Clerk of the New York Court of Appeals
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New York
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from 1847 to 1870. He was also ex officio a clerk of the New York Supreme Court
New York Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in thestate court system of New York, United States. There is a supreme court in each of New York State's 62 counties, although some smaller counties share judges with neighboring counties...
. The office was created by the New York State Constitution of 1846. The first Clerk was elected at the New York special judicial election, 1847
New York special judicial election, 1847
At a special judicial election on June 7, 1847, four judges of the New York Court of Appeals, the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, 32 justices of the new New York Supreme Court district benches, county judges, surrogates, districty attorneys and all other judicial officers in the state of New York...
, and took office on July 5, 1847, when the Court of Appeals
New York Court of Appeals
The New York Court of Appeals is the highest court in the U.S. state of New York. The Court of Appeals consists of seven judges: the Chief Judge and six associate judges who are appointed by the Governor to 14-year terms...
succeeded the Court for the Correction of Errors
New York Court for the Trial of Impeachments
The Court for the Trial of Impeachments, and the Correction of Errors was established by the New York State Constitution of 1777. It consisted then of the Lieutenant Governor of New York , the Chancellor, the justices of the New York Supreme Court and the members of the New York State Senate...
and the Court of Chancery
New York Court of Chancery
The New York Court of Chancery was established during the colonial administration on August 28, 1701, the colonial governor acting as Chancellor. The New York State Constitution of 1777 continued the court but required a lawyer to be appointed Chancellor. It was the court with jurisdiction on cases...
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List
| Name | Took office | Left office | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles S. Benton Charles S. Benton Charles Swan Benton was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:... |
July 5, 1847 | December 31, 1853 | Democratic | two terms; elected on the Democratic ticket in 1847, and on the Democratic and Anti-Rent Anti-Rent War The Anti-Rent War was a tenants' revolt in upstate New York during the early 19th century, beginning with the death of Stephen Van Rensselaer III in 1839.... tickets in 1850 |
| Benjamin F. Harwood Benjamin F. Harwood Benjamin F. Harwood was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He lived in Dansville, Livingston County, New York.... |
January 1, 1854 | March 30, 1856 | Whig | died in office |
| Russell F. Hicks Russell F. Hicks Russell Frank Hicks was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:... |
March 30, 1856 | December 31, 1859 | Republican | Deputy Clerk under Harwood, then elected |
| Charles Hughes Charles Hughes (representative) Charles Hughes was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Sandy Hill, NY.... |
January 1, 1860 | December 31, 1862 | Republican/American Know Nothing The Know Nothing was a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to Anglo-Saxon Protestant values and controlled by... |
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| Frederick A. Tallmadge Frederick A. Tallmadge Frederick Augustus Tallmadge was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a Member of the U.S. House of Representativesfrom New York's 5th congressional district from 1847 to 1849.-Biography:... |
January 1, 1863 | December 31, 1865 | Dem./Const. Union Constitutional Union Party (United States) The Constitutional Union Party was a political party in the United States created in 1860. It was made up of conservative former Whigs who wanted to avoid disunion over the slavery issue... |
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| Patrick H. Jones | January 1, 1866 | December 31, 1868 | Republican | |
| Edwin O. Perrin Edwin O. Perrin Edwin Oscar Perrin was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Joseph Perrin, a judge and Whig politician. He was educated at the Springfield Academy, and then studied law with Samson Mason. Perrin was admitted to the bar in 1842, and the next year commenced practice at Memphis,... |
January 1, 1869 | December 19, 1889 | Democratic | re-appointed after the re-organization of the Court in 1870, died in office |
| 1889 | 1975 | |||
| Joseph W. Bellacosa | 1975 | 1983 | Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals 1987-2000 | |
| Donald Sheraw | 1983 | |||
| Stuart M. Cohen | November 15, 1996 | November 23, 2010 | ||
| Andrew Klein | November 24, 2010 | incumbent | ||
Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; page 424)