New York State Senator James L. Seward Archived Websites

Senator James L. Seward, a Republican, was first elected to the Senate in 1986. He has represented the 50th Senate District (1987-2002) and the 51st Senate District (2003-present). The 51st Senate District consists of western Tompkins County, Cortland County, northern Chenango County, Otsego County, Herkimer County, Schoharie County, and Greene County. He has chaired the Standing Committee on Energy and Telecommunications, the Standing Committee on Insurance, the Task Force on Voluntary Emergency Services, and the Task Force on State and Local Emergency Preparedness. He has also served as Vice Chair of the Minority Conference (2009-2010).

This series consists of archival copies of the official website of Senator James L. Seward. Researchers should note that in 2009, each Senator was allotted space on the main Senate website and the official sites of individual Senators were removed from the live Web.

B2258-06: This accretion consists of an archival copy of Senator Seward's official website produced on December 26, 2006, shortly before Governor George E. Pataki (1995-2006) left office. It contains biographical information; photographs; a district map; and press releases (2000-2006) concerning economic development, health insurance, other legislation that Senator Seward sponsored, state funding for programs and services in the 51st Senate District, and other matters of interest to Senator Seward's constituents. Also included is information about planning for wintertime disasters, tax relief provisions in the 2006-07 Executive Budget, and changes in state law governing use of the insanity defense.

B2258-08: This accretion consists of a copy of Senator Seward's official website produced on June 13, 2008, shortly after the resignation of Governor Eliot L. Spitzer (2007-2008). It contains biographical information, photographs, a district map, and press releases (2008) concerning environmental conservation, tax relief, and other legislation that Senator Seward sponsored and other matters of interest to Senator Seward's constituents. Information about Senate measures to track sex offenders and to assist returning veterans is also included.

Researchers should note that, owing to the structure of the live site and the limitations of Web archiving technology, most of the information contained within this site could not be captured properly in mid-2008. In addition, some of the navigational links do not work properly. However, identical sets of navigational links appear at the top and the bottom of each page. If the link in one set does not work correctly, click the Web browser's Back button and then click on the corresponding link in the other set.

B2197Series B2197, New York State Senate Archived Websites, contains copies of the main Senate Website.

The New York State Archives used Web archiving software to copy these websites in order to preserve the information they contained.

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