110th New York State Legislature

The 110th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 4 to May 26, 1887, during the third year of David B. Hill's governorship, in Albany.

Background

Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1846, 32 Senators and 128 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 (seven districts) and Kings County (three districts). The Assembly districts were made up of entire towns, or city wards,^[1] forming a contiguous area, all within the same county.

At this time there were two major political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In New York City the three Democratic factions (Tammany Hall, "Irving Hall" and the "County Democrats") re-united, and nominated joint candidates in most districts. The Prohibition Party and the Greenback Party also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1886 was held on November 2. The only statewide elective offices up for election was carried by a Democrat. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Judge of the Court of Appeals, was: Democrats 468,000; Republicans 461,000; Prohibition 36,000; and Greenback 2,000.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 4, 1887; and adjourned on May 26.

James W. Husted (R) was re-elected Speaker.

On January 20, the Legislature elected Frank Hiscock (R) to succeed Warner Miller (R) as U.S. Senator from New York, for a six-year term beginning on March 4, 1887.

State Senate

Districts

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

Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.

Members

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	Edward F. Fagan*	Democrat
2nd	James F. Pierce*	Democrat
3rd	Stephen M. Griswold*	Republican
4th	Jacob Worth*	Republican
5th	Michael C. Murphy*	Democrat
6th	Edward F. Reilly*	Democrat
7th	James Daly*	Democrat
8th	Thomas C. Dunham*	Democrat
9th	John J. Cullen*	Democrat
10th	William C. Traphagen*	Democrat
11th	George W. Plunkitt*	Democrat
12th	Henry C. Nelson*	Democrat
13th	Henry R. Low*	Republican
14th	Henry C. Connelly*	Republican
15th	Jacob W. Hoysradt*	Republican
16th	Albert C. Comstock*	Republican
17th	Amasa J. Parker, Jr.*	Democrat
18th	Edward Wemple*	Democrat	on November 8, 1887, elected New York State Comptroller
19th	Rowland C. Kellogg*	Republican
20th	Charles L. Knapp*	Republican
21st	George B. Sloan*	Republican
22nd	Henry J. Coggeshall*	Republican
23rd	John E. Smith*	Republican
24th	Matthew W. Marvin*	Republican
25th	Francis Hendricks*	Republican
26th	Charles F. Barager*	Republican
27th	J. Sloat Fassett*	Republican
28th	John Raines*	Republican
29th	Edmund L. Pitts*	Republican	President pro tempore
30th	Edward C. Walker*	Republican
31st	Daniel H. McMillan*	Republican
32nd	Commodore P. Vedder*	Republican

Employees

Clerk: John W. Vrooman
Sergeant-at-Arms: James C. Murray
Doorkeeper: John H. Houck
Stenographer: Harris A. Corell

State Assembly

Assemblymen

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	Horace T. Devereux	Democrat
	2nd	Vreeland H. Youngman	Republican
	3rd	William J. Hill	Democrat
	4th	John T. Gorman	Democrat
Allegany		Washington Moses	Republican
Broome		Isaac C. Edson*	Republican
Cattaraugus	1st	Frederick W. Kruse*	Republican
Cattaraugus	2nd	Erastus S. Ingersoll*	Republican
Cayuga	1st	Frank M. Parsons*	Republican
Cayuga	2nd	Coral C. White	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	Dana P. Horton	Republican
Chautauqua	2nd	George H. Frost	Republican
Chemung		Robert P. Bush*	Democrat
Chenango		Ralph Taylor	Republican
Clinton		George S. Weed	Democrat
Columbia		John C. Hogeboom*^[2]	Republican
Cortland		Wayland D. Tisdale	Republican
Delaware		David L. Thomson	Republican
Dutchess	1st	Willard H. Mase	Republican
Dutchess	2nd	John I. Platt*	Republican
Erie	1st	William F. Sheehan*	Democrat	Minority Leader
	2nd	Frank M. Giese*	Democrat
	3rd	Edward Gallagher*	Republican
	4th	Henry H. Guenther	Democrat
	5th	Edward K. Emery	Republican
Essex		Spencer G. Prime	Republican
Franklin		Floyd J. Hadley*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		Alden W. Berry*	Republican
Genesee		Charles A. Seaver*	Republican
Greene		Francis G. Walters	Republican
Herkimer		Patrick H. McEvoy	Republican
Jefferson	1st	Anson S. Thompson	Republican
Jefferson	2nd	Edward B. Bulkley*	Republican
Kings	1st	Moses J. Wafer*	Democrat
	2nd	William H. McLaughlin*	Democrat
	3rd	Peter K. McCann*	Democrat
	4th	Henry F. Haggerty*	Democrat
	5th	James A. McMahon*	Democrat
	6th	Thomas F. Farrell*	Democrat
	7th	John Reitz	Republican
	8th	John H. Bonnington	Democrat
	9th	Alexander S. Bacon	Republican
	10th	John B. Longley*	Democrat
	11th	James P. Graham	Democrat
	12th	Richard V. B. Newton*	Democrat
Lewis		Rutson Rea*	Republican
Livingston		William Y. Robinson*	Republican
Madison		William S. Leete*	Republican
Monroe	1st	Fletcher A. Defendorf	Democrat
	2nd	Edward W. Maurer	Republican
	3rd	George W. Sime*	Republican
Montgomery		Robert Wemple	Democrat
New York	1st	Daniel E. Finn*	Democrat
	2nd	Timothy D. Sullivan	Tammany Dem.
	3rd	James E. Power*	Democrat
	4th	Jeremiah Hayes*	Democrat
	5th	Michael Brennan*	Tammany Dem.
	6th	William J. McKenna	Democrat
	7th	George H. Henry	Republican
	8th	Charles Smith*	Republican
	9th	John Martin	Democrat
	10th	George F. Langbein	Democrat
	11th	Robert Ray Hamilton*	Republican
	12th	Leonard A. Giegerich	Tammany Dem.
	13th	William P. Mulry	Democrat
	14th	Jacob Kunzenman	Tammany Dem.
	15th	George H. McAdam	Tammany Dem.
	16th	Edward P. Hagan*	Democrat
	17th	William Dalton*	Democrat
	18th	John F. Kenny	Tammany Dem.
	19th	Eugene S. Ives	Democrat
	20th	William H. Hornidge	Tammany Dem.
	21st	Ernest H. Crosby	Republican
	22nd	John F. McIntyre	Democrat
	23rd	Jacob A. Cantor*	Democrat
	24th	John B. Shea*	County Dem.
Niagara	1st	Christian F. Goerss	Republican
Niagara	2nd	Peter A. Porter*	Republican
Oneida	1st	Benjamin Hall*	Republican
	2nd	Robert W. Evans*	Republican
	3rd	John C. Davies	Republican
Onondaga	1st	Hector B. Johnson	Republican
	2nd	Alfred E. Stacey*	Republican
	3rd	Thomas McCarthy*^[3]	Republican
Ontario		Edward P. Babcock*	Republican
Orange	1st	Robert H. Smith*	Republican
Orange	2nd	George W. Greene*	Democrat
Orleans		Samuel A. Bates*	Republican
Oswego	1st	Henry C. Howe*	Republican
Oswego	2nd	Danforth E. Ainsworth*	Republican
Otsego	1st	Lowell S. Henry*	Democrat
Otsego	2nd	Frank B. Arnold*	Republican
Putnam		Henry Mabie*	Republican
Queens	1st	Joseph Fitch*	Democrat
Queens	2nd	William J. Hines	Democrat
Rensselaer	1st	Michael F. Collins*	Democrat
	2nd	J. Irving Baucus	Republican
	3rd	James Ryan, Jr.	Democrat
Richmond		Edward A. Moore	Democrat
Rockland		George Dickey*	Democrat
St. Lawrence	1st	N. Martin Curtis*	Republican
	2nd	William H. Kimball	Republican
	3rd	George Z. Erwin*	Republican
Saratoga	1st	John H. Burke	Democrat
Saratoga	2nd	Bartlett B. Grippin	Republican
Schenectady		Edward D. Cutler*	Democrat
Schoharie		Emory Stevens	Democrat
Schuyler		Fremont Cole*	Republican
Seneca		William L. Sweet	Republican
Steuben	1st	Azariah C. Brundage	Republican
Steuben	2nd	Charles D. Baker*	Republican
Suffolk		Henry A. Reeves	Democrat
Sullivan		Martin A. Smith	Republican
Tioga		Jonathan C. Latimer	Republican
Tompkins		Walter G. Smith	Republican
Ulster	1st	Thomas Maxwell	Republican
	2nd	Willet I. Van Demark	Republican
	3rd	Davis Winne	Democrat
Warren		James C. Eldridge	Republican
Washington	1st	J. Warren Fort	Republican
Washington	2nd	James H. Manville*	Republican
Wayne	1st	Charles T. Saxton	Republican
Wayne	2nd	Barnet H. Davis*	Republican
Westchester	1st	J. Irving Burns	Republican
	2nd	Samuel Conover	Democrat
	3rd	James W. Husted*	Republican	elected Speaker
Wyoming		Edward A. Pierce*	Republican
Yates		George R. Cornwell	Republican

Employees

Clerk: Charles A. Chickering
Sergeant-at-Arms: Isaac Scott
Doorkeeper: Michael Maher
Stenographer: Emory P. Close

Notes

↑ Except New York City where the wards were apportioned into election districts, and then some whole wards and some election districts of other wards were gerrymandered together into Assembly districts.
↑ John Clinton Hogeboom (born 1857), grandson of state senator John C. Hogeboom (1801–05)
↑ Thomas McCarthy (born 1848), son of Dennis McCarthy

Sources

The New York Red Book compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; see pg. 384f for senate districts; pg. 403 for senators; pg. 410–417 for Assembly districts; and pg. 505f for assemblymen)
Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac] (1887)

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