Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — NEW YORK’S SENATOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW YORK’S SENATOR.

Congressman Hiscock, of Syracuse, Chosen to Succeed Warner Miller. [Albany special.! The two houses of the New York Legislature met in joint convention on Thursday, and elected Congressman Frank Hiscock as United States Senator to succeed Warner MiUer. At the roll-call the Senate

showed 31 votes, Kellogg being the only absentee. The vote was: Hiscock, 19; Weed, 12. The vote in the Assembly was: Hiscock, 72; Weed, 50. In making up the vote in joint convention. Frank Hiscock received 91; Smith M. Weed, 62; total, 153. Hearty applause greeted the announcement of the vote by Lieutenant Governor Jones. Frank Hiscock was born in Pompey, N. Y., Sept. 6,1834, and received only a com-mon-school education. In 1855 he was admitted to the bar, and five years later was elected District Attorney of Onondaga County. He served in 1867 in the State Constitutional Convention. In 1877 he began his Congressional career, being elected from the district comprising Onondaga and Cortland counties, the great salt section of the State, and he has been returned regularly, always by large majorities.