Speaker of the New York State Assembly
The Speaker of the New York State Assembly is the highest official in the New York State Assembly, customarily elected from the ranks of the majority party. As in most countries with a British heritage, the speaker presides over the lower house of the legislature. The position exists in every U.S. state and in the United States House of Representatives, the lower house of the Congress. New York's Assembly Speaker is very powerful. Effectively, the Speaker of the New York Assembly has the power to control much of the business in the Assembly and, in fact, throughout all of state government. Through almost single-handed control of the chamber, the Assembly Speaker is able to dictate what legislation makes and does not make it to the floor and will punish the members of his caucus who do not
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Al Smith
Alfred C. Chapin
Alonzo B. Cornell
Amos K. Hadley
Charles Humphrey
Daniel D. Frisbie
DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn
Edwin Albert Merritt
Elisha Litchfield
Erastus Root
George B. Sloan
George Gilbert Hoskins
George H. Sharpe
George R. Malby
George W. Patterson
George Z. Erwin
Gulian Verplanck (speaker)
Hamilton Fish II
Henry Jarvis Raymond
Horatio Seymour
Irving Ives
Alexander SheldonAndrew McCordAnthony J. TraviaCarl HeastieCharles E. PattersonCharles L. LivingstonClarkson CroliusDaniel CrugerDavid GelstonDavid Woods (New York politician)Dirck Ten BroeckEdmund L. PittsEdward Livingston (speaker)Evert Bancker (speaker)Ferral C. DininnyFremont ColeGeorge R. Davis (New York)H. Edmund MacholdHenry Smith (speaker)
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Speaker of the New York State Assembly
The Speaker of the New York State Assembly is the highest official in the New York State Assembly, customarily elected from the ranks of the majority party. As in most countries with a British heritage, the speaker presides over the lower house of the legislature. The position exists in every U.S. state and in the United States House of Representatives, the lower house of the Congress. New York's Assembly Speaker is very powerful. Effectively, the Speaker of the New York Assembly has the power to control much of the business in the Assembly and, in fact, throughout all of state government. Through almost single-handed control of the chamber, the Assembly Speaker is able to dictate what legislation makes and does not make it to the floor and will punish the members of his caucus who do not
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the New York State Assembly
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Speaker of the New York State Assembly
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