The 1907 New York state election was held on November 5, 1907, to elect two judges of the New York 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...

, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly

New York State Assembly

The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature. The Assembly is composed of 150 members representing an equal number of districts, with each district having an average population of 128,652...

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History

In 1907, there were only two state officer to be elected statewide: two judges of the Court of Appeals, to succeed Denis O'Brien

Denis O'Brien (New York Politician)

Denis O'Brien was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was admitted to the bar in 1861, and commenced practice in Watertown...

 who had reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years, and Edward T. Bartlett whose fourteen-year term would expire at the end of the year.

The Independence League state convention met on September 28 at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

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 in New York City

New York City

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. Reuben Robie Lyon was Temporary Chairman. They nominated Reuben Robie Lyon, a lawyer of Bath

Bath (village), New York

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; and Republican John T. McDonough - a former Secretary of State of New York and justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines

Supreme Court of the Philippines

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 - for the Court of Appeals.

The Republican State Committee met on October 4. Timothy L. Woodruff

Timothy L. Woodruff

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 was Chairman. They re-nominated the incumbent Edward T. Bartlett, and nominated Democrat Willard Bartlett - who occupied an additional seat on the Court of Appeals - to succeed Denis O'Brien. The Democratic State Committee met three hours later. William James Conners was Chairman. They endorsed the Republican nominees, thus effecting a cross-endorsement deal without talking with the other party.

Result

The jointly nominated judges were elected.

The incumbent Edward T. Bartlett was re-elected. Willard Bartlett continued on the Court, moving from an additional to a regular seat.

1907 state election result

Ticket / Office	Judge of 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...		Judge of 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...
Democratic	Willard Bartlett Willard Bartlett Willard Bartlett was an American jurist. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.-Biography:...		Edward T. Bartlett Edward T. Bartlett Edward Theodore Bartlett was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Biography:He was born on June 14, 1841 in Skaneateles, New York to Levi Bartlett. His father moved in 1831 from Haverhill, New Hampshire, to Skaneateles, and practiced medicine there.Edward T...
Republican	Edward T. Bartlett Edward T. Bartlett Edward Theodore Bartlett was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Biography:He was born on June 14, 1841 in Skaneateles, New York to Levi Bartlett. His father moved in 1831 from Haverhill, New Hampshire, to Skaneateles, and practiced medicine there.Edward T...		Willard Bartlett Willard Bartlett Willard Bartlett was an American jurist. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.-Biography:...
Independence League	Reuben Robie Lyon		John T. McDonough John T. McDonough John Thomas McDonough was an American lawyer and politician.-Early life:He came with his parents to the United States in 1850, and they settled in Dunkirk, New York. He graduated from St. John's College, and studied law at Columbia Law School, finishing as Bachelor of Laws in 1861...
Socialist Socialist Party of America The Socialist Party of America was a multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization...	Thomas Crimmins		Thomas A. Hopkins
Prohibition Prohibition Party The Prohibition Party is a political party in the United States best known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages. It is the oldest existing third party in the US. The party was an integral part of the temperance movement...	Coleridge A. Hart		Erwin J. Baldwin

Sources

• Parcial result: STEADY DECLINE OF HEARST LEAGUE in NYT on November 7, 1907