43rd Wisconsin Legislature
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Wisconsin State Capitol, 1887 | |||||
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
| Term | January 4, 1897 – January 2, 1899 | ||||
| Election | November 3, 1896 | ||||
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| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | Emil Baensch (R) | ||||
| President pro tempore | Lyman W. Thayer (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 100 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | George A. Buckstaff (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
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The Forty-Third Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 13, 1897, to April 21, 1897, in regular session. They also convened in a special session from August 17 through August 20, 1897.
This was the first legislative session after the redistricting of the Senate and Assembly according to an act of the previous session.
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 3, 1896. 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 6, 1894.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican Edward Scofield, of Oconto County, serving a two-year term, having won election in the 1896 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.