The Political Graveyard: New York: Lieutenant Governors

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New York: Lieutenant Governors

Lieutenant Governors of New York, 1778-2008 (May be incomplete!)
Pierre Van Cortlandt 1778-95 Stephen Van Rensselaer 1795-1801 Jeremiah Van Rensselaer 1801-04 John Broome 1804-10 John Tayler 1811 De Witt Clinton 1811-13 John Tayler 1813-22 Erastus Root 1823-24 James Tallmadge, Jr. 1825-26 Nathaniel Pitcher 1827-28 Peter R. Livingston 1828 Charles Dayan 1828 Enos T. Throop 1829 Charles Stebbins 1829-30 William M. Oliver 1830 Edward P. Livingston 1831-32 John Tracy 1833-36 Luther Bradish 1837-42 Daniel S. Dickinson 1843-44 Addison Gardiner 1845-47 Hamilton Fish 1848 George W. Patterson 1849-50 Sanford E. Church 1851-54 Henry J. Raymond 1855-56 Henry R. Selden 1857-58 Robert Campbell 1859-62 David R. Floyd-Jones 1863-64 Thomas G. Alvord 1865-66 Stewart L. Woodford 1867-68 Allen C. Beach 1869-72 John Cleveland Robinson 1873-74 William Dorsheimer 1875-79 George G. Hoskins 1880-82 David B. Hill 1883-85 Dennis McCarthy 1885 Edward F. Jones 1886-91 William F. Sheehan 1892-94 Charles T. Saxton 1895-96 Timothy L. Woodruff 1897-1902 Frank W. Higgins 1903-04 M. Linn Bruce 1905-06 Lewis S. Chanler 1907-08 Horace White 1909-10 George H. Cobb 1910 Thomas F. Conway 1911-12 Martin H. Glynn 1913 Robert F. Wagner 1913-14 Edward Schoeneck 1915-18 Harry C. Walker 1919-20 Jeremiah Wood 1921-22 George R. Lunn 1923-24 Seymour Lowman 1925-26 Edwin Corning 1927-28 Herbert H. Lehman 1929-32 M. William Bray 1933-38 Charles Poletti 1939-42 Thomas W. Wallace 1943 Joe R. Hanley 1943-50 Frank C. Moore 1951-53 Malcolm Wilson 1959-73 Mary Ann Krupsak 1975-78 Mario M. Cuomo 1979-82 Alfred B. DelBello 1982-85 Warren M. Anderson 1985-86 Stan Lundine 1986-88 David A. Paterson 2007-08

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1810: John Broome, died in office; Nicholas Fish (Federalist), defeated.

1811: Nicholas Fish, defeated.

1824: Erastus Root, defeated.

1828: Francis Granger, defeated.

1846: Hamilton Fish (Whig), defeated.

1847: Hamilton Fish, elected.

1858: John J. Taylor (Dem), defeated.

1862: Lyman Tremain, defeated.

1866: Stewart L. Woodford (Rep), elected.

1868: Alonzo B. Cornell, defeated.

1872: Chauncey M. Depew (Liberal Republican), defeated.

1882: B. Platt Carpenter, defeated.

1894: Daniel N. Lockwood (Dem), defeated.

1896 Nov 3: Timothy L. Woodruff (Rep), elected; Frederick C. Schraub (Dem), defeated; Frederic W. Hinrichs (National Democratic), defeated; Frederick Bennets (Socialist Labor), defeated; Charles E. Latimer (Prohibition), defeated.

1898: Thomas M. Osborne (Ind), defeated; Elliott Danforth (Dem), defeated.

1900 Nov 6: Timothy L. Woodruff (Rep), elected; William F. Mackey (Dem), defeated; Albert J. Rumsey (Prohibition), defeated; Leander A. Armstrong (Socialist Labor), defeated; William Butscher (Social Democratic), defeated.

1904: Francis B. Harrison, defeated.

1908 Nov 3: Horace White (Rep), elected; John A. Dix (Dem), defeated; Daniel W. Finnimore (Independence League), defeated; Gustave A. Strebel (Socialist), defeated; Marshall A. Hudson (Prohibition), defeated; Frank E. Passonno (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1910 Nov 8: Thomas F. Conway (Dem), elected; Edward Schoeneck (Rep), defeated; William Randolph Hearst (Independence League), defeated; Gustave A. Strebel (Socialist), defeated; Calvin McCarthy (Prohibition), defeated; James T. Hunter (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1912 Nov 5: Martin H. Glynn (Dem & Independence League), elected; James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (Rep), defeated; Frederick M. Davenport (Progressive), defeated; Gustave A. Strebel (Socialist), defeated; Clark Allis (Prohibition), defeated; Jeremiah D. Crowley (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1914 Sep 28: Thomas B. Lockwood (Dem), nominated; William Gorham Rice (Dem), defeated in primary.

1914 Sep 28: Edward Schoeneck (Rep), nominated; Seth G. Heacock (Rep), defeated in primary; Frank S. Sidway (Rep), defeated in primary.

1914 Sep 28: Chauncey J. Hamlin (Progressive), nominated unopposed.

1914 Nov 3: Edward Schoeneck (Rep & Independence League), elected; Thomas B. Lockwood (Dem), defeated; Chauncey J. Hamlin (Progressive), defeated; Stephen J. Mahoney (Socialist), defeated; Charles E. Welch (Prohibition), defeated; Jeremiah D. Crowley (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1916 Sep 19: Thomas J. Kreuzer (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1916 Sep 19: Edward Schoeneck (Rep), nominated unopposed.

1916 Sep 19: L. Bradley Dorr (Progressive), nominated; Edward Schoeneck (Progressive), defeated in primary.

1916 Nov 7: Edward Schoeneck (Rep & Independence League), elected; Thomas J. Kreuzer (Dem & American), defeated; Stephen J. Mahoney (Socialist), defeated; Clarence Z. Spriggs (Prohibition), defeated; L. Bradley Dorr (Progressive), defeated; Boris Reinstein (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1918 Sep 3: Harry C. Walker (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1918 Sep 3: Edward Schoeneck (Rep), nominated; William M. Bennett (Rep), defeated in primary; Seth G. Heacock (Rep), defeated in primary.

1918 Sep 3: Ella Reeve Bloor (Socialist), nominated unopposed.

1918 Sep 3: Mamie W. Colvin (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.

1918 Nov 5: Harry C. Walker (Dem), elected; Edward Schoeneck (Rep), defeated; Ella Reeve Bloor (Socialist), defeated; Mamie W. Colvin (Prohibition), defeated; August Gillhaus (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1920 Sep 14: George R. Fitts (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1920 Sep 14: Jeremiah Wood (Rep), nominated; William M. Bennett (Rep), defeated in primary.

1920 Nov 2: Jeremiah Wood (Rep), elected; George R. Fitts (Dem), defeated; Jessie W. Hughan (Socialist), defeated; Robert E. Haffey (Farmer-Labor), defeated; Edward G. Deitrich (Prohibition), defeated; Jeremiah D. Crowley (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1922: William J. Donovan (Rep), defeated.

1924 Nov 4: Seymour Lowman (Rep), elected; George R. Lunn (Dem), defeated; Charles Solomon (Socialist), defeated; Franklin P. Brill (Workers), defeated; Milton Weinberger (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1926: Seymour Lowman (Rep), defeated; John E. DeLee (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1928 Nov 6: Herbert H. Lehman (Dem), elected; Charles C. Lockwood (Rep), defeated; Herman J. Hahn (Socialist), defeated; Franklin P. Brill (Workers), defeated; John E. DeLee (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1930 Nov 4: Herbert H. Lehman (Dem), elected; Caleb H. Baumes (Rep), defeated; Elizabeth C. Roth (Socialist), defeated; J. Louis Engdahl (Communist), defeated; Charles Carlson (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1932 Nov 8: M. William Bray (Dem), elected; F. Trubee Davison (Rep), defeated; Charles W. Noonan (Socialist), defeated; H. Westlake Coons (Law Preservation), defeated.

1934 Nov 6: M. William Bray (Dem), elected; Fred J. Douglas (Rep), defeated; Herman Kobbe (Socialist), defeated; Williana J. Burroughs (Communist), defeated; James F. Luckey (Law Preservation), defeated; Emil F. Teichert (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1938: Frederic H. Bontecou (Rep), defeated; George W. Hartmann (Socialist), defeated.

1942 Nov 3: Thomas W. Wallace (Rep), elected; Charles Poletti (Dem & American Labor), defeated.

1943 Jul 17: Thomas W. Wallace, died in office.

1943 Nov 2: Joe R. Hanley (Rep), elected; William N. Haskell (Dem & American Labor), defeated.

1946 Nov 5: Joe R. Hanley (Rep), elected; Erastus Corning II (Dem & American Labor), defeated.

1950 Nov 7: Frank C. Moore (Rep), elected; Richard W. Balch (Dem & Liberal), defeated; Clementina J. Paolone (American Labor), defeated; Gladys Banker (Socialist Workers), defeated; Nathan L. Karp (Industrial Government), defeated.

1954 Nov 2: George B. DeLuca (Dem & Liberal), elected; J. Raymond McGovern (Rep), defeated; Karen Morley (American Labor), defeated; Dorothy Haines (Socialist Workers), defeated; Stephen Emery (Industrial Government), defeated.

1958 Nov 4: Malcolm Wilson (Rep), elected; George B. DeLuca (Dem & Liberal), defeated; Annette T. Rubinstein (Independent Socialist), defeated; John Emanuel (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1962 Nov 6: Malcolm Wilson (Rep), elected; John J. Burns (Dem & Liberal), defeated; E. Vernon Carbonara (Conservative), defeated; Sylvia Weinstein (Socialist Workers), defeated; John Emanuel (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1966 Nov 8: Malcolm Wilson (Rep), elected; Howard J. Samuels (Dem), defeated; Kieran O'Doherty (Conservative), defeated; Donald S. Harrington (Liberal), defeated; Doris Ballantyne (Socialist Labor), defeated; Richard Garza (Socialist Workers), defeated.

1970: Jerome A. Ambro, Jr. (Dem), defeated in primary.

1970: Basil Paterson (Dem), defeated.

1974: Mario M. Cuomo (Dem), defeated.

1974 Nov 5: Mary Ann Krupsak (Dem & Liberal), elected; Ralph Caso (Rep & Conservative), defeated; Charles R. Schongar (Courage), defeated; Louis J. Sicilia (Free Libertarian), defeated; James Mendieta (Socialist Workers), defeated; Carol A. Twigg (Communist), defeated; Victoria Statom (Labor), defeated.

1978: Bruce F. Caputo (Rep), defeated in primary.

1978: Ellen McCormack (Right To Life), defeated.

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