81st Wisconsin Legislature | |||||||
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Overview | |||||||
Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||||
Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||||
Term | January 1, 1973 – January 6, 1975 | ||||||
Election | November 7, 1972 | ||||||
Senate | |||||||
Members | 33 | ||||||
Senate President | Martin J. Schreiber (D) | ||||||
President pro tempore | Robert P. Knowles (R) | ||||||
Party control | Republican | ||||||
Assembly | |||||||
Members | 99 | ||||||
Assembly Speaker | Norman C. Anderson (D) | ||||||
Speaker pro tempore | Joseph Sweda (D) | ||||||
Party control | Democratic | ||||||
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The Eighty-First Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 1, 1973, to January 6, 1975, in regular session, and also convened in three special sessions.[1]
This was the first legislative session after the redistricting of the Senate and Assembly according to an act of the previous session. This was also the first legislative session under the current legislative configuration, with 99 members of the Assembly and 33 state senators, with each senate district comprising three assembly districts.
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, 1972. 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, 1970.[1]