73rd New York State Legislature

The **73rd New York State Legislature**, which were members of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 1, 1850, to April 10, 1850, in the second year of Hamilton Fish being the governor of New York. They met in Albany.

### Districts

- 1st District: Queens, Richmond and Suffolk counties
- 2nd District: Kings County
- 3rd District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th wards of New York City
- 4th District: 7th, 10th, 13th and 17th wards of New York City
- 5th District: 8th, 9th and 14th wards of New York City
- 6th District: 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd wards of New York City
- 7th District: Putnam,  Rockland and Westchester counties
- 8th District: Columbia and Dutchess counties
- 9th District: Orange and Sullivan counties
- 10th District: Greene and Ulster counties
- 11th District: Albany and Schenectady counties
- 12th District: Rensselaer County
- 13th District: Saratoga and Washington counties
- 14th District: Clinton, Essex and Warren counties
- 15th District: Franklin and St. Lawrence counties
- 16th District: Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer and Montgomery counties
- 17th District: Delaware and Schoharie counties
- 18th District: Chenango and Otsego counties
- 19th District: Oneida County
- 20th District: Madison and Oswego counties
- 21st District: Jefferson and Lewis counties
- 22nd District: Onondaga County
- 23rd District: Broome, Cortland and Tioga counties
- 24th District: Cayuga and Wayne counties
- 25th District: Seneca, Tompkins and Yates counties
- 26th District: Chemung and Steuben counties
- 27th District: Monroe County
- 28th District: Genesee, Niagara and Orleans counties
- 29th District: Livingston and Ontario counties
- 30th District: Allegany and Wyoming counties
- 31st District: Erie County
- 32nd District: Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties

### Members

|District|Senator|Party|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1st|William Horace Brown||Democrat||
|2nd|John A. Cross*||Whig||
|3rd|Richard S. Williams||Whig||
|4th|Clarkson Crolius||Whig||
|5th|James W. Beekman*||Whig||
|6th|Edwin D. Morgan||Whig||
|7th|Benjamin Brandreth||Democrat||
|8th|John Snyder||Democrat||
|9th|James C. Curtis||Democrat||
|10th|Marius Schoonmaker||Whig|on November 5, 1850, elected to the 32nd U.S. Congress|
|11th|Stephen H. Johnson||Whig||
|12th|Thomas B. Carroll||Democrat||
|13th|James M. Cook*||Whig|on April 9, elected president pro tempore|
|14th|Thomas Crook||Democrat||
|15th|William A. Dart||Democrat||
|16th|George H. Fox||Democrat||
|17th|Sidney Tuttle||Democrat||
|18th|John Noyes||Democrat||
|19th|Charles A. Mann||Democrat||
|20th|Asahel C. Stone||Democrat||
|21st|Alanson Skinner||Democrat||
|22nd|George Geddes*||Whig||
|23rd|Levi Dimmick||Whig||
|24th|William Beach||Whig||
|25th|Henry B. Stanton||Democrat||
|26th|George B. Guinnip||Democrat||
|27th|Samuel Miller||Whig||
|28th|Alonzo S. Upham||Whig||
|29th|Charles Colt*||Whig||
|30th|Charles D. Robinson||Whig||
|31st|George R. Babcock||Whig||
|32nd|Robert Owen Jr.||Whig||

### Employees

- Clerk: William H. Bogart
- Sergeant-at-Arms: George W. Bull
- Doorkeeper: Ransom Van Valkenburgh
- Assistant Doorkeeper: George A. Loomis

### Assemblymen

|colspan="2"|District|Assemblymen|Party|Notes|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|Albany|1st|Cornelius Vanderzee||Democrat||
|2nd|Joel B. Nott||Whig||||
|3rd|Robert H. Pruyn*||Whig|on January 26, elected Speaker pro tempore|||
|4th|William S. Shepard||Whig||||
|rowspan="2"|Allegany|1st|Anthony T. Wood||Whig||
|2nd|Joseph Corey||Democrat||||
|colspan="2"|Broome|Edward Y. Park||Whig|||
|rowspan="2"|Cattaraugus|1st|Frederick S. Martin*||Whig|on November 5, 1850, elected to the 32nd U.S. Congress|
|2nd|Horace C. Young*||Whig||||
|rowspan="3"|Cayuga|1st|Hiram Koon||Democrat||
|2nd|John Richardson||Whig||||
|3rd|Ashbel Avery||Whig||||
|rowspan="2"|Chautauqua|1st|John P. Hall||Whig||
|2nd|Samuel Barrett||Whig||||
|colspan="2"|Chemung|Philo Jones||Democrat|||
|rowspan="2"|Chenango|1st|Isaac L. F. Cushman||Democrat||
|2nd|Rufus Chandler||Democrat||||
|colspan="2"|Clinton|Gorton T. Thomas||Democrat|||
|rowspan="2"|Columbia|1st|Philip G. Lasher||Whig||
|2nd|John H. Overhiser||Democrat||||
|colspan="2"|Cortland|Lewis Kingsley||Whig|||
|rowspan="2"|Delaware|1st|George H. Winsor||Democrat||
|2nd|Richard Morse||Whig||||
|rowspan="3"|Dutchess|1st|Charles Robinson||Democrat||
|2nd|Miner C. Story||Democrat||||
|3rd|Stephen Haight||Whig||||
|rowspan="4"|Erie|1st|Orlando Allen||Whig||
|2nd|Elijah Ford||Democrat||||
|3rd|Ira E. Irish||Whig||||
|4th|Joseph Candee||Whig||||
|colspan="2"|Essex|George W. Goff*||Whig|||
|colspan="2"|Franklin|William A. Wheeler||Whig|||
|colspan="2"|Fulton and Hamilton|Cyrus H. Brownell||Democrat|||
|rowspan="2"|Genesee|1st|John C. Gardner||Whig||
|2nd|Martin C. Ward*||Whig||||
|rowspan="2"|Greene|1st|Alonzo Greene||Democrat||
|2nd|Theodore L. Prevost||Whig||||
|rowspan="2"|Herkimer|1st|Asa Vickery||Democrat||
|2nd|Humphrey G. Root||Democrat||||
|rowspan="3"|Jefferson|1st|John Winslow||Democrat||
|2nd|Joel Haworth||Democrat||||
|3rd|Alfred Fox||Democrat||||
|rowspan="3"|Kings|1st|Joseph A. Yard||Democrat||
|2nd|Edwards W. Fiske*||Whig||||
|3rd|John H. Baker||Whig||||
|colspan="2"|Lewis|John Newkirk||Democrat|||
|rowspan="2"|Livingston|1st|Archibald H. McLean*||Whig||
|2nd|Philip Woodruff*||Whig||||
|rowspan="2"|Madison|1st|John Clark||Whig||
|2nd|Thomas O. Bishop||Democrat||||
|rowspan="3"|Monroe|1st|M. Day Hicks||Whig||
|2nd|L. Ward Smith*||Whig||||
|3rd|Elisha Harmon*||Whig||||
|rowspan="2"|Montgomery|1st|Samuel G. Green||Whig||
|2nd|Charles Hubbs||Democrat||||
|rowspan="16"|New York|1st|John H. White||Whig||
|2nd|James Bowen*||Whig||||
|3rd|Henry J. Allen*||Democrat||||
|4th|Abram Wakeman||Whig||||
|5th|Thomas Truslow||Whig||||
|6th|Jonathan W. Allen||Whig||||
|7th|Henry J. Raymond||Whig||||
|8th|Benjamin W. Bradford||Whig||||
|9th|Jeremiah V. D. B. Fowler||Democrat||||
|10th|James Monroe||Whig||||
|11th|Gilbert C. Deane||Democrat||||
|12th|Abraham B. Davis||Democrat||||
|13th|Joseph B. Varnum, Jr.*||Whig||||
|14th|George G. Waters||Whig||||
|15th|John J. Townsend||Whig||||
|16th|Albert Gilbert*||Whig||||
|rowspan="2"|Niagara|1st|George W. Jermain||Whig||
|2nd|James Van Horn Jr.||Whig||||
|rowspan="4"|Oneida|1st|William J. Bacon||Whig||
|2nd|Ralph McIntosh||Democrat||||
|3rd|Robert Frazier||Democrat||||
|4th|Luther Leland||Democrat||||
|rowspan="4"|Onondaga|1st|James Little||Democrat||
|2nd|Benjamin J. Cowles||Whig||||
|3rd|Elias W. Leavenworth||Whig||||
|4th|Harvey G. Andrews||Democrat||||
|rowspan="2"|Ontario|1st|John L. Dox||Whig||
|2nd|Josiah Porter*||Whig||||
|rowspan="4"|Orange|1st|William Graham||Democrat||
|2nd|Albert G. Owen||Democrat||||
|rowspan="2"|3rd|Daniel Fullerton||Whig|contested; seat vacated on February 26||
|Daniel T. Durland||Democrat|seated on February 26||||
|colspan="2"|Orleans|Silas M. Burroughs||Democrat|||
|rowspan="2"|Oswego|1st|William Lewis Jr.||Democrat||
|2nd|Luke D. Smith||Democrat||||
|rowspan="3"|Otsego|1st|Anson C. Parshall||Democrat||
|2nd|Joseph Peck||Democrat||||
|3rd|Edward Pratt||Democrat||||
|colspan="2"|Putnam|William Bowne||Democrat|||
|colspan="2"|Queens|John S. Snedeker||Democrat|||
|rowspan="3"|Rensselaer|1st|George Lesley||Whig||
|2nd|Edward P. Pickett||Democrat||||
|3rd|Lansing Sheldon||Democrat||||
|colspan="2"|Richmond|Benjamin P. Prall||Democrat|||
|colspan="2"|Rockland|Brewster J. Allison||Democrat|||
|rowspan="3"|St. Lawrence|1st|Harlow Godard*||Democrat||
|2nd|John Horton||Democrat||||
|3rd|Noble S. Elderkin*||Democrat|on January 1, elected Speaker; left Assembly on January 26, to be with his dying wife|||
|rowspan="2"|Saratoga|1st|James Noxon||Democrat||
|2nd|Frederick J. Wing||Whig||||
|colspan="2"|Schenectady|James Allen||Whig|||
|rowspan="2"|Schoharie|1st|Daniel D. Dodge||Democrat||
|2nd|John Avery||Democrat||||
|colspan="2"|Seneca|Alfred Bolter||Democrat|||
|rowspan="3"|Steuben|1st|Edwin F. Church||Democrat||
|2nd|Ferral C. Dininny||Democrat|on March 13, elected Speaker pro tempore|||
|3rd|James Alley||Whig||||
|rowspan="2"|Suffolk|1st|David Pierson||Democrat||
|2nd|Walter Scudder||Democrat||||
|colspan="2"|Sullivan|James F. Bush*||Whig|||
|colspan="2"|Tioga|Isaac Lott||Whig|||
|rowspan="2"|Tompkins|1st|Henry Brewer||Democrat||
|2nd|Elias W. Cady||Whig||||
|rowspan="2"|Ulster|1st|Milton Sheldon||Democrat||
|2nd|John P. Davis||Democrat||||
|colspan="2"|Warren|Cyrus Burnham||Democrat|||
|rowspan="2"|Washington|1st|David Sill||Whig||
|2nd|Calvin Pease||Whig||||
|rowspan="2"|Wayne|1st|James M. Wilson||Democrat||
|2nd|Elihu Durfee||Whig||||
|rowspan="2"|Westchester|1st|William H. Robertson*||Whig||
|2nd|Jesse Lyon||Democrat||||
|colspan="2"|Wyoming|James Sprague||Whig|||
|colspan="2"|Yates|Melatiah H. Lawrence||Democrat|||

### Employees

- Clerk: James R. Rose
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Samuel Reynolds
- Doorkeeper: John K. Anderson
- First Assistant Doorkeeper: Matthew Higgins
- Second Assistant Doorkeeper: Thomas Hollenbeck

## Sources

- _The New York Civil List_ compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) [pg. 109 for Senate districts; pg. 136 for senators; pg. 148–157 for Assembly districts; pg. 238ff for assemblymen]
- _Journal of the Senate_ (73rd Session) (1850)