59th 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 7, 1929 – January 5, 1931 | ||||
| Election | November 6, 1928 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | Henry Huber (R) | ||||
| President pro tempore | Oscar Morris (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 100 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | Charles B. Perry (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
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The Fifty-Ninth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 9, 1929, to September 20, 1929, in regular 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 6, 1928. 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 2, 1926.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican Walter J. Kohler Sr., of Sheboygan County, serving a two-year term, having won election in the 1928 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.