List of New York State Senators Representing Saugerties

Year District Name Party Residence Notes Image
1848 - 1849 10th Platt Adams Democratic (Hunker) Durham This marked the beginning of single-member districs in the NY State Senate. Image?
1850 - 1851 10th Marius Schoonmaker Whig Kingston Later elected to US Congress.
1852 - 1853 10th George T. Pierce Democratic (Barnburner) Esopus Notes? Image?
1854 - 1855 10th Eliakim Sherrill Whig Shandaken Previously served as U.S. Congressman from 1847 -1849. Later he fough in the Civil War and died at Gettysburg.
1856 - 1857 10th George S. Nichols American Athens Served in the Civil War.
1858 - 1859 10th George W. Pratt Democratic Kingston Originally from Windham, son of former Congressman Zack Pratt. He later fought and died in the Civil War.
1860 - 1861 10th Joshua Fiero, Jr. Republican Catskill Grew up in Saugerties after being adopted by his uncle, Joshua Fiero.
1862 - 1863 10th Jacob S. Freer Democratic Ellenville Notes? Image?
1864 - 1865 10th George Beach Democratic Jewett Served as Town Supervisor of Jewett from 1855 - 1858. Image?
1866 - 1867 10th George Chambers Democratic Stone Ridge Notes? Image?
1868 - 1869 14th George Beach Democratic Jewett See above. Image?
1870 - 1872 14th Jacob Hardenbergh Democratic Kingston Reelected, but died in office in April of that year. Image?
1872 - 1873 14th William F. Scoresby Liberal Republican; Democratic Ellenville Served at one point as President of the Village of Ellenville. After his State Senate term, he served as Town Supervisor of Wawarsing from 1877 to 1878. Image?
1874 - 1875 14th Henry C. Connelly Republican Esopus Notes? Image?
1876 - 1877 14th Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. Democratic Kingston Born in the Town of Rochester. Later served as NY Attorney General from 1878 - 1879.
1878 - 1879 14th Addison P. Jones Democratic Catskill Notes?
1880 - 1881 14th Charles A. Fowler Democratic Kingston Notes? Image?
1882 - 1883 14th Addison P. Jones Democratic Catskill Notes?
1884 - 1885 14th John F. Van Schaik Democratic Cobleskill Notes? Image?
1886 - 1887 14th Henry C. Connelly Republican Esopus Notes? Image?
1888 - 1890 14th John J. Linson Democratic Kingston Notes? Image?
1891 - 1892 14th Clarence E Bloodgood Democratic Catskill Notes?
1894 - 1895 17th Jacob Rice Democratic Rondout Born in Prussia.
1896 - 1898 25th Charles Davis Republican Saugerties His brother, John C. Davis, was the first owner of the Orpheum Theater in Saugerties. Image?
1899 - 1900 25th Jacob Rice Democratic Rondout See above.
1901 - 1902 25th William S.C. Wiley Republican Catskill Notes?
1903 - 1904 25th Frank J. LeFevre Republican New Paltz LeFevre later served as U.S. Congressman from 1905 - 1907.

Photo from The History of Ulster County, New York by Alphonso Clearwater.

1905 - 1910 25th (1905 - 1906);
26th (1907 - 1908);
27th (1909 - 1910)
John N. Cordts Republican Kingston Photo from The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume XVII.
1911 - 1912 27th William P. Fiero Democratic Catskill Son of former State Senator Joshua Fiero, Jr.

Photo taken from the 1911 Saugerties Old Home Week pamphlet.

1913 - 1914 27th Abraham J. Palmer Progressive Republican Kingston Minister at St. James in Kingston, submitted a bill to repeal all public utility enterprises in 1913.

Photograph from the collection of the Library of Congress.

1915 - 1922 27th (1915 - 1918);
29th (1919 - 1922)
Charles W. Walton Republican Kingston Photo taken from the Oct 29 1918 edition of the Kingston Daily Freeman.
1923 - 1926 29th Arthur F. Bouton Republican Roxbury Photo taken from the Dec 15 1922 edition of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
1927 - 1956 42nd (1927 - 1942);
34th (1943 - 1956)
Arthur H. Wicks Republican Kingston At times endorsed by the Socialist Party (for example, 1938).
Briefly served as Lt. Gov of NY in 1953, forced to step down because he was meeting with a labor leader who was imprisoned at Sing Sing.

Photograph taken from the Nov 5 1952 edition of the Kingston Daily Freeman.

1957 - 1966 34th E. Ogden Bush Republican Walton Photograph from his 1956 senatorial nomination event, taken from the Feb 24 1956 edition of the Kingston Daily Freeman.
1967 - 1972 38th Jay P. Rolison, Jr. Republican Poughkeepsie Photograph, from 1970, taken from the Aug 30 2007 edition of the Poughkeepsie Journal.
1973 - 1978 48th Edwyn Mason Republican Hobart Image from the SUNY Albany archives.
1979 - 1998 48th (1979 - 1982);
40th (1983 - 1998);
Charles D. Cook Republican Delhi Notes?
1999 - 2018 40th (1999 - 2002);
42nd (2003 - 2018)
John Bonacic Republican Mount Hope Notes?
2019 - 2020 46th George Amedore Republican Rotterdam Notes?
2021 - Present 46th (2021 - 2022);
41st (2023 - present)
Michelle Hinchey Democratic Saugerties Daughter of former US Congressman Maurice Hinchey, and by my reckoning, the first Saugertisian state senator to represent Saugerties in 120 years.

A brief disclaimer: I am not a scholar or historian in an official sense, and my findings have not been subjected to academic scrutiny. However, I have a lot of fun compiling the information here, with no intent to mislead, and I hope it can be of some use or interest to anyone who would like to know more about Saugerties history! If you have relevant information or images you would like to share, please do not hesitate to reach out at iandouglasbyrne at gmail.com :-)

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