65th 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 6, 1941 – January 4, 1943 | ||||
| Election | November 5, 1940 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | Walter S. Goodland (R) | ||||
| President pro tempore | Conrad Shearer (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 100 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | Vernon W. Thomson (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
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The Sixty-Fifth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 8, 1941, to June 6, 1941, in regular session.
This legislative term coincided with the United States entrance into World War II. This session also represents the first time the Legislature failed to pass a redistricting act on schedule. Ultimately, no redistricting would occur in Wisconsin in the 1940s.
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 5, 1940. 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 8, 1938.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican Julius P. Heil, of Milwaukee County, serving his second two-year term, having won re-election in the 1940 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.