53rd Wisconsin Legislature

53rd Wisconsin Legislature
53rd Wisconsin Legislature
	Wisconsin State Capitol ca.1915
Overview
Legislative body	Wisconsin Legislature
Meeting place	Wisconsin State Capitol
Term	January 1, 1917 – January 6, 1919
Election	November 7, 1916
Senate
Members	33
Senate President	Edward Dithmar (R)
President pro tempore	Timothy Burke (R)
Party control	Republican
Assembly
Members	100
Assembly Speaker	Lawrence C. Whittet (R)
Party control	Republican
Sessions
Regular
Regular	January 10, 1917 – July 16, 1917
Special sessions
Feb. 1918 Spec.
Feb. 1918 Spec.	February 19, 1918 – March 9, 1918
Sep. 1918 Spec.	September 24, 1918 – September 25, 1918

The Fifty-Third Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 10, 1917, to July 16, 1917, in regular session, and re-convened in two special sessions in February and September 1918.

During this session, the new Wisconsin State Capitol was completed after 13 years of reconstruction following the 1904 fire. The official dedication ceremony was postponed until the end of World War I.

Senators representing even-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 even-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 7, 1916. Senators representing odd-numbered districts were serving the third and fourth year of a four-year term, having been elected in the general election of November 3, 1914.

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