Otto Kelsey

Otto Goodell Kelsey (November 11, 1852 – August 20, 1934) was an American lawyer and politician.

He was born on November 11, 1852, in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, the son of Wisconsin State Senator Charles S. Kelsey (born 1822) and Lucretia Parson (Bacon) Kelsey (died 1868). He became a printer, then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1875, and practiced law in Geneseo, Livingston County, New York.

He was a Republican member of the New York State Assembly (Livingston Co.) in 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902. In November 1902, he ran for County Judge of Livingston County, but was unexpectedly defeated. Subsequently his party friends forced Theodore P. Gilman to resign the office of First Deputy Comptroller, and had Kelsey appointed to the post. When Comptroller Nathan Lewis Miller was appointed to the New York Supreme Court, Kelsey was appointed New York State Comptroller to fill the vacancy, and was elected at the New York state election, 1904, to succeed himself.