Regardless of what the website says, I do not believe there is any provision in the NYS Constitution that provides for the President of the Senate to become "Acting Lt-Governor".  She/he will be next in line. Thats all.

			J Travis
			 Albany County Historian

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The following inquiry is posted at request of Kevin Jack
<[log in to unmask]> It concerns the status of actng
Lieutenant-Governor John Raines, late 1906. Comments and additional
information are welcome.

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Background

"On November 6, 1906, the sitting Lt. Gov. of New York State, Mathew
Linn Bruce, was defeated for re-election by Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler. 
On December 5, 1906, Mr. Bruce resigned as lt. gov. and was appointed a
State Supreme Court judge by outgoing Gov. Frank Higgins. 

 

According to the attached NY Times article from 1906, with Mr.
Bruce's resignation, the long-time president pro-tem of the New
York State Senate, John Raines of Canandaigua, became the acting Lt.
Gov. of NYS (and would have been until January 1, 1907). 

 

However, when upon checking the NYS Red Book and the Lt. Gov.'s
official homepage,
http://www.state.ny.us/governor/ltgov/past_history.htm, there is no
mention of Sen. Raines having served as an acting Lt. Gov. (although a
number of other senators who served as acting lt. gov. are listed)."