14th Wisconsin Legislature
| 14th Wisconsin Legislature | |||||
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
| Term | January 7, 1861 – January 6, 1862 | ||||
| Election | November 6, 1860 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 30 | ||||
| Senate President | Butler G. Noble (R) | ||||
| President pro tempore | Alden I. Bennett (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 97 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | Amasa Cobb (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
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The Fourteenth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 9, 1861, to April 17, 1861, in regular session. The legislature re-convened in special session from May 15, 1861, to May 27, 1861, at the request of Wisconsin Governor Alexander Randall, to approve funding for a brigade of volunteers for the American Civil War.
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 6, 1860. 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 8, 1859.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican Alexander Randall, of Waukesha County, serving the second year of his second two-year term, having won re-election in the 1859 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.