89th Wisconsin Legislature
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
| Term | January 2, 1989 – January 7, 1991 | ||||
| Election | November 8, 1988 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | Fred Risser (D) | ||||
| Party control | Democratic | ||||
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| Members | 99 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | Thomas A. Loftus (D) | ||||
| Speaker pro tempore | David Clarenbach (D) | ||||
| Party control | Democratic | ||||
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The Eighty-Ninth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 3, 1989, to January 7, 1991, in regular session, and also convened in two special sessions.
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 8, 1988. 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 4, 1986.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican Tommy Thompson, of Juneau County, serving the second two years of a four-year term, having won election in the 1986 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.