New York state election, 1877

The 1877 New York state election was held on November 6, 1877, to elect the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer and the State Engineer, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.

History

The Republican state convention met on September 26 and 27 at Rochester, New York. John C. Churchill for Secretary of State, Francis Sylvester for Comptroller, William L. Bostwick for Treasurer, Grenville Tremain for Attorney General, and Howard Soule, Jr., for State Engineer, were nominated unanimously without much debate.[1] Sylvester declined to run, and on October 19, the State Committee substituted Clinton V. R. Ludington for Comptroller on the ticket.[2]

The Working Men's state convention met at Troy, New York, and nominated John J. Junio, of Auburn, for Secretary of State; George Blair for Comptroller; Warren T. Worden for Attorney General; Samuel G. Rice for Treasurer; and Walter T. Griswold for State Engineer.[3]

The Democratic state convention met on October 3 and 4 at Albany, New York. Clarkson N. Potter was President. Allen C. Beach was nominated for Secretary of State on the first ballot (vote: Beach 227, John Bigelow [incumbent] 144, A. B. Weaver 12). The incumbent Comptroller Frederic P. Olcott was re-nominated by acclamation. James Mackin for Treasurer and Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr., for Attorney General, And Horatio Seymour, Jr., for State Engineer were nominated after some haggling and without much voting. Summing up, John Kelly had managed to wrest the power in the Democratic Party from the Tilden-Robinson faction.[4]

The Bread-Winners League's state convention met on October 10 at Albany, New York. Charles H. Truax was President. The convention nominated John J. Junio for Secretary of State, Frederic P. Olcott (Dem.) for Comptroller, Elmore Sharpe for Attorney General, Julius Kern for Treasurer and Horatio Seymour, Jr. (Dem.), for State Engineer.[5]

The German-American Independendent Citizens' Committee met on October 12 at Beethoven Hall in New York City. Oswald Ottendorfer presided. The Committee cross-endorsed the following state ticket: Churchill (Rep.) for Secretary of State, Olcott (Dem.) for Comptroller, Bostwick (Rep.) for Treasurer, Tremain (Rep.) for Attorney General and Seymour (Dem.) for State Engineer.[6]

Results

The whole Democratic ticket was elected.

The incumbent Olcott was re-elected.

1877 state election results
Ticket / Office Secretary of State Comptroller Attorney General Treasurer State Engineer
Democratic Allen C. Beach
383,062
Frederic P. Olcott
395,701
Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr.
383,367
'James Mackin
384,040
Horatio Seymour, Jr.
395,321
Republican John C. Churchill
371,798
Clinton V. R. Ludington[7]
359,590
Grenville Tremain[8]
371,826
William L. Bostwick[9]
370,383
Howard Soule[10]
360,157
Working Men John J. Junio
20,282
George Blair
19,123
Warren T. Worden
19,538
Samuel G. Rice
18,480
Walter T. Griswold
19,653
Prohibition Henry Hagner
7,230
Elias T. Talbot[11]
7,444
G. Havens Gleason
7,291
Joseph W. Grosvenor
7,383
Henry D. Myers
7,386
Social Democratic John McIntosh
1,799
G. Kuhne
1,271
Ernst Smith
1,348
R. H. Bartholomew
1,827
C. F. Collenburg
1,356
Greenback Francis E. Spinner[12]
997
Thomas B. Edwards
973
William S. Jaynes William Doyle
920
Rushton Smith
German Independent John C. Churchill Frederic P. Olcott Grenville Tremain William L. Bostwick Horatio Seymour, Jr.
Bread-Winners John J. Junio Frederic P. Olcott Elmore Sharpe Julius Kern Horatio Seymour, Jr.

The numbers are the total votes on all tickets.

Notes

  1. THE STATE REPUBLICANS in NYT on September 28, 1877
  2. THE STATE TICKET in NYT on October 20, 1877
  3. THE HARMONIZING COMMITTEE in NYT on August 20, 1878
  4. THE DEMOCRATIC WRANGLE in NYT on October 5, 1877
  5. THE BREAD-WINNERS' LEAGUE.; THE CONVENTION AT ALBANY in NYT on October 11, 1877
  6. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.; THE INDEPENDENT GERMANS in NYT on October 13, 1877
  7. Clinton Van Rensselaer Ludington (1821-1900), Obit in NYT on March 29, 1900
  8. Grenville Tremain, son of Lyman Tremain
  9. William L. Bostwick, a Regent of the University of New York
  10. Howard Soule (b. 1829), ran also in 1879, bio at Canal Engineer's Bios
  11. Elias T. Talbot, also ran for Prison Inspector in 1876
  12. Spinner was nominated without his consent. See:POLITICAL NOTES in NYT on October 1, 1877

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See also

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