1892–93 United States Senate elections
Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1892 and 1893, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock.Arthur Pue Gorman won re-election against Lloyd Lowndes Jr. by a margin of 86.05%, or 74 votes, for the Class 1 seat.Incumbent Senator Frank Hiscock was elected to this seat in 1887, with his term to expire on March 3, 1893.90 State legislators attended, only Assemblyman John Cooney, of Brooklyn, was absent due to illness.Edward Murphy Jr., a wealthy brewer of Troy, and Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, was nominated by a large majority.Senator from Missouri and U.S. Secretary of the Interior, who lived now in New York City,[28] but the political machines of upstate boss David B. Hill and Tammany Hall chose a loyal party machine man rather than an Ex-Republican advocate of civil service reform.State Senator James T. Edwards (32nd D.), of Randolph, voted for the defeated Republican vice presidential candidate of 1892, Whitelaw Reid.