title: 152nd New York State Legislature
text: # 152nd New York State Legislature
  
  The 152nd New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to March 28, 1929, during the first 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 Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Socialist Party, the Workers Party and the Socialist Labor Party also nominated tickets.
  
  ## Elections
  
  The 1928 New York state election was held on November 6. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert H. Lehman, both Democrats, were elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Of the other four statewide elective offices, two were carried by Democrats and two by Republicans. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Democrats 2,130,000; Republicans 2,104,000; Socialists 102,000; Workers 11,000; and Socialist Labor 4,000.
  
  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 2, 1929; and adjourned on March 28.
  
  Joseph A. McGinnies (Rep.) was re-elected Speaker.
  
  John Knight (Rep.) was re-elected Temporary President of the State Senate.
  
  ## 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. Samuel H. Hofstadter, Cosmo A. Cilano, Fred J. Slater 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 | Stephen F. Burkard* | Democrat | re-elected; unsuccessfully contested by Joseph M. Conroy (R) |
  | 3rd | Alfred J. Kennedy* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 4th | Philip M. Kleinfeld* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 5th | Daniel F. Farrell* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 6th | Marcellus H. Evans* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 7th | John A. Hastings* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 8th | William L. Love* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 9th | Charles E. Russell* | Democrat | re-elected; on November 5, 1929, elected to the Brooklyn City Court; resigned his seat on December 3, 1929 |
  | 10th | Jeremiah F. Twomey* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 11th | James J. Crawford | Democrat | |
  | 12th | Elmer F. Quinn* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 13th | Thomas F. Burchill* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 14th | Bernard Downing* | Democrat | re-elected; Minority Leader |
  | 15th | John L. Buckley* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 16th | Thomas I. Sheridan* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 17th | Samuel H. Hofstadter* | Republican | |
  | 18th | Martin J. Kennedy* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 19th | Duncan T. O'Brien* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 20th | A. Spencer Feld* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 21st | Henry G. Schackno* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 22nd | Benjamin Antin* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 23rd | John J. Dunnigan* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 24th | Harry J. Palmer | Democrat | |
  | 25th | Walter W. Westall* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 26th | Seabury C. Mastick* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 27th | Caleb H. Baumes* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 28th | J. Griswold Webb* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 29th | Arthur H. Wicks* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 30th | William T. Byrne* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 31st | John F. Williams* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 32nd | Thomas C. Brown* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Penal Institutions |
  | 33rd | Henry E. H. Brereton* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 34th | Warren T. Thayer* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 35th | Henry I. Patrie | Republican | |
  | 36th | Henry D. Williams* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 37th | Perley A. Pitcher* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 38th | George R. Fearon* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 39th | John W. Gates* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 40th | B. Roger Wales* | Republican | re-elected; died on November 25, 1929 |
  | 41st | Frank A. Frost | Republican | |
  | 42nd | Charles J. Hewitt* | Republican | re-elected; Chairman of Finance |
  | 43rd | Leon F. Wheatley* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 44th | John Knight* | Republican | re-elected; re-elected Temporary President |
  | 45th | Cosmo A. Cilano* | Republican | |
  | 46th | Fred J. Slater* | Republican | |
  | 47th | William W. Campbell* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 48th | William J. Hickey* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 49th | Stephen J. Wojtkowiak | Democrat | |
  | 50th | Charles A. Freiberg* | Republican | re-elected; resigned in September 1929 and was elected Sheriff of Erie County |
  | 51st | Leigh G. Kirkland* | Republican | re-elected |
  
  ### Employees
  
  * Clerk: A. Miner Wellman
  * Sergeant-at-Arms: Charles R. Hotaling
  * Stenographer: John K. Marshall
  
  ## State Assembly
  
  ### Assemblymen
  
  Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."
  
  | District | District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Albany | 1st | Elmer D. Gunn | Republican | |
  | Albany | 2nd | John P. Hayes* | Democrat | |
  | Albany | 3rd | Rudolph I. Roulier* | Democrat | |
  | Allegany | Allegany | Cassius Congdon* | Republican | |
  | Bronx | 1st | Nicholas J. Eberhard* | Democrat | |
  | Bronx | 2nd | William F. Smith* | Democrat | |
  | Bronx | 3rd | Julius S. Berg* | Democrat | |
  | Bronx | 4th | Herman M. Albert* | Democrat | |
  | Bronx | 5th | Harry A. Samberg* | Democrat | |
  | Bronx | 6th | Christopher C. McGrath* | Democrat | |
  | Bronx | 7th | John F. Reidy* | Democrat | |
  | Bronx | 8th | Joseph E. Kinsley* | Democrat | |
  | Broome | 1st | Edmund B. Jenks* | Republican | |
  | Broome | 2nd | Forman E. Whitcomb* | Republican | |
  | Cattaraugus | Cattaraugus | James W. Watson* | Republican | |
  | Cayuga | Cayuga | Chauncey D. Van Alstine* | Republican | |
  | Chautauqua | 1st | Hubert E. V. Porter* | Republican | |
  | Chautauqua | 2nd | Joseph A. McGinnies* | Republican | re-elected Speaker |
  | Chemung | Chemung | G. Archie Turner* | Republican | |
  | Chenango | Chenango | Bert Lord* | Republican | |
  | Clinton | Clinton | Charles D. Munsil* | Republican | |
  | Columbia | Columbia | Henry M. James* | Republican | |
  | Cortland | Cortland | Irving F. Rice* | Republican | |
  | Delaware | Delaware | James R. Stevenson | Republican | |
  | Dutchess | 1st | Howard N. Allen* | Republican | |
  | Dutchess | 2nd | John M. Hackett* | Republican | |
  | Erie | 1st | Charles J. Gimbrone* | Republican | |
  | Erie | 2nd | William L. Marcy Jr. | Republican | |
  | Erie | 3rd | Frank X. Bernhardt* | Republican | |
  | Erie | 4th | Anthony J. Canney | Democrat | |
  | Erie | 5th | Ansley B. Borkowski* | Republican | |
  | Erie | 6th | Howard W. Dickey* | Republican | |
  | Erie | 7th | Arthur L. Swartz | Republican | |
  | Erie | 8th | Nelson W. Cheney* | Republican | |
  | Essex | Essex | Fred L. Porter* | Republican | |
  | Franklin | Franklin | John E. Redwood* | Republican | |
  | Fulton and Hamilton | Fulton and Hamilton | Eberly Hutchinson* | Republican | Chairman of Ways and Means |
  | Genesee | Genesee | Charles P. Miller* | Republican | |
  | Greene | Greene | Ellis W. Bentley* | Republican | |
  | Herkimer | Herkimer | William J. Thistlethwaite | Republican | |
  | Jefferson | Jefferson | Jasper W. Cornaire* | Republican | |
  | Kings | 1st | Charles F. Cline* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 2nd | Murray Hearn* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 3rd | Michael J. Gillen* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 4th | George E. Dennen* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 5th | John J. Cooney* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 6th | Jacob J. Schwartzwald* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 7th | John J. Howard* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 8th | Robert E. Sweeney* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 9th | Richard J. Tonry* | Democrat | on November 5, 1929, elected an Alderman of NYC |
  | Kings | 10th | William C. McCreery* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 11th | Edward J. Coughlin* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 12th | Edward S. Moran Jr.* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 13th | William Breitenbach* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 14th | Jacob P. Nathanson* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 15th | Edward P. Doyle* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 16th | Maurice Z. Bungard* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 17th | Robert K. Story Jr.* | Republican | |
  | Kings | 18th | Irwin Steingut* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 19th | Jerome G. Ambro* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 20th | Frank A. Miller* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 21st | Joseph A. Esquirol* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 22nd | Jacob H. Livingston* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 23rd | Albert M. Cohen* | Democrat | |
  | Lewis | Lewis | Clarence L. Fisher* | Republican | |
  | Livingston | Livingston | A. Grant Stockweather* | Republican | |
  | Madison | Madison | Arthur A. Hartshorn* | Republican | |
  | Monroe | 1st | Arthur T. Pammenter* | Republican | |
  | Monroe | 2nd | Harry J. McKay* | Republican | |
  | Monroe | 3rd | Haskell H. Marks | Republican | |
  | Monroe | 4th | Richard L. Saunders | Republican | |
  | Monroe | 5th | W. Ray Austin* | Republican | |
  | Montgomery | Montgomery | Rufus Richtmyer* | Republican | |
  | Nassau | 1st | Edwin W. Wallace* | Republican | |
  | Nassau | 2nd | Edwin R. Lynde | Republican | |
  | New York | 1st | Peter J. Hamill* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 2nd | Frank R. Galgano* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 3rd | Sylvester A. Dineen* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 4th | Samuel Mandelbaum* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 5th | Frank A. Carlin* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 6th | Louis J. Lefkowitz* | Republican | |
  | New York | 7th | Saul S. Streit* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 8th | Henry O. Kahan* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 9th | John H. Conroy* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 10th | Langdon W. Post | Democrat | |
  | New York | 11th | Maurice F. Cantor* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 12th | John A. Byrnes* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 13th | John P. Nugent* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 14th | Joseph T. Higgins* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 15th | Abbot Low Moffat | Republican | |
  | New York | 16th | Maurice Bloch* | Democrat | Minority Leader; died on December 5, 1929 |
  | New York | 17th | Meyer Alterman* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 18th | Vincent H. Auleta* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 19th | Abraham Grenthal* | Republican | |
  | New York | 20th | Louis A. Cuvillier* | Democrat | |
  | New York | 21st | John W. Remer | Republican | |
  | New York | 22nd | Joseph A. Gavagan* | Democrat | on November 5, 1929, elected to the 71st U.S. Congress |
  | New York | 23rd | Alexander A. Falk* | Democrat | |
  | Niagara | 1st | Fayette E. Pease | Republican | |
  | Niagara | 2nd | Roy Hewitt | Republican | |
  | Oneida | 1st | Mark C. Kelly | Dem./Soc. | |
  | Oneida | 2nd | Russell G. Dunmore* | Republican | Majority Leader |
  | Oneida | 3rd | George J. Skinner* | Republican | |
  | Onondaga | 1st | Horace M. Stone* | Republican | |
  | Onondaga | 2nd | Willis H. Sargent* | Republican | |
  | Onondaga | 3rd | Richard B. Smith* | Republican | |
  | Ontario | Ontario | Robert A. Catchpole* | Republican | |
  | Orange | 1st | DeWitt C. Dominick* | Republican | |
  | Orange | 2nd | Alexander G. Hall* | Republican | |
  | Orleans | Orleans | Frank H. Lattin* | Republican | |
  | Oswego | Oswego | Victor C. Lewis* | Republican | |
  | Otsego | Otsego | Frank M. Smith* | Republican | |
  | Putnam | Putnam | D. Mallory Stephens* | Republican | |
  | Queens | 1st | Carl Deutschmann* | Democrat | |
  | Queens | 2nd | Frank B. Hendel* | Democrat | |
  | Queens | 3rd | Charles W. Posthauer* | Democrat | |
  | Queens | 4th | Robert J. Hunt | Republican | |
  | Queens | 5th | Maurice A. FitzGerald | Democrat | |
  | Queens | 6th | Paul P. Gallagher* | Democrat | contested by Raymond G. Pollard (R) |
  | Rensselaer | 1st | Michael F. Breen* | Democrat | |
  | Rensselaer | 2nd | Maurice Whitney* | Republican | |
  | Richmond | 1st | Francis A. Hannigan* | Democrat | |
  | Richmond | 2nd | William L. Vaughan* | Democrat | |
  | Rockland | Rockland | Walter S. Gedney* | Republican | |
  | St. Lawrence | 1st | Rhoda Fox Graves* | Republican | |
  | St. Lawrence | 2nd | Walter L. Pratt* | Republican | |
  | Saratoga | Saratoga | Burton D. Esmond* | Republican | |
  | Schenectady | 1st | Charles W. Merriam* | Republican | |
  | Schenectady | 2nd | William M. Nicoll* | Republican | |
  | Schoharie | Schoharie | Kenneth H. Fake* | Rep./Soc. | |
  | Schuyler | Schuyler | James A. Shepard* | Republican | |
  | Seneca | Seneca | William H. Van Cleef* | Republican | |
  | Steuben | 1st | Wilson Messer* | Republican | |
  | Steuben | 2nd | James T. Foody | Rep./Dem. | |
  | Suffolk | 1st | John G. Downs* | Republican | |
  | Suffolk | 2nd | Hamilton F. Potter | Republican | |
  | Sullivan | Sullivan | J. Maxwell Knapp | Republican | |
  | Tioga | Tioga | Daniel P. Witter* | Republican | |
  | Tompkins | Tompkins | James R. Robinson* | Republican | |
  | Ulster | Ulster | Millard Davis* | Republican | |
  | Warren | Warren | Paul L. Boyce* | Republican | |
  | Washington | Washington | Herbert A. Bartholomew* | Republican | |
  | Wayne | Wayne | Harry A. Tellier* | Republican | |
  | Westchester | 1st | Thomas Channing Moore | Republican | |
  | Westchester | 2nd | Herbert B. Shonk* | Republican | |
  | Westchester | 3rd | Milan E. Goodrich* | Republican | |
  | Westchester | 4th | Alexander H. Garnjost* | Republican | |
  | Westchester | 5th | William F. Condon* | Republican | |
  | Wyoming | Wyoming | Joe R. Hanley* | Republican | |
  | Yates | Yates | Edwin C. Nutt* | Republican | |
  
  ### Employees
  
  * Clerk: Fred W. Hammond
  