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This is a complete list of members of the New York State Senate, ... John Foley (New York state senator) ... Joseph Wagner: Robert F. Wagner:
Wagner left the state senate in 1918, and served as a justice of the New York Supreme Court until his election to the U.S. Senate in 1926. As a Senator, Wagner was a leader of the New Deal Coalition , putting special emphasis on supporting the labor movement.
The position of president pro tempore of the New York State Senate was created as a standing office by a constitutional amendment in 1873. The President pro tempore was elected for the duration of the biennial senatorial term which comprised two sessions, the first in an even-numbered year, the other in the following odd-numbered year.
John J. Flanagan (born May 7, 1961) is an American politician from Long Island, New York.A Republican, Flanagan represented New York's 2nd State Senate district from 2003 to 2020.
The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature, while the New York State Assembly is its lower house. [2] Established in 1777 by the Constitution of New York, its members are elected to two-year terms [3] with no term limits. [4] There are 63 seats in the Senate.
Wagner was born in Yorkville, Manhattan, the son of Margaret Marie (McTague) and German-born United States Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner.He attended Taft School and graduated from Yale University in 1933, where he was on the business staff of campus humor magazine The Yale Record and became a member of Scroll and Key (as was John Lindsay, his successor as mayor).
For a half century, Republicans controlled the New York state Senate, Democrats controlled the state Assembly, and a relatively stable arrangement governed redistricting in which lines would be ...
The Legislature met for the regular session (the 188th) at the State Capitol in Albany on January 6, 1965; [5] and adjourned on June 23. [6]Due to the split of the Democratic majorities in both Houses into followers of Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, neither House could be organized, and a month of deadlock ensued.