" He was first elected a member of the assembly in 1869, to represent the 3d assembly district of this county, and he continued being elected and re-elected to the latter office up to and including the year of his death [1892]; serving from 1869 to 1878 from this county, 1879-80 from Rockland County, and again in 1881 and 1883 to 1892 from this county. He

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was speaker of the assembly in the years 1874, '76, '78, '86, '87, and '90. lie had a longer legislative experience than any other man in the history of theState -- twenty-two years; he also had the distinction of having been speaker more times than any other man."1 He was only once defeated as a candidate for the assembly -- in 1882, by John Hoag. In 18G8 John Thompson Hoffman, a native of Westchester County, Smith's Manual of Westchest

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was elected governor of the State. He was a son of Dr. A. K. Thompson, of Sing Sing, and was born in that village on the 10th of Jannary, 1828. After completing his general education he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law in New York City. He soon became prominent both in his profession and in politics. He served two terms as governor, being re-elected in 1870. It was unfortunate for him that his career in the executive office was coincident with the Tweed Ring exposures, which involved much criticism of his political affiliations with Tammany. Upon the completion of his second term he retired from public life. He died on the 24th of March, 1888. Eighteen hundred and seventy was the last census year in which Westchester County retained the bounds established for it under the original county act of 1083. The population in 1870, by townships and villages, was as follows: POPULATION