35th Wisconsin Legislature | |||||
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![]() Wisconsin State Capitol, 1863 | |||||
Overview | |||||
Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
Term | January 2, 1882 – January 1, 1883 | ||||
Election | November 8, 1881 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 33 | ||||
Senate President | Sam S. Fifield (R) | ||||
President pro tempore | George B. Burrows (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican | ||||
Assembly | |||||
Members | 100 | ||||
Assembly Speaker | Franklin L. Gilson (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican | ||||
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The Thirty-Fifth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 11, 1882, to March 31, 1882, in regular session.[1]
Senators representing even-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first year of a two-year term. Assembly members were elected to a one-year term. Assembly members and even-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 8, 1881. Senators representing odd-numbered districts were serving the second year of their two-year term, having been elected in the general election held on November 2, 1880.[1]
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican Jeremiah M. Rusk, of Vernon County, serving the first year of a two-year term, having won election in the 1881 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.