17th Wisconsin Legislature

The Seventeenth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 13, 1864, to April 4, 1864, in regular session.

17th Wisconsin Legislature
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Wisconsin State Capitol, 1863
Overview
Legislative bodyWisconsin Legislature
Meeting placeWisconsin State Capitol
TermJanuary 1, 1864 – January 1, 1865
ElectionNovember 3, 1863
Senate
Members33
Senate PresidentWyman Spooner (U)
President pro temporeSmith S. Wilkinson (U)
Party controlRepublican
Assembly
Members99
Assembly SpeakerWilliam W. Field (U)
Party controlRepublican
Sessions
1stJanuary 13, 1864 – April 4, 1864

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, 1863. 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, 1862.[1]

Major events

Major legislation
  • February 19, 1864: Act to organize the county of Burnett, and locate the county seat thereof, 1864 Act 74
  • February 26, 1864: Joint Resolution relative to the extension of time for the payment of government bounties to volunteers, 1864 Joint Resolution 2
  • March 5, 1864: Joint Resolution relative to the vigorous prosecution of the war, the duty of congress and the people, tendering thanks to the army and navy, and suggesting the renomination of Abraham Lincoln, 1864 Joint Resolution 4
  • March 22, 1864: Act to incorporate "Marquette College" in the second ward of the city of Milwaukee, 1864 Act 180
  • April 4, 1864: Act to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise, and to preserve the purity of elections, by a registration of electors, 1864 Act 445


Party summary

Senate
Senate Partisan composition
  Democratic: 11 seats
  National Union: 22 seats
Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total
Democratic Union Republican Vacant
End of previous Legislature 14 1 18 33 0
1st Session 11 22 0 33 0
Final voting share 33% 67%
Beginning of the next Legislature 33 0

Assembly
Assembly Partisan composition
  Democratic: 29 seats
  National Union: 70 seats
Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total
Democratic Union Republican Vacant
End of previous Legislature 44 2 53 99 0
Start of 1st Session 29 70 0 99 0
Final voting share 29% 71%
Beginning of the next Legislature 99

Sessions
  • 1st Regular session: January 13, 1864 – April 4, 1864

Leaders

Senate

Assembly

Members

Senate

Members of the Wisconsin Senate for the Seventeenth Wisconsin Legislature:[2]

District Counties Senator Party
1 Sheboygan John E. Thomas Democrat
2 Brown, Kewaunee Frederick S. Ellis Democrat
3 Ozaukee John R. Bohan Democrat
4 Washington Frederick O. Thorpe Democrat
5 Northern Milwaukee William K. Wilson Democrat
6 Southern Milwaukee Hugh P. Reynolds Democrat
7 Racine Timothy D. Morris Union
8 Kenosha Anthony Van Wyck Union
9 Adams, Juneau, Waushara Alanson M. Kimball Union
10 Waukesha William Blair Union
11 Eastern Dane Willard H. Chandler Union
12 Walworth Newton Littlejohn Union
13 Lafayette James Earnest Democrat
14 Sauk Smith S. Wilkinson Union
15 Iowa George L. Frost Democrat
16 Grant Milas K. Young Union
17 Rock William A. Lawrence Union
18 Western Dodge William E. Smith Union
19 Manitowoc, Calumet Joseph Vilas, Jr. Democrat
20 Fond du Lac George F. Wheeler Union
21 Winnebago Joseph B. Hamilton Union
22 Door, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawanaw Joseph Harris Union
23 Jefferson J. D. Clapp Democrat
24 Green Walter S. Wescott Union
25 Columbia Jonathan Bowman Union
26 Western Dane Thomas Hood Union
27 Marathon, Portage, Waupaca, Wood Alexander S. McDill Union
28 Ashland, Burnett, Dallas, Douglas, La Pointe, Pierce, Polk, St. Croix Austin H. Young Union
29 Marquette, Green Lake Charles S. Kelsey Union
30 Bad Ax, Crawford, Richland William Ketchum Union
31 La Crosse, Monroe Angus Cameron Union
32 Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson, Pepin, Trempealeau Carl C. Pope Union
33 Eastern Dodge Satterlee Clark, Jr. Democrat

Assembly

Members of the Assembly for the Seventeenth Wisconsin Legislature:[2]

Counties Representative Party
Adams Anson Rood Union
Ashland, Burnett, Dallas, Douglas, La Pointe, Polk Henry D. Barron Union
Brown William J. Abrams Democrat
Buffalo, Pepin, Trempealeau Fayette Allen Union
Calumet Thomas McLean Democrat
Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire Thaddeus C. Pound Union
Clark, Jackson Calvin R. Johnson Union
Columbia 1 A. J. Turner Union
2 Edwin W. McNitt Union
3 Yates Ashley Union
Crawford Horace Beach Union
Dane 1 William W. Blackman Union
2 William H. Miller Union
3 Alden Sprague Sanborn Democrat
4 George Wright Union
5 George Baldwin Smith Democrat
Dodge 1 George H. Adams Union
2 William H. Green Union
3 Oscar F. Jones Democrat
4 Max Bachhuber Democrat
5 John G. Daily Democrat
Door, Oconto, Shawano Herman Naber Union
Fond du Lac 1 William Starr Union
2 James McElroy Union
3 Edwin H. Galloway Union
4 Charles Geisse Democrat
5 Edgar Wilcox Union
Grant 1 Hanmer Robbins Union
2 Allen Taylor Union
3 J. Allen Barber Union
4 William W. Field Union
5 Wood R. Beach Union
Green 1 William W. McLaughlin Union
2 Frederick B. Rolph Union
Green Lake James Field Union
Iowa 1 Wyman L. Lincoln Union
2 Francis Little Union
Jefferson 1 Robert Hass Democrat
2 Aaron B. Smith Union
3 Joseph Powers Union
4 James M. Bingham Union
Juneau Lyman Clark Union
Kenosha A. Constantine Barry Union
Kewaunee Nelson Boutin Democrat
La Crosse Samuel S. Burton Union
Lafayette 1 Tarleton Dunn Democrat
2 Samuel Cole Union
Manitowoc 1 Peter P. Fuessenich Union
2 Thomas Thornton Democrat
3 David Smoke Democrat
Marathon, Wood Bartholomew Ringle Democrat
Marquette Robert Cochran Democrat
Milwaukee 1 Levi Hubbell Union
2 David Knab Democrat
3 John W. Eviston Democrat
4 Napoleon B. Caswell Union
5 J. C. U. Niedermann Union
6 Frederick T. Zetteler Democrat
7 James Watts Democrat
8 Edward McGarry Democrat
9 Anton Frey Democrat
Monroe Carleton E. Rice Union
Outagamie George Kreiss Democrat
Ozaukee William T. Bonniwell, Jr. Democrat
Pierce, St. Croix Joseph S. Elwell Union
Portage John Phillips Union
Racine 1 George C. Northrop Union
2 Henry Stevens Union
3 Philo Belden Union
Richland John Walworth Union
Rock 1 Thomas Earle Union
2 Thomas H. Goodhue Union
3 Guy Wheeler Union
4 Perry Bostwick Union
5 Hamilton Richardson Union
6 Jerome Burbank Union
Sauk 1 Alonzo Wilcox Union
2 Argalus W. Starks Union
Sheboygan 1 Carl Zillier Democrat
2 Louis Wolf Democrat
3 Michael Winter Union
4 Mark Martin Union
Vernon 1 William H. Officer Union
2 Albert Bliss Union
Walworth 1 John Jeffers Union
2 Daniel Smith Union
3 Daniel C. Roundy Union
4 Lucius Allen Union
Washington 1 Nicholaus Marx Democrat
2 Henry Hildebrandt Democrat
3 Martin Schottler Democrat
Waukesha 1 William Costigan Democrat
2 Joel R. Carpenter Union
3 Norman Shultis Union
4 John Schmidt Union
Waupaca Albert K. Osborn Union
Waushara William C. Webb Union
Winnebago 1 Richard C. Russell Union
2 Jeremiah Hunt Union
3 George S. Barnum Union

Employees

Senate
  • Chief Clerk: Frank M. Stewart[2]
    • Assistant Clerk: P. H. Brady
      • Bookkeeper: J. Spooner
    • Engrossing Clerk: Sineus B. Dibble
    • Enrolling Clerk: Thomas Marshall
    • Transcribing Clerk: F. O. Wisner
  • Sergeant-at-Arms: Nelson Williams
    • 1st Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: H. Esperson
    • 2nd Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: John B. Eugene
  • Postmaster: Henry H. Taylor
    • Assistant Postmaster: S. Raymond
  • Doorkeeper: G. M. Cary
    • Assistant Doorkeeper: J. P. Miller
    • Assistant Doorkeeper: J. H. Jones
    • Assistant Doorkeeper: Otis A. Albee
    • Assistant Doorkeeper: William P. Close
    • Gallery Doorkeeper: B. S. Miller
  • Firemen:
    • Barnet Wilson
    • William W. Baker
    • William Holden
  • Messengers:
    • John C. Hutchins
    • Albert F. Dexter
    • Rufus H. Roys
    • William C. Jones
    • C. C. Frey
    • Frank C. Freeman
  • Porter: John Crowley

Assembly
  • Chief Clerk: John S. Dean[2]
    • Assistant Clerk: Ephraim W. Young
      • Bookkeeper: E. L. Fitzhugh
    • Engrossing Clerk: A. L. Rockwell
    • Enrolling Clerk: J. H. Balch
    • Transcribing Clerk: A. C. Byers
  • Sergeant-at-Arms: A. M. Thomson
    • 1st Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: William P. Forsyth
    • 2nd Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: Lewis M. Hammond
  • Postmaster: N. A. Spooner
    • 1st Assistant Postmaster: Hiram Beckwith
    • 2nd Assistant Postmaster: Oscar Babcock
  • Doorkeepers:
    • Franklin Kelly
    • W. L. Abbott
    • W. E. Angell
    • C. Saran
    • C. E. Tanburg
    • William Spencer
  • Firemen:
    • Oliver Johnson
    • A. C. Stannard
    • Robert Axon
    • C. McCarthy
  • Speaker's Messenger: Adam C. Waltz
  • Chief Clerk's Messenger: James E. Dean
  • Sergeant-at-Arms' Messenger: Arthur Tilden
  • Messengers:
    • Moses Flesh
    • Patrick McKanna
    • Robert Airis
    • Louis Sholes
    • Marion M. Young
    • William P. Beach
    • Linus S. Webb
    • Fred Chynoweth

References
  1. "Annals of the legislature". The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin 1882 (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 208–210. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
  2. Stewart, Frank M.; Dean, John S., eds. (1864). "Legislative department". The legislative manual of the state of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 76–77, 88–91. Retrieved March 21, 2020.

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