| 23rd Wisconsin Legislature | |||||
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 Wisconsin State Capitol, 1863 | |||||
| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
| Term | January 3, 1870 – January 2, 1871 | ||||
| Election | November 2, 1869 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | Thaddeus C. Pound (R) | ||||
| President pro tempore | David Taylor (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 100 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | James M. Bingham (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
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The Twenty-Third Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 12, 1870, to March 17, 1870, in regular session.
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 2, 1869. 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 3, 1868.[1]
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican Lucius Fairchild, of Dane County, serving the first year of his third two-year term, having won re-election in the 1869 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.
- ^ Heg, J. E., ed. (1882). "Annals of the Legislature" (PDF). The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 221–223. Retrieved November 7, 2021.