5th Wisconsin Legislature
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Wisconsin State Capitol, 1855 | |||||
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
| Term | January 5, 1852 – January 3, 1853 | ||||
| Election | November 4, 1851 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 19 | ||||
| Senate President | Timothy Burns | ||||
| President pro tempore | Eliab B. Dean Jr. | ||||
| Party control | Democratic | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 66 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | James McMillan Shafter | ||||
| Party control | Whig | ||||
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The Fifth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 14, 1852, to April 19, 1852, in regular session. Senators representing even-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first year of a two-year term. Assemblymembers were elected to a one-year term. Assemblymembers and even-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 4, 1851. Senators representing odd-numbered districts were serving the second year of their two-year term, having been elected in the general election held on November 5, 1850.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Whig Leonard J. Farwell, of Dane County, serving the first year of a two-year term, having won election in the 1851 Wisconsin gubernatorial election. He was Wisconsin's only Whig governor.