44th 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 2, 1899 – January 7, 1901 | ||||
| Election | November 8, 1898 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | Jesse Stone (R) | ||||
| President pro tempore | Lyman W. Thayer (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 100 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | George H. Ray (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
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The Forty-Fourth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 11, 1899, to May 4, 1899, in regular session.
Senators representing odd-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 odd-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 8, 1898. Senators representing even-numbered districts were serving the third and fourth year of a four-year term, having been elected in the general election of November 3, 1896.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican Edward Scofield, of Oconto County, serving his second two-year term, having won re-election in the 1898 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.