97th Wisconsin Legislature
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||||||
| Term | January 3, 2005 – January 1, 2007 | ||||||||
| Election | November 2, 2004 | ||||||||
| Senate | |||||||||
| Members | 33 | ||||||||
| Senate President | Alan Lasee (R) | ||||||||
| President pro tempore | David Zien (R) | ||||||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||||||
| Assembly | |||||||||
| Members | 99 | ||||||||
| Assembly Speaker | John Gard (R) | ||||||||
| Speaker pro tempore | Stephen Freese (R) | ||||||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||||||
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The Ninety-Seventh Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 3, 2005, to January 3, 2007, in regular session, and held two concurrent special sessions in January 2005 and February 2006, and two extraordinary sessions in July 2005 and April 2006.
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 2, 2004. Senators representing odd-numbered districts were serving the third and fourth year of their four-year term, having been elected in the general election of November 5, 2002.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Democrat Jim Doyle, of Dane County, serving the second two years of a four-year term, having won election in the 2002 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.