title: 107th New York State Legislature
text: # 107th New York State Legislature
  
  The 107th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 1 to May 16, 1884, during the second year of Grover Cleveland'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, 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 Democrats were split into three factions: Tammany Hall, "Irving Hall" and the "County Democrats". The Prohibition Party and the Greenback Party also nominated tickets.
  
  ## Elections
  
  The New York state election, 1883 was held on November 6. Of the five statewide elective offices up for election, four were carried by the Democrats, and one by a Republican. The approximate party strength at this election was: Democratic 446,000; Republican 430,000; Prohibition 18,000; and Greenback 7,000.
  
  ## Sessions
  
  The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 1, 1884; and adjourned on May 16.
  
  Titus Sheard (R) was elected Speaker against Frank Rice (D).
  
  Dennis McCarthy (R) was elected president pro tempore of the State Senate.
  
  ## 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. Michael C. Murphy and Timothy J. Campbell changed from the Assembly to the Senate.
  
  | District | Senator | Party | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1st | James Otis | Republican | |
  | 2nd | John J. Kiernan* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 3rd | Albert Daggett | Republican | |
  | 4th | John C. Jacobs* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 5th | Michael C. Murphy* | County/Irv. H. Dem. | |
  | 6th | Timothy J. Campbell* | County/Irv. H. Dem. | |
  | 7th | James Daly* | County Dem. | re-elected |
  | 8th | Frederick S. Gibbs | Republican | |
  | 9th | John J. Cullen | Tammany Dem. | |
  | 10th | J. Hampden Robb | Democrat | |
  | 11th | George W. Plunkitt | Tammany Dem. | |
  | 12th | Henry C. Nelson* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 13th | Henry R. Low | Republican | |
  | 14th | John Van Schaick | Democrat | |
  | 15th | Thomas Newbold | Democrat | |
  | 16th | Albert C. Comstock | Republican | |
  | 17th | John B. Thacher | Democrat | |
  | 18th | James Arkell | Republican | |
  | 19th | Shepard P. Bowen* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 20th | John I. Gilbert | Republican | |
  | 21st | Frederick Lansing* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 22nd | Henry J. Coggeshall | Republican | |
  | 23rd | Andrew Davidson | Republican | |
  | 24th | Edward B. Thomas* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 25th | Dennis McCarthy* | Republican | re-elected; elected president pro tempore |
  | 26th | Edward S. Esty | Republican | |
  | 27th | J. Sloat Fassett | Republican | |
  | 28th | Thomas Robinson | Republican | |
  | 29th | Charles S. Baker | Republican | on November 4, 1884, elected to the 49th U.S. Congress |
  | 30th | Timothy E. Ellsworth* | Republican | re-elected |
  | 31st | Robert C. Titus* | Democrat | re-elected |
  | 32nd | Commodore P. Vedder | Republican | |
  
  ### Employees
  
  * Clerk: John W. Vrooman
  * Sergeant-at-Arms: George A. Goss
  * Doorkeeper: David W. Bogert
  * Stenographer: Hudson C. Tanner
  * Postmaster: A. E. Darrow
  * Janitor: A. L. Neidick
  * Chaplain: S. V. Leech
  
  ## State Assembly
  
  ### Assemblymen
  
  The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.
  
  | District | District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Albany | 1st | John Zimmerman | Rep./Citizens | |
  | Albany | 2nd | Hiram Becker | Republican | |
  | Albany | 3rd | Edward A. Maher* | Democrat | |
  | Albany | 4th | James Forsyth Jr. | Republican | |
  | Allegany | Allegany | Charles S. Hall* | Republican | |
  | Broome | Broome | William H. Olin | Republican | |
  | Cattaraugus | 1st | Frederick W. Kruse | Republican | |
  | Cattaraugus | 2nd | Eugene A. Nash | Republican | |
  | Cayuga | 1st | Willoughby B. Priddy | Republican | |
  | Cayuga | 2nd | William Howland* | Republican | |
  | Chautauqua | 1st | Dana P. Horton | Republican | |
  | Chautauqua | 2nd | Oscar F. Price* | Republican | |
  | Chemung | Chemung | Jonas S. Van Duzer | Republican | |
  | Chenango | Chenango | Charles W. Brown | Democrat | |
  | Clinton | Clinton | William E. Smith | Democrat | |
  | Columbia | Columbia | Gilbert A. Deane | Republican | |
  | Cortland | Cortland | A. Judson Kneeland | Republican | |
  | Delaware | Delaware | Silas S. Cartwright | Republican | |
  | Dutchess | 1st | James Kent Jr. | Republican | |
  | Dutchess | 2nd | Edward B. Osborne | Democrat | |
  | Erie | 1st | Cornelius Donohue* | Democrat | |
  | Erie | 2nd | Frank Sipp | Republican | |
  | Erie | 3rd | George Clinton | Republican | |
  | Erie | 4th | Timothy W. Jackson* | Democrat | |
  | Erie | 5th | David J. Wilcox* | Democrat | |
  | Essex | Essex | Nathaniel C. Boynton* | Republican | |
  | Franklin | Franklin | William T. O'Neil* | Republican | |
  | Fulton and Hamilton | Fulton and Hamilton | Linn L. Boyce | Republican | |
  | Genesee | Genesee | Lucien R. Bailey | Republican | |
  | Greene | Greene | Bradley S. McCabe | Democrat | |
  | Herkimer | Herkimer | Titus Sheard | Republican | elected Speaker |
  | Jefferson | 1st | Isaac L. Hunt Jr.* | Republican | |
  | Jefferson | 2nd | Eli J. Seeber | Republican | |
  | Kings | 1st | Michael E. Butler* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 2nd | Richard Nagle | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 3rd | Peter J. Kelly | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 4th | Patrick Burns* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 5th | Michael J. Coffey | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 6th | Thomas F. Farrell | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 7th | George H. Lindsay* | Democrat | |
  | Kings | 8th | George H. Nason | Republican | |
  | Kings | 9th | Alfred Hodges* | Republican | |
  | Kings | 10th | James Taylor* | Republican | |
  | Kings | 11th | Henry Heath | Republican | |
  | Kings | 12th | Mortimer C. Earl* | Democrat | |
  | Lewis | Lewis | Charles M. Allen | Democrat | |
  | Livingston | Livingston | Kidder M. Scott* | Republican | |
  | Madison | Madison | Edward F. Haskell | Republican | |
  | Monroe | 1st | Walter S. Hubbell | Republican | |
  | Monroe | 2nd | Charles R. Pratt | Republican | |
  | Monroe | 3rd | Philip Garbutt | Republican | |
  | Montgomery | Montgomery | Martin Walrath Jr. | Democrat | |
  | New York | 1st | Patrick H. Duffy | County/Irv. H. Dem. | |
  | New York | 2nd | James Oliver | County/Irv. H. Dem. | |
  | New York | 3rd | John C. Brogan | Tam./Irv. H. Dem. | |
  | New York | 4th | Patrick H. Roche* | Irving H. Dem. | |
  | New York | 5th | Dominick F. Mullaney* | Tammany Dem. | |
  | New York | 6th | Peter Henry Jobes | County/Irv. H. Dem. | |
  | New York | 7th | Lucas L. Van Allen* | Republican | |
  | New York | 8th | Charles Smith | Republican | |
  | New York | 9th | Frederick B. House* | Republican | |
  | New York | 10th | Charles A. Binder | Republican | |
  | New York | 11th | Walter Howe* | Republican | |
  | New York | 12th | Solomon D. Rosenthal | County/Irv. H. Dem. | |
  | New York | 13th | Isaac Dayton | Republican | |
  | New York | 14th | John E. Donnelly | Tammany Dem. | |
  | New York | 15th | James F. Higgins* | County Dem. | |
  | New York | 16th | Peter F. Murray | County/Irv. H. Dem. | |
  | New York | 17th | Richard J. Lewis | Republican | |
  | New York | 18th | Thomas Murphy | Irving H. Dem. | |
  | New York | 19th | Dow S. Kittle | Republican | |
  | New York | 20th | James Haggerty* | Tammany Dem. | |
  | New York | 21st | Theodore Roosevelt* | Republican | Chairman of Affairs of Cities |
  | New York | 22nd | John T. McDonald | Tammany Dem. | |
  | New York | 23rd | Daniel M. Van Cott | Democrat | |
  | New York | 24th | John J. Clarke* | Tam./Irv. H. Dem. | |
  | Niagara | 1st | Jacob A. Driess | Democrat | |
  | Niagara | 2nd | Thomas Vincent Welch* | Democrat | |
  | Oneida | 1st | Joseph Joyce | Labor Reform/Rep. | |
  | Oneida | 2nd | Joseph Ackroyd | Democrat | |
  | Oneida | 3rd | T. James Owens | Republican | |
  | Onondaga | 1st | James Geddes* | Republican | |
  | Onondaga | 2nd | Francis Hendricks | Republican | |
  | Onondaga | 3rd | Conrad Shoemaker | Republican | |
  | Ontario | Ontario | Frank Rice* | Democrat | Minority Leader |
  | Orange | 1st | J. Chauncey Odell* | Democrat | |
  | Orange | 2nd | Jacob H. Dimmick* | Democrat | |
  | Orleans | Orleans | J. Marshall Dibble | Republican | |
  | Oswego | 1st | DeWitt C. Littlejohn | Republican | |
  | Oswego | 2nd | Gouverneur M. Sweet | Republican | |
  | Otsego | 1st | William Caryl Ely* | Democrat | |
  | Otsego | 2nd | Hartford D. Nelson* | Democrat | |
  | Putnam | Putnam | Henry D. Clapp | Republican | |
  | Queens | 1st | Louis K. Church* | Democrat | |
  | Queens | 2nd | Edward A. Darragh | Democrat | |
  | Rensselaer | 1st | James P. Hooley | Dem./Labor Reform | |
  | Rensselaer | 2nd | Sylvanus D. Locke | Republican | |
  | Rensselaer | 3rd | William T. Miles | Democrat | |
  | Richmond | Richmond | Edward A. Moore | Democrat | |
  | Rockland | Rockland | John W. Felter | Democrat | |
  | St. Lawrence | 1st | N. Martin Curtis | Republican | |
  | St. Lawrence | 2nd | Morell D. Beckwith* | Republican | |
  | St. Lawrence | 3rd | George Z. Erwin* | Republican | |
  | Saratoga | 1st | Daniel C. Briggs | Republican | |
  | Saratoga | 2nd | Thomas Noxon | Republican | |
  | Schenectady | Schenectady | John W. Vedder | Republican | |
  | Schoharie | Schoharie | James H. Brown | Democrat | |
  | Schuyler | Schuyler | J. Franklin Barnes | Democrat | |
  | Seneca | Seneca | George W. Jones | Republican | |
  | Steuben | 1st | George E. Whiteman | Democrat | |
  | Steuben | 2nd | Andrew B. Craig* | Democrat | |
  | Suffolk | Suffolk | Simeon S. Hawkins | Republican | |
  | Sullivan | Sullivan | George B. Childs* | Democrat | |
  | Tioga | Tioga | Charles F. Barager | Republican | |
  | Tompkins | Tompkins | John E. Cady* | Democrat | |
  | Ulster | 1st | Thomas H. Tremper* | Republican | |
  | Ulster | 2nd | Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck | Republican | |
  | Ulster | 3rd | George R. Johnson | Democrat | |
  | Warren | Warren | Lorenzo R. Locke* | Republican | |
  | Washington | 1st | Daniel M. Westfall | Republican | |
  | Washington | 2nd | Charles K. Baker | Republican | |
  | Wayne | 1st | Ammon S. Farnum | Republican | |
  | Wayne | 2nd | Silas S. Pierson | Republican | |
  | Westchester | 1st | Norton P. Otis | Republican | |
  | Westchester | 2nd | Samuel W. Johnson* | Democrat | |
  | Westchester | 3rd | James W. Husted | Republican | |
  | Wyoming | Wyoming | George M. Palmer | Republican | |
  | Yates | Yates | Henry C. Harpending | Democrat | |
  
  ### Employees
  
  * Clerk: Charles A. Chickering
  * Sergeant-at-Arms: Henry Wheeler
  * Doorkeeper: Michael Maher
  * First Assistant Doorkeeper: James Robinson
  * Second Assistant Doorkeeper: John P. Earl
  * Stenographer: Emory P. Close
  