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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 were elected, to take office on July 5, 1847.




Contents






  • 1 Background


  • 2 Results


  • 3 Notes


  • 4 Sources





Background


The New York State Constitution of 1846 re-organized the State's judicial system and created the Court of Appeals. Four of the judges were elected statewide, the other four were chosen by a rotative system from the New York Supreme Court district benches.


The Whig state convention met on May 19 at Syracuse, New York, and nominated Whittlesey, Noxon, Reynolds and David Lord. Lord declined the nomination, and Jordan was substituted on the ticket.



Results


The votes are the total of Democratic and Anti-Rent votes for Gardiner and Bronson, and the total of Whig and Anti-Rent votes for Jordan, Whittlesey and Lamport. The Anti-Rent endorsement did not influence the result of this election.


The official result did not count the votes from Hamilton County, which were not returned, and 1,011 votes for Whittlesey in Herkimer County, which were cast for "Frederick W. Whittlesey".[1]


The whole Democratic ticket was elected. Those elected were then classified by drawing lots on June 22. Jewett drew the two-year term, Bronson the four-year term, Ruggles the six-year term, and Gardiner the eight-year term. The half year remaining in 1847 was added to these terms, and afterwards every two years in odd-numbered years one judge was elected to an eight-year term.





















































1847 judicial election results
Office

Democratic ticket

Whig ticket

Anti-Rent ticket

Judge of the Court of Appeals

Addison Gardiner

145,282

Ambrose L. Jordan
127,519

Addison Gardiner


Greene C. Bronson

144,784

Frederick Whittlesey
126,844

Greene C. Bronson


Charles H. Ruggles

140,202
B. Davis Noxon
124,398

Ambrose L. Jordan


Freeborn G. Jewett

138,313
Marcus T. Reynolds
123,933

Frederick Whittlesey

Clerk of the Court of Appeals

Charles S. Benton

136,312
J. T. Lamport
131,031
J. T. Lamport


Notes




  1. ^ At the time ballots with the name of the candidate were cast. It happened sometimes that the local party organization had ballots printed with spelling mistakes or wrong middle initials. Most election inspectors counted the votes only if the ballots showed a perfect match of the candidate's name, and listed variant spellings as "scattering votes"; see also New York state election, 1851#Contested election



Sources



  • Judges of the Court of Appeals at [1] Court History New York


  • The Whig Almanac and United States Register (page 52)









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