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Ultimately, Governor John Thompson Hoffman vetoed the medical licensing bill, but this was one the earliest and most successful efforts to establish medical licensing in the United States. <ref>Stephen Rogers, M.D., “The New Medical Law of the State of New York,” ''New York Medical Journal'', Vol. XX, July 1874, No. 1: 70-72, http://books.google.com/ebooks.</ref> The medical community's efforts to pass medical licensing did not occur in a vacuum. Physicians throughout the United States were remarkably well connected. Organizations such as the American Medical Association served as a hub for the national community. State and local organizations across the country quickly became aware of the attempt by New York's medical community to enact medical licensing. In other states, medical groups would quickly follow the lead of their New York brethren. Unlike the New York physicians, they started to become successful in their efforts to pass medical licensing medical legislation. Similiarly to the physicians in New York, they tied licensing to other unrelated public health measures such as stronger anti-abortion laws or sanitary legislation.<ref>Article is a portion of an unpublished dissertation by Sandvick, Clinton (2013)''[https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Practice-Medicine-Licensing-Physicians-ebook/dp/B01LXWRYFB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476595295&sr=8-1&keywords=medical+licensing+sandvick Defining the Practice of Medicine: Licensing American Physicians: 1865, 1870-1907]'' University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. This portion of the dissertation is reproduced here with the permission of the author(2016).</ref>