New York state election, 1942

The 1942 New York state election was held on November 3, 1942, to elect the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General and two U.S. Representatives At-large, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.

The Industrial Government state convention met on April 5, and nominated again Aaron M. Orange for Governor. They also nominated Bronko Papadopolis, of Buffalo, for Lieutenant Governor; O. Martin Olson for Comptroller; and Eric Hass for Attorney General.

The Socialist state convention met on June 21 at 303 Fourth Avenue in New York City, and nominated Prof. Coleman B. Cheney for Governor; Samuel H. Friedman for Lieutenant Governor; Joseph G. Glass for Attorney General; the Rev. Herman J. Hahn for Comptroller; and Miss Layle Lane, an African-American teacher, writer and lecturer, and Amicus Most, an engineer of New Rochelle, for the at-large Congress seats. The petition to nominate these candidates was filed on August 31 with the Secretary of State.

The Democratic state convention met on August 20. Influenced by James A. Farley, the convention nominated State Attorney General John J. Bennett, Jr., for Governor on the first ballot with 623 votes against 393 for U.S. Senator James M. Mead, the candidate favored by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. They re-nominated three incumbents: Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti, Comptroller Joseph V. O'Leary, and Representative at-large Matthew J. Merritt; and completed the ticket with State Solicitor General Henry Epstein for Attorney General; and Flora D. Johnson for the other at-large House seat.

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