Found 4 collections related to New York (State). Legislature

Gabriel P. Disosway was a merchant and politician in New York City. These letters from Disosway to John Anthon at New York discuss his efforts as a member of the New York State Assembly to secure the removal of quarantine and emigration facilities on Long Island to Sandy Hook, and to establish a marine hospital there. The letters which are written from Albany, New York, Trenton, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. describe his negotiations with members of the New York and New Jersey legislatures, the Governor of New York, the state land commissioners, members of Congress and of the federal government including President Fillmore. Disosway mentions bitter debate on the floor of the House of Representatives between William Duer of New York and Richard K. Meade of Virginia. The letters date from 1832 and 1849-1851 less

Autograph album containing signatures of members of the New York legislature for 1864. The volume also contains signatures of members of the Electoral College, which met in Albany on December 7, 1864, to elect a president and a vice president. Inserted are two printed ballots used in voting for President Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson less

These autograph albums, created by James S. Haring of the Rockland County Assembly, contains autographs and some portraits of members of the New York legislature (3 volumes in one slipcase). These volumes also contain a few letters from New York state officials less