New York State Prison Inspector
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The Inspector of State Prisons was a statewide elective office created by the New York State Constitution of 1846 . At the 1847 New York state election , three Inspectors were elected and then, upon taking office, so classified that henceforth every year one Inspector would be elected to a three-year term. The Prison Inspectors appointed wardens and keepers and supervised the prison administration in general. They were required to visit jointly four times a year each one of the state prisons. Besides, each one of the Inspectors was allotted the special care to one of the then existing three state prisons ( Auburn State Prison , Sing Sing State Prison and Clinton State Prison ) where he had to attend to business for at least one week per month.
In 1876, a constitutional amendment abolished the office of State Prison Inspector, pending the appointment of a New York Superintendent of State Prisons who would take over the duties of the Prison Inspectors. The first Superintendent was Louis D. Pilsbury , appointed by Governor Lucius Robinson on February 17, 1877.
List of Inspectors of State Prisons
Name | Took office | Left office | Party | Notes |
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John B. Gedney | January 1, 1848 | December 31, 1848 | Whig | drew the one-year term |
Isaac N. Comstock | January 1, 1848 | December 31, 1849 | Whig | drew the two-year term |
David D. Spencer | January 1, 1848 | December 31, 1850 | Whig/Anti-Rent | drew the three-year term |
Alexander H. Wells | January 1, 1849 | December 31, 1851 | Whig | |
Darius Clark | January 1, 1850 | December 31, 1855 | Democratic | two terms; elected on the Democratic and Anti-Rent tickets in 1849, on the Democratic ticket in 1852 |
William P. Angel | January 1, 1851 | December 31, 1853 | Democratic/ Anti-Rent | |
Henry Storms | January 1, 1852 | December 31, 1854 | Democratic | |
Thomas Kirkpatrick | January 1, 1854 | December 31, 1856 | Whig | |
Norwood Bowne | January 1, 1855 | December 31, 1857 | Whig/ Anti-Nebraska / Anti-Rent | |
William A. Russell | January 1, 1856 | December 31, 1858 | American | |
Wesley Bailey | January 1, 1857 | December 31, 1859 | Republican | |
William C. Rhodes | January 1, 1858 | December 31, 1860 | Democratic | |
Josiah T. Everest | January 1, 1859 | December 31, 1861 | Republican | |
David P. Forrest | January 1, 1860 | December 31, 1862 | Republican | |
James K. Bates | January 1, 1861 | December 31, 1866 | Republican | two terms; elected on the Republican ticket in 1860, on the Union ticket in 1863 |
Abraham B. Tappen | January 1, 1862 | December 31, 1864 | Union | elected on the Independent People's and Republican tickets |
Gaylord J. Clarke | January 1, 1863 | December 31, 1865 | Democratic | |
David P. Forrest | January 1, 1865 | December 31, 1867 | Union | second term |
Henry A. Barnum | January 1, 1866 | December 31, 1868 | Republican | |
John Hammond | January 1, 1867 | December 31, 1869 | Republican | |
Solomon Scheu | January 1, 1868 | December 31, 1873 | Democratic | two terms |
David B. McNeil | January 1, 1869 | December 31, 1871 | Democratic | |
Fordyce L. Laflin | January 1, 1870 | December 31, 1872 | Democratic | |
Thomas Kirkpatrick | January 1, 1872 | December 31, 1874 | Republican | second term |
Ezra Graves | January 1, 1873 | December 31, 1875 | Republican | |
Moss K. Platt | January 1, 1874 | March 1, 1876 | Republican | died in office |
George Wagener | January 1, 1875 | February 17, 1877 | Democratic | legislated out of office by Amendment of 1876, office taken over by Superintendent of State Prisons |
Rodney R. Crowley | January 1, 1876 | February 17, 1877 | Democratic | legislated out of office by Amendment of 1876, office taken over by Superintendent of State Prisons |
Benjamin S. W. Clark | March 2, 1876 | December 31, 1876 | Democratic | appointed to fill vacancy in place of Platt |
Robert H. Anderson | January 1, 1877 | February 17, 1877 | Democratic | legislated out of office by Amendment of 1876, office taken over by Superintendent of State Prisons |
References
Further reading
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 45f; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pages 410f)
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