Excerpt from Life Sketches of the State Officers, Senators, and Members of the Assembly of the State of New York, in 1867 It will be seen that the Sketches of the Members of the Legisla ture are alphabetically arranged, thus removing the necessity for an index. The Editors avail themselves of this opportunity to express their thanks for the uniform courtesy extended toward them, by every gentleman whose name appears within this volume, and to other gentlemen, - many of them strangers at the incipient stages of this work, - who have rendered invaluable assistance in furnishing incidents and dates for the compilation of these Sketches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.