Political Party Strength in New York
Encyclopedia
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

:
  • Governor
    Governor of New York
    The Governor of the State of New York is the chief executive of the State of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military and naval forces. The officeholder is afforded the courtesy title of His/Her...

  • Lieutenant Governor
    Lieutenant Governor of New York
    The Lieutenant Governor of New York is a constitutional office in the executive branch of the government of New York State. It is the second highest ranking official in state government. The lieutenant governor is elected on a ticket with the governor for a four year term...

  • Secretary of State
    Secretary of State of New York
    The Secretary of State of New York is a cabinet officer in the government of the U.S. state of New York.The current Secretary of State of New York is Cesar A...

  • Attorney General
  • State Comptroller
    New York State Comptroller
    The New York State Comptroller is a state cabinet officer of the U.S. state of New York. The duties of the comptroller include auditing government operations and operating the state's retirement system.-History:...

  • Treasurer
    New York State Treasurer
    The New York State Treasurer was a state cabinet officer in the State of New York between 1776 and 1926. During the re-organization of the state government under Governor Al Smith, the office was abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the new Department of Audit and Control headed by the...



The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

For years in which a United States presidential election
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

 was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.

The parties are as follows: (A) (More commonly known as the Know Nothing Party), (AA), (AL) (C), (CU), (D), (DR), (F), (I), (JD), (N), (NR), (NU), (P), (PA), (R), (W), (WF), and .
Year|Executive offices|State Legislature
New York Legislature
The New York State Legislature is the term often used to refer to the two houses that act as the state legislature of the U.S. state of New York. The New York Constitution does not designate an official term for the two houses together...

|United States Congress
United States Congressional Delegations from New York
These are tables of congressional delegations from New York to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.Over the years, New York has demographically changed so that it is hard to consider each district to be a continuation of the same numbered district before...

|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

Governor
Governor of New York
The Governor of the State of New York is the chief executive of the State of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military and naval forces. The officeholder is afforded the courtesy title of His/Her...

Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor of New York
The Lieutenant Governor of New York is a constitutional office in the executive branch of the government of New York State. It is the second highest ranking official in state government. The lieutenant governor is elected on a ticket with the governor for a four year term...

Secretary of State
Secretary of State of New York
The Secretary of State of New York is a cabinet officer in the government of the U.S. state of New York.The current Secretary of State of New York is Cesar A...

Attorney GeneralComptroller
New York State Comptroller
The New York State Comptroller is a state cabinet officer of the U.S. state of New York. The duties of the comptroller include auditing government operations and operating the state's retirement system.-History:...

Treasurer
New York State Treasurer
The New York State Treasurer was a state cabinet officer in the State of New York between 1776 and 1926. During the re-organization of the state government under Governor Al Smith, the office was abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the new Department of Audit and Control headed by the...

State Senate
New York State Senate
The New York State Senate is one of two houses in the New York State Legislature and has members each elected to two-year terms. There are no limits on the number of terms one may serve...

State Assembly
New York State Assembly
The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature. The Assembly is composed of 150 members representing an equal number of districts, with each district having an average population of 128,652...

U.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. House
1777 George Clinton
George Clinton (vice president)
George Clinton was an American soldier and politician, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was the first Governor of New York, and then the fourth Vice President of the United States , serving under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. He and John C...

 (N)
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt was the first Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York.He was born in New York, the son of Philip Van Cortlandt and Catherine DePeyster...

 (N)
None Egbert Benson
Egbert Benson
Egbert Benson was a lawyer, jurist, politician from Upper Red Hook, New York, and a Founding Father of the United States who represented New York in the Continental Congress, Annapolis Convention, and the United States House of Representatives, and who served as a member of the New York State...

Comfort Sands
Comfort Sands
Comfort Sands was an American merchant, banker and politician.-Life:Sands was a member of the New York Provincial Congress, the body which appointed him the first New York State Auditor-General in 1776. He resigned the office in 1782. In 1784, he became one of the first directors of the Bank of...

1778 John Morrin Scott
1779
1780
1781
1782 Peter T. Curtenius
Peter T. Curtenius
Peter Theobaldus Curtenius was an American merchant and politician.-Life:He was the son of Rev. Anthonius Curtenius, a clergyman of the Dutch Church who had come from Holland to the United States. In August 1755, he married Catharine Goelet , and their children were Elizabeth Curtenius , Anthony...

1783
1784 Lewis Allaire Scott
Lewis Allaire Scott
-Life:He was the son of John Morin Scott and Helena Rutgers Scott.On January 18, 1785, he married Julianna Sitgreaves , and their son was Mayor of Philadelphia John Morin Scott ....

1785
1786
1787 George Clinton
George Clinton (vice president)
George Clinton was an American soldier and politician, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was the first Governor of New York, and then the fourth Vice President of the United States , serving under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. He and John C...

 (AA)
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt was the first Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York.He was born in New York, the son of Philip Van Cortlandt and Catherine DePeyster...

 (AA)
1788 Richard Varick
Richard Varick
Richard Varick was an American lawyer and politician. He was born on 15 March 1753 at Hackensack in Bergen County, New Jersey, and he died on 30 July 1831 at Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey....

 (PA)
1789 Phillip Schuyler (PA) Rufus King
Rufus King
Rufus King was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

 (PA)
3AA, 3PA none
1790 Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr, Jr. was an important political figure in the early history of the United States of America. After serving as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Burr became a successful lawyer and politician...

 (AA)
1791 Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr, Jr. was an important political figure in the early history of the United States of America. After serving as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Burr became a successful lawyer and politician...

 (AA)
4PA, 2AA
1792 George Clinton
George Clinton (vice president)
George Clinton was an American soldier and politician, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was the first Governor of New York, and then the fourth Vice President of the United States , serving under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. He and John C...

 (DR)
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt was the first Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York.He was born in New York, the son of Philip Van Cortlandt and Catherine DePeyster...

 (DR)
Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis (governor)
Morgan Lewis was an American lawyer, politician and military commander.Of Welsh descent, he was the son of Francis Lewis, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from Princeton in 1773 and began to study law on the advice of his father...

 (DR)
George Washington
George Washington
George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

 (N) and George Clinton (DR)
1793 Nathaniel Lawrence
Nathaniel Lawrence
-Life:He was the son of Thomas Lawrence and Elizabeth Lawrence. He attended Princeton College, but left to fight in the American Revolutionary War as a lieutenant....

7PA, 3AA
1794
1795 John Jay
John Jay
John Jay was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States ....

 (F)
Stephen Van Rensselaer III
Stephen Van Rensselaer III
Stephen Van Rensselaer III was Lieutenant Governor of New York as well as a statesman, soldier, and land-owner, the heir to one of the largest estates in the New York region at the time, which made him the tenth richest American of all time, based on the ratio of his fortune to contemporary GDP...

 (F)
5DR, 5F
1796 Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Sr. (F) John Laurance
John Laurance
John Laurance was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He emigrated to the United States in 1767 and settled in New York City where he read law and entered private practice in 1772. At the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, he was a warm adherent of the revolutionaries...

 (F)
John Adams
John Adams
John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...

 and Thomas Pinckney
Thomas Pinckney
Thomas Pinckney was an early American statesman, diplomat and veteran of both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.-Early life in the military:...

 (F)
1797 Samuel Jones
Samuel Jones (NY comptroller)
Samuel Jones was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of William Jones and Phoebe Jones ....

Phillip Schuyler (F) 6F, 4DR
1798 Daniel Hale
Daniel Hale (politician)
Daniel Hale was an American Federalist politician.-Life:After the American Revolutionary War, he settled in Albany, New York, and became a merchant.About 1783, he married Catharina Dyckman, and they had several children....

 (F)
John Sloss Hobart
John Sloss Hobart
John Sloss Hobart was an American jurist and politician. He was a member of the Federalist Party who served as United States Senator from New York, and later as a United States federal judge.-Early life:...

 (F)
William North
William North
-Life:He was the son of John North, who commanded Fort Frederick in 1751, and Fort St. George in Thomaston, Maine, in 1758. He moved with his mother, Elizabeth North, to Boston, Massachusetts....

 (F)
1799 James Waston
James Watson (politician)
James Watson was a United States Senator representing the state of New York.-Life:Watson moved to New York City in 1786 and engaged in business pursuits. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1791, 1794–1796 and was Speaker in 1794...

 (F)
6DR, 4F
1800 John Vernon Henry
John Vernon Henry
John Vernon Henry was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was admitted to the bar in 1782. He was a Federalist member from Albany County of the New York State Assembly from 1800 to 1802. He was New York State Comptroller from 1800 to 1801...

 (F)
Gouvernor Morris (F) John Armstrong, Jr.
John Armstrong, Jr.
John Armstrong, Jr. was an American soldier and statesman who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator from New York, and Secretary of War.-Early life and Revolutionary War:...

 (DR)
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...

 and Aaron Burr (DR)
1801 George Clinton (DR) Jeremiah Van Rensselaer
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer was a Representative from New York to the United States Congress. He was the cousin of Killian K...

 (DR)
Thomas Tillotson
Thomas Tillotson
Thomas Tillotson was an American physician and politician.-Life:He received a thorough education, studied medicine, and practiced. During the American Revolutionary War, he was commissioned First lieutenant in the Maryland Militia in 1776...

 (DR)
7DR, 3F
1802 Ambrose Spencer
Ambrose Spencer
Ambrose Spencer was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He attended Yale College from 1779 to 1782, and graduated from Harvard University in 1783...

 (DR)
Elisha Jenkins
Elisha Jenkins
Elisha Jenkins was an American politician who served as New York Secretary of State and Mayor of Albany.-Life:...

 (DR)
DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton was an early American politician and naturalist who served as United States Senator and the sixth Governor of New York. In this last capacity he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal...

 (DR)
1803 Theodorus Bailey
Theodorus Bailey (senator)
Theodorus Bailey was an American lawyer and politician from Poughkeepsie, New York. He represented New York in both the U.S. House and Senate...

 (DR)
12DR, 5F
John Armstrong, Jr.
John Armstrong, Jr.
John Armstrong, Jr. was an American soldier and statesman who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator from New York, and Secretary of War.-Early life and Revolutionary War:...

 (DR)
1804 Morgan Lewis (DR) John Broome
John Broome (politician)
For persons with a similar name, see John BroomeJohn Broome was an American merchant and politician who was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1804 to 1810....

 (DR)
John Woodworth
John Woodworth (lawyer)
John Woodworth was an American lawyer and member of the Woodworth political family.-Life:...

 (DR)
Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton (DR)
John Armstrong, Jr.
John Armstrong, Jr.
John Armstrong, Jr. was an American soldier and statesman who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator from New York, and Secretary of War.-Early life and Revolutionary War:...

 (DR)
John Smith
John Smith (New York)
John Smith was an American politician from New York.-Life:He was the son of Rev. Caleb Smith, a minister at Orange, New Jersey...

 (DR)
1805 Samuel L. Mitchill
Samuel Latham Mitchill
Samuel Latham Mitchill was an American physician, naturalist, and politician from New York. He was born in Hempstead, New York...

 (DR)
15DR, 2F
1806 Elisha Jenkins
Elisha Jenkins
Elisha Jenkins was an American politician who served as New York Secretary of State and Mayor of Albany.-Life:...

 (DR)
Archibald McIntyre
Archibald McIntyre
Archibald McIntyre was an American merchant and politician.-Life:...

 (DR)
1807 Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins was an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, the fourth Governor of New York , and the sixth Vice President of the United States .-Name:...

 (DR)
Thomas Tillotson
Thomas Tillotson
Thomas Tillotson was an American physician and politician.-Life:He received a thorough education, studied medicine, and practiced. During the American Revolutionary War, he was commissioned First lieutenant in the Maryland Militia in 1776...

 (DR)
1808 Elisha Jenkins
Elisha Jenkins
Elisha Jenkins was an American politician who served as New York Secretary of State and Mayor of Albany.-Life:...

 (DR)
Matthias B. Hildreth
Matthias B. Hildreth
Matthias Bernard Hildreth was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:His family moved in 1797 from Southampton, Long Island to Johnstown, then in Montgomery County, New York, where his father James Hildreth became judge of the Court of Common Pleas.Hildreth was a presidential elector in 1804,...

 (DR)
13 James Madison
James Madison
James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman and political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States and is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and at first an opponent of, and then a key author of the United...

 and George Clinton (DR); 3 George Clinton and James Madison (DR); 3 George Clinton and James Monroe
James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States . Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation...

 (DR)
1809 Obadiah German
Obadiah German
Obadiah German was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was admitted to the bar in 1792, and commenced practice in Norwich....

 (DR)
10DR, 7F
1810 Daniel Hale
Daniel Hale (politician)
Daniel Hale was an American Federalist politician.-Life:After the American Revolutionary War, he settled in Albany, New York, and became a merchant.About 1783, he married Catharina Dyckman, and they had several children....

 (F)
Abraham Van Vechten
Abraham Van Vechten
Abraham Van Vechten was an American lawyer and a Federalist politician who served twice as New York State Attorney General.-Life:...

 (F)
1811 John Tayler
John Tayler
John Tayler was a merchant and politician. He served nine years as Lieutenant Governor of New York, four months as Acting Governor of New York, and also in both houses of the New York State Legislature.-Life:...

 (DR)
Matthias B. Hildreth
Matthias B. Hildreth
Matthias Bernard Hildreth was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:His family moved in 1797 from Southampton, Long Island to Johnstown, then in Montgomery County, New York, where his father James Hildreth became judge of the Court of Common Pleas.Hildreth was a presidential elector in 1804,...

 (DR)
12DR, 5F
DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton was an early American politician and naturalist who served as United States Senator and the sixth Governor of New York. In this last capacity he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal...

 (DR)
Elisha Jenkins
Elisha Jenkins
Elisha Jenkins was an American politician who served as New York Secretary of State and Mayor of Albany.-Life:...

 (DR)
1812 Thomas Addis Emmet
Thomas Addis Emmet
Thomas Addis Emmet was an Irish and American lawyer and politician. He was a senior member of the revolutionary republican group United Irishmen in the 1790s and New York State Attorney General 1812–1813.-Background:...

 (DR)
DeWitt Clinton and Jared Ingersoll
Jared Ingersoll
Jared Ingersoll was an early American lawyer and statesman from Philadelphia.He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and signed the U.S. Constitution for Pennsylvania...

 (F)
1813 John Tayler (DR) Jacob R. Van Rensselaer
Jacob R. Van Rensselaer
Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer was an American lawyer and Federalist politician.-Life:...

 (F)
Abraham Van Vechten
Abraham Van Vechten
Abraham Van Vechten was an American lawyer and a Federalist politician who served twice as New York State Attorney General.-Life:...

 (F)
Rufus King
Rufus King
Rufus King was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

 (F)
1814
1815 Peter Buell Porter
Peter Buell Porter
Peter Buell Porter was an American lawyer, soldier and politician who served as United States Secretary of War from 1828 to 1829.-Life:...

 (DR)
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States . Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson ....

 (DR)
Nathan Sanford
Nathan Sanford
Nathan Sanford was an American politician.- Life :He was the son of Thomas Sanford and Phebe Sanford, née Baker...

 (DR)
1816 Robert L. Tillotson
Robert L. Tillotson
Robert Livingston Tillotson was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Thomas Tillotson and Margaret Livingston Tillotson.He was Secretary of State of New York from 1816 to 1817....

James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins (DR)
1817 John Tayler (DR) Philetus Swift
Philetus Swift
Philetus Swift was an American politician.-Life:...

 (DR)
Charles D. Cooper
Charles D. Cooper
Charles DeKay Cooper was an American physician, lawyer and Democratic-Republican politician.-Life:...

 (DR)
DeWitt Clinton (DR) John Tayler (DR)
1818 John Van Ness Yates
John Van Ness Yates
John Van Ness Yates was a New York lawyer, Democratic-Republican politician, and Secretary of State from 1818 to 1826. He was born in Albany to Robert Yates, a prominent Anti-Federalist attorney and jurist. He became a lawyer after clerking in the office of John Vernon Henry...

 (DR)
1819 Thomas Jackson Oakley
Thomas Jackson Oakley
Thomas Jackson Oakley was a United States Representative and New York State Attorney General.-Education:...

 (F)
1820
1821 Samuel A. Talcott
Samuel A. Talcott
Samuel Austin Talcott was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (DR)
John Savage
John Savage (Congressman)
John Savage was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (DR)
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States . Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson ....

 (DR)
1822
1823 Joseph C. Yates
Joseph C. Yates
Joseph Christopher Yates was an American lawyer, politician. statesman, and founding trustee of Union College.-History:...

 (DR)
Erastus Root
Erastus Root
Erastus Root was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1793 and became a teacher...

 (DR)
William L. Marcy
William L. Marcy
William Learned Marcy was an American statesman, who served as U.S. Senator and the 11th Governor of New York, and as the U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of State.-Early life:...

 (DR)
1824 26 John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...

 and John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun eloquently spoke out on every issue of his day, but often changed positions. Calhoun began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer, and proponent...

 (DR); 5 William Crawford and Nathaniel Macon
Nathaniel Macon
Nathaniel Macon was a spokesman for the Old Republican faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that wanted to strictly limit the United States federal government. Macon was born near Warrenton, North Carolina, and attended the College of New Jersey and served briefly in the American...

 (DR); 4 Henry Clay
Henry Clay
Henry Clay, Sr. , was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives...

 and Nathan Sanford (DR); 1 Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

 and John C. Calhoun (DR)
John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun (DR)
1825 DeWitt Clinton (P) James Tallmadge, Jr. (P)
1826 Azariah Cutting Flagg (DR) Nathan Sanford
Nathan Sanford
Nathan Sanford was an American politician.- Life :He was the son of Thomas Sanford and Phebe Sanford, née Baker...

 (NR)
1827 Nathaniel Pitcher
Nathaniel Pitcher
Nathaniel Pitcher was an American lawyer and politician who served as the eighth Governor of New York from February 11 to December 31, 1828....

 (DR)
1828 Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (D)
Nathaniel Pitcher
Nathaniel Pitcher
Nathaniel Pitcher was an American lawyer and politician who served as the eighth Governor of New York from February 11 to December 31, 1828....

 (DR)
Peter R. Livingston
Peter R. Livingston
Peter Robert Livingston was an American politician who served as Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York from February to October 1828.-Life:...

 (DR)
Charles Dayan
Charles Dayan
Charles Dayan was an American lawyer and politician who was a United States Representative from New York from 1831 to 1833....

 (DR)
1829 Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States . Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson ....

 (JD)
Enos T. Throop
Enos T. Throop
Enos Thompson Throop was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat who was the tenth Governor of New York from 1829 to 1832.-Early life and career:...

 (JD)
Silas Wright
Silas Wright
Silas Wright, Jr. was an American Democratic politician. Wright was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved with his father to Weybridge, Vermont in 1796. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1815 and moved to Sandy Hill, New York, the next year, where he studied law, being admitted to the bar...

 (D)
Charles E. Dudley
Charles E. Dudley
Charles Edward Dudley was an American politician.-Life:Dudley was born in England during the American Revolution, the son of Loyalist parents. His father, Charles Dudley, an Englishman, was Collector of the King's Customs at Newport, Rhode Island, where he married Catherine Cooke, of a Rhode...

 (D)
Enos T. Throop (JD) Charles Stebbins
Charles Stebbins
Charles Stebbins was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He graduated from Williams College in 1807, then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1810, and commenced practice in Cazenovia, New York...

 (JD)
Greene C. Bronson
Greene C. Bronson
Greene Carrier Bronson was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...

 (D)
1830 William M. Oliver
William M. Oliver
William Morrison Oliver was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (JD)
1831 Edward Philip Livingston
Edward Philip Livingston
Edward Philip Livingston was an American politician.-Family background:...

 (JD)
William L. Marcy
William L. Marcy
William Learned Marcy was an American statesman, who served as U.S. Senator and the 11th Governor of New York, and as the U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of State.-Early life:...

 (D)
1832 Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren (D)
1833 William L. Marcy
William L. Marcy
William Learned Marcy was an American statesman, who served as U.S. Senator and the 11th Governor of New York, and as the U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of State.-Early life:...

 (D)
John Tracy (D) John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix was an American politician from New York. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator, and the 24th Governor of New York. He was also a Union major general during the Civil War.-Early life and career:...

 (D)
Azariah Cutting Flagg (D) Nathaniel P. Tallmadge
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge
Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge was an American lawyer and politician. He was a U.S. Senator from New York and Governor of the Wisconsin Territory.-Early life:Tallmadge graduated from Union College in 1815...

 (JD)
Silas Wright
Silas Wright
Silas Wright, Jr. was an American Democratic politician. Wright was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved with his father to Weybridge, Vermont in 1796. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1815 and moved to Sandy Hill, New York, the next year, where he studied law, being admitted to the bar...

 (D)
1834
1835
1836 Samuel Beardsley
Samuel Beardsley
Samuel Beardsley was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Martin Van Buren and Richard Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren . He was the only vice-president ever elected by the United States Senate under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment. Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U.S...

 (D)
1837
1838
1839 William H. Seward
William H. Seward
William Henry Seward, Sr. was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson...

 (W)
Luther Bradish
Luther Bradish
Luther Bradish was an American lawyer and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1839 to 1842.-Life:...

 (W)
John Canfield Spencer
John Canfield Spencer
John Canfield Spencer was an American lawyer, politician, judge and United States Cabinet secretary in the administration of President John Tyler.-Early life:...

 (W)
Willis Hall
Willis Hall (New York)
Willis Hall was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Rev. Nathaniel Hall and Hannah Emerson Hall . He graduated from Yale College in 1824, studied law in New York City and Litchfield, Connecticut...

 (W)
Bates Cooke
Bates Cooke
Bates Cooke was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Captain Lemuel Cooke who had fought in the American Revolutionary War...

 (W)
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge
Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge was an American lawyer and politician. He was a U.S. Senator from New York and Governor of the Wisconsin Territory.-Early life:Tallmadge graduated from Union College in 1815...

 (D)
1840 William H. Harrison and John Tyler
John Tyler
John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States . A native of Virginia, Tyler served as a state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator before being elected Vice President . He was the first to succeed to the office of President following the death of a predecessor...

 (W)
1841 Archibald Campbell
Archibald Campbell (New York)
Archibald Campbell was an American politician who was Acting Secretary of State of New York from 1841 to 1842.-Life:...

John A. Collier
John A. Collier
John Allen Collier was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (W)
1842 Samuel Young
Samuel Young (New York)
Samuel Young was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:In 1813, he was Moderator of the Board of Supervisors of Saratoga County....

 (D)
George P. Barker
George P. Barker
George Payson Barker was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Azariah Cutting Flagg (D)
1843 William C. Bouck
William C. Bouck
William Christian Bouck was an American politician from New York. He was the 13th Governor of New York from 1843 to 1844.-Life:...

 (D)
Daniel S. Dickinson
Daniel S. Dickinson
Daniel Stevens Dickinson was a New York politician, most notable as a United States Senator from 1844 to 1851.-Biography:...

 (D)
1844 James K. Polk
James K. Polk
James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States . Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee. A Democrat, Polk served as the 17th Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 12th Governor of Tennessee...

 and George M. Dallas
George M. Dallas
George Mifflin Dallas was a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States , serving under James K. Polk.-Family and early life:...

 (D)
Henry A. Foster
Henry A. Foster
Henry Allen Foster was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a United States Senator from 1844 to 1845.-Life:His family moved to Cazenovia, New York when he was a boy...

 (D)
1845 Silas Wright
Silas Wright
Silas Wright, Jr. was an American Democratic politician. Wright was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved with his father to Weybridge, Vermont in 1796. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1815 and moved to Sandy Hill, New York, the next year, where he studied law, being admitted to the bar...

 (D)
Addison Gardiner
Addison Gardiner
Addison Gardiner was an American lawyer and politician who was the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1854 to 1855.-Early life and career:...

 (D)
Nathaniel S. Benton
Nathaniel S. Benton
Nathaniel Seley Benton was a New York politician who served as a New York State Senator and Secretary of State of New York....

 (D)
John Van Buren
John Van Buren
John Van Buren was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the second son of President Martin Van Buren and graduated from Yale College in 1828. In 1831, when his father was appointed U.S. Minister to Britain, he accompanied him as secretary of the American Legation in London...

 (D)
Daniel S. Dickinson
Daniel S. Dickinson
Daniel Stevens Dickinson was a New York politician, most notable as a United States Senator from 1844 to 1851.-Biography:...

 (D)
John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix was an American politician from New York. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator, and the 24th Governor of New York. He was also a Union major general during the Civil War.-Early life and career:...

 (D)
1846
1847 John Young
John Young (Governor)
John Young was an American politician.He was born in Chelsea, Vermont. As a child, he moved to Freeport , Livingston County, New York. He had only basic schooling but, by self-study accumulated a knowledge of classics and became a law clerk, becoming admitted to the bar in 1829...

 (W)
1848 Hamilton Fish
Hamilton Fish
Hamilton Fish was an American statesman and politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State. Fish has been considered one of the best Secretary of States in the United States history; known for his judiciousness and reform efforts...

 (W)
Christopher Morgan
Christopher Morgan
Christopher Morgan was a U.S. Representative from New York, brother of Edwin Barber Morgan and nephew of Noyes Barber.Born in Aurora, New York, Morgan pursued classical studies and was graduated from Yale College in 1830....

 (W)
Ambrose L. Jordan
Ambrose L. Jordan
Ambrose Latting Jordan was an American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician.-Early life:...

 (W)
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president...

 (W)
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass...

 and Millard Fillmore (W)
1849 Hamilton Fish
Hamilton Fish
Hamilton Fish was an American statesman and politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State. Fish has been considered one of the best Secretary of States in the United States history; known for his judiciousness and reform efforts...

 (W)
George Washington Patterson
George Washington Patterson
George Washington Patterson was an American politician who served as United States Representative and Lieutenant Governor of New York....

 (W)
William H. Seward
William H. Seward
William Henry Seward, Sr. was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson...

 (W)
1850 Levi S. Chatfield
Levi S. Chatfield
Levi Starr Chatfield was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Enos Chatfield and Hannah Starr Chatfield ....

 (D)
Washington Hunt
Washington Hunt
Washington Hunt was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He moved to Lockport, New York in 1828 to study law, was admitted to the bar in 1834, and opened a law office on Market Street in 1835...

 (W)
1851 Washington Hunt
Washington Hunt
Washington Hunt was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He moved to Lockport, New York in 1828 to study law, was admitted to the bar in 1834, and opened a law office on Market Street in 1835...

 (W)
Sanford E. Church
Sanford E. Church
Sanford Elias Church was an American lawyer and Democratic politician...

 (D)
Philo C. Fuller
Philo C. Fuller
Philo Case Fuller was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (W)
Hamilton Fish
Hamilton Fish
Hamilton Fish was an American statesman and politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State. Fish has been considered one of the best Secretary of States in the United States history; known for his judiciousness and reform efforts...

 (W)
1852 Henry S. Randall
Henry S. Randall
Henry Stephens Randall was an American agriculturist, writer, educator and politician.-Life:He was the son of General Roswell Randall and Harriet Randall, of Shelburne, Vermont...

 (D)
John C. Wright
John C. Wright (comptroller)
-Life:He practiced at Esperance, New York. He was First Judge of the Schoharie County Court from 1838 to 1843.He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1843 to 1846....

 (D)
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the Army...

 and William King
William R. King
William Rufus DeVane King was the 13th Vice President of the United States for about six weeks , and earlier a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, Minister to France, and a Senator from Alabama...

 (D)
1853 Horatio Seymour
Horatio Seymour
Horatio Seymour was an American politician. He was the 18th Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in the presidential election of 1868, but lost the election to Republican and former Union General of...

 (D)
Gardner Stow
Gardner Stow
Gardner Stow was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Timothy Stow. The family removed first to Warrensburg, and in 1802 to Bolton, New York. In 1806, he went to Sandy Hill, New York to study law, and made the acquaintance of Esek Cowen who was a fellow student and became...

 (W)
1854 Elias Warner Leavenworth (W) Ogden Hoffman (W) James M. Cook
James M. Cook
James Merrill Cook was an American businessman, banker and politician.-Life:...

 (W)
1855 Myron H. Clark
Myron H. Clark
Myron Holley Clark was an American politician from the U.S. state of New York.- Biography :Clark was born in Naples, Ontario County, New York on October 23, 1806...

 (W)
Henry Jarvis Raymond
Henry Jarvis Raymond
Henry Jarvis Raymond was an American journalist and politician and founder of The New York Times.-Early life and ancestors:...

 (W)
William H. Seward
William H. Seward
William Henry Seward, Sr. was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson...

 (R)
1856 Joel T. Headley
Joel T. Headley
Joel Tyler Headley was an American clergyman, historian, Author, newspaper editor and politician who served as Secretary of State of New York.-Life:...

 (A)
Stephen B. Cushing
Stephen B. Cushing
Stephen Booth Cushing was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (A)
Lorenzo Burrows
Lorenzo Burrows
Lorenzo Burrows was an American merchant, banker and politician.-Life:...

 (A)
John C. Frémont
John C. Frémont
John Charles Frémont , was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, that era's penny press accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder...

 and William L. Dayton
William L. Dayton
William Lewis Dayton was an American politician.A distant relation of U.S. House Speaker and U.S. Constitution signatory Jonathan Dayton, he was born in Basking Ridge, New Jersey to farmer Joel Dayton and his wife...

 (R)
1857 John Alsop King
John Alsop King
John Alsop King was an American politician who served as governor of New York.He was born in the area now encompassed by New York City on 3 January 1788 and was educated at Harrow School in England...

 (R)
Henry R. Selden
Henry R. Selden
Henry Rogers Selden was an American lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1857 to 1858. He defended Susan B. Anthony in her 1873 trial for unlawfully voting as a woman.-Life:He was the son of Calvin Selden and Phebe Selden...

 (R)
Preston King
Preston King
Preston King was a United States Representative and Senator from New York.- Biography :Born in Ogdensburg, New York, he pursued classical studies and graduated from Union College in 1827, where he was an early member of The Kappa Alpha Society. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He...

 (R)
1858 Gideon J. Tucker
Gideon J. Tucker
Gideon John Tucker was an American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician. In 1866, as Surrogate of New York, he wrote in a decision of a will case: "No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session."-Life:He was born on Laight Street, near Canal Street in Lower...

 (D)
Lyman Tremain
Lyman Tremain
Lyman Tremain was a jurist and politician from New York.He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced in Durham, where he was elected to his first political office as town supervisor in 1842. He was appointed District Attorney of Greene County in 1844...

 (D)
Sanford E. Church
Sanford E. Church
Sanford Elias Church was an American lawyer and Democratic politician...

 (D)
1859 Edwin D. Morgan
Edwin D. Morgan
Edwin Denison Morgan was the 21st Governor of New York from 1859 to 1862 and served in the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869. He was the first and longest-serving chairman of the Republican National Committee...

 (R)
Robert Campbell (R)
1860 David R. Floyd-Jones
David R. Floyd-Jones
David Richard Floyd-Jones was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:A descendant of an old Long Island family, he was born at the family mansion on the Fort Neck estate in South Oyster Bay, New York as the son of Brigadier General Thomas Floyd-Jones and Cornelia Haring Jones Floyd-Jones David...

 (D)
Charles G. Myers
Charles G. Myers
Charles G. Myers was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was educated at the St. Lawrence Academy in Potsdam, New York. In 1825, he began to study law in the office of Governeur Ogden at Waddington, NY, was admitted to the bar in 1832, and commenced practice in Ogdensburg, New York.He was...

 (R)
Robert Denniston
Robert Denniston
Robert Denniston was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

 and Hannibal Hamlin
Hannibal Hamlin
Hannibal Hamlin was the 15th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War...

 (R)
1861 Ira Harris
Ira Harris
Ira Harris was an American jurist and senator from New York. He was also a friend of Abraham Lincoln's.-Life:Harris grew up on a farm, and graduated from Union College in 1824. Then he studied law in Albany, and in 1828 was admitted to the bar.He was a Whig member from Albany County of the New...

 (R)
1862 Horatio Ballard
Horatio Ballard
Horatio Ballard was an American lawyer and politician who was New York Secretary of State from January 1, 1862 to December 31, 1863.-Life:...

 (NU)
Daniel S. Dickinson
Daniel S. Dickinson
Daniel Stevens Dickinson was a New York politician, most notable as a United States Senator from 1844 to 1851.-Biography:...

 (NU)
Lucius Robinson
Lucius Robinson
Lucius Robinson was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 26th Governor of New York from 1877 to 1879.-Life:...

 (NU)
1863 Horatio Seymour
Horatio Seymour
Horatio Seymour was an American politician. He was the 18th Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in the presidential election of 1868, but lost the election to Republican and former Union General of...

 (CU)
David R. Floyd-Jones
David R. Floyd-Jones
David Richard Floyd-Jones was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:A descendant of an old Long Island family, he was born at the family mansion on the Fort Neck estate in South Oyster Bay, New York as the son of Brigadier General Thomas Floyd-Jones and Cornelia Haring Jones Floyd-Jones David...

 (CU)
Edwin D. Morgan
Edwin D. Morgan
Edwin Denison Morgan was the 21st Governor of New York from 1859 to 1862 and served in the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869. He was the first and longest-serving chairman of the Republican National Committee...

 (R)
1864 Chauncey Depew
Chauncey Depew
Chauncey Mitchell Depew was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911.- Biography:...

 (NU)
John Cochrane
John Cochrane (general)
John Cochrane was an American lawyer, Union Army general and politician.-Life:He was the grandson of John Cochran, Surgeon General of the Continental Army....

 (NU)
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...

 (NU)
1865 Reuben Fenton
Reuben Fenton
Reuben Eaton Fenton was an American merchant and politician from New York.-Life:He was the son of a farmer. He was elected a colonel of the New York State Militia in 1840. He became a lumber merchant, and entered politics as a Democrat...

 (NU)
Thomas G. Alvord
Thomas G. Alvord
Thomas Gold Alvord was an American lawyer, merchant and politician. Throughout his political career he was known as "Old Salt".-Life:...

 (NU)
1866 Francis C. Barlow
Francis C. Barlow
Francis Channing Barlow was a lawyer, politician, and Union General during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

 (R)
John H. Martindale
John H. Martindale
John Henry Martindale was an American lawyer, Union Army general, and politician.-Early life:Martindale was born in Sandy Hill, Washington County, New York, the son of Congressman Henry C. Martindale and Minerva Hitchcock Martindale. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in...

 (R)
Thomas Hillhouse
Thomas Hillhouse (adjutant general)
Thomas Hillhouse was an American farmer, banker and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
Joseph Howland
Joseph Howland
Joseph Howland was an American Union Army general, politician and philanthropist.-Early life:...

 (R)
1867 Reuben Fenton (R) Stewart L. Woodford
Stewart L. Woodford
Stewart Lyndon Woodford was an American politician.-Life:He studied at Yale University and Columbia College . At the latter he graduated in 1854 and was a member of St. Anthony Hall...

 (R)
Roscoe Conkling
Roscoe Conkling
Roscoe Conkling was a politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was the leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party and the last person to refuse a U.S. Supreme Court appointment after he had...

 (R)
1868 Homer Augustus Nelson
Homer Augustus Nelson
Homer Augustus Nelson was an American politician and soldier from the state of New York. He was an officer in the Union Army during the first part of the Civil War and a United States congressman during the latter half of the war.-Biography:Nelson was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he was...

 (D)
Marshall B. Champlain
Marshall B. Champlain
Marshall Bolds Champlain was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was admitted to the bar in 1843, and practised at Cuba, N.Y...

 (D)
William F. Allen
William F. Allen (New York)
William Fitch Allen was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Wheeler H. Bristol
Wheeler H. Bristol
Wheeler H. Bristol was an American engineer, railroad executive and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Horatio Seymour
Horatio Seymour
Horatio Seymour was an American politician. He was the 18th Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in the presidential election of 1868, but lost the election to Republican and former Union General of...

 and Francis Blair, Jr. (D)
1869 John Thompson Hoffman (D) Allen C. Beach
Allen C. Beach
Allen Carpenter Beach was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Reuben Fenton
Reuben Fenton
Reuben Eaton Fenton was an American merchant and politician from New York.-Life:He was the son of a farmer. He was elected a colonel of the New York State Militia in 1840. He became a lumber merchant, and entered politics as a Democrat...

 (R)
1870 Asher P. Nichols
Asher P. Nichols
Asher P. Nichols was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
1871
1872 G. Hilton Scribner
G. Hilton Scribner
Gilbert Hilton Scribner was an American lawyer and politician who was Secretary of State of New York from 1872 to 1873. He was a fifth-cousin of the publisher Charles Scribner.-Life:...

 (R)
Francis C. Barlow
Francis C. Barlow
Francis Channing Barlow was a lawyer, politician, and Union General during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

 (R)
Nelson K. Hopkins
Nelson K. Hopkins
Nelson Kerr Hopkins was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of General Timothy Soveral Hopkins and Nancy Ann Hopkins . Hopkins attended Fredonia Academy and Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in preparation for college...

 (R)
Thomas Raines
Thomas Raines
Thomas Raines was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of John Raines ....

 (R)
Ulysses Grant and Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson was the 18th Vice President of the United States and a Senator from Massachusetts...

 (R)
1873 John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix was an American politician from New York. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator, and the 24th Governor of New York. He was also a Union major general during the Civil War.-Early life and career:...

 (R)
John C. Robinson
John C. Robinson
John Cleveland Robinson had a long and distinguished career in the United States Army, fighting in numerous wars and culminating his career as a Union Army brigadier general of volunteers and brevet major general of volunteers in the American Civil War. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated...

 (R)
1874 Diedrich Willers, Jr.
Diedrich Willers, Jr.
Diedrich Willers, Jr. was a Democratic politician from Varick, New York who served as Secretary of State of New York...

 (D)
Daniel Pratt
Daniel Pratt (New York)
Daniel Pratt was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Abraham Lansing
Abraham Lansing
-Life:Born in Albany, Albany County, New York, Lansing was a grandson of state Treasurer Abraham G. Lansing, and son of Christopher Yates Lansing and Caroline Mary Thomas Lansing . Chancellor John Lansing, Jr. was his great-uncle, Gerrit Y. Lansing was his uncle. Lansing attended The Albany...

 (D)
1875 Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel Jones Tilden was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876, one of the most controversial American elections of the 19th century. He was the 25th Governor of New York...

 (D)
William Dorsheimer
William Dorsheimer
William Dorsheimer was an American lawyer, journalist and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Thomas Raines
Thomas Raines
Thomas Raines was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of John Raines ....

 (D)
Francis Kernan
Francis Kernan
Francis Kernan was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a U.S. Senator from 1875 to 1881....

 (D)
1876 John Bigelow
John Bigelow
John Bigelow was an American lawyer and statesman.-Life:Born in Malden-on-Hudson, New York, John Bigelow, Sr.graduated from Union College in 1835 where he was a member of the Sigma Phi Society and the Philomathean Society, and was admitted to the bar in 1838...

 (D)
Charles S. Fairchild
Charles S. Fairchild
Charles Stebbins Fairchild was a New York businessman and politician.-Biography:Born in Cazenovia, New York, to Sidney and Helen Fairchild, he graduated from Harvard College in 1863 and Harvard Law School in 1865. He was married to Helen Lincklaen in 1871...

 (D)
Lucius Robinson
Lucius Robinson
Lucius Robinson was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 26th Governor of New York from 1877 to 1879.-Life:...

 (D)
Charles N. Ross
Charles N. Ross
For other people with a similar name, see Charles RossCharles N. Ross was an American banker and politician.-Life:He was the son of Elmore P. Ross For other people with a similar name, see Charles RossCharles N. Ross (b. ca. 1842) was an American banker and politician.-Life:He was the son of...

 (D)
Samuel Tilden and Thomas Hendricks (D)
1877 Lucius Robinson
Lucius Robinson
Lucius Robinson was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 26th Governor of New York from 1877 to 1879.-Life:...

 (D)
Frederic P. Olcott
Frederic P. Olcott
Frederic Pepoon Olcott was an American banker and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
1878 Allen C. Beach
Allen C. Beach
Allen Carpenter Beach was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr.
Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr.
Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. was an American lawyer and Democratic politician.-Life:...

 (D)
James Mackin
James Mackin
James Mackin was an American merchant, banker and politician.-Life:He lived at Fishkill Landing where he was a merchant and real estate agent. He was appointed Postmaster of Fishkill during the presidency of Zachary Taylor and kept the post for about four years. In July 1858, he married Sarah E....

 (D)
1879
1880 Alonzo B. Cornell
Alonzo B. Cornell
Alonzo Barton Cornell was a New York politician and businessman who served as 27th Governor of New York from 1880 to 1882.-Early years:...

 (R)
George Gilbert Hoskins
George Gilbert Hoskins
George Gilbert Hoskins was an American politician of the Republican Party.-Life:...

 (R)
Joseph Bradford Carr
Joseph Bradford Carr
Joseph Bradford Carr was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:Carr was born in Albany, New York, the son of Irish immigrants, and worked as a tobacconist...

 (R)
Hamilton Ward, Sr.
Hamilton Ward, Sr.
Hamilton Ward, Sr. was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
James Wolcott Wadsworth
James Wolcott Wadsworth
James Wolcott Wadsworth was an American farmer, soldier and statesman.-Life:...

 (R)
Nathan D. Wendell
Nathan D. Wendell
Nathan D. Wendell was an American banker and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
James Garfield
James Garfield
James Abram Garfield served as the 20th President of the United States, after completing nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive...

 and Chester Arthur (R)
1881 Thomas C. Platt
Thomas C. Platt
Thomas Collier Platt was a two-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a three-term U.S. Senator from New York in the years 1881 and 1897-1909 — is best known as the "political boss" of the Republican Party in New York State in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century...

 (R)
Warner Miller
Warner Miller
Warner Miller was a Representative and a United States Senator from New York.-Birth and early life:Miller was born in Hannibal, Oswego County, New York on August 12, 1838. He attended the common schools and the Charlottesville Academy...

 (R)
Elbridge G. Lapham
Elbridge G. Lapham
Elbridge Gerry Lapham was a U.S. Senator from New York from 1881-1885.-Life:Lapham attended the public schools and the Canandaigua Academy. He studied civil engineering and law and was admitted to the bar in 1844 and practiced in Canandaigua, New York.He was a delegate to the New York State...

 (R)
1882 Leslie W. Russell
Leslie W. Russell
Leslie Wead Russell was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
Ira Davenport
Ira Davenport (New York)
Ira Davenport was an American politician.-Life:...

 (R)
Robert A. Maxwell
Robert A. Maxwell
Robert A. Maxwell was an American politician-Life:As a Democrat, he was New York State Treasurer from 1882 to 1885, elected in 1881 and 1883. On December 28, 1885, he was appointed State Superintendent of Insurance by Governor David B...

 (R)
1883 Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...

 (D)
David B. Hill
David B. Hill
David Bennett Hill was an American politician from New York who was the 29th Governor of New York from 1885 to 1891.-Life:...

 (D)
1884 Denis O'Brien
Denis O'Brien (New York Politician)
Denis O'Brien was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was admitted to the bar in 1861, and commenced practice in Watertown...

 (D)
Alfred C. Chapin
Alfred C. Chapin
Alfred Clark Chapin was an American lawyer and politician.-Early life:...

 (D)
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...

 and Thomas Hendricks (D)
1885 David B. Hill (D) Dennis McCarthy
Dennis McCarthy (congressman)
Dennis McCarthy was an American manufacturer and politician from New York.-Life:...

William M. Evarts
William M. Evarts
William Maxwell Evarts was an American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York...

 (R)
1886 Edward F. Jones
Edward F. Jones
Edward Franc Jones was an American merchant, manufacturer, author and politician from New York.-Biography:...

 (D)
Frederick Cook
Frederick Cook (politician)
Frederick Cook was an American businessman and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Lawrence J. Fitzgerald
Lawrence J. Fitzgerald
Lawrence J. Fitzgerald was an American businessman and politician.-Life:He was born in Ireland and came to the United States as a boy with his parents. The family settled at Skaneateles, N.Y...

 (D)
1887 Frank Hiscock
Frank Hiscock
Frank Hiscock was a U.S. Representative and Senator from New York.-Biography:Hiscock was born in Pompey, Onondaga County, New York, September 6, 1834. He graduated from Pompey Academy and studied law...

 (R)
1888 Charles F. Tabor
Charles F. Tabor
Charles Franklin Tabor was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Silas Tabor and Betsey E. Tabor. In 1843, the family removed to Newstead, New York. He was educated at academies in Clarence and Williamsville, Buffalo suburbs, and at the seminary in Lima...

 (D)
Edward Wemple
Edward Wemple
Edward Wemple was an American businessman and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there...

 and Levi Morton (R)
1889
1890 Frank Rice
Frank Rice (politician)
Frank Rice was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Elliott Danforth
Elliott Danforth
Elliott Danforth was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
1891
1892 Roswell P. Flower
Roswell P. Flower
Roswell Pettibone Flower was Governor of New York from 1892 to 1894.-Biography:He was a son of Nathan Monroe Flower and Mary Ann Flower, the sixth of nine children....

 (D)
William F. Sheehan
William F. Sheehan
William Francis Sheehan was an American lawyer and politician. During his political career he became known as Blue-Eyed Billy.-Biography:He was born on November 6, 1859 in Buffalo, New York....

 (D)
Simon W. Rosendale
Simon W. Rosendale
Simon Wolfe Rosendale was an American lawyer and politician. Rosendale was the first Jew elected to a statewide elective office in New York.-Life:...

 (D)
Frank Campbell
Frank Campbell
Frank Campbell was an American banker and politician.-Life:He was the son of Lt. Gov. Robert Campbell and Frances Fowler Campbell. He was educated at Haverling Academy and at Trenton, New Jersey.In 1879, he married Mary Louise Willson , and their son was Willson R...

 (D)
David B. Hill
David B. Hill
David Bennett Hill was an American politician from New York who was the 29th Governor of New York from 1885 to 1891.-Life:...

 (D)
Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D)
1893 Edward Murphy, Jr.
Edward Murphy, Jr.
Edward Murphy, Jr. was a single term United States Senator from New York, a businessman, and mayor of Troy, New York.-Birth and early years:...

 (D)
1894 John Palmer
John Palmer (politician)
John Palmer was an American politician.-Early life:His parents were Englishmen who returned with him to England when Palmer was still a small child. Later he accompanied his seafaring grandfather, and witnessed the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War from their freighter...

 (R)
Theodore E. Hancock
Theodore E. Hancock
Theodore E. Hancock was an American lawyer and politician.-Biography:Theodore E. Hancock was the son of Freeman Hancock and Mary Williams....

 (R)
James A. Roberts
James A. Roberts
James Arthur Roberts was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
Addison B. Colvin
Addison B. Colvin
Addison Beecher Colvin was an American businessman, banker and politician.-Life:He was the son of Hiram K. Colvin and Sara Ann Cowels Colvin...

 (R)
1895 Levi P. Morton
Levi P. Morton
Levi Parsons Morton was a Representative from New York and the 22nd Vice President of the United States . He also later served as the 31st Governor of New York.-Biography:...

 (R)
Charles T. Saxton
Charles T. Saxton
Charles Terry Saxton was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Biography:...

 (R)
1896 William McKinley
William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

 and Garret Hobart
Garret Hobart
Garret Augustus Hobart was the 24th Vice President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897 until his death. He was the sixth American vice president to die in office....

 (R)
1897 Frank S. Black
Frank S. Black
Frank Swett Black was an American newspaper editor, lawyer and politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897, and the 32nd Governor of New York from 1897 to 1898.-Life:He was one of eleven children of Jacob Black, a farmer, and Charlotte B. Black...

Timothy L. Woodruff
Timothy L. Woodruff
thumb|Timothy L Woodruff circa 1900Timothy Lester Woodruff was an American politician.-Life:...

 (R)
Thomas C. Platt
Thomas C. Platt
Thomas Collier Platt was a two-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a three-term U.S. Senator from New York in the years 1881 and 1897-1909 — is best known as the "political boss" of the Republican Party in New York State in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century...

 (R)
1898
1899 Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

 (R)
John T. McDonough
John T. McDonough
John Thomas McDonough was an American lawyer and politician.-Early life:He came with his parents to the United States in 1850, and they settled in Dunkirk, New York. He graduated from St. John's College, and studied law at Columbia Law School, finishing as Bachelor of Laws in 1861...

 (R)
John C. Davies
John C. Davies (lawyer)
John Clay Davies was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was Deputy Attorney General under Theodore E. Hancock from 1894 to 1898. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1894. He was New York State Attorney General from 1899 to 1902, elected in 1898 and 1900...

 (R)
William J. Morgan
William J. Morgan (New York)
William James Morgan was an American newspaper editor and politician.-Life:He came to the United States when 10 years old, and attended the public schools in Buffalo, New York....

 (R)
John P. Jaeckel
John P. Jaeckel
-Biography:Jaeckel was born on April 22, 1865 to German parents in Syracuse, New York. The family then moved to Auburn, New York. He worked as a money order clerk at the Auburn post office, and later as a clerk and bookkeeper for a coal dealer....

 (R)
Chauncey Depew
Chauncey Depew
Chauncey Mitchell Depew was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911.- Biography:...

 (R)
1900 Theodore P. Gilman
Theodore P. Gilman
Theodore P. Gilman was an American banker and politician.-Life:He was the son of Winthrop Sargent Gilman and Abia Swift Lippincott Gilman. He graduated from Williams College in 1862, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society, and graduated A.M. in 1865. He married Elizabeth Drinker Paxson...

 (R)
William McKinley
William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

 and Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

 (R)
1901 Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. (R) Erastus C. Knight
Erastus C. Knight
Erastus Cole Knight was an American businessman and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
1902 Nathan Lewis Miller (R)
1903 Frank W. Higgins
Frank W. Higgins
Frank Wayland Higgins was an American politician. He was a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention, and a member of the New York State Senate from 1894 to 1902. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1903 to 1904, elected in 1902; and Governor of New York from 1905 to 1906,...

 (R)
John F. O'Brien
John F. O'Brien (NY secretary of state)
John F. O'Brien was an American businessman and politician.-Life:He was graduated from the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, and taught school for a year. Then he entered business, and in 1888 he succeeded his brother Edward in the wholesale commission flour business at Plattsburgh...

 (R)
John Cunneen
John Cunneen
John Cunneen was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Otto Kelsey
Otto Kelsey
Otto Goodell Kelsey was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
John G. Wickser
John G. Wickser
John G. Wickser was an American businessman and politician.-Life:He was a nephew of Philip Becker, Mayor of Buffalo. He was President of the Buffalo German Insurance Company and the Buffalo Commercial Insurance Company.As a Republican, he was New York State Treasurer from 1903 to 1904, elected in...

 (R)
1904 Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

 and Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks was a Senator from Indiana and the 26th Vice President of the United States ....

 (R)
1905 Frank W. Higgins
Frank W. Higgins
Frank Wayland Higgins was an American politician. He was a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention, and a member of the New York State Senate from 1894 to 1902. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1903 to 1904, elected in 1902; and Governor of New York from 1905 to 1906,...

 (R)
M. Linn Bruce
M. Linn Bruce
Matthew Linn Bruce was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...

 (R)
Julius M. Mayer (R) John G. Wallenmeier, Jr.
John G. Wallenmeier, Jr.
John G. Wallenmeier was an American politician.-Life:...

 (R)
1906 John Raines
John Raines
John Raines was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...

 (R)
William C. Wilson
William C. Wilson (NY comptroller)
-Life:He was the Republican boss of the Twenty-Seventh Assembly District in New York City, and had a law office at 55, Liberty Street.On May 3, 1900, he was appointed by Comptroller William J. Morgan one of the first five New York State Transfer Tax Appraisers for New York County under the new...

 (R)
1907 Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

 (R)
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler was a New York lawyer and politician.- Early life :He was the son of John Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor Ward. Chanler had nine brothers and sisters, including the artist Robert Winthrop Chanler and the soldier and explorer William Astor Chanler...

 (D)
John S. Whalen
John S. Whalen
John Sibley Whalen was Secretary of State of New York from 1907 to 1908.-Biography:Whalen was a son of Richard Whalen of Rochester, one of the oldest tobacconists in the United States. He graduated from St. Patrick's Parochial School, Rochester High School, and Rochester Business Institute...

 (D)
William S. Jackson (D) Martin H. Glynn
Martin H. Glynn
Martin Henry Glynn was an American politician. He was the 40th Governor of New York from 1913 to 1914, the first Irish American Roman Catholic head of government of what was then the most populated state of the US....

 (D)
Julius Hauser
Julius Hauser
Julius Hauser was an American businessman and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
1908 William H. Taft and James S. Sherman
James S. Sherman
James Schoolcraft Sherman was a United States Representative from New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States . He was a member of the Baldwin, Hoar, and Sherman families.-Early life:...

 (R)
1909 Horace White
Horace White
Horace White was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was the 37th Governor of New York in 1910.-Life:...

 (R)
Samuel S. Koenig
Samuel S. Koenig
Samuel S. Koenig was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He came to the United States as a small boy with his parents, and they settled in New York City. He attended the public schools until the age of 13, then went to work as a clerk...

 (R)
Edward R. O'Malley
Edward R. O'Malley
Edward Richard O'Malley was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
Charles H. Gaus
Charles H. Gaus
Charles Henry Gaus was an American businessman and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
Thomas B. Dunn
Thomas B. Dunn
Thomas Byrne Dunn was an American businessman and politician.-Life:...

(R)
Elihu Root
Elihu Root
Elihu Root was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man", who shuttled between high-level government positions in Washington, D.C...

 (R)
Otto Kelsey
Otto Kelsey
Otto Goodell Kelsey was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
1910 Horace White
Horace White
Horace White was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was the 37th Governor of New York in 1910.-Life:...

 (R)
George H. Cobb
George H. Cobb
George Henry Cobb was an American politician from New York. He was President pro tempore of the New York State Senate and Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1910.-Life:...

 (R)
Clark Williams
Clark Williams
Myron Clark Williams was an American banker and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
1911 John Alden Dix
John Alden Dix
John Alden Dix was the 38th Governor of New York from January 1911 to December 1912.-Life:Born in Glens Falls, Warren County, New York, Dix attended Cornell University, but never graduated. He was an initiated member of the Beta Charge of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity...

 (D)
Thomas F. Conway
Thomas F. Conway
Thomas Franklin Conway was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1911 to 1912.-Life:...

 (D)
Edward Lazansky
Edward Lazansky
Edward Lazansky was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
Thomas Carmody
Thomas Carmody
Thomas Carmody was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He graduated from Cornell University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1886...

 (D)
William Sohmer
William Sohmer
William Sohmer was an American politician.-Life:...

 (D)
John J. Kennedy
John J. Kennedy
John J. Kennedy was an American businessman and politician.- Life :...

 (D)
James A. O'Gorman
James Aloysius O'Gorman
James Aloysius O'Gorman, Sr. was a one-term United States Senator from New York.-Biography:O'Gorman was born in New York City. He attended the public schools, the College of the City of New York, and then graduated from the law department of New York University in 1882...

 (D)
1912 Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

 and Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas Riley Marshall was an American Democratic politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States under Woodrow Wilson...

 (D)
1913 William Sulzer
William Sulzer
William Sulzer was an American lawyer and politician, nicknamed Plain Bill Sulzer. He was the 39th Governor of New York and a long-serving congressman from the same state. He was the first and so far only New York Governor to be impeached...

 (D) |
Martin H. Glynn
Martin H. Glynn
Martin Henry Glynn was an American politician. He was the 40th Governor of New York from 1913 to 1914, the first Irish American Roman Catholic head of government of what was then the most populated state of the US....

 (D) |
Mitchell May
Mitchell May
Mitchell May was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He attended the public schools and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute...

 (D)
1914 Martin H. Glynn
Martin H. Glynn
Martin Henry Glynn was an American politician. He was the 40th Governor of New York from 1913 to 1914, the first Irish American Roman Catholic head of government of what was then the most populated state of the US....

 (D)
Robert F. Wagner
Robert F. Wagner
Robert Ferdinand Wagner I was an American politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949.-Origin and early life:...

 (D)|
James A. Parsons
James A. Parsons
James A. Parsons was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was admitted to the bar of Nebraska in 1890, and moved back to New York in 1893...

 (D)
Homer D. Call
Homer D. Call
Homer D. Call was an American labor leader and politician.-Life:On October 1, 1861, he enrolled at Cortland, New York, and was mustered in as corporal of the 76th NY Volunteers to fight in the American Civil War. On December 13, 1862, he was wounded in the Battle of Fredericksburg...

 (P/D)
1915 Charles S. Whitman
Charles S. Whitman
Charles Seymour Whitman served as the 41st Governor of New York from January 1915 to December 1918. He was also a delegate to Republican National Convention from New York in 1916.-Biography:...

 (R)
Edward Schoeneck
Edward Schoeneck
Edward Schoeneck was an American lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1915 to 1918.-Life:...

 (R)
Francis Hugo
Francis Hugo
Francis M. Hugo was an American politician.-Life:Hugo attended Queen's College at Kingston and held Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees. He also earned a law degree from Cornell University.He was Mayor of Watertown, New York...

 (R)
Egburt E. Woodbury
Egburt E. Woodbury
Egburt E. Woodbury was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was elected a Justice of the Peace in 1886...

 (R)
Eugene M. Travis
Eugene M. Travis
Eugene Mabbett Travis was an American businessman and politician from New York. He was New York State Comptroller from 1915 to 1920.-Life:...

 (R)
James L. Wells
James L. Wells
James Lee Wells was an American businessman and politician. He became known as Father of The Bronx which title was officially conferred on him by the Bronx Board of Trade in May 1921.-Life:He was born, and lived, in West Farms which was then a town in Westchester County...

 (R)
James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (R)
1916 Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

 and Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks was a Senator from Indiana and the 26th Vice President of the United States ....

 (R)
1917 Merton E. Lewis
Merton E. Lewis
Merton Elmer Lewis was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
William M. Calder
William M. Calder
William Musgrave Calder I was an American politician from New York.-Biography:He was born in Brooklyn on March 3, 1869 to Alexander G. Calder. He trained as a carpenter, attended night classes at Cooper Union....

 (R)
1918
1919 Alfred E. Smith (D) Harry C. Walker
Harry C. Walker
Harry Clay Walker was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1919 to 1920.-Life:...

 (D)
Charles D. Newton
Charles D. Newton
Charles Damon Newton was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
1920 Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...

 and Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

 (R)
1921 Nathan L. Miller (R) Jeremiah Wood
Jeremiah Wood
Jeremiah Wood was an American lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1921 to 1922.-Life:He was admitted to the bar in 1900, and practiced in New York City....

 (R)
John J. Lyons
John J. Lyons
John J. Lyons was the Secretary of State of the State of New York.-Biography:He was the Republican district leader in Harlem. He was an alternate delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention, and a delegate to the 1920 Republican National Convention. He was Secretary of State of New York...

 (R)
James A. Wendell
James A. Wendell
James Augustus Wendell was an American politician.-Life:...

 (R)
N. Monroe Marshall
N. Monroe Marshall
Nathaniel Monroe Marshall was an American banker and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
1922 William J. Maier
William J. Maier
William J. Maier was an American politician.-Life:...

 (R)
1923 Alfred E. Smith (D) George R. Lunn
George R. Lunn
George Richard Lunn was an American clergyman and politician from New York. He was the first Socialist mayor in the State of New York, and was a U.S...

 (D)
James A. Hamilton
James A. Hamilton
James A. Hamilton was an American politician.-Life:He was a school teacher. He was a member of the New York State Senate from the 22nd District from 1915 to 1916. He was NYC Commissioner of Correction from 1918 to 1922. He was Secretary of State of New York from 1923 to 1924, elected in 1922 but...

 (D)
Carl Sherman
Carl Sherman
Carl Sherman was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He lived in Buffalo, Erie County, New York....

 (D)
James W. Fleming
James W. Fleming
James Wheeler Fleming was an American businessman, banker and politician.-Life:...

 (D)
George K. Shuler
George K. Shuler
George Kent Shuler was an American war hero and politician.-Life:He lived at Lyons, in Wayne County, New York. He married Blanche Stewart and they had two daughters....

 (D)
Royal S. Copeland
Royal S. Copeland
Royal Samuel Copeland was an American academic, homeopathic physician, and politician who held elected offices in both Michigan and New York . He represented New York in the United States Senate from 1923 until 1938.-Early life and medical career:Born in Dexter, Michigan to parents Roscoe P....

 (D)
1924 Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

 and Charles G. Dawes
Charles G. Dawes
Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States . For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served in the First World War, was U.S...

 (R)
1925 Seymour Lowman
Seymour Lowman
Seymour Lowman was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1925 to 1926.-Life:...

 (R)
Florence E. S. Knapp (R) Albert Ottinger
Albert Ottinger
Albert E. Ottinger was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Moses Ottinger and Amelia Gottlieb Ottinger....

 (R)
Vincent B. Murphy
Vincent B. Murphy
Vincent Bernard Murphy was an American politician from New York.-Life:He was the son of Daniel B. Murphy. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I....

 (R)
Lewis H. Pounds
Lewis H. Pounds
Lewis Humphrey Pounds was an American businessman and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
1926
1927 Edwin Corning
Edwin Corning
Edwin Corning was an American businessman and politician from New York. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1927 to 1928.-Life:...

 (D)
Appointed Position Morris S. Tremaine
Morris S. Tremaine
Morris Sawyer Tremaine was an American businessman and politician.-Life:Tremain was born in Fort Dodge, Kansas. He was the son of Dr. William Scott Tremaine, an army surgeon from New York stationed at Fort Dodge, who was among the founders of the Town of Dodge City, Kansas in 1872...

 (D)
Office Eliminated
New York State Treasurer
The New York State Treasurer was a state cabinet officer in the State of New York between 1776 and 1926. During the re-organization of the state government under Governor Al Smith, the office was abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the new Department of Audit and Control headed by the...

Robert F. Wagner
Robert F. Wagner
Robert Ferdinand Wagner I was an American politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949.-Origin and early life:...

 (D)
1928 Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

 and Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States...

 (R)
1929 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

 (D)
Herbert H. Lehman
Herbert H. Lehman
Herbert Henry Lehman was a Democratic Party politician from New York. He was the 45th Governor of New York from 1933 to 1942, and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1950 to 1957.-Lehman Brothers:...

 (D)
Hamilton Ward, Jr.
Hamilton Ward, Jr.
-Biography:Hamilton Ward, Jr. was the son of Hamilton Ward, Sr.. He fought in the Spanish-American War in Cuba as a captain. In 1907, he was Commander-in-Chief of the United Spanish War Veterans...

 (R)
1930
1931 John J. Bennett, Jr.
John J. Bennett, Jr.
John James Bennett was an American Lawyer and politician.- Life :...

 (D)
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt and John N. Garner (D)
1933 Herbert H. Lehman
Herbert H. Lehman
Herbert Henry Lehman was a Democratic Party politician from New York. He was the 45th Governor of New York from 1933 to 1942, and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1950 to 1957.-Lehman Brothers:...

 (D)
M. William Bray
M. William Bray
M. William Bray was an American lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1933 to 1938.-Life:...

 (D)
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938 James M. Mead
James M. Mead
James Michael Mead represented New York in the United States Senate from 1938 until 1947.Born in Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York, Mead moved to Buffalo with his family at the age of four...

 (D)
1939 Charles Poletti
Charles Poletti
Charles Poletti was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 46th Governor of New York in 1942, and was the first Italian-American governor in the United States.-Early life and education:...

 (D)
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace
Henry A. Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States , the Secretary of Agriculture , and the Secretary of Commerce . In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.-Early life:Henry A...

 (D)
1941 Harry D. Yates
Harry D. Yates
Harry Douglas Yates was an American banker and politician from New York. He was for a short time Acting New York State Comptroller in 1941.-Life:...

 (D)
1942 Charles Poletti
Charles Poletti
Charles Poletti was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 46th Governor of New York in 1942, and was the first Italian-American governor in the United States.-Early life and education:...

 (D)
Joe R. Hanley
Joe R. Hanley
Joseph Rhodes Hanley was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1943 to 1950.-Life:He served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War...

 (R)
Joseph V. O'Leary
Joseph V. O'Leary
Joseph V. O'Leary was an American politician.-Life:In 1938, he ran on the American Labor ticket for New York State Attorney General, but was defeated....

 (AL)
1943 Thomas E. Dewey (R) Thomas W. Wallace
Thomas W. Wallace
Thomas W. Wallace was an American lawyer and Republican politician. Running on the ticket with Governor Thomas E. Dewey, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of New York in November 1942, but died less than seven months into his only term.-Life:Wallace was corporation counsel of Schenectady, New York...

 (R)
Nathaniel L. Goldstein
Nathaniel L. Goldstein
Nathaniel Lawrence Goldstein was New York State Attorney General from 1943-54, paralleling the three terms of Governor Thomas E. Dewey. A Republican, Goldstein equaled the twelve-year tenure of his Democratic predecessor John J. Bennett, Jr...

 (R)
Frank C. Moore
Frank C. Moore
Frank Charles Moore was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Conventions of 1938 and 1967...

 (R)
1944 Joe R. Hanley
Joe R. Hanley
Joseph Rhodes Hanley was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1943 to 1950.-Life:He served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War...

 (R)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman (D)
1945
1946
1947 Irving Ives
Irving Ives
Irving McNeil Ives was an American politician from New York.-Life:He served overseas in the U.S. Army during World War I, rising to the rank of first lieutenant before he left the army in 1919...

 (R)
1948 Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren
Earl Warren
Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring...

 (R)
1949 John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world...

 (R)
1950 Herbert H. Lehman
Herbert H. Lehman
Herbert Henry Lehman was a Democratic Party politician from New York. He was the 45th Governor of New York from 1933 to 1942, and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1950 to 1957.-Lehman Brothers:...

 (D)
1951 Frank C. Moore
Frank C. Moore
Frank Charles Moore was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Conventions of 1938 and 1967...

 (R)
J. Raymond McGovern
J. Raymond McGovern
J. Raymond McGovern was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was a partner in the law firm of McGovern, Connelly & Davidson in New Rochelle....

 (R)
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

 and Richard M. Nixon (R)
1953 Arthur H. Wicks
Arthur H. Wicks
Arthur H. Wicks was an American politician.-Life:He owned a steam laundry in Kingston, New York. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1927 to 1956 from the 29th District 1927 - 1944, and from the 34th District 1945 - 1956. Between 1949 and 1953 he was the Majority Leader of the New...

 (R)
1954 Walter J. Mahoney
Walter J. Mahoney
Walter J. Mahoney was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He graduated from Canisius College in 1930, and received a law degree from the University of Buffalo and was admitted to practice in 1934...

 (R)
1955 W. Averell Harriman
W. Averell Harriman
William Averell Harriman was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman and later as the 48th Governor of New York...

 (D)
George DeLuca
George DeLuca
George Benjamin DeLuca was an American lawyer, banker and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1955 to 1958.-Life:...

 (D)
Jacob K. Javits
Jacob K. Javits
Jacob Koppel "Jack" Javits was a politician who served as United States Senator from New York from 1957 to 1981. A liberal Republican, he was originally allied with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, fellow U.S...

 (R)
Arthur Levitt, Sr.
Arthur Levitt, Sr.
Arthur Levitt was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He served in the U.S...

 (D)
1956
1957 Louis Lefkowitz
Louis Lefkowitz
Louis J. Lefkowitz was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

 (R)
Jacob K. Javits
Jacob K. Javits
Jacob Koppel "Jack" Javits was a politician who served as United States Senator from New York from 1957 to 1981. A liberal Republican, he was originally allied with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, fellow U.S...

 (R)
1958
1959 Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the 41st Vice President of the United States , serving under President Gerald Ford, and the 49th Governor of New York , as well as serving the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations in a variety of positions...

 (R)
Malcolm Wilson
Malcolm Wilson (New York)
Charles Malcolm Wilson was the 50th Governor of New York from December 18, 1973, to December 31, 1974. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1939 to 1958. He also served in the Navy during World War II...

 (R)
Kenneth Keating
Kenneth Keating
Kenneth Barnard Keating , was a United States Representative and a U.S. Senator from New York, and in later life, an appellate judge and a diplomat representing the United States as ambassador to India and later to Israel.-Life:...

 (R)
1960 John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

 and Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

 (D)
1961
1962
1963
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert H. Humphrey (D)
1965 Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F...

 (D)
1966
1967
1968 D Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund Muskie
Edmund Muskie
Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie was an American politician from Rumford, Maine. He served as Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, as a member of the United States Senate from 1959 to 1980, and as Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981...

 (D)
1969 Charles E. Goodell (R) D 26-15
1970 D 26-15
1971 James L. Buckley
James L. Buckley
James Lane Buckley is a retired judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and previously served as a United States Senator from the state of New York as a member of the Conservative Party of New York from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977...

 (C)
D 25-16
1972 D 25-16 Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew (R)
1973 D 22-17
Malcolm Wilson
Malcolm Wilson (New York)
Charles Malcolm Wilson was the 50th Governor of New York from December 18, 1973, to December 31, 1974. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1939 to 1958. He also served in the Navy during World War II...

 (R)
Warren M. Anderson
Warren M. Anderson
Warren Mattice Anderson was Temporary President and Majority Leader of the New York State Senate. He was a resident of Binghamton, New York....

 (R)
1974 D 22-17
1975 Hugh Carey
Hugh Carey
Hugh Leo Carey was an American attorney, the 51st Governor of New York from 1975 to 1982, and a seven-term United States Representative .- Early life :...

 (D)
Mary Anne Krupsak (D) D 27-12
1976 D 27-12 Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

 and Walter Mondale
Walter Mondale
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...

 (D)
1977 Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times . He declined to run for re-election in 2000...

 (D)
D 28-11
1978 D 27-12
1979 Mario Cuomo
Mario Cuomo
Mario Matthew Cuomo served as the 52nd Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994, and is the father of Andrew Cuomo, the current governor of New York.-Early life:...

 (D)
Robert Abrams
Robert Abrams
Robert Abrams is an American lawyer and politician.-Life and career:He graduated from Columbia College and the New York University School of Law. He is considered a member of the reform wing of the Democratic Party.Abrams was a member of the New York State Assembly representing the Bronx from 1966...

 (D)
Edward Regan (R) 26D, 13R
1980 Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

 and George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

 (R)
1981 Al D'Amato
Al D'Amato
Alfonse Marcello "Al" D'Amato is an American lawyer and former New York politician. A Republican, he served as United States Senator from New York from 1981 to 1999.-Early life and family:...

 (R)
22D, 17R
1982
1983 Mario Cuomo
Mario Cuomo
Mario Matthew Cuomo served as the 52nd Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994, and is the father of Andrew Cuomo, the current governor of New York.-Early life:...

 (D)
Alfred DelBello
Alfred DelBello
Alfred Benedict DelBello is an American politician from New York. A registered Democrat, he was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1983 to 1985.-Life:...

 (D)
20D, 14R
1984
1985 19D, 15R
1986 Warren M. Anderson
Warren M. Anderson
Warren Mattice Anderson was Temporary President and Majority Leader of the New York State Senate. He was a resident of Binghamton, New York....

 (R)
1987 Stan Lundine
Stan Lundine
Stanley Nelson Lundine is a politician from Jamestown, New York who served as Mayor of Jamestown, a United States Representative, and lieutenant governor of New York. A Democrat, he was inaugurated Mayor in 1970 and served to 1976 when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives after the...

 (D)
20D, 14R
1988 Michael Dukakis
Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving...

 and Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. was a four-term United States senator from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate...

 (D)
1989 21D, 13R
1990
1991
1992 Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 and Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

 (D)
1993 18D, 13R
1994 G. Oliver Koppell
G. Oliver Koppell
G. Oliver Koppell is a member of the New York City Council from District 11 in the Borough of The Bronx, covering the neighborhoods of Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Woodlawn, Van Cortlandt Village, Norwood, and Bedford Park. He was elected to the Council in 2001, and recently defeated Ari Hoffnung by a...

 (D)
Carl McCall
Carl McCall
Herman Carl McCall is a former Comptroller of New York State and was the Democratic candidate for state governor in 2002. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for numerous corporations. He received a B.A. degree from Dartmouth...

 (D)
1995 George Pataki
George Pataki
George Elmer Pataki is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006.- Early life :...

 (R)
Betsy McCaughey Ross
Betsy McCaughey Ross
Betsy McCaughey , formerly known as Betsy McCaughey Ross, was the Republican Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki. She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for Governor after Pataki dropped her from his 1998 ticket.An...

 (R)
Dennis Vacco
Dennis Vacco
Dennis C. Vacco is an American lawyer and politician. He graduated a B.A. from Colgate University in 1974, a J.D...

 (R)
17D, 14R
1996
1997 18D, 13R
1998
1999 Mary Donohue
Mary Donohue
Mary O’Connor Donohue is a Judge of the New York Court of Claims and a former Lieutenant Governor of New York State. She was first elected lieutenant governor in 1998 and reelected 2002 on a ticket with Gov. George Pataki.-Teaching and legal career:...

 (R)
Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Laurence Spitzer is an American lawyer, former Democratic Party politician, and political commentator. He was the co-host of In the Arena, a talk-show and punditry forum broadcast on CNN until CNN cancelled his show in July of 2011...

 (D)
Chuck Schumer (D) 19D, 12R
2000 Al Gore and Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman is the senior United States Senator from Connecticut. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Currently an independent, he remains closely affiliated with the party.Born in Stamford, Connecticut,...

 (D)
2001 Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...

 (D)
2002
2003 Alan Hevesi
Alan Hevesi
Alan G. Hevesi is a Democratic politician whoserved as a New York State Assemblyman from 1971 to 1993, as Comptroller of the City of New York from 1994 to 2001, and as State Comptroller for the State of New York from 2003 to 2006...

 (D)
19D, 10R
2004 John Kerry
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...

 and John Edwards
John Edwards
Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in...

 (D)
2005 34R, 27D 104D, 46R 20D, 9R
2006 103D, 41R
2007 Eliot Spitzer (D) David Paterson
David Paterson
David Alexander Paterson is an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of New York, from 2008 to 2010. During his tenure he was the first governor of New York of African American heritage and also the second legally blind governor of any U.S. state after Bob C. Riley, who was Acting...

 (D)
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Mark Cuomo is the 56th and current Governor of New York, having assumed office on January 1, 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 64th New York State Attorney General, and was the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...

 (D)
Thomas DiNapoli
Thomas DiNapoli
Thomas P. DiNapoli is the 54th Comptroller of the state of New York. He is a former state assemblyman in New York, who was appointed as New York State Comptroller on February 7, 2007. He was formerly the Chairman of the Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee. DiNapoli is a Democrat from...

 (D)
33R, 29D 106D, 42R, 1I, 1WF 23D, 6R
2008 Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

 and Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...

 (D)
David Paterson (D) Joseph Bruno
Joseph Bruno
Joseph L. Bruno is an American businessman, and Republican politician. He was the Temporary President of the New York State Senate and its majority leader. Most recently he also served as Lieutenant Governor of New York ....

 (R)
32R, 30D
Dean Skelos
Dean Skelos
Dean G. Skelos is an American politician and the Republican Temporary President and Majority Leader of the New York State Senate. Skelos represents District 9 in the State Senate, which comprises the southwest region of Nassau County. He is the second Long Islander to hold the position of Majority...

 (R)
2009 Malcolm Smith (D) 32D, 30R 107D, 41R, 1I, 1WF Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik Gillibrand is an attorney and the junior United States Senator from the state of New York and a member of the Democratic Party...

 (D)
26D, 3R
Pedro Espada, Jr. (D) 32D, 30R
Richard Ravitch
Richard Ravitch
Richard Ravitch is an American politician and businessman who served as the 75th Lieutenant Governor of New York from 2009 to 2010. He was appointed to the position in July 2009 by New York Governor David Paterson...

 (D)
32D, 30R
2011 Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Mark Cuomo is the 56th and current Governor of New York, having assumed office on January 1, 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 64th New York State Attorney General, and was the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...

 (D)
Robert Duffy (D) Eric Schneiderman
Eric Schneiderman
Eric T. Schneiderman is the 65th and current New York Attorney General.-Early life, education, and early career:Schneiderman graduated from Amherst College in 1977 with a B.A...

 (D)
32R, 30D 99D, 51R 21D, 8R
YearGovernor
Governor of New York
The Governor of the State of New York is the chief executive of the State of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military and naval forces. The officeholder is afforded the courtesy title of His/Her...

Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor of New York
The Lieutenant Governor of New York is a constitutional office in the executive branch of the government of New York State. It is the second highest ranking official in state government. The lieutenant governor is elected on a ticket with the governor for a four year term...

Secretary of State
Secretary of State of New York
The Secretary of State of New York is a cabinet officer in the government of the U.S. state of New York.The current Secretary of State of New York is Cesar A...

Attorney GeneralComptroller
New York State Comptroller
The New York State Comptroller is a state cabinet officer of the U.S. state of New York. The duties of the comptroller include auditing government operations and operating the state's retirement system.-History:...

Treasurer
New York State Treasurer
The New York State Treasurer was a state cabinet officer in the State of New York between 1776 and 1926. During the re-organization of the state government under Governor Al Smith, the office was abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the new Department of Audit and Control headed by the...

State Senate
New York State Senate
The New York State Senate is one of two houses in the New York State Legislature and has members each elected to two-year terms. There are no limits on the number of terms one may serve...

State Assembly
New York State Assembly
The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature. The Assembly is composed of 150 members representing an equal number of districts, with each district having an average population of 128,652...

U.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. House|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

Executive offices|State Legislature
New York Legislature
The New York State Legislature is the term often used to refer to the two houses that act as the state legislature of the U.S. state of New York. The New York Constitution does not designate an official term for the two houses together...

|United States Congress
United States Congressional Delegations from New York
These are tables of congressional delegations from New York to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.Over the years, New York has demographically changed so that it is hard to consider each district to be a continuation of the same numbered district before...


See also

  • Politics in New York
  • Politics of New York
    Politics of New York
    The Politics of New York State tend to be more liberal than in most of the United States, with in recent decades a solid majority of Democratic voters, concentrated in New York City and some of its suburbs, and in the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany...

  • Elections in New York
    Elections in New York
    Unlike in most states, New York electoral law permits electoral fusion. As a result, New York ballots tend to list a large number of political parties...

  • List of political parties in New York
  • Political party strength in New York City
    Political party strength in New York City
    The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. City of New York, New York since the modern five-borough city was created in 1898:*Mayor*President of the New York City Council/New York City Public Advocate *Comptroller...

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK