198th New York State Legislature

198th New York State Legislature
198th New York State Legislature
	New York State Capitol (2009)
Overview
Legislative body	New York State Legislature
Jurisdiction	New York, United States
Term	January 1, 2009 – December 31, 2010
Senate
Members	62
President	vacant until July 8, 2009; ; Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch (D), from July 8, 2009
Temporary President	Malcolm Smith (D), until June 8, 2009; ; Pedro Espada Jr., from June 8 to July 9, 2009; ; Malcolm Smith (D), from July 9, 2009
Party control	Democratic
Assembly
Members	150
Speaker	Sheldon Silver (D)
Party control	Democratic
Sessions
1st
1st	January 7 – ?, 2009
2nd	January 6 – ?, 2010

The 198th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 7, 2009, to December 31, 2010, during the later part of David Paterson's governorship, in Albany.

On June 8, 2009, began the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis.

State Senate

Senators

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Roy J. McDonald changed from the Assembly to the Senate at the beginning of this legislature. Assemblyman Jose Peralta was elected to fill a vacancy in the Senate.

Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	Kenneth LaValle*	Republican
2nd	John J. Flanagan*	Republican
3rd	Brian X. Foley	Democrat
4th	Owen H. Johnson*	Republican
5th	Carl L. Marcellino*	Republican
6th	Kemp Hannon*	Republican
7th	Craig M. Johnson*	Democrat
8th	Charles J. Fuschillo Jr.*	Republican
9th	Dean Skelos*	Republican	Minority Leader until June 8, 2009; Majority Leader from June 8 to 15, 2009; Republican Leader from June 15 to July 9, 2009; Minority Leader from July 9, 2009
10th	Shirley Huntley*	Democrat
11th	Frank Padavan*	Republican
12th	George Onorato*	Democrat
13th	Hiram Monserrate	Democrat	expelled on February 9, 2010
13th	Jose Peralta*	Democrat	on March 16, 2010, elected to fill vacancy^[1]
14th	Malcolm Smith*	Democrat	Temporary President and Acting Lt. Gov. until June 8, 2009; Minority Leader from June 8 to 15, 2009; Democratic Leader from June 15 to July 9, 2009; Temporary President from July 9, 2009
15th	Joseph Addabbo Jr.	Democrat
16th	Toby Ann Stavisky*	Democrat
17th	Martin Malave Dilan*	Democrat
18th	Velmanette Montgomery*	Democrat
19th	John L. Sampson*	Democrat	Chairman of the Democratic Conference from July 9, 2009
20th	Eric Adams*	Democrat
21st	Kevin Parker*	Democrat
22nd	Martin Golden*	Republican
23rd	Diane Savino*	Democrat
24th	Andrew Lanza*	Republican
25th	Daniel Squadron	Democrat
26th	Liz Krueger*	Democrat
27th	Carl Kruger*	Democrat
28th	José M. Serrano*	Democrat
29th	Thomas Duane*	Democrat
30th	Bill Perkins*	Democrat
31st	Eric Schneiderman*	Democrat	on November 2, 2010, elected Attorney General
32nd	Rubén Díaz Sr.*	Democrat
33rd	Pedro Espada Jr.	Democrat	Temporary President from June 8 to July 9, 2009; Acting Lieutenant Governor from June 8 to July 8, 2009; Majority Leader from July 9, 2009, to December 14, 2010
34th	Jeffrey D. Klein*	Democrat
35th	Andrea Stewart-Cousins*	Democrat
36th	Ruth Hassell-Thompson*	Democrat
37th	Suzi Oppenheimer*	Democrat
38th	Thomas P. Morahan*	Republican	died on July 12, 2010
39th	William J. Larkin Jr.*	Republican
40th	Vincent Leibell*	Republican	on November 2, 2010, elected Putnam County Executive resigned his seat on December 2, 2010^[2]
41st	Stephen M. Saland*	Republican
42nd	John Bonacic*	Republican
43rd	Roy J. McDonald*	Republican
44th	Hugh T. Farley*	Republican
45th	Betty Little*	Republican
46th	Neil Breslin*	Democrat
47th	Joseph Griffo*	Republican
48th	Darrel Aubertine*	Democrat
49th	David J. Valesky*	Democrat
50th	John A. DeFrancisco*	Republican
51st	James L. Seward*	Republican
52nd	Thomas W. Libous*	Republican
53rd	George H. Winner Jr.*	Republican
54th	Michael F. Nozzolio*	Republican
55th	James S. Alesi*	Republican
56th	Joseph Robach*	Republican
57th	Catharine Young*	Republican
58th	William Stachowski*	Democrat
59th	Dale M. Volker*	Republican
60th	Antoine Thompson*	Democrat
61st	Michael Ranzenhofer	Republican
62nd	George D. Maziarz*	Republican

Employees

Secretary: ?

State Assembly

Assembly members

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.

Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."

District	Assembly member	Party	Notes
1st	Marc Alessi*	Democrat
2nd	Fred W. Thiele Jr.*	Republican
2nd	Fred W. Thiele Jr.*	Independence	changed party affiliation in October 2009
3rd	Patricia Eddington*	Democrat	on November 3, 2009, elected Town Clerk of Brookhaven
3rd	L. Dean Murray	Republican	on February 9, 2010, elected to fill vacancy^[3]
4th	Steve Englebright*	Democrat
5th	Ginny Fields*	Democrat
6th	Philip Ramos*	Democrat
7th	Michael J. Fitzpatrick*	Republican
8th	Phil Boyle*	Republican
9th	Andrew Raia*	Republican
10th	James D. Conte*	Republican
11th	Robert K. Sweeney*	Democrat
12th	Joseph Saladino*	Republican
13th	Charles D. Lavine*	Democrat
14th	Robert Barra*	Republican
15th	Rob Walker*	Republican	in January 2010 appointed Chief Deputy Nassau County Executive
15th	Michael Montesano	Republican	on February 9, 2010, elected to fill vacancy^[4]
16th	Michelle Schimel*	Democrat
17th	Thomas McKevitt*	Republican
18th	Earlene Hill Hooper*	Democrat
19th	David McDonough*	Republican
20th	Harvey Weisenberg*	Democrat
21st	Thomas Alfano*	Republican
22nd	Grace Meng	Democrat
23rd	Audrey Pheffer*	Democrat
24th	Mark Weprin*	Democrat	on November 3, 2009, elected to the New York City Council
24th	David Weprin	Democrat	on February 9, 2010, elected to fill vacancy^[5]
25th	Rory Lancman*	Democrat
26th	Ann-Margaret Carrozza*	Democrat
27th	Nettie Mayersohn*	Democrat
28th	Andrew Hevesi*	Democrat
29th	William Scarborough*	Democrat
30th	Margaret Markey*	Democrat
31st	Michele Titus*	Democrat
32nd	Vivian E. Cook*	Democrat
33rd	Barbara M. Clark*	Democrat
34th	Michael DenDekker	Democrat
35th	Jeffrion L. Aubry*	Democrat
36th	Michael Gianaris*	Democrat
37th	Catherine Nolan*	Democrat
38th	Anthony S. Seminerio*	Democrat	resigned on June 23, 2009
38th	Michael G. Miller	Democrat	on September 15, 2009, elected to fill vacancy^[6]
39th	Jose Peralta*	Democrat	on March 16, 2010, elected to the State Senate
40th	Inez Barron	Democrat
41st	Helene Weinstein*	Democrat
42nd	Rhoda S. Jacobs*	Democrat
43rd	Karim Camara*	Democrat
44th	James F. Brennan*	Democrat
45th	Steven Cymbrowitz*	Democrat
46th	Alec Brook-Krasny*	Democrat
47th	William Colton*	Democrat
48th	Dov Hikind*	Democrat
49th	Peter J. Abbate Jr.*	Democrat
50th	Joseph R. Lentol*	Democrat
51st	Félix W. Ortiz*	Democrat
52nd	Joan Millman*	Democrat
53rd	Vito J. Lopez*	Democrat
54th	Darryl C. Towns*	Democrat
55th	William Boyland Jr.*	Democrat
56th	Annette Robinson*	Democrat
57th	Hakeem Jeffries*	Democrat
58th	N. Nick Perry*	Democrat
59th	Alan Maisel*	Democrat
60th	Janele Hyer-Spencer*	Democrat
61st	Matthew Titone*	Democrat
62nd	Louis Tobacco*	Republican
63rd	Michael Cusick*	Democrat
64th	Sheldon Silver*	Democrat	re-elected Speaker
65th	Micah Kellner*	Democrat
66th	Deborah J. Glick*	Democrat
67th	Linda Rosenthal*	Democrat
68th	Adam Clayton Powell IV*	Democrat
69th	Daniel J. O'Donnell*	Democrat
70th	Keith L. T. Wright*	Democrat
71st	Herman D. Farrell Jr.*	Democrat	Chairman of Ways and Means
72nd	Adriano Espaillat*	Democrat
73rd	Jonathan Bing*	Democrat
74th	Brian P. Kavanagh*	Democrat
75th	Richard N. Gottfried*	Democrat
76th	Peter M. Rivera*	Democrat
77th	Aurelia Greene*	Democrat	in April 2009, appointed as Deputy Bronx Borough President^[7]
77th	Vanessa Gibson	Democrat	on June 2, 2009, elected to fill vacancy^[8]
78th	Jose Rivera*	Democrat
79th	Michael Benjamin*	Democrat
80th	Naomi Rivera*	Democrat
81st	Jeffrey Dinowitz*	Democrat
82nd	Michael Benedetto*	Democrat
83rd	Carl Heastie*	Democrat
84th	Carmen E. Arroyo*	Democrat
85th	Rubén Díaz Jr.*	Democrat	on April 21, 2009, elected Borough President of the Bronx
85th	Marcos Crespo	Democrat	on June 2, 2009, elected to fill vacancy^[9]
86th	Nelson Castro	Democrat
87th	J. Gary Pretlow*	Democrat
88th	Amy Paulin*	Democrat
89th	Adam Bradley*	Democrat	on November 3, 2009, elected Mayor of White Plains
89th	Robert Castelli	Republican	on February 9, 2010, elected to fill vacancy^[10]
90th	Sandy Galef*	Democrat
91st	George Latimer*	Democrat
92nd	Richard L. Brodsky*	Democrat
93rd	Mike Spano*	Democrat
94th	Kenneth Zebrowski Jr.*	Democrat
95th	Ellen Jaffee*	Democrat
96th	Nancy Calhoun*	Republican
97th	Ann Rabbitt*	Republican
98th	Aileen Gunther*	Democrat
99th	Greg Ball*	Republican
100th	Frank Skartados	Democrat
101st	Kevin A. Cahill*	Democrat
102nd	Joel M. Miller*	Republican
103rd	Marcus Molinaro*	Republican
104th	John McEneny*	Democrat
105th	George A. Amedore Jr.*	Republican
106th	Ronald Canestrari*	Democrat	Majority Leader
107th	Clifford Crouch*	Republican
108th	Timothy P. Gordon*	Ind./Dem.
109th	Robert Reilly*	Democrat
110th	Jim Tedisco*	Republican	Minority Leader until April 2009
111th	Bill Magee*	Democrat
112th	Tony Jordan	Republican
113th	Teresa Sayward*	Republican
114th	Janet Duprey*	Republican
115th	David R. Townsend Jr.*	Republican
116th	RoAnn Destito*	Democrat
117th	Marc W. Butler*	Republican
118th	Addie Jenne	Democrat
119th	Joan Christensen*	Democrat
120th	William Magnarelli*	Democrat
121st	Albert A. Stirpe Jr.*	Democrat
122nd	Dede Scozzafava*	Republican
123rd	Gary Finch*	Republican
124th	William Barclay*	Republican
125th	Barbara Lifton*	Democrat
126th	Donna Lupardo*	Democrat
127th	Pete Lopez*	Republican
128th	Bob Oaks*	Republican
129th	Brian Kolb*	Republican	Minority Leader from April 2009
130th	Joseph Errigo*	Republican
131st	Susan V. John*	Democrat
132nd	Joseph D. Morelle*	Democrat
133rd	David Gantt*	Democrat
134th	Bill Reilich*	Republican
135th	David Koon*	Democrat
136th	James Bacalles*	Republican
137th	Tom O'Mara*	Republican
138th	Francine DelMonte*	Democrat
139th	Stephen Hawley*	Republican
140th	Robin Schimminger*	Democrat
141st	Crystal Peoples*	Democrat
142nd	Jane Corwin	Republican
143rd	Dennis Gabryszak*	Democrat
144th	Sam Hoyt*	Democrat
145th	Mark J. F. Schroeder*	Democrat
146th	Jack Quinn III*	Republican
147th	Daniel Burling*	Republican
148th	James P. Hayes*	Republican
149th	Joseph Giglio*	Republican
150th	William L. Parment*	Democrat

References

^ 13th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ Leibell pleaded guilty to bribery on December 6, 2010, and did not take office as County Executive
^ 3rd District special election result Archived December 30, 2016, at the Wayback Machine at NYS Board of Elections
^ 15th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ 24th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ 38th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ Likely Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz picks Aurelia Greene as deputy by Bob Kappstatter, in the New York Daily News on April 9, 2009
^ 77th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ 85th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ 89th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

Sources

Senate election results at NYS Board of elections
Assembly election results at NYS Board of elections

[1] 13th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[2] Leibell pleaded guilty to bribery on December 6, 2010, and did not take office as County Executive

[3] 3rd District special election result Archived December 30, 2016, at the Wayback Machine at NYS Board of Elections

[4] 15th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[5] 24th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[6] 38th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[7] Likely Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz picks Aurelia Greene as deputy by Bob Kappstatter, in the New York Daily News on April 9, 2009

[8] 77th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[9] 85th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[10] 89th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

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