Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: At a special judicial election on June 7, 1847, four judges of the New York Court of Appeals, the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, 32 justices of the new New York Supreme Court district benches, county judges, surrogates, district attorneys and all other judicial officers in the state of New York were elected, to take office on July 5, 1847.
Four of the judges were elected statewide, the other four were chosen by a rotative system from the New York Supreme Court district benches.
The Whig state convention met on May 19 at Syracuse, New York, and nominated Whittlesey, Noxon, Reynolds and David Lord.
Lord declined the nomination, and Jordan was substituted on the ticket.
The official result did not count the votes from Hamilton County, which were not returned, and 1,011 votes for Whittlesey in Herkimer County, which were cast for "Frederick W.