# 146th New York State Legislature

The 146th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 3 to May 4, 1923, during the first 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 of either 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 nominated a fusion ticket with the Farmer–Labor Party. The Prohibition Party and the Socialist Labor Party also nominated tickets.

## Elections

The 1922 New York state election, was held on November 7. Ex-Governor Al Smith (Dem.) unseated the incumbent Governor Nathan L. Miller (Rep.); and Mayor of Schenectady George R. Lunn (Dem.) was elected lieutenant governor. The other six statewide elective offices up for election were also carried by the Democrats. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Democrats 1,398,000; Republicans 1,012,000; Socialists/Farmer-Labor 108,000; Prohibition 10,000; and Socialist Labor 4,000.
No women were elected to the legislature.

## Sessions

The legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 3, 1923; and adjourned on May 4.
H. Edmund Machold (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker.
Jimmy Walker (Dem.) was elected Temporary President of the State Senate.

## 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. Philip M. Kleinfeld, Michael E. Reiburn, Benjamin Antin, Walter W. Westall, Seabury C. Mastick, J. Griswold Webb and Ernest E. Cole changed from the Assembly to the Senate.
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
| District | Senator | Party | Notes |
| 1st | George L. Thompson* | Republican | re-elected |
| 2nd | Frank Giorgio | Democrat | Chairman of Public Printing |
| 3rd | Peter J. McGarry* | Democrat | re-elected; Chairman of Internal Affairs |
| 4th | Philip M. Kleinfeld* | Democrat | Chairman of Revision |
| 5th | Daniel F. Farrell* | Democrat | re-elected; 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 | re-elected; Chairman of Public Service |
| 11th | Daniel J. Carroll | Democrat | Chairman of Public Health |
| 12th | Jimmy Walker* | Democrat | re-elected; elected Temporary President; Chairman of Rules |
| 13th | Ellwood M. Rabenold | Democrat | Chairman of Conservation |
| 14th | Bernard Downing* | Democrat | re-elected; Chairman of Finance |
| 15th | Nathan Straus Jr.* | Democrat | re-elected; Chairman of Agriculture |
| 16th | Thomas I. Sheridan* | Democrat | re-elected; Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment |
| 17th | Meyer Levy | Democrat | Chairman of General Laws |
| 18th | Salvatore A. Cotillo* | Democrat | re-elected; Chairman of Judiciary; on November 6, 1923, elected to the New York Supreme Court |
| 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 | re-elected; Chairman of Codes |
| 22nd | Benjamin Antin | Democrat | Chairman of Education |
| 23rd | John J. Dunnigan* | Democrat | re-elected; 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 | re-elected |
| 28th | J. Griswold Webb* | Republican | |
| 29th | Arthur F. Bouton | Republican | |
| 30th | William T. Byrne | Democrat | Chairman of Civil Service |
| 31st | John P. Ryan | Democrat | Chairman of Affairs of Villages |
| 32nd | Frederick W. Kavanaugh* | Republican | re-elected |
| 33rd | Mortimer Y. Ferris* | Republican | re-elected |
| 34th | Warren T. Thayer* | Republican | re-elected |
| 35th | Theodore Douglas Robinson* | Republican | re-elected |
| 36th | Frederick M. Davenport* | Republican | re-elected |
| 37th | Willard S. Augsbury | Republican | |
| 38th | George R. Fearon* | Republican | re-elected |
| 39th | Allen J. Bloomfield* | Republican | re-elected |
| 40th | Clayton R. Lusk* | Republican | re-elected; Minority Leader |
| 41st | Seymour Lowman* | Republican | re-elected |
| 42nd | Charles J. Hewitt* | Republican | re-elected |
| 43rd | Ernest E. Cole* | Republican | |
| 44th | John Knight* | Republican | re-elected |
| 45th | James L. Whitley* | Republican | re-elected |
| 46th | Homer E. A. Dick* | Republican | re-elected |
| 47th | William W. Campbell* | Republican | re-elected |
| 48th | Parton Swift* | Republican | re-elected |
| 49th | Robert C. Lacey | Democrat | Chairman of Canals |
| 50th | Leonard W. H. Gibbs* | Republican | re-elected |
| 51st | DeHart H. Ames* | Republican | re-elected |

### 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 | Edgar C. Campbell* | Republican | |
| Albany | 2nd | John A. Boyle | Democrat | |
| Albany | 3rd | Frank A. Wilson | Democrat | |
| Allegany | Allegany | William Duke Jr.* | 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 | William Lyman* | Democrat | |
| Bronx | 6th | Thomas J. McDonald* | Democrat | |
| Bronx | 7th | Joseph V. McKee* | Democrat | |
| Bronx | 8th | Edward J. Walsh* | Democrat | |
| Broome | 1st | Edmund B. Jenks* | Republican | |
| Broome | 2nd | Forman E. Whitcomb* | Republican | |
| Cattaraugus | Cattaraugus | Leigh G. Kirkland* | Republican | |
| Cayuga | Cayuga | Sanford G. Lyon | Republican | |
| Chautauqua | 1st | Adolf F. Johnson | Republican | |
| Chautauqua | 2nd | Joseph A. McGinnies* | Republican | |
| Chemung | Chemung | Oscar Kahler | Democrat | |
| Chenango | Chenango | Charles L. Banks* | Republican | |
| Clinton | Clinton | George W. Gilbert | Republican | |
| Columbia | Columbia | Robert Reginald Livingston | Democrat | |
| Cortland | Cortland | Irving F. Rice* | Republican | |
| Delaware | Delaware | Lincoln R. Long* | Republican | |
| Dutchess | 1st | Howard N. Allen | Republican | |
| Dutchess | 2nd | John M. Hackett* | Republican | |
| Erie | 1st | William J. Hickey* | Republican | |
| Erie | 2nd | Henry W. Hutt | Republican | |
| Erie | 3rd | August Seelbach* | Republican | |
| Erie | 4th | John J. Meegan | Democrat | |
| Erie | 5th | John Krysinski | Democrat | |
| Erie | 6th | Charles A. Freiberg | Republican | |
| Erie | 7th | Edmund F. Cooke | Republican | |
| Erie | 8th | Nelson W. Cheney* | Republican | |
| Essex | Essex | Fred L. Porter* | Republican | |
| Franklin | Franklin | Anson H. Ellsworth* | Republican | |
| Fulton and Hamilton | Fulton and Hamilton | Eberly Hutchinson* | Republican | |
| Genesee | Genesee | Charles P. Miller* | Republican | |
| Greene | Greene | Ellis W. Bentley | Republican | |
| Herkimer | Herkimer | Frederic S. Cole* | Republican | |
| Jefferson | Jefferson | H. Edmund Machold* | Republican | re-elected Speaker |
| Kings | 1st | Francis J. Cronin* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 2nd | John Lucey | Democrat | |
| Kings | 3rd | Frank J. Taylor* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 4th | Peter A. McArdle* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 5th | John Cashmore | Democrat | |
| 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 | Gerald F. Dunne | Democrat | |
| Kings | 16th | James F. Kiernan | Democrat | |
| Kings | 17th | Julius Ruger | Democrat | |
| Kings | 18th | Irwin Steingut* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 19th | Charles L. Fasullo* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 20th | Frank A. Miller* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 21st | Walter F. Clayton* | Republican | |
| Kings | 22nd | Howard C. Franklin* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 23rd | Joseph F. Ricca* | Republican | |
| Lewis | Lewis | Miller B. Moran* | Republican | |
| Livingston | Livingston | Lewis G. Stapley* | Republican | |
| 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 | |
| Monroe | 4th | Gilbert L. Lewis* | Republican | |
| Monroe | 5th | W. Ray Austin | Republican | |
| Montgomery | Montgomery | Samuel W. McCleary* | Republican | |
| Nassau | 1st | Thomas A. McWhinney* | Republican | |
| Nassau | 2nd | F. Trubee Davison* | Republican | |
| 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 | Charles D. Donohue* | Democrat | Minority Leader; on November 6, 1923, elected to the New York Supreme Court |
| New York | 6th | Sol Ullman* | Republican | |
| New York | 7th | Victor R. Kaufmann* | Republican | |
| New York | 8th | Henry O. Kahan* | Democrat | |
| New York | 9th | John H. Conroy | Democrat | |
| New York | 10th | Joseph T. Flynn | Democrat | |
| New York | 11th | Samuel I. Rosenman* | Democrat | |
| New York | 12th | John J. O'Connor* | Democrat | on November 6, 1923, elected to the 68th U.S. Congress |
| 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 | |
| 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 | George N. Jesse* | Republican | |
| Niagara | 1st | David E. Jeffery* | Republican | |
| Niagara | 2nd | Frank S. Hall* | Republican | |
| Oneida | 1st | Michael J. Kernan | Democrat | |
| Oneida | 2nd | Russell G. Dunmore* | Republican | |
| Oneida | 3rd | Chauncey J. Williams* | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 1st | Horace M. Stone | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 2nd | Gardner J. Chamberlin* | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 3rd | Arthur Benson | Republican | |
| Ontario | Ontario | Charles C. Sackett* | Republican | |
| Orange | 1st | Clemence C. Smith | Republican | |
| Orange | 2nd | Charles L. Mead | Republican | |
| Orleans | Orleans | Frank H. Lattin* | Republican | |
| Oswego | Oswego | Ezra A. Barnes* | Republican | |
| Otsego | Otsego | Julian C. Smith* | Republican | |
| Putnam | Putnam | John R. Yale* | Republican | |
| Queens | 1st | Peter A. Leininger* | Democrat | |
| Queens | 2nd | Owen J. Dever* | Democrat | |
| Queens | 3rd | Alfred J. Kennedy | Democrat | |
| Queens | 4th | Charles P. Sullivan | Democrat | |
| Queens | 5th | William F. Brunner* | Democrat | |
| Queens | 6th | Paul P. Gallagher | Democrat | |
| Rensselaer | 1st | John F. Rourke* | Democrat | |
| Rensselaer | 2nd | Thomas J. Coleman | Democrat | |
| Richmond | 1st | Thomas F. Cosgrove* | Democrat | |
| Richmond | 2nd | William L. Vaughan* | Democrat | |
| Rockland | Rockland | James A. Farley | Democrat | |
| St. Lawrence | 1st | William A. Laidlaw* | Republican | |
| St. Lawrence | 2nd | Walter L. Pratt | Republican | |
| Saratoga | Saratoga | Burton D. Esmond* | Republican | |
| Schenectady | 1st | Charles T. Male* | Republican | |
| Schenectady | 2nd | William W. Campbell* | Republican | |
| Schoharie | Schoharie | Kenneth H. Fake | Republican | |
| Schuyler | Schuyler | John W. Gurnett Jr. | Democrat | |
| Seneca | Seneca | George A. Dobson* | Republican | |
| Steuben | 1st | Edwin J. Carpenter | Republican | |
| Steuben | 2nd | Leon F. Wheatley* | Republican | |
| Suffolk | 1st | John G. Peck* | Republican | |
| Suffolk | 2nd | Cecil W. Proctor | Republican | |
| Sullivan | Sullivan | Guernsey T. Cross* | Democrat | |
| Tioga | Tioga | Daniel P. Witter* | Republican | |
| Tompkins | Tompkins | James R. Robinson | Republican | |
| Ulster | Ulster | Simon B. Van Wagenen* | Republican | |
| Warren | Warren | Milton N. Eldridge* | Republican | |
| Washington | Washington | Herbert A. Bartholomew* | Republican | |
| Wayne | Wayne | George S. Johnson | Republican | |
| Westchester | 1st | Thomas Channing Moore* | Republican | |
| Westchester | 2nd | Herbert B. Shonk | Republican | |
| Westchester | 3rd | Milan E. Goodrich | Republican | |
| Westchester | 4th | Russell B. Livermore* | Republican | |
| Westchester | 5th | Arthur I. Miller | Democrat | |
| Wyoming | Wyoming | Webb A. Joiner* | Republican | |
| Yates | Yates | Franklin S. Sampson | Republican | |

### Employees

* Clerk: Fred W. Hammond
* Postmaster: James H. Underwood