New York state legislative session
The166th New York State Legislature , consisting of theNew York State Senate and theNew York State Assembly , met from January 8, 1947, to March 13, 1948, during the fifth and sixth years ofThomas E. Dewey 'sgovernorship , inAlbany .
Under the provisions of theNew 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: theRepublican Party and theDemocratic Party . TheAmerican Labor Party , theLiberal Party and theCommunist Party also nominated tickets.
The1946 New York state election was held on November 5. GovernorThomas E. Dewey and Lieutenant GovernorJoe 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 SenatorRhoda Fox Graves (Rep.), ofGouverneur ; and AssemblywomenMary A. Gillen (Dem.), ofBrooklyn ;Gladys E. Banks (Rep.), ofthe Bronx ; andGenesta M. Strong (Rep.), ofPlandome Heights —were re-elected.Janet Hill Gordon (Rep.), a lawyer ofNorwich ;Elizabeth Hanniford (Rep.), a statistician ofthe Bronx ;Mildred F. Taylor (Rep.), a coal dealer ofLyons ; andMaude E. Ten Eyck (Rep.), ofManhattan ; were also elected to the Assembly.
The 1947 New York state election 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]
The Legislature met for the first regular session (the 170th) at the State Capitol inAlbany on January 8, 1947;[ 3]
Oswald D. Heck (Rep.) was re-electedSpeaker .
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] [ 5]
1st District:Suffolk County 2nd and 3rd District: Parts ofNassau County 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th District: Parts of Queens County, i.e. the Borough ofQueens 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th District: Parts of Kings County, i.e. the Borough ofBrooklyn 17th District: Richmond County, i.e. the Borough of Richmond (now the Borough ofStaten Island ) 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd District: Parts of New York County, i.e. the Borough ofManhattan 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th District: Parts of Bronx County, i.e. the Borough ofthe Bronx 29th, 30th and 31st District: Parts ofWestchester County 32nd District:Orange andRockland counties 33rd District:Columbia ,Dutchess andPutnam counties 34th District:Delaware ,Greene ,Sullivan andUlster counties 35th District:Albany County 36th District:Rensselaer andSaratoga counties 37th District:Montgomery andSchenectady counties 38th District:Clinton ,Essex ,Warren andWashington counties 39th District:St. Lawrence andFranklin counties 40th District:Fulton ,Hamilton ,Herkimer andLewis counties 41st District:Oneida County 42nd District:Jefferson andOswego counties 43rd District:Onondaga County 44th District:Chenango ,Cortland ,Madison ,Otsego andSchoharie counties 45th District:Broome County 46th District:Chemung ,Schuyler ,Tioga andTompkins counties 47th District:Cayuga ,Seneca andWayne counties 48th District:Ontario ,Steuben andYates counties 49th District:Allegany ,Genesee ,Livingston andWyoming counties 50th and 51st District: Parts ofMonroe County 52nd District:Niagara andOrleans counties 53rd, 54th and 55th District: Parts ofErie County 56th District:Cattaraugus andChautauqua counties 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. 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 theNew York Civil Service Commission 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 the81st 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] 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] 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
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] 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 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 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 andHamilton 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 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 2nd Ernest Curto *Republican Oneida 1st Harlow E. Bacon *Republican 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] 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[ 11] 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 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-electedSpeaker 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 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 ofMount Vernon 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
^ 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 The New York Times ^ LEGISLATURE SEATS 8 WOMEN, A RECORD The New York Times ^ LEGISLATURE PUTS TEACHER PAY FIRST AS IT OPENS TODAY The New York Times ^ LEGISLATURE LETS RENT LAWS STAND AS SESSION CLOSES The New York Times ^ BONTECOU RESIGNS FROM STATE SENATE The New York Times ^ STATE SENATOR RESIGNS The New York Times ^ NEW JUDGES OF THE DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT The New York Times ^ FEB. 17 VOTE SEEN AS WALLACE TEST The New York Times ^ MAILLER STANDS UP UNDER FIRE OF FOE The New York Times ^ ARCHINAL RESIGNS FROM ASSEMBLY The Wave , ofRockaway Beach, Queens , on July 31, 1947
