146th 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, 1923
Senate
Members	51
President	Lt. Gov. George R. Lunn (D)
Temporary President	Jimmy Walker (D)
Party control	Democratic (26–25)
Assembly
Members	150
Speaker	H. Edmund Machold (R)
Party control	Republican (81–69)
Sessions
1st January 3 – May 4, 1923

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 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 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 New York state election, 1922, 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.^[1]

H. Edmund Machold (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker.

Jimmy Walker (Dem.) was elected Temporary President of the State Senate.

State Senate

Members

Partisan composition of the Senate.

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

State Assembly

Notes

Sources

• COMMITTEES FOR SENATE NAMED in the Geneva Daily Times, of Geneva, New York, on January 10, 1923
• Members of the New York Assembly (1920s) at Political Graveyard