 He was succeed by Donald C. Allgrove, a member of the Republican Party.During New York's gubernatorial election in 1978, Perry B. Duryea Jr., who had received the Republican gubernatorial nomination, sought the Conservative Party's ballot line in his attempt to defeat incumbent Democratic Governor Hugh Carey.The Conservative and New York Republican parties created a compromise in which Duryea would be given the Conservative ballot line in the gubernatorial election and Carney would be allowed to run in the 1st congressional district's Republican primary.