Speaker of the New York State Assembly Video
since 1823 : |
Speaker |
Party |
County |
Took office |
Left office |
Notes |
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Peter R. Livingston |
Dem.-Rep./Bucktails |
Dutchess |
January 7, 1823 |
December 31, 1823 |
|
Richard Goodell |
Dem.-Rep./Bucktails |
Jefferson |
January 6, 1824 |
December 31, 1824 |
|
Clarkson Crolius |
Dem.-Rep./ Tammany Hall |
New York |
January 4, 1825 |
December 31, 1825 |
|
Samuel Young |
Dem.-Rep./Bucktails |
Saratoga |
January 3, 1826 |
December 31, 1826 |
|
Erastus Root |
Dem.-Rep./Bucktails |
Delaware |
January 2, 1827 |
December 31, 1828 |
two terms |
Peter Robinson |
Dem./Jacksonian |
Broome |
January 6, 1829 |
December 31, 1829 |
|
Erastus Root |
Dem./Jacksonian |
Delaware |
January 5, 1830 |
December 31, 1830 |
third term |
George R. Davis |
Democratic |
Rensselaer |
January 4, 1831 |
December 31, 1831 |
|
Charles L. Livingston |
Democratic |
New York |
January 3, 1832 |
December 31, 1833 |
two terms |
William Baker |
Democratic |
Otsego |
January 7, 1834 |
December 31, 1834 |
|
Charles Humphrey |
Democratic |
Tompkins |
January 6, 1835 |
December 31, 1836 |
two terms |
Edward Livingston |
Democratic |
Suffolk |
January 3, 1837 |
December 31, 1837 |
|
Luther Bradish |
Whig |
Franklin |
January 2, 1838 |
December 31, 1838 |
|
George W. Patterson |
Whig |
Livingston |
January 1, 1839 |
December 31, 1840 |
two terms |
Peter B. Porter, Jr. |
Whig |
Niagara |
January 5, 1841 |
December 31, 1841 |
|
Levi S. Chatfield |
Democratic |
Otsego |
January 4, 1842 |
December 31, 1842 |
|
George R. Davis |
Democratic |
Rensselaer |
January 3, 1843 |
December 31, 1843 |
second term |
Elisha Litchfield |
Democratic |
Onondaga |
January 2, 1844 |
December 31, 1844 |
|
Horatio Seymour |
Democratic |
Oneida |
January 7, 1845 |
December 31, 1845 |
|
William C. Crain |
Democratic |
Herkimer |
January 6, 1846 |
December 31, 1846 |
|
William C. Hasbrouck |
Whig |
Orange |
January 5, 1847 |
December 31, 1847 |
|
Amos K. Hadley |
Whig |
Rensselaer |
January 4, 1848 |
December 31, 1849 |
two terms |
Noble S. Elderkin |
Democratic |
St. Lawrence |
January 1, 1850 |
January 30, 1850 |
left the Assembly to return home to his sick wife |
Robert H. Pruyn |
Whig |
Albany |
January 30, 1850 |
March 14, 1850 |
elected when Elderkin left the Assembly |
Ferral C. Dininny |
Democratic |
Steuben |
March 14, 1850 |
December 31, 1850 |
|
Henry Jarvis Raymond |
Whig |
New York |
January 7, 1851 |
June 10, 1851 |
|
Joseph B. Varnum, Jr. |
Whig |
Albany |
June 10, 1851 |
December 31, 1851 |
elected when Raymond failed to attend special session |
Jonas C. Heartt |
Whig |
Rensselaer |
January 6, 1852 |
December 31, 1852 |
|
William H. Ludlow |
Democratic |
Suffolk |
January 4, 1853 |
December 31, 1853 |
|
Robert H. Pruyn |
Whig |
Albany |
January 3, 1854 |
December 31, 1854 |
second term |
DeWitt C. Littlejohn |
American |
Oswego |
January 2, 1855 |
December 31, 1855 |
|
Orville Robinson |
Democratic |
Oswego |
January 16, 1856 |
December 31, 1856 |
The Assembly convened on January 1, but it took more than two weeks to elect the Speaker. |
DeWitt C. Littlejohn |
Republican |
Oswego |
January 6, 1857 |
December 31, 1857 |
second term |
Thomas G. Alvord |
Democratic |
Onondaga |
February 2, 1858 |
December 31, 1858 |
|
DeWitt C. Littlejohn |
Republican |
Oswego |
January, 1859 |
December 31, 1861 |
three terms (third, fourth and fifth) |
Henry Jarvis Raymond |
Republican |
New York |
January, 1862 |
December 31, 1862 |
second term |
Theophilus C. Callicot |
Democratic |
Kings |
January 26, 1863 |
February 1863 |
suspended during the investigation of the circumstances of his election |
Chauncey M. Depew |
Republican |
Westchester |
February, 1863 |
April, 1863 |
Acting Speaker during Callicot's suspension |
Theophilus C. Callicot |
Democratic |
Kings |
April, 1863 |
December 31, 1863 |
reinstated |
Thomas G. Alvord |
Republican |
Onondaga |
January, 1864 |
December 31, 1864 |
second term |
George G. Hoskins |
Republican |
Wyoming |
January, 1865 |
December 31, 1865 |
|
Lyman Tremain |
Republican |
Albany |
January, 1866 |
December 31, 1866 |
|
Edmund L. Pitts |
Republican |
Orleans |
January, 1867 |
December 31, 1867 |
|
William Hitchman |
Democratic |
New York |
January, 1868 |
December 31, 1868 |
|
Truman G. Younglove |
Republican |
Saratoga |
January, 1869 |
December 31, 1869 |
|
William Hitchman |
Democratic |
New York |
January, 1870 |
December 31, 1871 |
two terms (second and third) |
Henry Smith |
Republican |
Albany |
January, 1872 |
December 31, 1872 |
|
Alonzo B. Cornell |
Republican |
New York |
January, 1873 |
December 31, 1873 |
|
James W. Husted |
Republican |
Westchester |
January, 1874 |
December 31, 1874 |
|
Jeremiah McGuire |
Democratic |
Chemung |
January, 1875 |
December 31, 1875 |
|
James W. Husted |
Republican |
Westchester |
January, 1876 |
December 31, 1876 |
second term |
George B. Sloan |
Republican |
Oswego |
January, 1877 |
December 31, 1877 |
|
James W. Husted |
Republican |
Westchester |
January, 1878 |
December 31, 1878 |
third term |
Thomas G. Alvord |
Republican |
Onondaga |
January, 1879 |
December 31, 1879 |
third term |
George H. Sharpe |
Republican |
Ulster |
January, 1880 |
December 31, 1881 |
two terms |
Charles E. Patterson |
Democratic |
Rensselaer |
February 2, 1882 |
December 31, 1882 |
|
Alfred C. Chapin |
Democratic |
Kings |
January, 1883 |
December 31, 1883 |
|
Titus Sheard |
Republican |
Herkimer |
January, 1884 |
December 31, 1884 |
|
George Z. Erwin |
Republican |
St. Lawrence |
January, 1885 |
December 31, 1885 |
|
James W. Husted |
Republican |
Westchester |
January, 1886 |
December 31, 1887 |
two terms (fourth and fifth) |
Fremont Cole |
Republican |
Schuyler |
January, 1888 |
December 31, 1889 |
two terms |
James W. Husted |
Republican |
Westchester |
January, 1890 |
December 31, 1890 |
sixth term |
William F. Sheehan |
Democratic |
Erie |
January, 1891 |
December 31, 1891 |
|
Robert P. Bush |
Democratic |
Chemung |
January 5, 1892 |
December 31, 1892 |
|
William Sulzer |
Democratic |
New York |
January, 1893 |
December 31, 1893 |
|
George R. Malby |
Republican |
St. Lawrence |
January, 1894 |
December 31, 1894 |
|
Hamilton Fish II |
Republican |
Putnam |
January, 1895 |
December 31, 1896 |
two terms |
James M. E. O'Grady |
Republican |
Monroe |
January 5, 1897 |
December 31, 1898 |
two terms |
S. Frederick Nixon |
Republican |
Chautauqua |
January, 1899 |
October 10, 1905 |
died in office during his seventh term |
James W. Wadsworth, Jr. |
Republican |
Livingston |
January, 1906 |
December 31, 1910 |
five terms |
Daniel D. Frisbie |
Democratic |
Schoharie |
January 4, 1911 |
December 31, 1911 |
|
Edwin A. Merritt, Jr. |
Republican |
St. Lawrence |
January 3, 1912 |
November 5, 1912 |
resigned to take his seat in Congress |
Alfred E. Smith |
Democratic |
New York |
January, 1913 |
December 31, 1913 |
|
Thaddeus C. Sweet |
Republican |
Oswego |
January 7, 1914 |
December 31, 1920 |
seven terms |
H. Edmund Machold |
Republican |
Jefferson |
January 5, 1921 |
December 31, 1924 |
four terms |
Joseph A. McGinnies |
Republican |
Chautauqua |
January 7, 1925 |
December 31, 1934 |
ten terms |
Irwin Steingut |
Democratic |
Kings |
January 2, 1935 |
December 31, 1935 |
father of Speaker Stanley Steingut |
Irving M. Ives |
Republican |
Chenango |
January 1, 1936 |
December 31, 1936 |
|
Oswald D. Heck |
Republican |
Schenectady |
January 13, 1937 |
May 21, 1959 |
longest serving Speaker (22 years and 4 months), died in office during his thirteenth term |
Joseph Carlino |
Republican |
Nassau |
May 21, 1959 |
December 31, 1964 |
as Majority Leader became Acting Speaker upon the death of Oswald D. Heck, elected Speaker on July 1 for the remainder of the term, then re-elected to another two terms |
Anthony J. Travia |
Democratic |
Kings |
February 4, 1965 |
July 22, 1968 |
vacated his seat during his second term upon appointment as a federal judge |
Moses M. Weinstein |
Democratic |
Queens |
July 23, 1968 |
December 31, 1968 |
as Majority Leader became Acting Speaker upon Travia's resignation for the remainder of the term |
Perry B. Duryea, Jr. |
Republican |
Suffolk |
January 8, 1969 |
December 31, 1974 |
three terms, last Republican Speaker to date |
Stanley Steingut |
Democratic |
Kings |
January 8, 1975 |
December 31, 1978 |
two terms, son of Speaker Irwin Steingut |
Stanley Fink |
Democratic |
Kings |
January 2, 1979 |
December 31, 1986 |
four terms |
Mel Miller |
Democratic |
Kings |
January 8, 1987 |
December 13, 1991 |
removed from office upon federal conviction in the middle of his third term |
James R. Tallon, Jr. |
Democratic |
Broome |
December 13, 1991 |
December 16, 1991 |
as Majority Leader became Acting Speaker upon Miller's removal from office until the election of a successor |
Saul Weprin |
Democratic |
Queens |
December 16, 1991 |
February 11, 1994 |
elected for the remainder of Miller's term, then re-elected to another term, died in office |
Sheldon Silver |
Democratic |
New York |
February 11, 1994 |
Present |
as Majority Leader became Acting Speaker upon Weprin's death, elected Speaker for the remainder of the term, and re-elected eight times, still in office |
Officers in the State of New York
Current offices | Governor * Lieutenant Governor * Speaker of the Assembly * Temporary President of the Senate * Secretary of State * Attorney General * State Comptroller * Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals * Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals * Clerk of the Court of Appeals |
Defunct offices | State Treasurer * State Engineer * Superintendent of Public Works * Chancellor * Canal Commissioner * Inspector of State Prisons |