1190:, and lost his seat in the State Senate on January 27 when the State Legislature declared the incompatibility of holding both seats concurrently. Nevertheless, Schuyler retained his seat in the Council of Appointment, claiming that it was not required to hold the seat in the State Senate once elected to the Council. Any mention of the Paine/Parks precedent of 1781 was carefully avoided, but Schuyler was quite right, considering that every time a state senator was elected to the Council during the last year of his term, and was not re-elected, the senatorial term expired on June 30, but the ex-senator continued a member of the Council until January next. See also
1246:. They met again on February 18, and appointed a Democratic-Republican as Sheriff of Dutchess Co. The Council met again on February 24. At this meeting, Gov. Jay refused to put the question on the Council members' nominees, and the members refused to vote on the Governor's nominees. Thus deadlocked, the Council adjourned and were not convened again by Gov. Jay. who instead submitted the question of the right of nomination to the State Legislature which called a
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Parks was elected in place of Paine. When he took his seat on March 29, all members of the
Council, including Parks, protested against his "by-election" for which there seems to have been no legal basis. Nevertheless, the amended Council, with Parks, made the appointments for the remainder of the
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of 1821 and ceased to exist at the end of the year 1822, at which time more than 15,000 offices had been under its control. Under the
Constitution of 1821, the State cabinet officers and Supreme Court justices were elected by the State Legislature, and most of the county and local officers were
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Williams had been elected as a
Democratic-Republican, but changed sides right after his election to the Council of Appointment. At this time, there was a Federalist majority in the Assembly, but all State senators from the Southern and the Middle Districts were Democratic-Republicans. Thus the
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appeared, and began to alternate as majority in the
Assembly. Because of the lack of clarity in the 1777 New York Constitution, the parties struggled over who, exactly, held the power to make nominations and appointments. The constitution stated that the governor would have the
138:, who had drafted the Constitution, asserted that the Council could not propose appointees, only vote for or against the governor's nominees. So when the Council voted down all of his nominees, in his opinion, nobody could be appointed. The question was settled at the
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The
Council of Appointment had its origins in the fear of too much popular influence in the government. The first New York Constitution was aristocratic and elitist in spirit. As long as the governor alone nominated appointees, he had as much power over the state's
1254:, and for the remainder of their term, proceeded to make a clean sweep, removing almost all Federalists from office. The constitutional convention met in October, and gave the right to nominate appointees to the Governor and the members of the Council concurrently.
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of the said council..." The custom arose that the governor made the nominations, and the
Council approved, or rejected, them. But when the legislature had a majority of the opposition, they would elect three or four senators and outvote the governor. Governor
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These members were elected during the special session of the
Legislature, but they did not take their seats before the full year of tenure of the previous members had expired. They met for the first time on February 11, 1801, and rejected most of Governor
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of 1801, which amended the
Constitution, giving the right of nomination to the governor and each one of the Council members concurrently. This led to an annual scramble for office, especially if the majority in the Assembly changed.
1325:, could not have had a majority in the Council but, aided by Williams, the Council removed most of the Democratic-Republican incumbents. Among others, the Surrogate of
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113:, very rarely an office holder was removed, and the Council only filled vacancies as they occurred by resignation, death, declination of re-appointment, or term limit.
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elected in local popular or legislative elections. The governor continued to appoint only a very small number of officers and had the right to make
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for which no other means of appointment or election was provided for in the State
Constitution. The offices filled by the Council included the
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History of Political Parties in the State of New-York, from the Ratification of the Federal Constitution to 1840
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as a medieval king. On the other side, during the long tenure of
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Paine was expelled from the State Senate in March 1781
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of 1777, the Council of Appointment consisted of the
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and could not be re-elected for the following term.
1202:Jacobus Van Schoonhoven (1744–1814), merchant, of
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97:, city and county clerks, mayors (including the
1430:1822 disestablishments in the United States
1435:Defunct state agencies of New York (state)
101:), all military officers and many others.
1333:, was removed, and Williams's son-in-law
50:president of this council but had only a
158:New York State Constitutional Convention
140:New York State Constitutional Convention
93:, sheriffs, district attorneys, judges,
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122:Democratic-Republican Party
10:
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1188:U.S. Senator from New York
54:, and four members of the
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587:Jacobus Van Schoonhoven
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234:Dirck Wessel Ten Broeck
111:Governor George Clinton
60:New York State Assembly
22:Council of Appointments
529:Stephen Van Rensselaer
99:Mayor of New York City
91:New York Supreme Court
89:, the justices of the
26:Government of New York
18:Council of Appointment
916:Francis A. Bloodgood
56:New York State Senate
38:New York Constitution
518:Philip Van Cortlandt
42:Governor of New York
24:) was a body of the
1405:Council of Revision
1331:James Tallmadge Jr.
1263:Ebenezer Purdy, of
1032:Peter R. Livingston
1019:John J. Prendergast
1001:Archibald S. Clarke
907:William W. Gilbert
377:William B. Whiting
333:William B. Whiting
282:September 11, 1780
259:September 11, 1779
213:September 16, 1777
163:recess appointments
1337:appointed instead.
1323:Daniel D. Tompkins
1062:George Rosecrantz
956:Henry A. Townsend
924:Peter W. Radcliff
719:Benjamin Huntting
625:Leonard Gansevoort
473:Philip Livingston
346:Jacobus Swartwout
296:Isaac Stoutenburgh
278:Abraham Ten Broeck
147:Alexander Hamilton
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75:Secretary of State
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1068:February 3, 1819
1049:January 31, 1818
1026:February 2, 1817
1005:February 5, 1816
980:February 1, 1815
976:Farrand Stranahan
959:January 25, 1814
940:January 12, 1813
919:February 1, 1812
902:January 30, 1811
881:January 31, 1810
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845:January 29, 1808
828:January 29, 1807
809:January 31, 1806
806:Henry Huntington
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760:Abraham Adriance
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741:John C. Hogeboom
733:January 30, 1802
714:November 7, 1800
693:January 28, 1800
644:William Thompson
616:Andrew Onderdonk
581:Joseph Hasbrouck
578:Richard Hatfield
554:January 14, 1793
543:Joseph Hasbrouck
533:January 14, 1792
512:January 14, 1791
505:Alexander Webster
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447:January 18, 1788
426:January 18, 1787
403:January 19, 1786
391:Jacobus Swartwout
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359:January 21, 1784
355:Abraham Yates Jr.
350:Alexander Webster
321:Jonathan Lawrence
315:October 25, 1781
306:Alexander Webster
252:Alexander Webster
238:October 17, 1778
219:Jonathan Lawrence
209:Abraham Yates Jr.
204:Alexander Webster
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711:Robert Roseboom
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640:Ezra L'Hommedieu
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611:January 7, 1796
604:Ebenezer Russell
600:Abraham Schenck
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547:Robert Woodworth
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452:Samuel Townsend
431:John Vanderbilt
419:Ebenezer Russell
373:Ebenezer Russell
369:Joseph Gasherie
342:Ezra L'Hommedieu
273:Ebenezer Russell
256:Rinier Mynderse
229:Ebenezer Russell
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953:Samuel Stewart
928:James W. Wilkin
910:Johannes Bruyn
890:James W. Wilkin
836:Peter C. Adams
800:Robert Johnson
764:Thomas Tredwell
738:Ebenezer Purdy
730:Lemuel Chipman
723:James W. Wilkin
704:Ambrose Spencer
666:Ebenezer Clark
663:Ebenezer Foote
659:William Denning
620:Ambrose Spencer
584:William Powers
569:Philip Schuyler
565:Zina Hitchcock
562:Reuben Hopkins
525:William Powers
509:Peter Schuyler
495:Isaac Roosevelt
485:Philip Schuyler
465:Peter Van Ness
443:Philip Schuyler
435:Anthony Hoffman
423:Peter Schuyler
399:Philip Schuyler
365:Isaac Roosevelt
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1327:Dutchess Co.
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1291:Morgan Lewis
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1278:Saratoga Co.
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1217:Delaware Co.
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1100:John T. More
1095:Walter Bowne
1085:Ephraim Hart
1058:William Ross
1023:Henry Bloom
1011:Walter Bowne
996:Perley Keyes
991:William Ross
949:Morgan Lewis
894:John McLean
839:John Veeder
747:Jacob Snell
684:James Gordon
596:Joshua Sands
477:John Cantine
456:John Hathorn
414:John Hathorn
386:Lewis Morris
330:Elkanah Day
176:Southern D.
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1176:John Savage
1015:John Noyes
936:Jonas Platt
817:James Burt
768:Caleb Hyde
756:John Broome
647:Moses Vail
326:John Haring
188:Elected on
185:Western D.
182:Eastern D.
1414:Categories
1080:Levi Adams
878:Amos Hall
669:John Frey
551:John Frey
522:David Pye
179:Middle D.
95:surrogates
87:Chancellor
47:ex officio
44:, who was
36:Under the
1276:In 1796,
1219:1797–1801
1204:Half Moon
107:patronage
1399:See also
1240:John Jay
136:John Jay
120:and the
67:New York
1394:, 1846)
1368:Sources
32:History
85:, the
81:, the
77:, the
73:, the
1265:Salem
1165:term.
1144:Notes
16:The
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