Officers of the State of New York, 1787–1788
Governor Ebenezer Russell
George Clinton Peter Schuyler
Appointed 18 January 1787
Lieutenant Governor Anthony Hoffman
Pierre Van Cortland David Hopkins
Philip Schuyler
Chancellor John Vanderbilt
Robert R. Livingston
Council of Revision
Justices of the Supreme George Clinton Court
Richard Morris, Chief Robert R. Livingston Justice
John Sloss Hobart Richard Morris Robert Yates John Sloss Hobart
Robert Yates
Clerk of the Supreme Court
John McKesson Annapolis Convention Delegates
Egbert Benson*
Judge of the Court of Alexander Hamilton* Admiralty
Lewis Graham Robert C. Livingston
Robert R. Livingston
Secretary of State James Duane
Lewis A. Scott Leonard Gansevoort
*Attended
Attorney General
Egbert Benson Delegates to Congress
Richard Varick Elected 26 January 1787 (appointed 14 May Abraham Yates, Jr. 1788)
John Lansing, Jr.
Melancton Smith
John Haring
Treasurer Egbert Benson
Gerard Bancker Elected 22 January 1788
Abraham Yates, Jr.
Auditor-General Ezra L’Hommedieu
Peter T. Curtenius Egbert Benson
Leonard Gansevoort
Surveyor General Alexander Hamilton
Simeon DeWitt
Constitutional Convention
Mayor of New York City Alexander Hamilton* James Duane Robert Yates**
John Lansing, Jr.**
Mayor of Albany *Signed Constitution
John Lansing, Jr. **Left Convention on 10 July 1787
Mayor of Hudson Confederation Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Seth Jenkins John Jay
Council of Appointment
George Clinton
Appointed 18 January 1788
William Floyd
John Hathorn
Cite as: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Digital Edition, ed. John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber and Margaret A. Hogan. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. Canonic URL: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/RNCN-02-19-01-0014 [accessed 06 Jan 2011] Original source: Ratification by the States, Volume XIX: New York, No. 1