The Political Graveyard: New York: State Comptrollers

New York: State Comptrollers

New York State Comptrollers, 1797-2006 (May be incomplete!)
Samuel Jones 1797-1800 John V. Henry 1800-01 Elisha Jenkins 1801-05 Archibald McIntyre 1805-21 John Savage 1821-23 William L. Marcy 1823-29 Silas Wright, Jr. 1829-34 Azariah C. Flagg 1834-39 Bates Cooke 1839-41 John A. Collier 1841-42 Azariah C. Flagg 1842-47 Millard Fillmore 1848-49 Washington Hunt 1849-50 Philo C. Fuller 1850-51 John C. Wright 1851-53 James M. Cook 1854-55 Lorenzo Burrows 1856-57 Sanford E. Church 1858-59 Robert Dennison 1860-61 Lucius Robinson 1862-65 Thomas Hillhouse 1866-67 William F. Allen 1868-70 Asher P. Nichols 1870-71 Nelson K. Hopkins 1872-75 Lucius Robinson 1876 Frederic P. Olcott 1877-79 James W. Wadsworth 1880-81 Ira Davenport 1882-83 Alfred C. Chapin 1884-87 Edward Wemple 1888-91 Frank Campbell 1892-93 James A. Roberts 1894-98 William J. Morgan 1899-1900 Theodore P. Gilmann 1900 Erastus C. Knight 1901 Nathan L. Miller 1901-03 Otto Kelsey 1903-06 William C. Wilsons 1906 Martin H. Glynn 1907-08 Charles H. Gaus 1909 Clark Williams 1909-10 William Sohmer 1911-14 Eugene M. Travis 1915-20 James A. Wendell 1921-22 William J. Maier 1922 James W. Fleming 1923-24 Vincent B. Murphy 1925-26 Morris S. Tremaine 1927-41 Joseph V. O'Leary 1941-42 Frank C. Moore 1943-50 Arthur Levitt 1955-79 H. Carl McCall 1993- Alan G. Hevesi 2003-06

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1883: Ira Davenport, defeated.

1891: Edward Wemple, defeated; Arthur C. Wade (Rep), defeated.

1900: William J. Morgan, died in office.

1900 Nov 6: Erastus C. Knight (Rep), elected; Edward S. Atwater (Dem), defeated; Mason N. Weed (Prohibition), defeated; Alfred C. Kihn (Socialist Labor), defeated; Frank A. Sieverman (Social Democratic), defeated.

1903 Nov 12: Otto Kelsey, appointed.

1904: Otto Kelsey (Rep), elected.

1908 Nov 3: Charles H. Gaus (Rep), elected; Martin H. Glynn (Dem), defeated; Willard A. Glen (Independence League), defeated; Joel Moses (Socialist), defeated; Harrison L. Hoyt (Prohibition), defeated; Joseph A. Orme (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1909 Oct 31: Charles H. Gaus, died in office.

1910 Nov 8: William Sohmer (Dem), elected; James Thompson (Rep), defeated; Arnold B. MacStay (Independence League), defeated; O. A. Curtis (Socialist), defeated; Bernard Clausen (Prohibition), defeated; Carl A. Luedecke (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1912 Nov 5: William Sohmer (Dem & Independence League), elected; William D. Cunningham (Rep), defeated; Horatio C. King (Progressive), defeated; Olin H. Smith (Socialist), defeated; Bernard Clausen (Prohibition), defeated; Robert Downs (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1914 Sep 28: William Sohmer (Dem), nominated; George G. Davidson, Jr. (Dem), defeated in primary.

1914 Sep 28: Eugene M. Travis (Rep), nominated; James F. Hooker (Rep), defeated in primary; Samuel Strasbourger (Rep), defeated in primary.

1914 Sep 28: John B. Burnham (Progressive), nominated unopposed.

1914 Nov 3: Eugene M. Travis (Rep), elected; William Sohmer (Dem & Independence League), defeated; John B. Burnham (Progressive), defeated; Charles W. Noonan (Socialist), defeated; Neil D. Cranmer (Prohibition), defeated; Charles C. Berns (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1916 Sep 19: Eugene M. Travis (Rep), nominated; James F. Hooker (Rep), defeated in primary.

1916 Nov 7: Eugene M. Travis (Rep & Progressive), elected; Joseph W. Masters (Dem & Independence League), defeated; Charles W. Noonan (Socialist), defeated; George A. Norton (Prohibition), defeated; Anthony Hountenbrink (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1918 Sep 3: Bird S. Coler (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1918 Sep 3: Eugene M. Travis (Rep), nominated; Samuel Fraser (Rep), defeated in primary; John Kissel (Rep), defeated in primary.

1918 Sep 3: James C. Sheahan (Socialist), nominated unopposed.

1918 Sep 3: Eugene M. Travis (Prohibition), nominated; Claude V. Stowell (Prohibition), defeated in primary.

1918 Nov 5: Eugene M. Travis (Rep), elected; Bird S. Coler (Dem), defeated; James C. Sheahan (Socialist), defeated; Charles E. Berns (Prohibition), defeated.

1920 Sep 14: Charles W. Berry (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1920 Sep 14: James A. Wendell (Rep), nominated; Walter Worth (Rep), defeated in primary.

1920 Nov 2: James A. Wendell (Rep), elected; Charles W. Berry (Dem), defeated; A. Philip Randolph (Socialist), defeated; William C. Gray (Prohibition), defeated; Helen H. Fincke (Farmer-Labor), defeated; John E. DeLee (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1922 May 10: James A. Wendell, died in office.

1924 Nov 4: Vincent B. Murphy (Rep), elected; James W. Fleming (Dem), defeated; Theresa B. Wiley (Socialist), defeated; Abraham Epstein (Workers), defeated.

1928 Nov 6: Morris S. Tremaine (Dem), elected; Harry B. Crowley (Rep), defeated; Elizabeth C. Roth (Socialist), defeated; Lovett Fort-Whiteman (Workers), defeated; Henrietta Silver (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1930 Nov 4: Morris S. Tremaine (Dem), elected; Daniel H. Conway (Rep), defeated; William H. Hilsdorf (Socialist), defeated; Franklin P. Brill (Communist), defeated; John E. DeLee (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1932 Nov 8: Morris S. Tremaine (Dem), elected; Charles S. Owen (Rep), defeated; Elizabeth C. Roth (Socialist), defeated; Francis A. Watters (Law Preservation), defeated.

1934 Nov 6: Morris S. Tremaine (Dem), elected; Wilson R. Campbell (Rep), defeated; Fred Sander (Socialist), defeated; Rose Wortis (Communist), defeated; Fred C. Foster (Law Preservation), defeated; O. Martin Olson (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1941 Oct 12: Morris S. Tremaine, died in office.

1942 Nov 3: Frank C. Moore (Rep), elected; Joseph V. O'Leary (Dem & American Labor), defeated.

1946 Nov 5: Frank C. Moore (Rep), elected; Spencer C. Young (Dem & American Labor), defeated; Robert Thompson (Communist), defeated.

1950 Nov 7: J. Raymond McGovern (Rep), elected; Spencer C. Young (Dem & Liberal), defeated; Michael A. Jimenez (American Labor), defeated; Harry Ring (Socialist Workers), defeated; Bronko Papadopolos (Industrial Government), defeated.

1954 Nov 2: Arthur Levitt (Dem & Liberal), elected; Frank Del Vecchio (Rep), defeated; Ralph Powe (American Labor), defeated; Harold Robins (Socialist Workers), defeated; John Emanuel (Industrial Government), defeated.

1962 Nov 6: Arthur Levitt (Dem & Liberal), elected; John P. Lomenzo (Rep), defeated; Thomas D. Cole (Conservative), defeated; Allen Taplin (Socialist Workers), defeated; Milton Herder (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1966 Nov 8: Arthur Levitt (Dem & Liberal), elected; Charles T. Lanigan (Rep), defeated; Benjamin R. Crosby (Conservative), defeated; Ralph Levitt (Socialist Workers), defeated; John Emanuel (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1986: Herman Badillo (Dem), defeated.

1994: H. Carl McCall (Dem), elected.

1998: H. Carl McCall (Dem), elected; Abraham J. Hirschfeld (Independence), defeated.

2002: Alan G. Hevesi (Dem), elected.

2006 Dec 22: Alan G. Hevesi, resigned.

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