The 1848 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held in the 1st Wisconsin Legislature on June 8, 1848. This was the first U.S. Senate election held in Wisconsin after it was admitted to the Union on May 29, 1848. Former Wisconsin Territory legislator Isaac P. Walker and former Wisconsin Territory governor Henry Dodge were elected to Wisconsin's Class 3 and Class 1 U.S. Senate seats, respectively, on a single ballot in which each Wisconsin legislator voted for two candidates.[1]
In the 1848 legislative term, Democrats held large majorities in both chambers of the Wisconsin Legislature, so had more than enough votes to elect two Democratic United States senators.
