166th_New_York_State_Legislature References

166th New York State Legislature
166th New York State Legislature
	New York State Capitol (2009)
Overview
Legislative body	New York State Legislature
Jurisdiction	New York, United States
Term	January 1, 1947 – December 31, 1948
Senate
Members	56
President	Lt. Gov. Joe R. Hanley (R)
Temporary President	Benjamin F. Feinberg (R)
Party control	Republican ; 1947: (41–14–1) ; 1948: (40–15–1)
Assembly
Members	150
Speaker	Oswald D. Heck (R)
Party control	Republican ; 1947: (109–40–1) ; 1948: (107–42–1)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 8 – March 18, 1947
2nd	January 7 – March 13, 1948

The 166th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 8, 1947, to March 13, 1948, during the fifth and sixth years of Thomas E. Dewey's governorship, in Albany.

Background

Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1938, re-apportioned in 1943, 56 Senators and 150 assemblymen were elected in single-seat districts for two-year terms. 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 Kings (nine districts), New York (six), Bronx (five), Queens (four), Erie (three), Westchester (three), Monroe (two) and Nassau (two). The Assembly districts consisted either of a single entire county (except Hamilton Co.), or of contiguous area within one county.

At this time there were two major political parties: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The American Labor Party, the Liberal Party and the Communist Party also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1946, was held on November 5. Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Lieutenant Governor Joe R. Hanley were re-elected, both Republicans. The other five statewide elective offices up for election were carried by four Republicans, and the Democratic Chief Judge with Republican, American Labor and Liberal endorsement. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Republicans 2,826,000; Democrats 1,532,000; American Labor 429,000; Liberals 177,000; and Communists 90,000.^[1]

All four women members of the previous legislature—State Senator Rhoda Fox Graves (Rep.), of Gouverneur; and Assemblywomen Mary A. Gillen (Dem.), of Brooklyn; Gladys E. Banks (Rep.), of the Bronx; and Genesta M. Strong (Rep.), of Plandome Heights—were re-elected. Janet Hill Gordon (Rep.), a lawyer of Norwich; Elizabeth Hanniford (Rep.), a statistician of the Bronx; Mildred F. Taylor (Rep.), a coal dealer of Lyons; and Maude E. Ten Eyck (Rep.), of Manhattan; were also elected to the Assembly.

The New York state election, 1947, was held on November 4. No statewide elective offices were up for election. Four vacancies in the State Senate, and four vacancies in the Assembly were filled.^[2]

Sessions

The Legislature met for the first regular session (the 170th) at the State Capitol in Albany on January 8, 1947;^[3] and adjourned on March 18.

Oswald D. Heck (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker.

Benjamin F. Feinberg (Rep.) was re-elected Temporary President of the State Senate.

The Legislature met for the second regular session (the 171st) at the State Capitol in Albany on January 7, 1948;^[4] and adjourned on March 13.^[5]

State Senate

Districts

1st District: Suffolk County
2nd and 3rd District: Parts of Nassau County
4th, 5th, 6th and 7th District: Parts of Queens County, i.e. the Borough of Queens
8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th District: Parts of Kings County, i.e. the Borough of Brooklyn
17th District: Richmond County, i.e. the Borough of Richmond (now the Borough of Staten Island)
18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd District: Parts of New York County, i.e. the Borough of Manhattan
24th, 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th District: Parts of Bronx County, i.e. the Borough of the Bronx
29th, 30th and 31st District: Parts of Westchester County
32nd District: Orange and Rockland counties
33rd District: Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam counties
34th District: Delaware, Greene, Sullivan and Ulster counties
35th District: Albany County
36th District: Rensselaer and Saratoga counties
37th District: Montgomery and Schenectady counties
38th District: Clinton, Essex, Warren and Washington counties
39th District: St. Lawrence and Franklin counties
40th District: Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer and Lewis counties
41st District: Oneida County
42nd District: Jefferson and Oswego counties
43rd District: Onondaga County
44th District: Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Otsego and Schoharie counties
45th District: Broome County
46th District: Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga and Tompkins counties
47th District: Cayuga, Seneca and Wayne counties
48th District: Ontario, Steuben and Yates counties
49th District: Allegany, Genesee, Livingston and Wyoming counties
50th and 51st District: Parts of Monroe County
52nd District: Niagara and Orleans counties
53rd, 54th and 55th District: Parts of Erie County
56th District: Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties

Members

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. MacNeil Mitchell, Sidney A. Fine and George T. Manning changed from the Assembly to the Senate at the beginning of this Legislature. Assemblyman Ernest I. Hatfield was elected to fill a vacancy in the Senate.

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

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	S. Wentworth Horton	Republican
2nd	John D. Bennett*	Republican
3rd	William S. Hults Jr.*	Republican
4th	Seymour Halpern*	Republican
5th	Frederic E. Hammer*	Republican
6th	Charles T. Corey	Republican
7th	Irwin Pakula	Republican
8th	James J. Crawford*	Dem./Lib.
9th	Richard McCleery	Republican
10th	Kenneth Sherbell	Am. Labor/Rep.
11th	Fred G. Moritt*	Dem./Am. Labor
12th	Samuel L. Greenberg*	Dem./Am. Labor
13th	C. Corey Mills	Rep./Am. Labor
14th	Joseph E. Parisi*	Rep./Am. Labor
15th	Louis L. Friedman*	Democrat
16th	William Rosenblatt*	Democrat
17th	Robert E. Johnson	Republican	in August 1947, appointed as D.A. of Richmond Co.
17th	John M. Braisted Jr.	Democrat	on November 4, 1947, elected to fill vacancy
18th	Elmer F. Quinn*	Dem./Am. Labor	Minority Leader
19th	Francis J. Mahoney*	Dem./Am. labor
20th	MacNeil Mitchell*	Republican
21st	Harold I. Panken	Democrat
22nd	Alfred E. Santangelo	Democrat
23rd	Alexander A. Falk*	Democrat	in May 1947, appointed to the New York Civil Service Commission
23rd	Joseph Zaretzki	Democrat	on November 4, 1947, elected to fill vacancy
24th	Sidney A. Fine*	Democrat
25th	Arthur Wachtel*	Democrat
26th	Isidore Dollinger*	Democrat	on November 2, 1948, elected to the 81st U.S. Congress
27th	Paul A. Fino*	Republican
28th	Charles V. Scanlan	Republican
29th	William F. Condon*	Republican
30th	J. Raymond McGovern*	Republican
31st	Pliny W. Williamson*	Republican	Chairman of Judiciary
32nd	Thomas C. Desmond*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Cities
33rd	Frederic H. Bontecou*	Republican	on May 9, 1947, tendered his resignation, effective June 1^[6]
33rd	Ernest I. Hatfield*	Republican	on November 4, 1947, elected to fill vacancy
34th	Arthur H. Wicks*	Republican	Chairman of Finance
35th	Peter J. Dalessandro	Democrat
36th	Gilbert T. Seelye*	Republican
37th	Thomas F. Campbell*	Republican
38th	Benjamin F. Feinberg*	Republican	re-elected Temporary President
39th	Rhoda Fox Graves*	Republican
40th	Fred A. Young*	Republican
41st	Robert C. Groben	Republican
42nd	Isaac B. Mitchell*	Republican	Chairman of Internal Affairs; resigned on June 12, 1947^[7]
42nd	Henry A. Wise	Republican	on November 4, 1947, elected to fill vacancy
43rd	John H. Hughes	Republican
44th	Walter W. Stokes*	Republican	Chairman of Conservation
45th	Floyd E. Anderson*	Republican
46th	Chauncey B. Hammond*	Republican
47th	Henry W. Griffith*	Republican
48th	Fred S. Hollowell*	Republican
49th	Austin W. Erwin*	Republican
50th	George T. Manning	Republican
51st	Allen J. Oliver*	Republican	Chairman of Aviation
52nd	William Bewley*	Republican
53rd	Walter J. Mahoney*	Republican
54th	Edmund P. Radwan*	Republican
55th	Charles O. Burney Jr.*	Republican
56th	George H. Pierce*	Republican

Employees

Clerk: William S. King
Sergeant-at-Arms: Harold W. Cole

State Assembly

Assemblymen

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

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	D-Cady Herrick 2nd	Democrat
	2nd	George W. Foy*	Democrat
	3rd	John McBain	Republican
Allegany		William H. MacKenzie*	Republican
Bronx	1st	Patrick J. Fogarty*	Democrat	on October 28, 1947, appointed to the Domestic Relations Court^[8]
	1st	Bernard C. McDonnell	Democrat	on February 17, 1948, elected to fill vacancy^[9]
	2nd	Richard M. Goldwater	Democrat
	3rd	Edward T. Galloway*	Democrat
	4th	A. Joseph Ribustello	Republican
	5th	Joseph A. Martinis	Democrat
	6th	Julius J. Gans*	Democrat
	7th	Louis Peck*	Democrat
	8th	Louis Bennett*	Democrat
	9th	Elizabeth Hanniford	Republican
	10th	John J. DePasquale*	Republican
	11th	Gladys E. Banks*	Republican
	12th	Nathan A. Lashin*	Democrat
	13th	William J. Drohan	Republican
Broome	1st	Richard H. Knauf*	Republican
Broome	2nd	Orlo M. Brees*	Republican
Cattaraugus		Leo P. Noonan*	Republican
Cayuga		Charles A. Cusick	Republican
Chautauqua		E. Herman Magnuson*	Republican
Chemung		Harry J. Tifft*	Republican
Chenango		Janet Hill Gordon	Republican
Clinton		James A. FitzPatrick	Republican
Columbia		Willard C. Drumm	Republican
Cortland		Harold L. Creal*	Republican
Delaware		Elmer J. Kellam*	Republican
Dutchess		Ernest I. Hatfield*	Republican	on June 18, 1947, resigned to run for the State Senate
Dutchess		Robert Watson Pomeroy	Republican	on November 4, 1947, elected to fill vacancy
Erie	1st	Frank A. Gugino*	Republican
	2nd	Justin C. Morgan*	Republican
	3rd	William J. Butler*	Republican
	4th	Gerald F. Sullivan	Republican
	5th	Philip V. Baczkowski*	Democrat
	6th	George F. Dannebrock*	Republican
	7th	Julius Volker*	Republican
	8th	John R. Pillion*	Republican
Essex		L. Judson Morhouse*	Republican
Franklin		William L. Doige*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		Joseph R. Younglove*	Republican
Genesee		John E. Johnson	Republican
Greene		William E. Brady*	Republican
Herkimer		Leo A. Lawrence*	Republican
Jefferson		Orin S. Wilcox*	Republican
Kings	1st	Max M. Turshen*	Democrat
	2nd	J. Sidney Levine*	Democrat
	3rd	Mary A. Gillen*	Democrat
	4th	Bernard Austin*	Democrat
	5th	Seymour Brener	Republican
	6th	Robert J. Crews*	Republican	resigned
	6th	John J. Ryan	Democrat	on November 4, 1947, elected to fill vacancy
	7th	Louis Kalish	Democrat
	8th	Thomas A. Carney	Republican
	9th	Frank J. McMullen*	Republican
	10th	Lewis W. Olliffe*	Republican
	11th	Eugene F. Bannigan*	Democrat
	12th	Frank P. Davern	Republican
	13th	Lawrence P. Murphy*	Democrat
	14th	Harry Gittleson*	Democrat
	15th	John Smolenski*	Democrat
	16th	Frank J. Pino*	Democrat
	17th	John J. Walsh*	Democrat
	18th	Irwin Steingut*	Democrat	Minority Leader
	19th	Philip J. Schupler*	Democrat
	20th	John E. Beck*	Republican
	21st	Thomas A. Dwyer*	Democrat
	22nd	Joseph Soviero	Republican
	23rd	Alfred A. Lama*	Democrat
	24th	Samuel Kaplan	Am. Labor
Lewis		Benjamin H. Demo*	Republican
Livingston		Joseph W. Ward*	Republican
Madison		Wheeler Milmoe*	Republican
Monroe	1st	Joseph W. Bentley	Republican
	2nd	Abraham Schulman*	Republican
	3rd	Raymond H. Combs	Republican
	4th	Thomas F. Riley*	Republican
Montgomery		John F. Bennison*	Republican
Nassau	1st	Frank J. Becker*	Republican
	2nd	Joseph F. Carlino*	Republican
	3rd	Genesta M. Strong*	Republican
	4th	David S. Hill Jr.*	Republican
New York	1st	Maude E. Ten Eyck	Republican
	2nd	Louis DeSalvio*	Democrat
	3rd	Owen McGivern*	Democrat
	4th	Leonard Farbstein*	Democrat
	5th	Irwin D. Davidson*	Democrat
	6th	Francis X. McGowan*	Democrat
	7th	Howard Henig	Republican
	8th	Archibald Douglas Jr.*	Republican
	9th	John R. Brook*	Republican
	10th	John P. Morrissey*	Democrat
	11th	William E. Prince*	Democrat
	12th	William T. Andrews*	Democrat
	13th	Harold A. Stevens	Democrat
	14th	Hulan E. Jack*	Democrat
	15th	Samuel Roman	Republican
	16th	Louis A. Cioffi	Democrat
Niagara	1st	Jacob E. Hollinger*	Republican
Niagara	2nd	Ernest Curto*	Republican
Oneida	1st	Harlow E. Bacon*	Republican
Oneida	2nd	Richard R. Griffith	Republican
Onondaga	1st	Searles G. Shultz	Republican
	2nd	Clellan S. Forsythe*	Republican
	3rd	Lawrence M. Rulison*	Republican
Ontario		Harry R. Marble*	Republican
Orange	1st	Lee B. Mailler*	Republican	Majority Leader^[10]
Orange	2nd	Wilson C. Van Duzer*	Republican
Orleans		John S. Thompson*	Republican
Oswego		Henry D. Coville*	Republican
Otsego		Paul L. Talbot*	Republican
Putnam		D. Mallory Stephens*	Republican	Chairman of Ways and Means
Queens	1st	Alexander Del Giorno*	Democrat
	2nd	William E. Clancy*	Democrat
	3rd	Joseph H. Brinster*	Republican
	4th	George T. Clark	Republican
	5th	Thomas F. Hurley*	Republican
	6th	Meyer Wilen	Republican
	7th	George Archinal*	Republican	resigned on July 31, 1947, and was appointed as Deputy Chief Clerk of the Surrogate's Court of Queens County^[11]
	7th	George P. Stier	Dem./A.L./Lib.	on November 4, 1947, elected to fill vacancy
	8th	Samuel Rabin*	Republican
	9th	Fred W. Preller*	Republican
	10th	Angelo Graci*	Republican
	11th	Sidney Paymer	Republican
	12th	Henry Schneider Jr.	Republican
Rensselaer		John S. Finch*	Republican
Richmond	1st	Arthur T. Berge*	Republican
Richmond	2nd	Edmund P. Radigan*	Republican
Rockland		Robert Walmsley*	Republican
St. Lawrence		Allan P. Sill*	Republican
Saratoga		John L. Ostrander*	Republican
Schenectady		Oswald D. Heck*	Republican	re-elected Speaker
Schoharie		Arthur L. Parsons*	Republican
Schuyler		Jerry W. Black*	Republican
Seneca		Lawrence W. Van Cleef*	Republican
Steuben		William M. Stuart*	Republican
Suffolk	1st	Edmund R. Lupton*	Republican
Suffolk	2nd	Elisha T. Barrett*	Republican
Sullivan		James G. Lyons*	Democrat
Tioga		Myron D. Albro*	Republican
Tompkins		Stanley C. Shaw*	Republican
Ulster		John F. Wadlin*	Republican
Warren		Harry A. Reoux*	Republican	Chairman of Judiciary
Washington		Henry Neddo*	Republican
Wayne		Mildred F. Taylor	Republican
Westchester	1st	Malcolm Wilson*	Republican
	2nd	Fred A. Graber*	Republican
	3rd	P. Raymond Sirignano*	Republican	resigned to run for City Judge of Mount Vernon
	3rd	Harold D. Toomey	Republican	on November 4, 1947, elected to fill vacancy
	4th	Frank S. McCullough*	Republican
	5th	Christopher H. Lawrence*	Republican
	6th	Theodore Hill Jr.*	Republican
Wyoming		Harold C. Ostertag*	Republican
Yates		Vernon W. Blodgett*	Republican

Employees

Clerk: Ansley B. Borkowski

Notes

^ The Communist Party did not nominate a candidate for Governor; this number is the average of the vote for Comptroller and Attorney General, the only two nominations made on the state ticket.
^ MINOR PARTIES LOSE in The New York Times on November 5, 1947 (subscription required)
^ LEGISLATURE SEATS 8 WOMEN, A RECORD in The New York Times on January 9, 1947 (subscription required)
^ LEGISLATURE PUTS TEACHER PAY FIRST AS IT OPENS TODAY in The New York Times on January 8, 1948 (subscription required)
^ LEGISLATURE LETS RENT LAWS STAND AS SESSION CLOSES in The New York Times on March 14, 1948 (subscription required)
^ BONTECOU RESIGNS FROM STATE SENATE in The New York Times on May 10, 1947 (subscription required)
^ STATE SENATOR RESIGNS in The New York Times on June 13, 1947 (subscription required)
^ NEW JUDGES OF THE DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT in The New York Times on October 29, 1947 (subscription required)
^ FEB. 17 VOTE SEEN AS WALLACE TEST in The New York Times on January 15, 1948 (subscription required)
^ MAILLER STANDS UP UNDER FIRE OF FOE in The New York Times on January 9, 1947 (subscription required)
^ ARCHINAL RESIGNS FROM ASSEMBLY in The Wave, of Rockaway Beach, Queens, on July 31, 1947

Sources

Know Your Legislators in The State Employee (January 1947, Vol. 16, No. 1, pg. 16f and 23)
Members of the New York Senate (1940s) at Political Graveyard
Members of the New York Assembly (1940s) at Political Graveyard

[1] The Communist Party did not nominate a candidate for Governor; this number is the average of the vote for Comptroller and Attorney General, the only two nominations made on the state ticket.

[2] MINOR PARTIES LOSE in The New York Times on November 5, 1947 (subscription required)

[3] LEGISLATURE SEATS 8 WOMEN, A RECORD in The New York Times on January 9, 1947 (subscription required)

[4] LEGISLATURE PUTS TEACHER PAY FIRST AS IT OPENS TODAY in The New York Times on January 8, 1948 (subscription required)

[5] LEGISLATURE LETS RENT LAWS STAND AS SESSION CLOSES in The New York Times on March 14, 1948 (subscription required)

[6] BONTECOU RESIGNS FROM STATE SENATE in The New York Times on May 10, 1947 (subscription required)

[7] STATE SENATOR RESIGNS in The New York Times on June 13, 1947 (subscription required)

[8] NEW JUDGES OF THE DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT in The New York Times on October 29, 1947 (subscription required)

[9] FEB. 17 VOTE SEEN AS WALLACE TEST in The New York Times on January 15, 1948 (subscription required)

[10] MAILLER STANDS UP UNDER FIRE OF FOE in The New York Times on January 9, 1947 (subscription required)

[11] ARCHINAL RESIGNS FROM ASSEMBLY in The Wave, of Rockaway Beach, Queens, on July 31, 1947

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