13th Wisconsin Legislature
The Thirteenth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 11, 1860, to April 2, 1860, in regular session.
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| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
| Term | January 11, 1860 – January 9, 1861 | ||||
| Election | November 8, 1859 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 30 | ||||
| Senate President | Butler G. Noble (R) | ||||
| President pro tempore | Moses M. Davis (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 97 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | William P. Lyon (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
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Senators representing even-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 odd-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 8, 1859. Senators representing odd-numbered districts were serving the second year of their two-year term, having been elected in the general election held on November 2, 1858.[1]
Major events
- January 2, 1860: Governor Alexander Randall was sworn in for his 2nd term as Governor of Wisconsin.
- January 7, 1860: Assemblymember Andrew Eble, representing southwest Milwaukee County, died in a hunting accident.
- January 17, 1860: Assemblymember Daniel C. Jenne, representing Outagamie County, resigned his seat after it was demonstrated that he had actually lost his election to Milo Coles.
- January 23, 1860: Theodore Hartung won a special election to fill the Assembly vacancy created by Andrew Eble's death.
- November 6, 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the United States.
- December 24, 1860: Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union issued by the government of South Carolina.
Major legislation
- March 27, 1860: Act to organize the county of Ashland, 1860 Act 211
- March 28, 1860: Joint Resolution relative to grants of public lands to actual settlers and to passage of "The Homestead Bill," 1860 Joint Resolution 1
- March 30, 1860: Act to establish an official State paper, 1860 Act 240. Established the Wisconsin State Journal as the official state paper.
- March 30, 1860: Joint Resolution objecting to any change of the Naturalization Law, 1860 Joint Resolution 2
- March 31, 1860: Joint Resolution in relation to the Homestead Bill in Congress, 1860 Joint Resolution 3
Party summary
Senate
| Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) |
Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Republican | Vacant | |||
| End of previous Legislature | 16 | 14 | 30 | 0 | |
| 1st Session | 13 | 17 | 30 | 0 | |
| Final voting share | 43% | 57% | |||
| Beginning of the next Legislature | 8 | 22 | 30 | 0 | |
Assembly
| Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) |
Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Ind. | Republican | Vacant | ||
| End of previous Legislature | 41 | 1 | 55 | 97 | 0 |
| Start of 1st Session | 37 | 1 | 59 | 97 | 0 |
| after January 7 | 36 | 96 | 1 | ||
| after January 17 | 37 | 58 | 97 | ||
| after February 2 | 38 | 0 | |||
| Final voting share | 39% | 1% | 60% | ||
| Beginning of the next Legislature | 27 | 0 | 70 | 97 | 0 |
Sessions
- 1st Regular session: January 11, 1860 – April 2, 1860
Leaders
Senate
- President of the Senate: Butler G. Noble, Lieutenant Governor
- President pro tempore: Moses M. Davis
Assembly
- Speaker of the Assembly: William P. Lyon
Members
Senate
Members of the Wisconsin Senate for the Thirteenth Wisconsin Legislature:[2]
| District | Counties | Senator | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheboygan | Robert H. Hotchkiss | Democrat |
| 2 | Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawanaw | Edward Decker | Democrat |
| 3 | Ozaukee | Frederick Hilgen | Democrat |
| 4 | Washington | Densmore W. Maxon | Democrat |
| 5 | Northern Milwaukee | Cicero Comstock | Republican |
| 6 | Southern Milwaukee | Michael J. Egan | Democrat |
| 7 | Racine | Nicholas D. Fratt | Democrat |
| 8 | Kenosha | George Bennett | Republican |
| 9 | Adams, Juneau, Sauk | Henry W. Curtis | Republican |
| 10 | Waukesha | Denison Worthington | Republican |
| 11 | Eastern Dane | William Robert Taylor | Democrat |
| 12 | Walworth | Oscar F. Bartlett | Republican |
| 13 | Lafayette | Philemon B. Simpson | Democrat |
| 14 | Northern Jefferson | Charles R. Gill | Republican |
| 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 | Elihu Phillips | Republican |
| 21 | Winnebago | Ganem W. Washburn | Democrat |
| 22 | Dodge | Benjamin Ferguson | Republican |
| 23 | Southern Jefferson | Enias D. Masters | Republican |
| 24 | Green | John W. Stewart | Republican |
| 25 | Columbia | Moses M. Davis | Republican |
| 26 | Western Dane | John B. Sweat | Democrat |
| 27 | Marathon, Portage, Waupaca, Waushara, Wood | Luther Hanchett | Republican |
| 28 | Burnett, Chippewa, Clark, Douglas, Dunn, La Pointe, Pierce, Polk, St. Croix | Charles B. Cox | Democrat |
| 29 | Marquette | M. W. Seely | Republican |
| 30 | Bad Ax, Buffalo, Crawford, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Tremealeau | Buel E. Hutchinson | Republican |
Assembly
Members of the Assembly for the Thirteenth Wisconsin Legislature:[3]
| Counties | Representative | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams, Juneau | Albert Wood | Republican | |
| Ashland, Burnett, Douglas, La Pointe, Polk, St. Croix | Asaph Whittlesey | Republican | |
| Bad Ax, Crawford | William C. McMichael | Republican | |
| Brown | John C. Neville | Democrat | |
| Buffalo, Jackson, Trempealeau | Romanzo Bunn | Republican | |
| Calumet | Asaph Green | Democrat | |
| Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Pierce | William P. Bartlett | Republican | |
| Columbia | 1 | Henry B. Munn | Democrat |
| 2 | William M. Griswold | Republican | |
| 3 | Marcus Barden | Republican | |
| Dane | 1 | William W. Blackman | Republican |
| 2 | Eleazor Grover, Jr. | Democrat | |
| 3 | John Beath | Democrat | |
| 4 | Francis Fischer | Republican | |
| 5 | Leonard J. Farwell | Republican | |
| 6 | Cassius Fairchild | Democrat | |
| Dodge | 1 | Elva Simpson | Democrat |
| 2 | Max Bachhuber | Democrat | |
| 3 | Jonathan W. Nash | Republican | |
| 4 | Stoddard Judd | Republican | |
| 5 | David S. Ordway | Republican | |
| 6 | Harvey C. Griffin | Democrat | |
| Door, Kewaunee, Oconto, Shawano | John Wiley | Democrat | |
| Fond du Lac | 1 | Alvan E. Bovay | Republican |
| 2 | Benjamin H. Bettis | Republican | |
| 3 | John C. Lewis | Republican | |
| 4 | John Boyd | Democrat | |
| 5 | Wolcott T. Brooks | Republican | |
| Grant | 1 | James K. Spottswood | Republican |
| 2 | James Wilson Seaton | Democrat | |
| 3 | Jonathan Baker Moore | Republican | |
| 4 | Samuel F. Clise | Republican | |
| 5 | George Ballantine | Republican | |
| Green | 1 | Walter S. Wescott | Republican |
| 2 | Martin Mitchell | Republican | |
| Green Lake | James W. Burt | Republican | |
| Iowa | 1 | Gardner C. Meigs | Democrat |
| 2 | Amasa Cobb | Republican | |
| Jefferson | 1 | Norman Horton | Republican |
| 2 | Charles Hammarquist | Republican | |
| 3 | Heber Smith | Republican | |
| 4 | Herman H. Winter | Democratic Republican | |
| 5 | John Sutton | Democrat | |
| Kenosha | 1 | Meredith Howland | Republican |
| 2 | Salmon Upson | Republican | |
| La Crosse, Monroe | John J. McKay | Republican | |
| Lafayette | 1 | Samuel Cole | Democrat |
| 2 | Thomas C. L. Mackay | Democrat | |
| 3 | Elijah C. Townsend | Democrat | |
| Manitowoc | 1 | Joseph Rankin | Democrat |
| 2 | Henry Mulholand | Democrat | |
| Marathon, Portage, Wood | John Phillips | Republican | |
| Marquette | Orrin W. Bow | Democrat | |
| Milwaukee | 1 | Henry L. Palmer | Democrat |
| 2 | Leonard Schmidtner | Democrat | |
| 3 | Edward Keogh | Democrat | |
| 4 | Edward D. Holton | Republican | |
| 5 | Edward G. Hayden | Republican | |
| 6 | Matthias Humann | Democrat | |
| 7 | Patrick Dockry | Democrat | |
| 8 | John Ruan | Democrat | |
| 9 | Andrew Eble Until January 7 | Democrat | |
| From February 2 Theodore Hartung | Democrat | ||
| Outagamie | Daniel C. Jenne Until January 17 | Republican | |
| From January 17 Milo Coles | Democrat | ||
| Ozaukee | 1 | Anthony Ahlhauser | Democrat |
| 2 | Frederick W. Horn | Douglas Democrat | |
| Racine | 1 | William P. Lyon | Republican |
| 2 | Lewis L. Baldwin | Republican | |
| 3 | Knud Langeland | Republican | |
| 4 | Frederick A. Weage | Republican | |
| Richland | Jeremiah L. Jackson | Democrat | |
| Rock | 1 | William E. Wheeler | Republican |
| 2 | Thomas C. Westby | Republican | |
| 3 | John P. Dickson | Republican | |
| 4 | Jeremiah Johnson | Republican | |
| 5 | George Golden | Republican | |
| Sauk | 1 | Ephraim W. Young | Republican |
| 2 | Edward Sumner | Republican | |
| Sheboygan | 1 | James T. Kingsbury | Democrat |
| 2 | Erastus W. Stannard | Republican | |
| 3 | Oran Rogers | Republican | |
| Walworth | 1 | Clarkson Miller | Republican |
| 2 | John DeWolf | Republican | |
| 3 | Anderson Whiting | Republican | |
| 4 | James Child | Republican | |
| Washington | 1 | George Kiefer | Democrat |
| 2 | Matthias Altenhofen | Democrat | |
| 3 | Tisdale E. Vander Cook | Republican | |
| Waukesha | 1 | Albert Alden | Republican |
| 2 | William R. Hesk | Republican | |
| 3 | Andrew E. Elmore | Democrat | |
| 4 | Benjamin Hunkins | Democrat | |
| 5 | Robert C. Robertson | Republican | |
| Waupaca | Melvin B. Patchin | Democrat | |
| Waushara | Jacob S. Bugh | Republican | |
| Winnebago | 1 | Gabriel Bouck | Democrat |
| 2 | George B. Goodwin | Republican | |
| 3 | George S. Barnum | Republican | |
Employees
Senate
- Chief Clerk: John H. Warren[2]
- Assistant Clerk: Willard Merrill
- Engrossing Clerk: J. B. Selby
- Enrolling Clerk: G. M. Powell
- Transcribing Clerk: A. L. Burke
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Asa Kinney
- Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: S. S. Keyes
- Postmaster: James L. Wilder
- Post Messenger: Garret J. Mahoney
- Doorkeeper: Henry M. Higbee
- Fireman: Franz G. L. Struve
- Messengers:
- William W. Worthington
- Walter C. Wyman
- Sylvester Mygatt
Assembly
- Chief Clerk: L. H. D. Crane[3]
- Assistant Clerk: John S. Dean
- Engrossing Clerk: R. S. Kingman
- Enrolling Clerk: Thaddeus C. Pound
- Transcribing Clerk: E. Gilbert Jackson
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Joseph Gates
- Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: A. Armstrong
- Postmaster: Marcus Otterbourg
- Assistant Postmaster: Chancey B. Valentine
- Doorkeeper: William C. Lessure
- Assistant Doorkeeper: John T. Taylor
- Firemen:
- Nelson C. Andrews
- Stephen S. Woodward
- Phillip Cary
- Robert R. Jores
- Messengers:
- Samuel H. Fernandez
- Carlton C. Hart
- Edward Livingston
- William H. Barnes
- George W. Yout
- William H. Bennett
References
- "Annals of the legislature". The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin 1882 (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 199–200.
- "Statistical list of members of the Senate of the state of Wisconsin". A manual of customs, precedents, and forms, in use in the Assembly of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. 1860. pp. 12–13. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- "Statistical list of the members and officers of the Assembly of Wisconsin". A manual of customs, precedents, and forms, in use in the Assembly of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. 1860. pp. 7–11. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
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