28th Wisconsin Legislature | |||||
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![]() Wisconsin State Capitol, 1863 | |||||
Overview | |||||
Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
Term | January 4, 1875 – January 3, 1876 | ||||
Election | November 3, 1874 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 33 | ||||
Senate President | Charles D. Parker (D) | ||||
President pro tempore | Henry D. Barron (R) | ||||
Party control | Republican | ||||
Assembly | |||||
Members | 100 | ||||
Assembly Speaker | Frederick W. Horn (IR) | ||||
Party control | Republican | ||||
Sessions | |||||
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The Twenty-Eighth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 13, 1875, to March 6, 1875, in regular session.
Senators representing odd-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 odd-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 3, 1874. Senators representing even-numbered districts were serving the second year of their two-year term, having been elected in the general election held on November 4, 1873.[1]
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Democrat William Robert Taylor, of Dane County, serving the second year of a two-year term, having won election in the 1873 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.