87th Wisconsin Legislature
| 87th Wisconsin Legislature | |||||||||||||||||
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Wisconsin State Capitol | |||||||||||||||||
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||||||||||||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||||||||||||||
| Term | January 7, 1985 – January 5, 1987 | ||||||||||||||||
| Election | November 6, 1984 | ||||||||||||||||
| Senate | |||||||||||||||||
| Members | 33 | ||||||||||||||||
| Senate President | Fred Risser (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| Party control | Democratic | ||||||||||||||||
| Assembly | |||||||||||||||||
| Members | 99 | ||||||||||||||||
| Assembly Speaker | Thomas A. Loftus (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| Speaker pro tempore | David Clarenbach (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| Party control | Democratic | ||||||||||||||||
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The Eighty-Seventh Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 7, 1985, to January 5, 1987, in regular session, and also convened in eight special sessions.
This was the first legislative session after the redistricting of the Senate and Assembly according to an act of the previous 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, 1984. 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, 1982.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Democrat Tony Earl, of Marathon County, serving the second two years of a four-year term, having won election in the 1982 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.