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1855 New York state election

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The 1855 New York state election was held on November 6, 1855, to elect the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Engineer, two judges of the New York Court of Appeals, a Canal Commissioner and an Inspector of State Prisons, as well as members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.

Nominations

Both the Whig state convention and the Anti-Nebraska state convention met on September 26 at Syracuse, New York. John Alsop King presided at the Whig convention, Reuben E. Fenton at the Anti-Nebraska convention. After organizing the Whigs, the delegates decided to join the Anti-Nebraskans, and marched to their assembling place. There the two parties merged and adopted the name Republican Party, and continued as the Republican state convention with King and Fenton as co-chairmen.

Results

Due to the chaotic political situation with the major parties split over the slavery question, a new party being founded by the fusion of factions of all previous parties, and four tickets competing, the American Party had the most surprising election victory in the history of the State of New York, winning eight of the nine state offices. Only the jointly nominated Democrat Henry L. Selden could defeat his American and Republican opponents. The incumbents Cook, Follett and Darius Clark were defeated.

16 Republicans, 11 Americans, four Democrats and one Temperance man were elected to a two-year term (1856–57) in the New York State Senate.

47 Democrats, 44 Americans, 35 Republicans and 2 Whigs were elected to the New York State Assembly of the 79th New York State Legislature.

Office	American ticket	Republican ticket	Dem./Soft ticket	Dem./Hard ticket
Secretary of State		Joel T. Headley	148,557	Preston King	136,698
Comptroller		Lorenzo Burrows	148,267	James M. Cook	138,748
Attorney General		Stephen B. Cushing	148,695	Abijah Mann, Jr.	136,337
Treasurer		Stephen Clark	148,778	Alexander B. Williams	136,696
State Engineer		Silas Seymour	137,608	George Geddes	131,716
Judge of the Court of Appeals (full term)	William W. Campbell	141,514	Bradford R. Wood	134,353
Judge of the Court of Appeals (short term)		George F. Comstock	140,299	Joseph Mullin	132,019
Canal Commissioner		Samuel S. Whallon	147,461	Daniel H. Bissell	135,918
Inspector of State Prisons		William A. Russell	148,875	Wesley Bailey	136,993

Sources

Result in The Official State Canvass in NYT on December 17, 1855 ("not fully completed", but released for publication, without the scattering votes)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1855/10/18/87576514.pdf American Party ticket, in NYT on October 18, 1855
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1855/11/05/75803502.pdf The Republican ticket, in NYT on November 5, 1855
Results in The Tribune Almanac 1856

Notes

References

[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1855/09/28/76449797.pdf ''Conventions of the Whig and Republican Parties''] in NYT on September 28, 1855
In the press usually referred to as the Know Nothings
Total votes on Soft and Hard tickets
To fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Charles H. Ruggles]], a judge was elected for the remaining six years of the term.

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