Assemblymen were elected countywide on general tickets to a one-year term, the whole Assembly being renewed annually.

On March 25, the Democratic-Republican State Convention nominated Canal Commissioner DeWitt Clinton for Governor, and Acting Gov.

On April 6, 1817, State Senator Chauncey Loomis died, leaving a vacancy in the Western District.

DeWitt Clinton and his Erie Canal project) and the Bucktails (led by Att.

Gen. Martin Van Buren, and including the Tammany Hall organization in New York City).

Stephen Barnum (Southern D.), Jabez D. Hammond, John Lounsbery (both Middle D.), Roger Skinner, Henry Yates Jr., Samuel Young (all three Eastern D.) and Assemblyman Isaac Wilson (Western D.) were also elected to full terms in the Senate.

The Legislature met at the Old State Capitol in Albany on January 27, 1818, and adjourned on April 21.