42nd Wisconsin Legislature | |||||
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![]() Wisconsin State Capitol, 1887 | |||||
Overview | |||||
Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
Term | January 7, 1895 – January 4, 1897 | ||||
Election | November 6, 1894 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 33 | ||||
Senate President | Emil Baensch (R) | ||||
President pro tempore | Thompson Weeks (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican | ||||
Assembly | |||||
Members | 100 | ||||
Assembly Speaker | George B. Burrows (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican | ||||
Sessions | |||||
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Special sessions | |||||
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The 42nd Wisconsin Legislature' convened from January 9, 1895, to April 20, 1895, in regular session. [1] They convened again in special session in February 1896 to pass a legislative redistricting law.
Senators representing odd-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first two years of a four-year term. Assembly members were elected to a two-year term. Assembly members and odd-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 6, 1894. Senators representing even-numbered districts were serving the third and fourth year of a four-year term, having been elected in the general election of November 8, 1892. [1]
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican William H. Upham, of Wood County, serving a two-year term, having won election in the 1894 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.
Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total | |||
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Dem. | Rep. | Vacant | ||
End of previous Legislature | 25 | 7 | 32 | 1 |
Start of 1st Session | 13 | 20 | 33 | 0 |
Final voting share | 39.39% | 60.61% | ||
Beginning of the next Legislature | 4 | 29 | 33 | 0 |
Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total | |||||
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Dem. | Pop. | Rep. | Vacant | |||
End of previous Legislature | 56 | 0 | 44 | 100 | 0 | |
Start of 1st Session | 19 | 0 | 81 | 100 | 0 | |
Final voting share | 19% | 81% | ||||
Beginning of the next Legislature | 9 | 1 | 90 | 100 | 0 |
Members of the Senate for the Forty-Second Wisconsin Legislature: [2]
Members of the Assembly for the Forty-Second Wisconsin Legislature: [2]