The Clerk of the New York Court of Appeals was one of the statewide elected officials in New York from 1847 to 1870. He was also ex officio a clerk of the New York Supreme Court. The office was created by the New York State Constitution of 1846. The first Clerk was elected at the 1847 New York special judicial election, and took office on July 5, 1847, when the Court of Appeals succeeded the Court for the Correction of Errors and the Court of Chancery.
List
| Name | Took office | Left office | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles S. Benton | July 5, 1847 | December 31, 1853 | Democratic | two terms; elected on the Democratic ticket in 1847, and on the Democratic and Anti-Rent tickets in 1850 |
| Benjamin F. Harwood | January 1, 1854 | March 30, 1856 | Whig | died in office |
| Russell F. Hicks | March 30, 1856 | December 31, 1859 | Republican | Deputy Clerk under Harwood, then elected |
| Charles Hughes | January 1, 1860 | December 31, 1862 | Republican/American | |
| Frederick A. Tallmadge | January 1, 1863 | December 31, 1865 | Dem./Const. Union | |
| Patrick Henry Jones | January 1, 1866 | December 31, 1868 | Republican | |
| Edwin O. Perrin | January 1, 1869 | December 19, 1888 | Democratic | re-appointed after the re-organization of the Court in 1870, died in office |
| Gorham Parks | January 25, 1889 | October 26, 1897 | Democratic | (son of Gorham Parks), died in office |
| William Henry Shankland, Jr. | November 23, 1897 | February 27, 1909 | Republican | Son of William H. Shankland, deputy under Gorham Parks, acting Clerk from 10/26-11/23/1897, died in office |
| Richard M. Barber | –1921– | |||
| Joseph W. Bellacosa | 1975 | 1983 | Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals 1987-2000 | |
| Donald Sheraw | 1983 | |||
| Stuart M. Cohen | November 15, 1996 | November 23, 2010 | ||
| Andrew Klein | November 24, 2010 | incumbent | ||
Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; page 424)
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