124th New York State Legislature

The 124th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to April 23, 1901, during the first year of Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.'s governorship, in Albany.

124th New York State Legislature
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New York State Capitol (2009)
Overview
Legislative body	New York State Legislature
Jurisdiction	New York, United States
Term	January 1 – December 31, 1901
Senate
Members	50
President	Lt. Gov. Timothy L. Woodruff (R)
Temporary President	Timothy E. Ellsworth (R)
Party control	Republican (35-15)
Assembly
Members	150
Speaker	S. Frederick Nixon (R)
Party control	Republican (105-45)
Sessions
1st January 2 – April 23, 1901

Background

Under the body of the New York Constitution of 1894, 50 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 were made up of entire counties, except New York County (twelve districts), Kings County (seven districts), chenango County (twenty four districts) and Monroe County (two districts). 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 Prohibition Party, the Socialist Labor Party and the Social Democratic Party also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1900, was held on November 6. Gov. Theodore Roosevelt was elected U.S. vice president. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. was elected Governor; and Lt. Gov. Timothy L. Woodruff was re-elected; both Republicans. The other five statewide elective offices up for election were also carried by the Republicans. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Republicans 805,000; Democrats 694,000; Prohibition 23,000; Socialist Labor 14,000; and Social Democrats 13,000.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 2, 1901, and adjourned on April 23.

S. Frederick Nixon (R) was re-elected Speaker, with 104 votes against 42 for Daniel D. Frisbie (D).

Timothy E. Ellsworth (R) was re-elected President pro tempore of the State Senate.

State Senate

Districts

• 1st District: Richmond and Suffolk counties
• 2nd District: Queens and Nassau counties
• 3rd District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
• 4th District: 7th, 13th, 19th and 21st Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
• 5th District: 8th, 10th, 12th and 30th Ward of Brooklyn, and the annexed former Town of Gravesend, as constituted in 1894
• 6th District: 9th, 11th, 20th and 22nd Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
• 7th District: 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
• 8th District: 23rd, 24th, 25th and 29th Ward of Brooklyn; and the annexed former Town of Flatlands, as constituted in 1894
• 9th District: 18th, 26th, 27th and 28th Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
• 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st District: Parts of the City of New York, defined geographically by their bordering streets, regardless of Wards or Assembly districts
• 22nd District: Westchester County
• 23rd District: Orange and Rockland counties
• 24th District: Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam and counties
• 25th District: Greene and Ulster counties
• 26th District: Chenango, Delaware and Sullivan counties
• 27th District: Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery and Schoharie counties
• 28th District: Saratoga, Schenectady and Washington counties
• 29th District: Albany County
• 30th District: Rensselaer County
• 31st District: Clinton, Essex and Warren counties
• 32nd District: Franklin and St. Lawrence counties
• 33rd District: Otsego and Herkimer counties
• 34th District: Oneida County
• 35th District: Jefferson and Lewis counties
• 36th District: Onondaga County
• 37th District: Oswego and Madison counties
• 38th District: Broome, Cortland and Tioga counties
• 39th District: Cayuga and Seneca counties
• 40th District: Chemung, Schuyler and Tompkins counties
• 41st District: Steuben and Yates counties
• 42nd District: Ontario and Wayne counties
• 43rd District: 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th Ward of Rochester; and the towns of Brighton, Henrietta, Irondequoit, Menden, Penfield, Perinton, Pittsford, Rush and Webster, in Monroe County
• 44th District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 19th and 20th Ward of Rochester; and the towns of Chili, Clarkson, Gates, Greece, Hamlin, Ogden, Parma, Riga, Sweden and Wheatland, in Monroe County
• 45th District: Genesee, Niagara and Orleans counties
• 46th District: Allegany, Livingston and Wyoming counties
• 47th District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 15th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th Ward of Buffalo
• 48th District: 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 16th Ward of Buffalo
• 49th District: 17th, 18th and 25th Ward of the City of Buffalo; and all area in Erie County outside Buffalo
• 50th District: Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties

Note: In 1897, New York County (the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx), Kings County (the borough of Brooklyn), Richmond County (the borough of Staten Island) and the Western part of Queens County (the borough of Queens) were consolidated into the present-day City of New York. The Eastern part of Queens County (the non-consolidated part) was separated in 1899 as Nassau County. Parts of the 1st and 2nd Assembly districts of Westchester County were annexed by New York City in 1895, and became part of the Borough of the Bronx in 1898.

Senators

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Patrick F. Trainor, Samuel S. Slater, James B. Ewan, Michael Russell and Henry W. Hill changed from the Assembly to the Senate.

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	William M. McKinney	Republican
2nd	William W. Cocks	Republican
3rd	Thomas H. Cullen*	Democrat
4th	Arthur J. Audett	Republican
5th	James H. McCabe	Democrat
6th	Rudolph C. Fuller	Republican
7th	Patrick H. McCarren*	Democrat
8th	Henry Marshall*	Republican
9th	Joseph Wagner*	Democrat
10th	John F. Ahearn*	Democrat
11th	Timothy D. Sullivan*	Democrat
12th	Samuel J. Foley*	Democrat
13th	Bernard F. Martin*	Democrat
14th	Thomas F. Grady*	Democrat	Minority Leader
15th	Nathaniel A. Elsberg*	Republican
16th	Patrick F. Trainor*	Democrat
17th	George W. Plunkitt*	Democrat
18th	Victor J. Dowling	Democrat
19th	Samuel S. Slater*	Republican
20th	Thomas F. Donnelly*	Democrat
21st	Joseph P. Hennessy	Democrat
22nd	Isaac N. Mills	Republican
23rd	Louis F. Goodsell*	Republican
24th	Henry S. Ambler*	Republican
25th	William S. C. Wiley	Republican
26th	William L. Thornton*	Republican
27th	Hobart Krum*	Republican
28th	Edgar T. Brackett*	Republican
29th	James B. McEwan*	Republican
30th	Michael Russell*	Republican	died on May 6, 1901
31st	Spencer G. Prime	Republican
32nd	George R. Malby*	Republican
33rd	James D. Feeter*	Republican
34th	Garry A. Willard	Republican
35th	Elon R. Brown*	Republican
36th	Horace White*	Republican
37th	Nevada N. Stranahan*	Republican
38th	George E. Green	Republican
39th	Benjamin M. Wilcox*	Republican
40th	Edwin C. Stewart	Republican
41st	Franklin D. Sherwood*	Republican
42nd	John Raines*	Republican
43rd	Cornelius R. Parsons*	Republican	died on January 30, 1901
44th	William W. Armstrong*	Republican
45th	Timothy E. Ellsworth*	Republican	re-elected President pro tempore
46th	Lester H. Humphrey*	Republican
47th	Henry W. Hill*	Republican
48th	Samuel J. Ramsperger*	Democrat
49th	George Allen Davis*	Republican
50th	Frank W. Higgins*	Republican

Employees

• Clerk: James S. Whipple

State Assembly

Assemblymen

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	William L. Coughtry*	Republican
	2nd	Abram S. Coon	Republican
	3rd	George T. Kelly*	Democrat
	4th	Thomas G. Ross	Republican
Allegany		Jesse S. Phillips	Republican
Broome	1st	James T. Rogers*	Republican
	2nd	John H. Swift*	Republican
Cattaraugus	1st	Myron E. Fisher	Republican
	2nd	Albert T. Fancher*	Republican
Cayuga	1st	Ernest G. Treat*	Republican
	2nd	George S. Fordyce*	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	J. Samuel Fowler*	Republican
	2nd	S. Frederick Nixon*	Republican	re-elected Speaker
Chemung		Charles H. Knipp*	Republican
Chenango		Jotham P. Allds*	Republican	Majority Leader
Clinton		John F. O'Brien	Republican
Columbia		Sanford W. Smith	Republican
Cortland		Henry A. Dickinson	Republican
Delaware		Delos Axtell*	Republican
Dutchess	1st	John T. Smith*	Republican
	2nd	Francis G. Landon	Republican
Erie	1st	John H. Bradley*	Democrat
	2nd	Edward R. O'Malley	Republican
	3rd	George Geoghan*	Democrat
	4th	William Schneider	Republican
	5th	Charles F. Brooks	Republican
	6th	George Ruehl	Republican
	7th	John K. Patton*	Republican
	8th	Elijah Cook*	Republican
Essex		James M. Graeff	Republican
Franklin		Halbert D. Stevens*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		William Harris*	Republican
Genesee		John J. Ellis*	Republican
Greene		William W. Rider	Democrat
Herkimer		Samuel M. Allston	Republican
Jefferson	1st	Morgan Bryan*	Republican
	2nd	Charles O. Roberts*	Republican
Kings	1st	John Hill Morgan*	Republican
	2nd	John McKeown*	Democrat
	3rd	James J. McInerney*	Democrat
	4th	Charles H. Cotton*	Republican
	5th	Abram C. DeGraw*	Republican
	6th	John Harvey Waite*	Republican
	7th	John D. Holsten*	Democrat
	8th	John C. L. Daly	Democrat
	9th	William P. Fitzpatrick	Democrat
	10th	John Rainey	Republican
	11th	Waldo R. Blackwell	Republican
	12th	Frank J. Price*	Republican
	13th	Thomas F. Mathews	Democrat
	14th	Thomas P. Hawkins*	Democrat
	15th	Charles Juengst*	Democrat
	16th	Gustavus C. Weber	Republican
	17th	Harris Wilson*	Republican
	18th	Jacob D. Remsen*	Republican
	19th	Conrad Hasenflug*	Democrat
	20th	William F. Delaney*	Democrat
	21st	Joseph H. Adams*	Republican
Lewis		John L. Smith*	Republican
Livingston		Otto Kelsey*	Republican
Madison		Robert J. Fish*	Republican
Monroe	1st	Merton E. Lewis*	Republican
	2nd	Adolph J. Rodenbeck*	Republican
	3rd	Richard Gardiner*	Republican
	4th	Isaac W. Salyerds	Republican
Montgomery		Alphonso Walrath*	Republican
New York	1st	Michael Halpin*	Democrat
	2nd	James A. Rierdon*	Democrat
	3rd	Wauhope Lynn	Democrat
	4th	William H. Burns	Democrat
	5th	Nelson H. Henry*	Republican
	6th	Timothy P. Sullivan*	Democrat
	7th	James E. Duross	Democrat
	8th	Charles S. Adler	Republican
	9th	William H. Wilson	Democrat	died on March 27, 1901
	10th	Julius Harburger*	Democrat
	11th	Michael J. Dempsey	Democrat
	12th	Leon Sanders*	Democrat
	13th	Richard S. Reilley	Democrat
	14th	Louis Meister*	Democrat
	15th	James E. Smith*	Democrat
	16th	Samuel Prince*	Democrat
	17th	James J. Fitzgerald*	Democrat
	18th	George P. Richter	Democrat
	19th	Julius H. Seymour	Republican
	20th	Henry C. Honeck*	Democrat
	21st	William S. Bennet	Republican
	22nd	Joseph Baum*	Democrat
	23rd	William H. Smith	Republican
	24th	Leo P. Ulmann	Democrat
	25th	John A. Weekes, Jr.*	Republican
	26th	John J. O'Connell*	Democrat
	27th	Gherardi Davis*	Republican
	28th	John T. Dooling	Democrat
	29th	Hal Bell	Republican
	30th	Samuel F. Hyman*	Democrat
	31st	Arthur L. Sherer	Republican
	32nd	John Poth*	Democrat
	33rd	John J. Egan*	Democrat
	34th	John J. Scanlon*	Democrat
	35th	Henry Bruckner	Democrat
Niagara	1st	John T. Darrison*	Republican
	2nd	John H. Leggett	Republican
Oneida	1st	Michael J. McQuade	Republican
	2nd	Fred J. Brill	Republican
	3rd	Edward M. Marson*	Republican
Onondaga	1st	Edward V. Baker*	Republican
	2nd	Frederick D. Traub	Republican
	3rd	Martin L. Cadin	Republican
	4th	Fred W. Hammond	Republican
Ontario		Jean L. Burnett*	Republican
Orange	1st	John Orr	Republican
	2nd	Louis Bedell*	Republican
Orleans		William W. Phipps*	Republican
Oswego	1st	Thomas D. Lewis*	Republican
	2nd	Thomas M. Costello*	Republican
Otsego		Andrew R. Smith*	Republican
Putnam		William W. Everett*	Republican
Queens	1st	Luke A. Keenan	Democrat
	2nd	Eugene F. Vacheron	Republican
Queens and Nassau		George W. Doughty*	Republican
Rensselaer	1st	Hugh Galbraith*	Republican
	2nd	John F. Ahearn*	Republican
	3rd	Charles W. Reynolds	Republican
Richmond		Calvin D. Van Name	Democrat
Rockland		George Dickey	Democrat
St. Lawrence	1st	Charles S. Plank*	Republican
	2nd	Benjamin A. Babcock*	Republican
Saratoga		William K. Mansfield	Republican
Schenectady		Andrew J. McMillan*	Republican
Schoharie		Daniel D. Frisbie*	Democrat	Minority Leader
Schuyler		Olin T. Nye	Republican
Seneca		John Kaiser, Jr.	Democrat
Steuben	1st	Frank C. Platt*	Republican
	2nd	Hyatt C. Hatch*	Republican
Suffolk	1st	Joseph N. Hallock*	Republican
	2nd	George A. Robinson	Republican
Sullivan		Edwin R. Dusinbery*	Republican
Tioga		Edwin S. Hanford	Republican
Tompkins		Benn Conger*	Republican
Ulster	1st	Robert A. Snyder*	Republican
	2nd	Solomon P. Thorn	Republican
Warren		Charles H. Hitchcock*	Republican
Washington		Samuel B. Irwin*	Republican
Wayne		Frederick W. Griffith*	Republican
Westchester	1st	William C. Mains	Republican
	2nd	Alford W. Cooley*	Republican
	3rd	James K. Apgar*	Republican
Wyoming		Charles J. Gardner*	Republican
Yates		Fred U. Swarts	Republican

Employees

• Clerk: Archie E. Baxter
• Assistant Clerk: Ray B. Smith[1]

Notes

1. Murlin, Edgar L. (1901). The New York Red Book. Albany: James B. Lyon. p. 569.

Sources

• Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; see pg. 343f for assemblymen; and 364 for senators)
• CANDIDATES IN THE CITY in NYT on October 14, 1900
• PROCEEDINGS IN BOTH HOUSES in NYT on January 3, 1901
• VOTE ON REPEAL OF PIGEON SHOOTING LAW in NYT on May 7, 1901
• REPUBLICAN INCREASE IN THE ASSEMBLY; ...Republicans Elect ... Senators in the Thirtieth and Forty-third Districts to Fill Vacancies in NYT on November 6, 1901