Isaac H. Maynard

Isaac Horton Maynard (April 9, 1838 in Bovina, Delaware County, New York – June 12, 1896 in Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

He was the son of Isaac Maynard and Jane (Falconer) Maynard. He graduated from Amherst College in 1862. Then he studied law at Delhi, New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1865. About that time, he entered politics and was a Town Supervisor and then President of the Board of Supervisors of Delaware County.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Delaware Co., 2nd D.) in 1876 and 1877. He was First Judge and Surrogate of the Delaware County Court from 1878 to 1885.

In 1883 he ran for Secretary of State of New York but was the only candidate defeated on the Democratic ticket. In 1886, he was appointed First Deputy New York Attorney General. Later that year, he was appointed Second Comptroller of the Treasury. In 1887, he was appointed by Charles S. Fairchild as Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and remained in office until the end of the First Cleveland administration.

Afterwards he was appointed Deputy New York Attorney General again. As such, in November 1891, he was counsel to the State Board of Canvassers (made up by the Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Comptroller, Attorney General and State Engineer), when the electoral fraud in the Dutchess County senatorial election happened by which Governor David B. Hill gained control of the New York State Senate. The Republican incumbent Gilbert A. Deane had received more votes than his Democratic challenger Edward B. Osborne, but the County Board of Canvassers did not allow 31 votes which had ink marks on the edge (which could have been made by printers' quads), and declared Osborne elected. The Republicans questioned the County Board's decision in court and, on December 5, Judge Barnard ordered the votes to be counted, and instructed the County Clerk to inform the corrected result to the State Board. Judge Fursman ordered a stay of Barnard's decision. On December 19, Justice Edgar M. Cullen, of the New York Supreme Court, vacated Fursman's stay, and in the evening of December 21, County Clerk Emans mailed the corrected result to Albany. On the same day however, Justice Ingraham had stayed Cullen's decision and Emans was accused of contempt of court. Emans traveled to Albany himself, and appeared at Maynard's home at half past 8 a.m. next morning demanding to have the corrected result returned to him. Maynard and Emans went to the New York State Comptroller's office, and Maynard subtracted the letter from the incoming-mail pile and handed it over to Emans, explaining to the office employees that the letter had been misdirected. Subsequently, the original result was canvassed by the State Board, and the Democratic candidate was declared elected, giving the Democrats a majority in the New York State Senate.

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