62nd 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, 1935 – January 4, 1937 | ||||
| Election | November 6, 1934 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | Thomas J. O'Malley (D) (died May 27, 1936) | ||||
| President pro tempore | Harry W. Bolens (D) | ||||
| Party control | Democratic | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 100 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | Jorge W. Carow (P) (died Nov. 5, 1936) | ||||
| Party control | Progressive | ||||
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The Sixty-Second Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 9, 1935, to September 27, 1935, in regular session.
This was the first legislative term with a formal split between Progressive and Republican caucuses. It was also the first term since the 1893–1894 term in which the Republicans controlled neither house of the Legislature.
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 6, 1934. 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 8, 1932.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Progressive Philip La Follette, of Dane County, serving his second non-consecutive two-year term, having won election in the 1934 Wisconsin gubernatorial election. He previously served as governor from 1931 to 1933.