# New York Republican State Committee

The New York Republican State Committee, established in 1855, is the New York State affiliate of the United States Republican Party (GOP). The party has headquarters in Albany, Buffalo, and New York City. The purpose of the committee is to nominate Republican candidates for election to New York and federal political roles. It also assists its nominees in their election campaigns.

## History

The New York Republican State Committee was established in 1855, one year after the founding of the "Republican Party" by William H. Seward and Thurlow Weed. Initially, the committee met every three years to plan the Republican National Convention and it occasionally met during the election campaigning periods. The committee nominees were first politically successful in 1856. Since 1959, Nelson Rockefeller (1959–73) and George Pataki (1995–2006) have been the only two elected Republican governors of New York.
Until 1911, the New York Republican State Committee nominated its candidates through a primary or caucus system, which meant the average voter had very little input as to who would be their choice for the state and federal offices. That system was taken out of practice after the passing of the Direct Primary Law in 1911, which allowed for more input from those present at the primary.

## Organization

| Office | Office-holder |
| Chairman | Ed Cox |
| Executive Vice Chairman | John Burnett |
| Secretary | Venessa Simon |
| Treasurer | Carl Zeilman |
| National Committeewoman | Jennifer Saul |
| National Committeeman | Charlie Joyce |

### County committee

New York State has 62 counties. Every two years, in each county, Republicans elect a "Republican County Committee". The chair of each county committee is the face of the Republican Party in that county. New York also has 150 Assembly districts. Republicans elect one male and one female leader in each district. The district leaders form part of the executive committee of the respective county committee. The chair and the executive committee seek new party members; control local finances; find candidates to run for public office and choose the nominee (unless both candidates have petitioned enough signatures to trigger a primary).
Several of these counties are notable due to their high population, and impact on national politics. These Include:
* The Bronx Republican Party
* The Manhattan Republican Party
* Queens County Republican Party
* Kings County Republican Party
* Staten Island Republican Party
Niagara County Republican Committee

### State committee

The New York State Republican State Committee is composed of one male and one female representative from each Assembly District. Before each statewide election, the committee organises a party convention and chooses candidates for offices of the state. 60% of the committee's vote is needed to win the party's nomination. If no candidate wins 60% of the committee's vote, the candidates with more than 25 percent of the committee's vote compete in a "primary" which is held in the month of September. A candidate with less than 25 percent of the committee's vote may compete in the "primary" if they have a petition of support of greater than 15000 voters.
The State Committee also elects one National Committeewoman and one National Committeeman to represent the state committee to the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C. The current National Committee members are Jennifer Saul, a Republican fundraiser and former chairwoman of the New York County Republican Committee, and Lawrence Kadish, a real estate developer from downstate New York.

## Current elected officials

The New York Republican Party holds 20 out of the 63 seats in the New York State Senate and eleven of the state's 26 U.S. House seats.

### Members of Congress
#### U.S. Senate

* None
Both of New York's U.S. Senate seats have been held by Democrats since 1998. Al D'Amato was the last Republican to represent New York in the U.S. Senate. First elected in 1980, D'Amato lost his bid for a fourth term in 1998 to Chuck Schumer who has held the seat since.

#### U.S. House of Representatives

Out of the 26 seats New York is apportioned in the U.S. House of Representatives, seven are held by Republicans:
* NY-01: Nick LaLota
* NY-02: Andrew Garbarino
* NY-11: Nicole Malliotakis
* NY-17: Mike Lawler
* NY-21: Elise Stefanik
* NY-23: Nick Langworthy
* NY-24: Claudia Tenney

### State legislative leaders
#### New York State Senate

* Rob Ortt: Minority Leader
* Andrew Lanza: Deputy Minority Leader
* Patty Ritchie: Chair of the Senate Minority Conference
* Sue Serino: Vice Chair of the Senate Minority Conference
* Patrick Gallivan: Minority Whip
* Joseph Griffo: Assistant Minority Leader

#### New York State Assembly

* Will Barclay: Minority Leader
* Andy Goodell: Minority Leader Pro Tempore
* Mary Beth Walsh: Assistant Minority Leader Pro Tempore
* Michael Norris: Chair of the Assembly Minority Conference
* Jake Ashby: Vice Chair of the Assembly Minority Conference
* Michael Montesano: Minority Whip

## Republican presidents from New York

* Chester A. Arthur (1881−1885)
* Theodore Roosevelt (1901−1909)
* Richard Nixon (1969–1974)
* Donald Trump (2017−2021, 2025−2029)

## List of chairs

| Chair | Tenure | Hometown while serving |
| Edwin D. Morgan | 1856–1858 1874–1875 | Manhattan |
| James Kelly | 1858–1860 | Manhattan |
| Simeon Draper | 1860–1862 | Manhattan |
| Henry R. Low | 1862–1863 | Monticello |
| Charles Jones | 1863–1865 | Brooklyn |
| William R. Stewart | 1865–1866 | Manhattan |
| Hamilton Harris | 1866–1870 | Albany |
| Alonzo B. Cornell | 1870–1874 1875–1877 1878–1879 | Manhattan |
| John F. Smyth | 1877–1878 1882–1883 | Albany |
| Chester A. Arthur | 1879–1881 | Manhattan |
| B. Platt Carpenter | 1881–1882 | Stanford |
| James D. Warren | 1883–1885 | Buffalo |
| Chester S. Cole | 1885–1887 | Corning |
| Cornelius N. Bliss | 1887–1889 | Manhattan |
| John N. Knapp | 1889–1891 | Auburn |
| William Brookfield | September 1891 – September 1894 | |
| Charles W. Hackett | September 1894 – April 1898 | Utica |
| Benjamin B. Odell Jr. | May 1898 – November 1900 April 1904 – September 1906 | Newburgh |
| George W. Dunn | November 1900 – April 1904 | Binghamton |
| Timothy L. Woodruff | September 1906 – October 1910 | Brooklyn |
| Ezra P. Prentice | October 1910 – January 1911 | Manhattan |
| William Barnes Jr. | January 1911 – September 1914 | Albany |
| Frederick C. Tanner | October 1914 – January 1917 | Manhattan |
| George A. Glynn | January 1917 – September 1922 | Watertown |
| George K. Morris | September 1922 – August 1928 | Amsterdam |
| H. Edmund Machold | August 1928 – June 1929 | Watertown |
| William J. Maier | June 1929 – November 1930 | Seneca Falls |
| W. Kingsland Macy | December 1930 – September 1934 | Islip |
| Melvin C. Eaton | September 1934 – November 1936 | Norwich |
| William S. Murray | January 1937 – April 1940 | Utica |
| Edwin F. Jaeckle | April 1940 – November 1944 | Buffalo |
| Glen R. Bedenkapp | January 1945 – February 1949 | Lewiston |
| William L. Pfeiffer | 1949 – September 1953 | Buffalo |
| Dean P. Taylor | September 1953 – September 1954 | Troy |
| L. Judson Morhouse | September 1954 – January 1963 | Ticonderoga |
| Fred A. Young | April 1963 – January 1965 | Lowville |
| Carl Spad | February 1965 – May 1967 | White Plains |
| Charles A. Schoeneck Jr. | May 1967 – April 1969 | Syracuse |
| Charles T. Lanigan | 1969 – November 1972 | Utica |
| Richard M. Rosenbaum | November 1972 – June 1977 | Rochester |
| Bernard M. Kilbourn | June 1977 – 1981 | Utica |
| George L. Clark Jr. | March 1981 – July 1985 | Brooklyn |
| Anthony J. Colavita | September 19, 1985 – June 22, 1989 | Westchester County |
| J. Patrick Barrett | June 22, 1989 – January 14, 1991 | Syracuse |
| William D. Powers | January 14, 1991 – March 8, 2001 | Rensselaer County |
| Alexander F. Treadwell | March 8, 2001 – November 15, 2004 | Westport |
| Stephen J. Minarik | November 15, 2004 – November 15, 2006 | Webster |
| Joseph N. Mondello | November 15, 2006 – September 29, 2009 | Hempstead |
| Edward F. Cox | September 29, 2009 – July 1, 2019 March 13, 2023-Present | Manhattan |
| Nick Langworthy | July 1, 2019 – March 13, 2023 | Amherst |