Roscoe Conkling Republican Roscoe Conkling Republican Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: The 1873 United States Senate election in New York was held on January 21, 1873, by the New York State Legislature to elect a U.S.

Republican Roscoe Conkling had been elected in January 1867 to this seat, and his term would expire on March 3, 1873.

The caucus of the Democratic State legislators nominated Ex-First Judge of Dutchess County Charles Wheaton.

Notes: Conkling was re-elected in 1879, and remained in office until May 17, 1881, when he resigned in protest against the distribution of federal patronage in New York by President James A. Garfield without being consulted.

The crisis between the Stalwart and the Half-Breed factions of the Republican party arose when the leader of the New Yorker Half-Breeds William H. Robertson was appointed Collector of the Port of New York, a position Conkling wanted to give to one of his Stalwart friends.