61st Wisconsin Legislature

The Sixty-First Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 11, 1933, to July 25, 1933, in regular session, and reconvened in a special session from December 11, 1933, to February 3, 1934.

61st Wisconsin Legislature
60th 62nd
Wisconsin State Capitol ca.1915
Overview
Legislative bodyWisconsin Legislature
Meeting placeWisconsin State Capitol
TermJanuary 2, 1933 January 7, 1935
ElectionNovember 8, 1932
Senate
Members33
Senate PresidentThomas J. O'Malley (D)
President pro temporeOrland S. Loomis (R)
Party controlRepublican
Assembly
Members100
Assembly SpeakerCornelius T. Young (D)
Party controlDemocratic
Sessions
RegularJanuary 11, 1933 July 25, 1933
Special sessions
Dec. 1933 Spec.December 11, 1933 February 3, 1934

This was the first legislative term after the redistricting of the Senate and Assembly according to an act of the previous sessionalthough there are barely any changes from the previous map. This was also the first legislative term since 18931894 in which the Democratic Party of Wisconsin held a majority of one of the chambers. This session also coincided with the formal schism of the Wisconsin Progressive Party from the Republican Party of Wisconsin. It was the beginning of a major political realignment in the state.

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 8, 1932. 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 4, 1930.

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