ford	Republican
20th	Jacob A. Cantor*	Democrat	re-elected; Minority Leader
21st	Charles L. Guy*	Democrat	re-elected
22nd	J. Irving Burns*	Republican
23rd	Clarence Lexow*	Republican	re-elected
24th	William C. Daley	Republican
25th	Charles Davis	Republican
26th	James Ballantine	Republican	died on May 4, 1896^[1]
27th	Hobart Krum	Republican
28th	Edgar T. Brackett	Republican
29th	Myer Nussbaum	Republican
30th	LeGrand C. Tibbits	Republican
31st	George Chahoon	Republican
32nd	George R. Malby*	Republican
33rd	Walter L. Brown	Republican
34th	Henry J. Coggeshall*	Ind. Rep.	re-elected
35th	Joseph Mullin*	Republican	re-elected
36th	Horace White	Republican
37th	Nevada N. Stranahan	Republican
38th	William Elting Johnson	Republican
39th	Benjamin M. Wilcox*	Republican
40th	Edwin C. Stewart*	Republican
41st	John S. Sheppard	Republican
42nd	John Raines*	Republican	re-elected
43rd	Cornelius R. Parsons*	Republican	re-elected
44th	Henry Harrison	Republican
45th	Timothy E. Ellsworth	Republican	elected President pro tempore
46th	Lester H. Humphrey	Republican
47th	Charles Lamy*	Republican	re-elected
48th	Simon Seibert*	Republican
49th	George Allen Davis	Republican
50th	Frank W. Higgins*	Republican	re-elected

Employees

Clerk: John S. Kenyon
Sergeant-at-Arms: Garret J. Benson
Doorkeeper: Nathan Lewis
Stenographer: Edward Shaughnessy

State Assembly

Assemblymen

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	Robert G. Scherer	Republican
	2nd	James Keenholts*	Republican
	3rd	George T. Kelly	Democrat
	4th	Amos J. Ablett*	Republican
Allegany		Frederick A. Robbins*	Republican
Broome	1st	Joseph H. Brownell*	Republican
Broome	2nd	Charles F. Tupper	Republican
Cattaraugus	1st	Charles H. Miller	Republican
Cattaraugus	2nd	Girvease A. Matteson	Republican
Cayuga	1st	W. Clarence Sheldon	Republican
Cayuga	2nd	Eugene B. Rounds	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	Jerome Babcock	Republican
Chautauqua	2nd	S. Frederick Nixon*	Republican
Chemung		John B. Stanchfield*	Democrat	Minority Leader
Chenango		Jotham P. Allds	Republican
Clinton		Willis T. Honsinger*	Republican
Columbia		Hugh W. McClellan	Democrat
Cortland		Franklin P. Saunders	Republican
Delaware		Delos H. Mackey	Republican
Dutchess	1st	John A. Hanna	Republican
Dutchess	2nd	Augustus B. Gray*	Republican
Erie	1st	Cornelius Coughlin*	Democrat
	2nd	Henry W. Hill	Republican
	3rd	Benjamin A. Peever	Republican
	4th	Philip W. Springweiler	Republican
	5th	Charles Braun*	Republican
	6th	Christopher Smith	Republican
	7th	Henry L. Steiner	Republican
	8th	Heman M. Blasdell	Republican
Essex		Albert Weed*	Republican
Franklin		Thomas A. Sears*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		Byron D. Brown	Republican
Genesee		Archie D. Sanders	Republican
Greene		Newton Sweet	Republican
Herkimer		Oliver H. Springer	Republican
Jefferson	1st	Walter Zimmerman	Republican
Jefferson	2nd	Cornelius J. Clark	Republican
Kings	1st	Thomas H. Wagstaff	Republican
	2nd	John McKeown*	Democrat
	3rd	Thomas H. Cullen	Democrat
	4th	George W. Wilson	Republican
	5th	Abram C. DeGraw	Republican
	6th	Arthur J. Audett*	Republican
	7th	Frederick A. Newman	Democrat
	8th	James Lennon, Jr.	Democrat
	9th	John J. Cain*	Democrat
	10th	William L. Perkins	Republican
	11th	Joseph A. Guider	Democrat
	12th	Charles H. Ebbets	Democrat
	13th	Orrion L. Forrester	Republican
	14th	John M. Zurn	Democrat
	15th	Robert J. Rudd	Democrat
	16th	Edward C. Brennan	Republican
	17th	Henry Marshall	Republican
	18th	George E. Waldo	Republican
	19th	Frederick Schmid	Democrat
	20th	Frederick G. Hughes	Republican
	21st	Jacob A. Livingston	Republican
Lewis		John S. Koster	Republican
Livingston		Otto Kelsey*	Republican
Madison		Lambert B. Kern*	Republican
Monroe	1st	Charles J. Smith*	Republican
	2nd	James M. E. O'Grady*	Republican
	3rd	William W. Armstrong*	Republican
	4th	Thomas H. Eddy	Republican
Montgomery		Edward L. Schmidt	Republican
New York	1st	Daniel E. Finn*	Democrat
	2nd	Thomas J. Barry*	Democrat
	3rd	William H. Leonard	Democrat
	4th	James A. Donnelly*	Democrat
	5th	George Gregory	Republican
	6th	Jacob A. Mittnacht	Democrat
	7th	Edward W. Hart	Democrat
	8th	Charles S. Adler*	Republican
	9th	James F. Maccabe	Democrat
	10th	Otto Kempner	Democrat
	11th	William H. Gledhill	Democrat
	12th	Joseph Schulum	Democrat
	13th	Patrick F. Trainor	Democrat
	14th	Jacob Fritz	Democrat
	15th	Thomas F. Myers	Democrat
	16th	Benjamin Hoffman*	Democrat
	17th	vacant	Assemblyman-elect Patrick J. Kerrigan (D) died on December 23, 1895
	17th	Francis J. Goodman	Democrat	elected on March 3, to fill vacancy^[2]
	18th	Andrew J. Galligan	Democrat
	19th	Albert C. Wilson	Republican
	20th	John P. Corrigan*	Democrat
	21st	George C. Austin	Republican
	22nd	Daniel W. F. McCoy	Democrat
	23rd	John M. Delmour	Democrat
	24th	John B. Fitzgerald*	Democrat
	25th	Patrick H. Murphy	Republican
	26th	Patrick J. Andrews	Democrat
	27th	Francis E. Laimbeer	Republican
	28th	Joseph I. Green	Democrat
	29th	Samuel G. French	Republican
	30th	George W. Meyer, Jr.	Democrat
	31st	Harvey T. Andrews*	Republican
	32nd	Thomas F. Donnelly	Democrat
	33rd	Louis Davidson	Democrat
	34th	Bernard H. Malone	Democrat
	35th	Arthur C. Butts	Democrat
Niagara	1st	Henry E. Warner	Republican
Niagara	2nd	Frank A. Dudley	Republican
Oneida	1st	Walter Embley	Democrat
	2nd	William Cary Sanger*	Republican
	3rd	William B. Graves	Republican
Onondaga	1st	Charles C. Cole*	Republican
	2nd	Charles R. Rogers*	Republican
	3rd	Joseph Bondy	Republican
	4th	Edwin M. Wells	Republican
Ontario		Charles A. Steele	Republican
Orange	1st	Louis F. Goodsell*	Republican
Orange	2nd	Louis Bedell	Republican
Orleans		Fred L. Downs	Republican
Oswego	1st	Louis P. Taylor	Republican
Oswego	2nd	Thomas M. Costello	Republican
Otsego		Charles B. Gorham	Republican
Putnam		Hamilton Fish II*	Republican	re-elected Speaker
Queens	1st	Jacob Stahl	Democrat
	2nd	Frederic Storm	Republican
	3rd	Morton Cromwell	Republican
Rensselaer	1st	Edward McGraw	Republican
	2nd	John T. Norton*	Democrat
	3rd	George Anderson	Republican
Richmond		Gustav A. Barth	Democrat
Rockland		Otis H. Cutler*	Republican
St. Lawrence	1st	Ira C. Miles	Republican
St. Lawrence	2nd	Martin V. B. Ives	Republican
Saratoga		Charles H. McNaughton*	Republican
Schenectady		Thomas W. Winne*	Republican
Schoharie		David Enders	Democrat
Schuyler		Oliver H. Budd	Republican
Seneca		William H. Kinne	Democrat
Steuben	1st	James S. Harrison	Republican
Steuben	2nd	Joel Clark	Republican
Suffolk	1st	Erastus F. Post	Republican
Suffolk	2nd	Carll S. Burr, Jr.	Republican
Sullivan		Uriah S. Messiter	Republican
Tioga		Daniel P. Witter	Republican
Tompkins		Frederick E. Bates	Republican
Ulster	1st	William S. Van Keuren*	Republican
Ulster	2nd	James Lounsbery*	Republican
Warren		Taylor J. Eldridge*	Republican
Washington		William R. Hobbie	Republican
Wayne		George S. Horton*	Republican
Westchester	1st	John N. Stewart*	Republican
	2nd	George L. Carlisle	Republican
	3rd	James W. Husted*	Republican
Wyoming		Mortimer N. Cole	Republican
Yates		Everett Brown*	Republican

Employees

Clerk: Archie E. Baxter
Sergeant-at-Arms: Philip W. Reinhard, Jr.
Doorkeeper: Joseph Bauer
Stenographer: Henry C. Lammert

Notes

↑ SENATOR JAMES BALLANTINE DEAD in NYT on May 5, 1896
↑ TAMMANY MAN ELECTED in NYT on March 4, 1896

Sources

The New York Red Book compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; see senators' bios pg. 133–177; senators' portraits between pg. 136 and 137; pg. 404 for list of senators; pg. 512f for assemblymen; pg. 712–716 for senate districts)
The Tribune Almanac (1896)

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