149th New York State Legislature

{{Infobox New York Legislature

|number = 149th

|image =

|imagename =

|imagedate =

|start = January 1

|end = December 31, 1926

|vp = Lt. Gov. Seymour Lowman (R)

|pro tem = John Knight (R)

|speaker = Joseph A. McGinnies (R)

|senators = 51

|reps = 150

|s-majority = Republican (29–22)

|h-majority = Republican (91–59)

|sessionnumber1 = 1st

|sessionstart1 = January 6

|sessionend1 = April 23, 1926

|previous = 148th

|next = 150th

}}

The 149th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 6 to April 23, 1926, during the fourth year of Al Smith's second tenure as Governor of New York, in Albany.

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.

Elections

The 1925 New York state election was held on November 3. No statewide elective offices were up for election.

Assemblywoman Rhoda Fox Graves (Rep.), of Gouverneur, a former school teacher who after her marriage became active in women's organizations and politics, was re-elected, and remained the only woman legislator.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 6, 1926; and adjourned on April 23.[https://www.nytimes.com/1926/04/25/archives/governor-takes-tenday-rest-pennsylvania-asks-gov-smiths-advice.html Governor Takes Ten-Day Rest] in NYT on April 25, 1926 (subscription required)

Joseph A. McGinnies (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker.

State Senate

=Districts=

{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|

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)..."

class=wikitable

! District

! Senator

! Party

! Notes

1st

|George L. Thompson*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|John L. Karle*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

3rd

|Peter J. McGarry*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

|on November 2, 1926, elected Register of Queens Co.

4th

|Philip M. Kleinfeld*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

5th

|Daniel F. Farrell*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

6th

|James A. Higgins*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

7th

|John A. Hastings*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

8th

|William L. Love*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

rowspan="2" | 9th

|vacant

|colspan="2" | Frank E. Johnson was elected on November 3, 1925, to the Municipal Court

Charles E. Russell

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

|elected on January 7 to fill vacancy[https://www.nytimes.com/1926/01/08/archives/special-election-won-by-democrats-elmer-f-quinn-tammany-candidate.html SPECIAL ELECTION WON BY DEMOCRATS; C. E. Russell Chosen to Fill Seat of Justice Johnson] in NYT on January 8, 1926 (subscription required)

10th

|Jeremiah F. Twomey*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

11th

|Daniel J. Carroll*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

rowspan="2" | 12th

|vacant

|colspan="2" | Jimmy Walker was elected on November 3, 1925, as Mayor of New York City

Elmer F. Quinn

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

|elected on January 7 to fill vacancy[https://www.nytimes.com/1926/01/08/archives/special-election-won-by-democrats-elmer-f-quinn-tammany-candidate.html SPECIAL ELECTION WON BY DEMOCRATS; Elmer F. Quinn to Succeed Walker] in NYT on January 8, 1926 (subscription required)

13th

|Thomas F. Burchill*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

14th

|Bernard Downing*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

|Minority Leader

15th

|Nathan Straus Jr.*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

16th

|Thomas I. Sheridan*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

17th

|Courtlandt Nicoll*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

18th

|Martin J. Kennedy*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

19th

|Duncan T. O'Brien*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

20th

|Michael E. Reiburn*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

21st

|Henry G. Schackno*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

22nd

|Benjamin Antin*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

23rd

|John J. Dunnigan*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

24th

|Thomas J. Walsh*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

25th

|Walter W. Westall*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

26th

|Seabury C. Mastick*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

27th

|Caleb H. Baumes*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

28th

|J. Griswold Webb*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

29th

|Arthur F. Bouton*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

30th

|William T. Byrne*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

31st

|John F. Williams*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

32nd

|Thomas C. Brown*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

33rd

|Mortimer Y. Ferris*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Rep./Dem.

34th

|Warren T. Thayer*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

35th

|Jeremiah Keck*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

36th

|Henry D. Williams*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

37th

|Perley A. Pitcher*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

38th

|George R. Fearon*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

39th

|Willis Wendell*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

40th

|B. Roger Wales*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

41st

|James S. Truman*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

42nd

|Charles J. Hewitt*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

43rd

|Ernest E. Cole*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Rep./Soc.

|on July 1, 1926, appointed Counsel to the State Education Dept.

44th

|John Knight*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Rep./Dem./Soc.

|Temporary President

45th

|James L. Whitley*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

46th

|Homer E. A. Dick*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

47th

|William W. Campbell*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Rep./Dem.

48th

|William J. Hickey*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

49th

|Leonard R. Lipowicz*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

50th

|Leonard W. H. Gibbs*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

51st

|Leigh G. Kirkland*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Rep./Soc.

=Employees=

Clerk: Ernest A. Fay
Sergeant-at-Arms: Charles R. Hotaling

State Assembly

=Assemblymen=

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

class=wikitable

! colspan="2" | District

! Assemblymen

! Party

! Notes

rowspan="3" | Albany

|1st

|William J. Snyder

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

2nd

|John P. Hayes*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

3rd

|Frederick B. Linen*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Allegany

|Cassius Congdon*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="8" | Bronx

|1st

|Nicholas J. Eberhard*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

2nd

|William F. Smith

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

3rd

|Julius S. Berg*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

4th

|Herman M. Albert

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

5th

|Harry A. Samberg*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

6th

|Thomas J. McDonald*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

7th

|John F. Reidy*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

8th

|Joseph E. Kinsley*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

rowspan="2" | Broome

|1st

|Edmund B. Jenks*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|Chairman of Codes

2nd

|Forman E. Whitcomb*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Cattaraugus

|James W. Watson*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Cayuga

|Sanford G. Lyon*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="2" | Chautauqua

|1st

|Adolf F. Johnson*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|Joseph A. McGinnies*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|re-elected Speaker

colspan="2" | Chemung

|Hovey E. Copley*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Chenango

|Bert Lord*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Clinton

|Ezra Trepanier

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Columbia

|Henry M. James

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Cortland

|Irving F. Rice*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Delaware

|Ralph H. Loomis*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="2" | Dutchess

|1st

|Howard N. Allen*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|John M. Hackett*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="8" | Erie

|1st

|John S. N. Sprague*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|Henry W. Hutt*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

3rd

|Frank X. Bernhardt*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

4th

|John J. Meegan*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

5th

|Ansley B. Borkowski*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

6th

|Charles A. Freiberg*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

7th

|Edmund F. Cooke*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

8th

|Nelson W. Cheney*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Essex

|Fred L. Porter*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|Chairman of State Re-Organization

colspan="2" | Franklin

|John E. Redwood

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Fulton and Hamilton

|Eberly Hutchinson*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|Chairman of Ways and Means

colspan="2" | Genesee

|Charles P. Miller*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Greene

|Ellis W. Bentley*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Herkimer

|Theodore L. Rogers*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Jefferson

|Jasper W. Cornaire*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="23" | Kings

|1st

|Charles F. Cline*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

2nd

|Murray Hearn*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

3rd

|Michael J. Gillen

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

4th

|George E. Dennen

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

5th

|John J. Cooney

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

6th

|George Blumberg

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

7th

|John J. Howard*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

8th

|Michael J. Reilly*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

9th

|Richard J. Tonry*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

10th

|William C. McCreery

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

11th

|Edward J. Coughlin*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

12th

|Marcellus H. Evans*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

13th

|William Breitenbach*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

14th

|Harry Landau

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

15th

|Edward P. Doyle

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

16th

|Maurice Z. Bungard*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

17th

|Edward E. Fay*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

18th

|Irwin Steingut*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

19th

|Jerome G. Ambro*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

20th

|Frank A. Miller*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

21st

|Emory F. Dyckman

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

22nd

|Jacob H. Livingston

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

23rd

|Joseph F. Ricca*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Lewis

|Clarence L. Fisher*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Livingston

|Lewis G. Stapley*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Madison

|John W. Gates*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="5" | Monroe

|1st

|Arthur T. Pammenter*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|Simon L. Adler*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|Majority Leader

3rd

|Cosmo A. Cilano*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

4th

|Fred J. Slater*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

5th

|W. Ray Austin*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Montgomery

|Samuel W. McCleary*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="2" | Nassau

|1st

|Edwin W. Wallace*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|F. Trubee Davison*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|in July 1926, appointed as Asst. Secretary of War for Air

rowspan="23" | New York

|1st

|Peter J. Hamill*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

2nd

|Frank R. Galgano*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

3rd

|Sylvester A. Dineen*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

4th

|Samuel Mandelbaum*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

5th

|Frank A. Carlin*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

6th

|Morris Weinfeld*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

7th

|John L. Buckley*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

8th

|Henry O. Kahan*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

9th

|John H. Conroy*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

10th

|Phelps Phelps*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

11th

|Samuel I. Rosenman*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

12th

|John A. Byrnes

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

13th

|John P. Nugent*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

14th

|Frederick L. Hackenburg*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

15th

|Samuel H. Hofstadter*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

16th

|Maurice Bloch*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

|Minority Leader

17th

|Meyer Alterman*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

18th

|Vincent H. Auleta

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

19th

|Abraham Grenthal

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

20th

|Louis A. Cuvillier*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

21st

|Albert Grossman

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

22nd

|Joseph A. Gavagan*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

23rd

|A. Spencer Feld*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

rowspan="2" | Niagara

|1st

|Mark T. Lambert*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|Frank S. Hall*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="3" | Oneida

|1st

|Gordon C. Ferguson*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|Russell G. Dunmore*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

3rd

|George J. Skinner*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="3" | Onondaga

|1st

|Horace M. Stone*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|Chairman of Re-Apportionment

2nd

|Willis H. Sargent*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

3rd

|Richard B. Smith*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Ontario

|Robert A. Catchpole*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="2" | Orange

|1st

|DeWitt C. Dominick*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|Alexander G. Hall

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Orleans

|Frank H. Lattin*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Oswego

|Victor C. Lewis*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Otsego

|Frank M. Smith*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Putnam

|D. Mallory Stephens

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="6" | Queens

|1st

|Henry M. Dietz*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

2nd

|John T. Hammond

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

3rd

|Alfred J. Kennedy*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

4th

|Jere F. Ryan

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

5th

|William F. Brunner*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

6th

|Paul P. Gallagher

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

rowspan="2" | Rensselaer

|1st

|Harry M. Brooks

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|William D. Thomas*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|on November 2, 1926, elected Treasurer of Rensselaer Co.

rowspan="2" | Richmond

|1st

|William S. Hart*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

2nd

|William L. Vaughan*

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

colspan="2" | Rockland

|Walter S. Gedney*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="2" | St. Lawrence

|1st

|Rhoda Fox Graves*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|Chairwoman of Public Institutions

2nd

|Walter L. Pratt*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Saratoga

|Burton D. Esmond*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="2" | Schenectady

|1st

|Charles W. Merriam*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|William M. Nicoll*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Schoharie

|Kenneth H. Fake*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Schuyler

|Jacob W. Winters

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Seneca

|William H. Van Cleef*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="2" | Steuben

|1st

|Wilson Messer*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|Leon F. Wheatley*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="2" | Suffolk

|1st

|John G. Downs*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|John Boyle Jr.*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Sullivan

|J. Maxwell Knapp*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Tioga

|Daniel P. Witter*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Tompkins

|James R. Robinson*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Ulster

|Millard Davis*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Warren

|Richard J. Bolton*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Washington

|Herbert A. Bartholomew*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Wayne

|Harry A. Tellier*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

rowspan="5" | Westchester

|1st

|Thomas Channing Moore*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

2nd

|Herbert B. Shonk*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

3rd

|Milan E. Goodrich*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

4th

|Alexander H. Garnjost*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

5th

|Arthur I. Miller

|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

colspan="2" | Wyoming

|Webb A. Joiner*

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

colspan="2" | Yates

|Edwin C. Nutt

|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican

=Employees=

Clerk: Fred W. Hammond

Notes

Sources

[http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen1920s.html Members of the New York Senate (1920s)] at Political Graveyard
[http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly1920s.html Members of the New York Assembly (1920s)] at Political Graveyard
[http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19260112.2.37&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ 1926 COMMITTEE MEMBERS NAMED] in The Cornell Daily Sun on January 12, 1926

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