12th Wisconsin Legislature

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12th Wisconsin Legislature
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Overview
Meeting place Wisconsin State Capitol
Term January 12, 1859 – January 11, 1860
Election November 2, 1858
Senate
Members 30
Senate President Erasmus D. Campbell (D)
President pro tempore Hiram H. Giles (R)
Party control Republican
Assembly
Members 97
Assembly Speaker William P. Lyon (R)
Party control Republican
Sessions
1st January 12, 1859 – March 21, 1859

The Eleventh Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 12, 1859, to March 21, 1859, in regular session.

Senators representing odd-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first year of a two-year term. Assembly members were elected to a one-year term. Assembly members and even-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 2, 1858. Senators representing even-numbered districts were serving the second year of their two-year term, having been elected in the general election held on November 3, 1857.[1]

Major events

Major legislation

Party summary

Senate

Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total
Democratic Ind. Republican Vacant
End of previous Legislature 12 0 18 30 0
1st Session 16 0 14 30 0
Final voting share 53% 0% 47%
Beginning of the next Legislature 0 30 0

Assembly

Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total
Democratic Ind. Republican Vacant
End of previous Legislature 44 0 53 97 0
Start of 1st Session 41 1 55 96 1
after January 17 40 56
after January 20 41 97 0
Final voting share 42% 0% 58%
Beginning of the next Legislature 97 0

Sessions

  • 1st Regular session: January 12, 1859 – March 21, 1859

Leaders

Senate

Assembly

Members

Senate

Members of the Wisconsin Senate for the Twelfth Wisconsin Legislature:

District Counties Senator Party
1 Sheboygan Robert H. Hotchkiss Democrat
2 Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawanaw Morgan Lewis Martin Democrat
3 Ozaukee Lion Silverman Democrat
4 Washington Densmore W. Maxon Democrat
5 Northern Milwaukee Cicero Comstock Republican
6 Southern Milwaukee Patrick Walsh Democrat
7 Racine Nicholas D. Fratt Democrat
8 Kenosha Samuel R. McClellan Republican
9 Adams, Juneau, Sauk Henry W. Curtis Republican
10 Waukesha Denison Worthington Republican
11 Eastern Dane William Robert Taylor Democrat
12 Walworth John W. Boyd Republican
13 Lafayette Philemon B. Simpson Democrat
14 Northern Jefferson William Chappell Democrat
15 Iowa, Richland Charles Rodolf Democrat
16 Grant Noah H. Virgin Republican
17 Western Rock Zebulon P. Burdick Republican
18 Eastern Rock Alden I. Bennett Republican
19 Manitowoc, Calumet Samuel H. Thurber Democrat
20 Fond du Lac Edward Pier Democrat
21 Winnebago Ganem W. Washburn Democrat
22 Dodge William E. Smith Republican
23 Southern Jefferson Enias D. Masters Republican
24 Green John H. Warren Republican
25 Columbia Moses M. Davis Republican
26 Western Dane Andrew Proudfit Democrat
27 Marathon, Portage, Waupaca, Waushara, Wood Luther Hanchett Republican
28 Burnett, Chippewa, Clark, Douglas, Dunn, La Pointe, Pierce, Polk, St. Croix Daniel Mears Democrat
29 Marquette M. W. Seely Republican
30 Bad Ax, Buffalo, Crawford, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Tremealeau William H. Tucker Democrat

Assembly

Members of the Assembly for the Twelfth Wisconsin Legislature:

Counties Representative Party
Adams, Juneau John Turner Republican
Ashland, Burnett, Douglas, La Pointe, Polk, St. Croix Moses S. Gibson, until January 17 Democrat
From January 17, Marcus W. McCracken Republican
Bad Ax, Crawford Thomas R. Tower Republican
Brown William Field, Jr. Democrat
Buffalo, Jackson, Trempealeau Jesse Bennett Republican
Calumet Harrison Carroll Hobart Democrat
Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Pierce Richard Dewhurst Republican
Columbia 1 Gysbert Van Steenwyk Republican
2 William M. Griswold Republican
3 John O. Jones Republican
Dane 1 William W. Blackman Republican
2 Adam Smith Democrat
3 John Keenan Democrat
4 Chester N. Waterbury Democrat
5 Harlow S. Orton Democrat
6 George Baldwin Smith Democrat
Dodge 1 Thomas Palmer Democrat
2 John C. Bishop Democrat
3 Waldo Lyon Republican
4 Cyrus S. Kneeland Republican
5 Lorenzo Merrill Republican
6 John Lowth Democrat
Door, Kewaunee, Oconto, Shawano Matthias Simon Democrat
Fond du Lac 1 Alvan E. Bovay Republican
2 Warren Whiting Republican
3 John C. Lewis Republican
4 Vacant until January 20
From January 20, O. Hugo Petters[note 1] Democrat
5 Silas C. Matteson Republican
Grant 1 George Broderick Democrat
2 James Wilson Seaton Democrat
3 Jesse Waldorf Republican
4 Hugh A. W. McNair Republican
5 Luther Basford Republican
Green 1 Albert H. Pierce Republican
2 Edmund A. West Republican
Iowa 1 Gardner C. Meigs Democrat
2 John Toay Republican
Jefferson 1 Alexander J. Craig Republican
2 George C. Smith Republican
3 Luther A. Cole Republican
4 Ferdinand Wagner Democrat
5 Sylvester J. Conklin Republican
Kenosha 1 George Bennett Republican
2 James C. McKisson Republican
La Crosse, Monroe Charles W. Marshall Republican
Lafayette 1 James S. Murphy Democrat
2 William M. McGranahan Democrat
3 David W. Kyle Democrat
Manitowoc 1 William Aldrich Republican
2 James B. Dunn Democrat
Marathon, Portage, Wood James S. Young Democrat
Marquette, Green Lake 1 Jesse Thomas Republican
2 James B. Ormsby Republican
Milwaukee 1 Edwin Palmer Republican
2 Charles J. Kern Democrat
3 Thomas H. Eviston Independent
4 James A. Swain Republican
5 William S. Cross Republican
6 Joseph Walter Democrat
7 Frederick Moskowitt Democrat
8 Jacob Beck Democrat
9 Edward Hasse Democrat
Outagamie Perry H. Smith Democrat
Ozaukee 1 John R. Bohan Democrat
2 Frederick W. Horn Democrat
Racine 1 William P. Lyon Republican
2 Leonard S. Van Vliet Republican
3 William Ballach Republican
4 Franklin E. Hoyt Democrat
Richland William Dixon Republican
Rock 1 Elisha L. Carpenter Republican
2 John P. Dickson Republican
3 William E. Wheeler Republican
4 Joseph K. P. Porter Republican
5 Edward Vincent Republican
Sauk 1 Nelson Wheeler Republican
2 Eli Otis Rudd Republican
Sheboygan 1 William N. Shafter Republican
2 James Little Democrat
3 Stephen D. Littlefield Democrat
Walworth 1 Reuben Rockwell Republican
2 Edward P. Cornick Republican
3 Newton S. Murphy Republican
4 Daniel Hooper Republican
Washington 1 Gustave Streckewald Democrat
2 James Vollmar Democrat
3 Phillip Zimmerman Democrat
Waukesha 1 Parker Sawyer Republican
2 William P. King Democrat
3 Andrew E. Elmore Democrat
4 Charles T. Deissner Democrat
5 Ira Blood Republican
Waupaca Warner C. Carr Democrat
Waushara Charles White Republican
Winnebago 1 Richard P. Eighme Democrat
2 John D. Rush Democrat
3 George W. Beckwith Republican

Employees

Senate

  • Chief Clerk: Hiram Bowen
    • Assistant Clerk: C. M. Cook
    • Engrossing Clerk: A. M. Thomson
    • Enrolling Clerk: C. T. Overton
    • Transcribing Clerk: G. M. O'Brien
  • Sergeant-at-Arms: Asa Kinney
    • Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: Jacob Low
  • Postmaster: E. G. Garner
    • Post Messenger: Garrit Mahony
  • Doorkeeper: D. C. Shelden
  • Messengers:
    • William W. Worthington
    • Dwight Allen

Assembly

  • Chief Clerk: L. H. D. Crane
    • Assistant Clerk: John S. Dean
    • Engrossing Clerk: George Burnside
    • Enrolling Clerk: George W. Stoner
    • Transcribing Clerk: Oliver Gibbs, Jr.
  • Sergeant-at-Arms: Emanuel Munk
    • Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: Joseph Gates
  • Postmaster: Sewall W. Smith
    • Assistant Postmaster: Cyrus Fertig
  • Doorkeeper: G. W. Munderloh
    • Assistant Doorkeeper: William Adams
  • Firemen:
    • F. Brown
    • N. L. Andrews
  • Messengers:
    • Cyrus Lanyon
    • John Ford
    • W. Howard Aldrich
    • Edward Livingston
    • Samuel Fernandez


References

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Notes

  1. ↑ S. K. Barnes was elected to this seat in the November 1858 general election, but died before inauguration. Petters was chosen in a special election held January 13, 1859.[2]

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