155th New York State Legislature

155th New York State Legislature
	New York State Capitol (2009)
Overview
Legislative body	New York State Legislature
Jurisdiction	New York, United States
Term	January 1 – December 31, 1932
Senate
Members	51
President	Lt. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman (D)
Temporary President	George R. Fearon (R)
Party control	Republican (27–24)
Assembly
Members	150
Speaker	Joseph A. McGinnies (R)
Party control	Republican (80–70)
Sessions
1st	January 6 – March 11, 1932
2nd	December 9 – 14, 1932

The 155th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 6 to December 14, 1932, during the fourth year of Franklin D. Roosevelt's governorship, 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 Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Socialist Party and the Communist Party also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1931, was held on November 3. No statewide elective offices were up for election.

Assemblywoman Rhoda Fox Graves (Rep.), of Gouverneur, a former school teacher who after her marriage became active in women's organisations and politics, was re-elected, and remained the only woman legislator.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 6, 1932; and adjourned on March 11.[1]

Joseph A. McGinnies (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker.

The Legislature met for a special session at the State Capitol in Albany on December 9, 1932;[2] and adjourned on December 14. This session was called to enact legislation to avoid the financial breakdown of New York City which threatened to occur on December 17.

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. Joe R. Hanley 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	Chairman of Conservation
2nd	Joseph D. Nunan, Jr.*	Democrat
3rd	Frank B. Hendel*	Democrat
4th	Philip M. Kleinfeld*	Democrat
5th	John J. Howard*	Democrat
6th	Marcellus H. Evans*	Democrat
7th	John A. Hastings*	Democrat
8th	William L. Love*	Democrat
9th	Henry L. O'Brien*	Democrat
10th	Jeremiah F. Twomey*	Democrat
11th	James J. Crawford*	Democrat
12th	Elmer F. Quinn*	Democrat
13th	Thomas F. Burchill*	Democrat
14th	Edward J. Ahearn	Democrat	elected to fill vacancy, in place of Bernard Downing
15th	John L. Buckley*	Democrat
16th	John J. McNaboe*	Democrat
17th	Samuel H. Hofstadter*	Republican	Chairman of General Laws
18th	John T. McCall*	Democrat
19th	Duncan T. O'Brien*	Democrat
20th	A. Spencer Feld*	Democrat
21st	Henry G. Schackno*	Democrat
22nd	Julius S. Berg*	Democrat
23rd	John J. Dunnigan*	Democrat	Minority Leader
24th	Harry J. Palmer*	Democrat
25th	Walter W. Westall*	Republican	Chairman of Internal Affairs
26th	Seabury C. Mastick*	Republican	Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment
27th	Thomas C. Desmond*	Republican	Chairman of Military Affairs
28th	J. Griswold Webb*	Republican	Chairman of Public Education
29th	Arthur H. Wicks*	Republican	Chairman of Public Health
30th	William T. Byrne*	Democrat
31st	John F. Williams*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Villages
32nd	Alexander G. Baxter*	Republican	Chairman of Revision
33rd	Henry E. H. Brereton*	Republican	Chairman of Civil Service
34th	Warren T. Thayer*	Republican	Chairman of Public Service
35th	Henry I. Patrie*	Republican	Chairman of Privileges and Elections
36th	Charles B. Horton*	Republican	Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills
37th	Perley A. Pitcher*	Republican	Chairman of Judiciary
38th	George R. Fearon*	Republican	Temporary President; Chairman of Rules
39th	John W. Gates*	Republican	Chairman of Labor and Industry
40th	Bert Lord*	Republican	Chairman of Pensions
41st	Frank A. Frost*	Republican	Chairman of Commerce and Navigation
42nd	Charles J. Hewitt*	Republican	Chairman of Finance
43rd	Leon F. Wheatley*	Republican	Chairman of Insurance
44th	Joe R. Hanley*	Republican	elected to fill vacancy, in place of John Knight; Chairman of Public Printing
45th	Cosmo A. Cilano*	Republican	Chairman of Codes
46th	Fred J. Slater*	Republican	Chairman of Penal Institutions
47th	William W. Campbell*	Republican	Chairman of Banks; Chairman of Re-Apportionment
48th	William J. Hickey*	Republican	Chairman of Cities
49th	Stephen J. Wojtkowiak*	Democrat
50th	Nelson W. Cheney*	Republican	Chairman of Canals
51st	Leigh G. Kirkland*	Republican	Chairman of Agriculture

Employees

Clerk: A. Miner Wellman

State Assembly

Assemblymen

Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	John H. Cahill*	Democrat
	2nd	John P. Hayes*	Democrat
	3rd	Rudolph I. Roulier*	Democrat
Allegany		Harry E. Goodrich*	Republican
Bronx	1st	Nicholas J. Eberhard*	Democrat
	2nd	William F. Smith*	Democrat
	3rd	Carl Pack*	Democrat
	4th	Herman M. Albert*	Democrat
	5th	Harry A. Samberg*	Democrat
	6th	Christopher C. McGrath*	Democrat
	7th	John F. Reidy*	Democrat
	8th	John A. Devany, Jr.*	Democrat
Broome	1st	Edmund B. Jenks*	Republican	Chairman of Judiciary
Broome	2nd	Forman E. Whitcomb*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Cities
Cattaraugus		James W. Riley*	Rep./Soc.
Cayuga		Fred Lewis Palmer*	Rep./Soc.
Chautauqua	1st	Hubert E. V. Porter*	Republican
Chautauqua	2nd	Joseph A. McGinnies*	Republican	re-elected Speaker
Chemung		G. Archie Turner*	Republican
Chenango		Irving M. Ives*	Republican
Clinton		Leo E. Trombly	Democrat
Columbia		Frederick A. Washburn	Republican
Cortland		Irving F. Rice*	Republican
Delaware		James R. Stevenson*	Republican
Dutchess	1st	Howard N. Allen*	Republican
Dutchess	2nd	Charles F. Close*	Republican
Erie	1st	Charles J. Gimbrone*	Republican
	2nd	William L. Marcy, Jr.*	Republican
	3rd	Frank X. Bernhardt*	Republican
	4th	Anthony J. Canney*	Democrat
	5th	Edwin L. Kantowski*	Democrat
	6th	Howard W. Dickey*	Republican
	7th	Arthur L. Swartz*	Republican
	8th	R. Foster Piper*	Republican
Essex		Fred L. Porter*	Republican	Chairman of Ways and Means
Franklin		James A. Latour*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		Harry F. Dunkel	Republican
Genesee		Herbert A. Rapp	Republican
Greene		Ellis W. Bentley*	Republican
Herkimer		Edward O. Davies	Republican
Jefferson		Jasper W. Cornaire*	Republican
Kings	1st	Crawford W. Hawkins*	Democrat
	2nd	Albert D. Schanzer*	Democrat
	3rd	Michael J. Gillen*	Democrat
	4th	George E. Dennen*	Democrat
	5th	John J. Cooney*	Democrat
	6th	Jacob J. Schwartzwald*	Democrat
	7th	William Kirnan*	Democrat
	8th	Luke O'Reilly*	Democrat
	9th	Daniel McNamara, Jr.*	Democrat
	10th	William C. McCreery*	Democrat
	11th	Edward J. Coughlin*	Democrat
	12th	Edward S. Moran, Jr.*	Democrat
	13th	William Breitenbach*	Democrat
	14th	Jacob P. Nathanson*	Democrat
	15th	Edward P. Doyle*	Democrat
	16th	Maurice Z. Bungard*	Democrat
	17th	George W. Stewart	Democrat
	18th	Irwin Steingut*	Democrat	Minority Leader
	19th	Jerome G. Ambro*	Democrat
	20th	Joseph J. Monahan	Democrat
	21st	Joseph A. Esquirol*	Democrat
	22nd	Jacob H. Livingston*	Democrat
	23rd	Albert M. Cohen*	Democrat
Lewis		Edward M. Sheldon*	Republican
Livingston		James J. Wadsworth	Republican
Madison		Arthur A. Hartshorn*	Republican
Monroe	1st	Daniel J. O'Mara	Republican
	2nd	Harry J. McKay*	Republican
	3rd	Haskell H. Marks*	Republican
	4th	Richard L. Saunders*	Republican
	5th	W. Ray Austin*	Republican
Montgomery		Rufus Richtmyer*	Republican
Nassau	1st	Edwin W. Wallace*	Republican
Nassau	2nd	Edwin R. Lynde*	Republican
New York	1st	James J. Dooling*	Democrat
	2nd	Millard E. Theodore*	Democrat
	3rd	Sylvester A. Dineen*	Democrat
	4th	Samuel Mandelbaum*	Democrat
	5th	John F. Killgrew*	Democrat
	6th	Irving D. Neustein*	Democrat
	7th	Saul S. Streit*	Democrat
	8th	Henry O. Kahan*	Democrat	died on February 6, 1932[3]
	9th	Ira H. Holley*	Democrat
	10th	Langdon W. Post*	Democrat
	11th	Patrick H. Sullivan*	Democrat
	12th	John A. Byrnes*	Democrat
	13th	William J. Sheldrick*	Democrat
	14th	Joseph T. Higgins*	Democrat
	15th	Abbot Low Moffat*	Republican
	16th	William Schwartz*	Democrat
	17th	Meyer Alterman*	Democrat
	18th	Sol A. Hyman*	Democrat
	19th	James E. Stephens*	Democrat
	20th	Louis A. Cuvillier*	Democrat
	21st	David Paris*	Democrat
	22nd	Benjamin B. Mittler*	Democrat
	23rd	Alexander A. Falk*	Democrat
Niagara	1st	Fayette E. Pease*	Republican
Niagara	2nd	Roy Hewitt*	Republican
Oneida	1st	Charles J. Peters	Republican
	2nd	Russell G. Dunmore*	Republican	Majority Leader
	3rd	Walter W. Abbott*	Republican
Onondaga	1st	Horace M. Stone*	Republican
	2nd	Willis H. Sargent*	Republican
	3rd	Richard B. Smith*	Republican
Ontario		Robert A. Catchpole*	Republican
Orange	1st	William J. Lamont*	Republican
Orange	2nd	Rainey S. Taylor*	Republican
Orleans		John S. Thompson*	Republican
Oswego		Victor C. Lewis*	Republican
Otsego		Frank M. Smith*	Republican	Chairman of Agriculture
Putnam		D. Mallory Stephens*	Republican	Chairman of Military Affairs
Queens	1st	John O'Rourke*	Democrat
	2nd	Joseph C. Mulligan*	Democrat
	3rd	Peter T. Farrell*	Democrat
	4th	James A. Burke*	Democrat
	5th	Maurice A. FitzGerald*	Democrat
	6th	Frederick L. Zimmerman*	Democrat
Rensselaer	1st	Michael F. Breen*	Democrat
Rensselaer	2nd	Maurice Whitney*	Republican
Richmond	1st	Francis P. Heffernan*	Democrat
Richmond	2nd	William L. Vaughan*	Democrat
Rockland		Fred R. Horn, Jr.*[4]	Democrat
St. Lawrence	1st	Rhoda Fox Graves*	Republican
St. Lawrence	2nd	Walter L. Pratt*	Republican
Saratoga		Burton D. Esmond*	Republican
Schenectady	1st	Oswald D. Heck	Republican
Schenectady	2nd	John H. Buhrmaster	Republican
Schoharie		Kenneth H. Fake*	Republican
Schuyler		Frank Crowe	Democrat
Seneca		James D. Pollard*	Republican
Steuben	1st	Wilson Messer*	Republican
Steuben	2nd	J. Austin Otto	Republican
Suffolk	1st	John G. Downs*	Republican
Suffolk	2nd	Hamilton F. Potter*	Republican
Sullivan		John T. Curtis	Republican
Tioga		Frank G. Miller*	Republican
Tompkins		James R. Robinson*	Republican
Ulster		Millard Davis*	Republican
Warren		Harry A. Reoux*	Republican
Washington		Herbert A. Bartholomew*	Republican
Wayne		Harry L. Averill	Republican
Westchester	1st	Charles H. Hathaway*	Republican
	2nd	Ralph A. Gamble*	Republican
	3rd	Hickson F. Hart	Republican
	4th	Alexander H. Garnjost*	Republican
	5th	William F. Condon*	Republican
Wyoming		Harold C. Ostertag	Republican
Yates		Fred S. Hollowell	Republican

Employees

Clerk: Fred W. Hammond

Notes

LEGISLATURE ENDS in The New York Times on March 12, 1932 (subscription required)
ROOSEVELT LIMITS LEGISLATURE'S AIMS in The New York Times on December 9, 1932 (subscription required)
"Henry O. Kahan Dead; In Assembly 11 Years" (PDF). The New York Times. LXXXI (27042). New York, N.Y. February 7, 1932. p. 27.
Ferdinand R. Horn, Jr. (born 1897), ran sometimes for office as "Fred R. Horn, Jr."

Sources

Members of the New York Senate (1930s) at Political Graveyard
Members of the New York Assembly (1930s) at Political Graveyard

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[1] LEGISLATURE ENDS in The New York Times on March 12, 1932 (subscription required)

[2] ROOSEVELT LIMITS LEGISLATURE'S AIMS in The New York Times on December 9, 1932 (subscription required)

[:2-3] "Henry O. Kahan Dead; In Assembly 11 Years" (PDF). The New York Times. LXXXI (27042). New York, N.Y. February 7, 1932. p. 27.

[4] Ferdinand R. Horn, Jr. (born 1897), ran sometimes for office as "Fred R. Horn, Jr."