1st Wisconsin Legislature

The First Wisconsin Legislature convened from June 5, 1848 to August 21, 1848 in regular session. Members of the Assembly and Senate were elected after an election on February 1, 1848 that ratified the proposed state constitution.

Sessions

1st Regular session: June 4, 1848–August 21, 1848

Party summary

Officers

Senate

President of the Senate: John E. Holmes,

Lieutenant Governor

Chief Clerk: Henry G. Abbey

Assembly

Speaker of the Assembly: Ninian E. Whiteside
Chief Clerk: Daniel Noble Johnson

Members

Senate

Members of the Wisconsin Senate for the First Wisconsin Legislature:

District	Counties	Senator	Party
1	Brown, Calumet, Manitowoc, Sheboygan	Harrison C. Hobart	Democrat
2	Columbia, Marquette, Portage, Sauk	Henry Merrill	Whig
3	Crawford, Chippewa, St. Croix, La Pointe	Daniel G. Fenton	Democrat
4	Fond du Lac, Winnebago	Warren Chase	Democrat
5	Iowa, Richland	Henry M. Billings	Democrat
6	Grant	George W. Lakin	Whig
7	Lafayette	Thomas K. Gibson	Democrat
8	Green	E.T. Gardner	Democrat
9	Dane	Simeon Mills	Democrat
10	Dodge	William M. Dennis	Democrat
11	Washington	Frederick W. Horn	Democrat
12	Jefferson	Myron B. Williams	Democrat
13	Waukesha	Joseph Turner	Democrat
14	Walworth	John W. Boyd	Democrat
15	Rock	Otis W. Norton	Whig
16	Racine 1	Christopher Latham Sholes	Democrat
17	Racine 2	Philo White	Democrat
18	Milwaukee 1	Asa Kinney	Democrat
19	Milwaukee 2	Riley N. Messenger	Democrat

Assembly

Members of the Assembly for the First Wisconsin Legislature (66):

Counties	Representative	Party
Brown	David Agry	Democrat
Calumet	Lemuel Goodell	Democrat
Columbia	Joseph Kerr	Whig
Crawford & Chippewa	William T. Sterling	Democrat
Dane 1	Henry M. Warner	Democrat
Dane 2	Ebenezer Brigham	Whig
Dane 3	Samuel H. Roys	Democrat
Dodge 1	Lorenzo Merrill	Democrat
Dodge 2	Charles Billinghurst	Democrat
Dodge 3	Benjamin Randall	Democrat
Dodge 4	Monroe Thompson	Whig
Dodge 5	Stephen Jones	Whig
Fond du Lac 1	Charles Doty	Whig
Fond du Lac 2	Jonathan Daugherty	Whig
Grant 1	James Gilmore	Whig
Grant 2	Noah Virgin	Whig
Grant 3	Armisted C. Brown	Whig
Grant 4	Arthur W. Worth	Democrat
Green	Henry Adams	Democrat
Iowa & Richland 1	Thomas Jenkins	Democrat
Iowa & Richland 2	Abner Nichols	Democrat
Jefferson 1	Wales Emmons	Democrat
Jefferson 2	Peter H. Turner	Democrat
Jefferson 3	Davenport Rood	Democrat
Lafayette 1	Elias Slothower	Democrat
Lafayette 2	Ninian E. Whiteside	Democrat
Marquette	Archibald Nicholls	Democrat
Milwaukee 1	Edward Wunderly	Democrat
Milwaukee 2	Augustus Greulich	Democrat
Milwaukee 3	William W. Brown	Whig
Milwaukee 4	Leonard P. Crary	Democrat
Milwaukee 5	Andrew Sullivan	Democrat
Milwaukee 6	Horace Chase	Democrat
Milwaukee 7	Perley J. Shumway	Democrat
Manitowoc	Ezra Durgin	Democrat
St Croix & La Pointe	William R. Marshall; successfully challenged by Joseph Bowron	Democrat
Portage	James M. Campbell	Democrat
Racine 1	David McDonald	Democrat
Racine 2	Henry B. Roberts	Democrat
Racine 3	Samuel E. Chapman	Whig
Racine 4	Julius L. Gilbert	Democrat
Racine 5	Elias Woodworth, Jr.	Democrat
Rock 1	G. F. A. Atherton	Democrat
Rock 2	Alanson B. Vaughn	Whig
Rock 3	A. P. Blakeslee	Democrat
Rock 4	Robert T. Carey	Whig
Rock 4	Nathaniel Strong	Democrat
Sauk	Delano Pratt	Democrat
Sheboygan 1	Charles E. Morris	Democrat
Sheboygan 2	Jedediah Brown	Democrat
Walworth 1	Gaylord Graves	Democrat
Walworth 2	Prosper Cravath	Whig
Walworth 3	Erasmus D. Richardson	Democrat
Walworth 4	Hugh Long	Democrat
Walworth 5	Milo Kelsey	Whig
Waukesha 1	Joseph W. Brackett	Democrat
Waukesha 2	Dewey K. Warren	Democrat
Waukesha 3	Chauncey G. Heath	Democrat
Waukesha 4	George M. Humphrey	Democrat
Waukesha 5	Joseph Bond	Democrat
Washington 1	Henry Allen	Democrat
Washington 2	Benjamin H. Mooers	Democrat
Washington 3	Adolphus Zimmermann	Democrat
Washington 4	Densmore Maxon	Democrat
Washington 5	William Caldwell	Whig
Winnebago	Erasmus D. Hall	Whig

Notes

References

William R. Smith, The History of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin: Beriah Brown, 1854, p. 303-05. https://archive.org/stream/historyofwisconsin02smitrich
1872 Wisconsin Blue Book, p. 199-201 http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/WIBlueBks/BlueBks/WIBlueBk1872/reference/wi.wibluebk1872.i0012.pdf

External links

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