75th Wisconsin Legislature | |||||
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
Term | January 2, 1961 – January 7, 1963 | ||||
Election | November 8, 1960 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 33 | ||||
Senate President | Warren P. Knowles (R) | ||||
President pro tempore | Frank E. Panzer (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican | ||||
Assembly | |||||
Members | 100 | ||||
Assembly Speaker | David Blanchard (R) (until Dec. 23, 1962) | ||||
Speaker pro tempore | Willis J. Hutnik (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican | ||||
Sessions | |||||
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The Seventy-Fifth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 11, 1961, to January 9, 1963, in regular session. This was the first time that the legislative session was kept open for the entire term of the legislature.[1]
This session represents the second time the Legislature failed to pass a redistricting act on schedule. Ultimately, the legislature and governor would not be able to agree on a redistricting act in the 1960s, and for the first time in state history, the maps would be drawn by the Wisconsin Supreme Court (in 1964).
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, 1960. 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, 1958.[1]