63rd Wisconsin Legislature

63rd Wisconsin Legislature
63rd Wisconsin Legislature
	Wisconsin State Capitol ca.1915
Overview
Legislative body	Wisconsin Legislature
Meeting place	Wisconsin State Capitol
Term	January 4, 1937 – January 2, 1939
Election	November 3, 1936
Senate
Members	33
Senate President	Henry Gunderson (P) (resigned Oct. 16, 1937); Herman Ekern (P) (from May 16, 1938);
President pro tempore	Walter J. Rush (P)
Party control	Progressive
Assembly
Members	100
Assembly Speaker	Paul Alfonsi (P)
Party control	Progressive
Sessions
Regular
Regular	January 13, 1937 – July 2, 1937
Special sessions
Sep. 1937 Spec.
Sep. 1937 Spec.	September 15, 1937 – October 16, 1937

The Sixty-Third Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 13, 1937, to July 2, 1937, in regular session, and reconvened in a special session from September 15, 1937, to October 16, 1937.

This was the high water mark for the power of the Wisconsin Progressive Party, as they controlled both chambers of the Legislature and the Governor's office.

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 3, 1936. 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 6, 1934.

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