# 147th New York State Legislature

The 147th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to April 11, 1924, during the second 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. The Socialist Party also nominated tickets.

## Elections

The 1923 New York state election, was held on November 6. The only statewide elective office up for election was a judgeship on the New York Court of Appeals which was carried by Democrat Irving Lehman who had been endorsed by the Republicans.
No women were elected to the legislature.

## Sessions

The legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 2, 1924; and adjourned in the morning of April 11.
H. Edmund Machold (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker.

## State Senate
### Districts

* 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)..."
| District | Senator | Party | Notes |
| 1st | George L. Thompson* | Republican | |
| 2nd | Frank Giorgio* | Democrat | Chairman of Public Printing |
| 3rd | Peter J. McGarry* | Democrat | Chairman of Internal Affairs |
| 4th | Philip M. Kleinfeld* | Democrat | Chairman of Revision |
| 5th | Daniel F. Farrell* | Democrat | Chairman of Affairs of Cities |
| 6th | James A. Higgins* | Democrat | Chairman of Privileges and Elections |
| 7th | John A. Hastings* | Democrat | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills |
| 8th | William L. Love* | Democrat | Chairman of Penal Institutions |
| 9th | Charles E. Russell* | Democrat | Chairman of Banks |
| 10th | Jeremiah F. Twomey* | Democrat | Chairman of Public Service |
| 11th | Daniel J. Carroll* | Democrat | Chairman of Public Health |
| 12th | Jimmy Walker* | Democrat | Temporary President; Chairman of Rules |
| 13th | Ellwood M. Rabenold* | Democrat | Chairman of Conservation |
| 14th | Bernard Downing* | Democrat | Chairman of Finance |
| 15th | Nathan Straus Jr.* | Democrat | Chairman of Agriculture |
| 16th | Thomas I. Sheridan* | Democrat | Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment |
| 17th | Meyer Levy* | Democrat | Chairman of General Laws |
| 18th | vacant | Salvatore A. Cotillo was elected on Nov. 6, 1923, to the NY Supreme Court | Salvatore A. Cotillo was elected on Nov. 6, 1923, to the NY Supreme Court |
| 18th | Martin J. Kennedy | Democrat | elected to fill vacancy on January 8, 1924 |
| 19th | Duncan T. O'Brien* | Democrat | Chairman of Military Affairs |
| 20th | Michael E. Reiburn* | Democrat | Chairman of Labor and Industries |
| 21st | Henry G. Schackno* | Democrat | Chairman of Judiciary |
| 22nd | Benjamin Antin* | Democrat | Chairman of Education |
| 23rd | John J. Dunnigan* | Democrat | Chairman of Insurance |
| 24th | Mark W. Allen* | Democrat | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation |
| 25th | Walter W. Westall* | Republican | |
| 26th | Seabury C. Mastick* | Republican | |
| 27th | Caleb H. Baumes* | Republican | |
| 28th | J. Griswold Webb* | Republican | |
| 29th | Arthur F. Bouton* | Republican | |
| 30th | William T. Byrne* | Democrat | Chairman of Codes |
| 31st | John P. Ryan* | Democrat | Chairman of Affairs of Villages |
| 32nd | Frederick W. Kavanaugh* | Republican | |
| 33rd | Mortimer Y. Ferris* | Republican | |
| 34th | Warren T. Thayer* | Republican | |
| 35th | Theodore Douglas Robinson* | Republican | |
| 36th | Frederick M. Davenport* | Republican | on November 4, 1924, elected to the 69th U.S. Congress |
| 37th | Willard S. Augsbury* | Republican | |
| 38th | George R. Fearon* | Republican | |
| 39th | Allen J. Bloomfield* | Republican | |
| 40th | Clayton R. Lusk* | Republican | Minority Leader |
| 41st | Seymour Lowman* | Republican | on November 4, 1924, elected Lieutenant Governor |
| 42nd | Charles J. Hewitt* | Republican | |
| 43rd | Ernest E. Cole* | Republican | |
| 44th | John Knight* | Republican | |
| 45th | James L. Whitley* | Republican | |
| 46th | Homer E. A. Dick* | Republican | |
| 47th | William W. Campbell* | Republican | |
| 48th | Parton Swift* | Republican | |
| 49th | Robert C. Lacey* | Democrat | Chairman of Canals |
| 50th | Leonard W. H. Gibbs* | Republican | |
| 51st | DeHart H. Ames* | Republican | |

### Employees

* Clerk: Dominick F. Mullaney
* Sergeant-at-Arms: Ralph D. Paoli
* Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms:
* Principal Doorkeeper:
* First Assistant Doorkeeper:
* Stenographer: Michael Degnan

## State Assembly
### Assemblymen

Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
| District | District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes |
| Albany | 1st | William J. Snyder | Democrat | |
| Albany | 2nd | John A. Boyle* | Democrat | |
| Albany | 3rd | Frank A. Wilson* | Democrat | |
| Allegany | Allegany | Cassius Congdon | Republican | |
| Bronx | 1st | Nicholas J. Eberhard* | Democrat | |
| Bronx | 2nd | Lester W. Patterson* | Democrat | |
| Bronx | 3rd | Julius S. Berg* | Democrat | |
| Bronx | 4th | Louis A. Schoffel* | Democrat | |
| Bronx | 5th | Harry A. Samberg | Democrat | |
| Bronx | 6th | Thomas J. McDonald* | Democrat | |
| Bronx | 7th | John F. Reidy | Democrat | |
| Bronx | 8th | Joseph E. Kinsley | Democrat | |
| Broome | 1st | Edmund B. Jenks* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary |
| Broome | 2nd | Forman E. Whitcomb* | Republican | Chairman of Soldiers' Home |
| Cattaraugus | Cattaraugus | Leigh G. Kirkland* | Republican | Chairman of Excise |
| Cayuga | Cayuga | Sanford G. Lyon* | Republican | |
| Chautauqua | 1st | Adolf F. Johnson* | Republican | |
| Chautauqua | 2nd | Joseph A. McGinnies* | Republican | Chairman of Ways and Means |
| Chemung | Chemung | Hovey E. Copley | Republican | |
| Chenango | Chenango | Bert Lord | Republican | |
| Clinton | Clinton | George W. Gilbert* | Republican | |
| Columbia | Columbia | Lewis F. Harder | Republican | |
| Cortland | Cortland | Irving F. Rice* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Villages |
| Delaware | Delaware | Ralph H. Loomis | Republican | |
| Dutchess | 1st | Howard N. Allen* | Republican | |
| Dutchess | 2nd | John M. Hackett* | Republican | Chairman of General Laws |
| Erie | 1st | William J. Hickey* | Republican | |
| Erie | 2nd | Henry W. Hutt* | Republican | |
| Erie | 3rd | Charles D. Stickney | Republican | died on March 2, 1924 |
| Erie | 4th | John J. Meegan* | Democrat | |
| Erie | 5th | Ansley B. Borkowski | Republican | |
| Erie | 6th | Charles A. Freiberg* | Republican | |
| Erie | 7th | Edmund F. Cooke* | Republican | |
| Erie | 8th | Nelson W. Cheney* | Republican | Chairman of Banks |
| Essex | Essex | Fred L. Porter* | Republican | |
| Franklin | Franklin | George J. Moore | Republican | |
| Fulton and Hamilton | Fulton and Hamilton | Eberly Hutchinson* | Republican | Chairman of Insurance |
| Genesee | Genesee | Charles P. Miller* | Republican | Chairman of Labor and Industry |
| Greene | Greene | Ellis W. Bentley* | Republican | |
| Herkimer | Herkimer | Frederic S. Cole* | Republican | Chairman of Public Education |
| Jefferson | Jefferson | H. Edmund Machold* | Republican | re-elected Speaker; Chairman of Rules |
| Kings | 1st | Charles F. Cline | Democrat | |
| Kings | 2nd | Murray Hearn | Democrat | |
| Kings | 3rd | Frank J. Taylor* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 4th | Peter A. McArdle* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 5th | Joseph C. H. Flynn | Republican | |
| Kings | 6th | Joseph Reich* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 7th | John J. Howard* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 8th | Michael J. Reilly* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 9th | Richard J. Tonry* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 10th | Bernard F. Gray* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 11th | Edward J. Coughlin* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 12th | Marcellus H. Evans* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 13th | William A. Donnelly* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 14th | Joseph R. Blake* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 15th | John E. McCarthy | Democrat | |
| Kings | 16th | Maurice Z. Bungard | Democrat | |
| Kings | 17th | Julius Ruger* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 18th | Irwin Steingut* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 19th | Anthony L. Palma | Democrat | |
| Kings | 20th | Frank A. Miller* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 21st | Walter F. Clayton* | Republican | Chairman of Charitable and Religious Societies |
| Kings | 22nd | Howard C. Franklin* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 23rd | Joseph F. Ricca* | Republican | |
| Lewis | Lewis | Miller B. Moran* | Republican | |
| Livingston | Livingston | Lewis G. Stapley* | Republican | Chairman of Motor Vehicles |
| Madison | Madison | J. Arthur Brooks* | Republican | |
| Monroe | 1st | Russell B. Griffith* | Republican | |
| Monroe | 2nd | Simon L. Adler* | Republican | Majority Leader |
| Monroe | 3rd | Vincent B. Murphy* | Republican | Chairman of Cities; on November 4, 1924, elected State Comptroller |
| Monroe | 4th | Gilbert L. Lewis* | Republican | |
| Monroe | 5th | W. Ray Austin* | Republican | |
| Montgomery | Montgomery | Samuel W. McCleary* | Republican | Chairman of Public Printing |
| Nassau | 1st | Edwin W. Wallace | Republican | |
| Nassau | 2nd | F. Trubee Davison* | Republican | Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment |
| New York | 1st | Peter J. Hamill* | Democrat | |
| New York | 2nd | Frank R. Galgano* | Democrat | |
| New York | 3rd | Thomas F. Burchill* | Democrat | |
| New York | 4th | Samuel Mandelbaum* | Democrat | |
| New York | 5th | Frank A. Carlin | Democrat | |
| New York | 6th | Morris Weinfeld | Democrat | |
| New York | 7th | Victor R. Kaufmann* | Republican | Chairman of Military Affairs |
| New York | 8th | Henry O. Kahan* | Democrat | |
| New York | 9th | John H. Conroy* | Democrat | |
| New York | 10th | Phelps Phelps | Republican | |
| New York | 11th | Samuel I. Rosenman* | Democrat | |
| New York | 12th | Paul T. Kammerer Jr. | Democrat | |
| New York | 13th | John P. Nugent* | Democrat | |
| New York | 14th | Frederick L. Hackenburg* | Democrat | |
| New York | 15th | Joseph Steinberg* | Republican | |
| New York | 16th | Maurice Bloch* | Democrat | Minority Leader |
| New York | 17th | Meyer Alterman* | Democrat | |
| New York | 18th | Owen M. Kiernan* | Democrat | |
| New York | 19th | James Male* | Democrat | |
| New York | 20th | Louis A. Cuvillier* | Democrat | |
| New York | 21st | Henri W. Shields* | Democrat | |
| New York | 22nd | Joseph A. Gavagan* | Democrat | |
| New York | 23rd | Nelson Ruttenberg | Democrat | |
| Niagara | 1st | Mark T. Lambert | Republican | |
| Niagara | 2nd | Frank S. Hall* | Republican | Chairman of Social Welfare |
| Oneida | 1st | John C. Devereux | Republican | |
| Oneida | 2nd | Russell G. Dunmore* | Republican | Chairman of Claims |
| Oneida | 3rd | George J. Skinner | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 1st | Horace M. Stone* | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 2nd | George M. Haight | Democrat | |
| Onondaga | 3rd | Richard B. Smith | Republican | |
| Ontario | Ontario | Charles C. Sackett* | Republican | Chairman of Revision |
| Orange | 1st | Clemence C. Smith* | Republican | Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills |
| Orange | 2nd | Charles L. Mead* | Republican | Chairman of Public Institutions |
| Orleans | Orleans | Frank H. Lattin* | Republican | Chairman of Public Health |
| Oswego | Oswego | Victor C. Lewis | Republican | |
| Otsego | Otsego | Julian C. Smith* | Republican | |
| Putnam | Putnam | John R. Yale* | Republican | Chairman of Public Service |
| Queens | 1st | Henry M. Dietz | Democrat | |
| Queens | 2nd | Owen J. Dever* | Democrat | |
| Queens | 3rd | Alfred J. Kennedy* | Democrat | |
| Queens | 4th | D. Lacy Dayton | Republican | |
| Queens | 5th | William F. Brunner* | Democrat | |
| Queens | 6th | Paul P. Gallagher* | Democrat | |
| Rensselaer | 1st | John H. Westbrook | Democrat | |
| Rensselaer | 2nd | Henry Meurs | Republican | |
| Richmond | 1st | William S. Hart | Democrat | |
| Richmond | 2nd | William L. Vaughan* | Democrat | |
| Rockland | Rockland | Walter S. Gedney | Republican | |
| St. Lawrence | 1st | William A. Laidlaw* | Republican | |
| St. Lawrence | 2nd | Walter L. Pratt* | Republican | |
| Saratoga | Saratoga | Burton D. Esmond* | Republican | Chairman of Codes |
| Schenectady | 1st | Charles W. Merriam | Republican | |
| Schenectady | 2nd | William M. Nicoll | Republican | |
| Schoharie | Schoharie | Kenneth H. Fake* | Republican | |
| Schuyler | Schuyler | William Wickham | Republican | |
| Seneca | Seneca | William H. Van Cleef | Republican | |
| Steuben | 1st | Wilson Messer | Republican | |
| Steuben | 2nd | Leon F. Wheatley* | Republican | |
| Suffolk | 1st | John G. Peck* | Republican | Chairman of Conservation |
| Suffolk | 2nd | John Boyle Jr. | Republican | |
| Sullivan | Sullivan | Guernsey T. Cross* | Democrat | |
| Tioga | Tioga | Daniel P. Witter* | Republican | Chairman of Agriculture |
| Tompkins | Tompkins | James R. Robinson* | Republican | |
| Ulster | Ulster | Simon B. Van Wagenen* | Republican | Chairman of Internal Affairs |
| Warren | Warren | Milton N. Eldridge* | Republican | |
| Washington | Washington | Herbert A. Bartholomew* | Republican | Chairman of Canals |
| Wayne | Wayne | George S. Johnson | Republican | |
| Westchester | 1st | Thomas Channing Moore* | Republican | Chairman of Commerce and Navigation |
| Westchester | 2nd | Herbert B. Shonk* | Republican | |
| Westchester | 3rd | Milan E. Goodrich* | Republican | Chairman of Penal Institutions |
| Westchester | 4th | Alexander H. Garnjost | Republican | |
| Westchester | 5th | Arthur I. Miller* | Democrat | |
| Wyoming | Wyoming | Webb A. Joiner* | Republican | |
| Yates | Yates | James H. Underwood | Republican | |

### Employees

* Clerk: Fred W. Hammond