61st Wisconsin Legislature

61st Wisconsin Legislature
← 60th 62nd →
Wisconsin State Capitol ca.1915
Overview
Legislative body	Wisconsin Legislature
Meeting place	Wisconsin State Capitol
Term	January 2, 1933 – January 7, 1935
Election	November 8, 1932
Senate
Members	33
Senate President	Thomas J. O'Malley (D)
President pro tempore	Orland S. Loomis (R)
Party control	Republican
Assembly
Members	100
Assembly Speaker	Cornelius T. Young (D)
Party control	Democratic
Sessions
Regular January 11, 1933 – July 25, 1933
Special sessions
Dec. 1933 Spec. December 11, 1933 – February 3, 1934

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.^[1]

This was the first legislative term after the redistricting of the Senate and Assembly according to an act of the previous session—although there are barely any changes from the previous map. This was also the first legislative term since 1893–1894 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.^[1]