65th Wisconsin Legislature
| 65th Wisconsin Legislature | |||||
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 Wisconsin State Capitol ca.1915 | |||||
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
| Term | January 6, 1941 – January 4, 1943 | ||||
| Election | November 5, 1940 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | Walter S. Goodland (R) | ||||
| President pro tempore | Conrad Shearer (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 100 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | Vernon W. Thomson (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
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The Sixty-Fifth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 8, 1941, to June 6, 1941, in regular session.[1]
This legislative term coincided with the United States entrance into World War II. This session also represents the first time the Legislature failed to pass a redistricting act on schedule. Ultimately, no redistricting would occur in Wisconsin in the 1940s.
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 5, 1940. 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 8, 1938.[1]
Major events
[edit]- January 6, 1941:
- Second inauguration of Julius P. Heil as Governor of Wisconsin.
- At his State of the Union address, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented his Four Freedoms as fundamental human rights.
- January 20, 1941: Third inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States.
- January 21, 1941: The keel of the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was laid down at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
- March 11, 1941: The Lend-Lease Act was signed into law by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- April 1, 1941: Wisconsin voters ratified an amendment to the state constitution allowing real estate taxes to be paid in installments.
- May 27, 1941:
- U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed an unlimited national emergency.
- The Germany Navy battleship Bismarck was scuttled and sunk after being damaged in battle with British Navy off the coast of France.
- June 14, 1941: All German and Italian assets in the United States were frozen.
- June 22, 1941: Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union and breaking their non-aggression pact.
- July 1, 1941: Commercial television was authorized in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission.
- July 8, 1941: Wisconsin U.S. representative Stephen Bolles (WI-01) died in office.
- August 14, 1941: The United States and United Kingdom issued the Atlantic Charter, describing their goals for a postwar world.
- October 30, 1941: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt approved a $1 billion lend–lease aide package for the Soviet Union (over $20 billion adjusted for inflation to 2023).
- December 7, 1941: Naval forces of the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States Navy at Pearl Harbor.
- December 8, 1941: The United States declared war on Japan.
- January 7, 1942: The German Army abandoned their attempt to take Moscow after a three-month battle.
- January 20, 1942: At the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, officers of the Nazi German government decided that the Final Solution to the "Jewish Problem" would be deportations to extermination camps.
- March 9, 1942: The first prisoners of war arrived at Wisconsin's Fort McCoy.
- March 18, 1942: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority.
- April 26, 1942: The German Reichstag met for the last time, dissolving and declaring Adolf Hitler supreme judge of the German people.
- May 8, 1942: Imperial Japanese forces completed the conquest of the Philippines, taking roughly 100,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war.
- June 4, 1942: United States Navy aviators sank all four of Japan's fleet carriers present at the Battle of Midway.
- November 3, 1942: Orland Steen Loomis (P) elected Governor of Wisconsin.
- November 8, 1942: About 100,000 men of the United States and allied nations under the command of Dwight D. Eisenhower landed at various points along the coast of North Africa.
- November 9, 1942: German Army forces controlled roughly 90% of the city of Stalingrad, representing the closest the Germans would come to capturing the city.
- December 2, 1942: At a lab below Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi created the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction as part of the Manhattan Project.
- December 7, 1942: Wisconsin governor-elect Orland Steen Loomis died of a heart attack.
- December 11, 1942: Wisconsin Supreme Court justice George B. Nelson resigned.
- December 12, 1942: Wisconsin governor Julius P. Heil appointed Elmer E. Barlow to the Wisconsin Supreme Court to succeed the retired justice George B. Nelson.
- December 29, 1942: In a unanimous decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the lieutenant governor-elect, Walter S. Goodland, would be sworn in as the next governor in place of the deceased governor-elect.
Major legislation
[edit]- 1941 Joint Resolution 18: Second legislative passage of a proposed amendment to the state constitution to allow payment of real estate taxes in installments. This amendment was ratified by voters at the April 1941 election.
Party summary
[edit]Senate summary
[edit]
Democratic: 3 seats
Progressive: 6 seats
Republican: 23 seats
Vacant: 1 seat
| Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)
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Total | ||||
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| Dem. | Prog. | Rep. | Vacant | ||
| End of previous Legislature | 5 | 11 | 15 | 31 | 2 |
| Start of Reg. Session | 3 | 6 | 24 | 33 | 0 |
| From Feb. 12, 1941[note 1] | 23 | 32 | 1 | ||
| Final voting share | 9.38% | 18.75% | 71.88% | ||
| Beginning of the next Legislature | 4 | 6 | 23 | 33 | 0 |
Assembly summary
[edit]
Democratic: 15 seats
Progressive: 24 seats
Republican: 61 seats
| Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)
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Total | ||||
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| Dem. | Prog. | Rep. | Vacant | ||
| End of previous Legislature | 14 | 30 | 52 | 96 | 4 |
| Start of Reg. Session | 15 | 24 | 61 | 100 | 0 |
| From Apr. 15, 1941[note 2] | 23 | 99 | 1 | ||
| From Sep. 30, 1941[note 3] | 14 | 98 | 2 | ||
| From Feb. 24, 1942[note 4] | 22 | 97 | 3 | ||
| From Nov. 21, 1942[note 5] | 60 | 96 | 4 | ||
| Final voting share | 14.58% | 22.92% | 62.5% | ||
| Beginning of the next Legislature | 14 | 13 | 73 | 100 | 0 |
Sessions
[edit]- Regular session: January 8, 1941 – June 6, 1941
Leaders
[edit]Senate leadership
[edit]- President of the Senate: Walter S. Goodland (R)
- President pro tempore: Conrad Shearer (R–Kenosha)
- Majority leader: Maurice Coakley (R–Beloit)
- Minority leader: Cornelius T. Young (D–Milwaukee)
Assembly leadership
[edit]- Speaker of the Assembly: Vernon W. Thomson (R–Richland Center)
- Majority leader: Mark Catlin Jr. (R–Appleton)
- Minority leaders:
Members
[edit]Members of the Senate
[edit]Members of the Senate for the Sixty-Fifth Wisconsin Legislature:[2]
Democratic: 3 seats
Progressive: 6 seats
Republican: 23 seats
Vacant: 1 seat
Members of the Assembly
[edit]Members of the Assembly for the Sixty-Fifth Wisconsin Legislature:[2]
Democratic: 15 seats
Progressive: 24 seats
Republican: 61 seats
Committees
[edit]Senate committees
[edit]- Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Labor – F. R. Fisher, chair
- Senate Standing Committee on Committees – M. Coakley, chair
- Senate Standing Committee on Contingent Expenditures – T. G. Brown, chair
- Senate Standing Committee on Corporations and Taxation – M. T. Murray, chair
- Senate Standing Committee on Education and Public Welfare – W. A. Freehoff, chair
- Senate Standing Committee on Highways – M. Mack, chair
- Senate Standing Committee on the Judiciary – J. Peters, chair
- Senate Standing Committee on Legislative Procedure – C. Shearer, chair
- Senate Standing Committee on State and Local Government – R. Schlabach, chair
Assembly committees
[edit]- Assembly Standing Committee on Agriculture – O. R. Rice, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce and Manufactures – B. M. Engebretson, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Conservation – F. N. Graass, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Contingent Expenditures – E. Grassman, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Education – W. H. Goldthorpe, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Elections – R. H. Burns, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Engrossed Bills – H. Youngblood, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Enrolled Bills – C. M. Nelson, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Excise and Fees – E. F. Hilker, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Highways – D. C. McDowell, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Insurance and Banking – J. C. McBride, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on the Judiciary – M. Catlin, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Labor – A. R. Ludvigsen, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Municipalities – L. T. Niemuth, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Printing – C. W. Fowell, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Public Welfare – E. W. Hanson, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Revision – C. F. Westfahl, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Rules – M. Catlin, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on State Affairs – A. E. Austin, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Taxation – E. A. Heden, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Third Reading – W. F. Miller, chair
- Assembly Standing Committee on Transportation – D. I. Hammergren, chair
Joint committees
[edit]- Joint Standing Committee on Finance – O. Mueller (Sen.) & P. B. McIntyre (Asm.), co-chairs
Employees
[edit]Senate employees
[edit]- Chief Clerk: Lawrence R. Larsen[3]
- Assistant Chief Clerk: Thomas M. Donahue
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Emil A. Hartman
- Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: Winford H. Johnson
Assembly employees
[edit]- Chief Clerk: Arthur L. May[3]
- Assistant Chief Clerk: Edward J. Walden
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Norris J. Kellman
- Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: Phillip K. Lalor
Notes
[edit]- ^ Republican Carl Lovelace (17th District) died.
- ^ Progressive Dougald D. Kennedy (Polk County) died.
- ^ Democrat Nicholas J. Bichler (Ozaukee County) resigned.
- ^ Progressive Ben Rubin (Milwaukee County) died.
- ^ Republican John Egan (Manitowoc County) died.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Barish, Lawrence S.; Lemanski, Lynn, eds. (2021). "Historical Lists" (PDF). State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2021–2022 (Report). Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. pp. 468, 471, 475, 479–480. ISBN 978-1-7333817-1-0. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
- ^ a b Ohm, Howard F.; Bryhan, Leone G., eds. (1942). "Members of the Legislature". The Wisconsin Blue Book 1942 (Report). Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library. pp. 23–70. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ a b Ohm, Howard F.; Bryhan, Leone G., eds. (1942). "The State Government: Legislative Branch". The Wisconsin Blue Book 1942 (Report). Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library. pp. 257-. Retrieved August 6, 2023.