4th Wisconsin Legislature

4th Wisconsin Legislature
4th Wisconsin Legislature
Overview
Legislative body	Wisconsin Legislature
Meeting place	Wisconsin State Capitol
Term	January 8, 1851 – January 14, 1852
Election	November 5, 1850
Senate
Members	19
Senate President	Samuel Beall
Party control	Democratic
Assembly
Members	66
Assembly Speaker	Frederick W. Horn
Party control	Democratic
Sessions
1st
1st	January 8, 1851 – March 17, 1851

The Fourth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 8, 1851, to March 17, 1851, 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. Assemblymembers were elected to a one-year term. Assemblymembers and odd-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 5, 1850. 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 6, 1849.^[1]

Major events

January 20, 1851: The Wisconsin Legislature, in joint session, re-elected Henry Dodge to a six-year term as United States Senator.^[2]
November 4, 1851: Leonard J. Farwell elected Governor of Wisconsin.
January 5, 1852: Inauguration of Leonard J. Farwell as the 2nd Governor of Wisconsin.
January 5, 1852: Inauguration of Timothy Burns as the 3rd Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin.

Major legislation

January 22, 1851: Joint resolution in relation to the Honorable Isaac P. Walker, 1851 Joint Resolution 1
February 1, 1851: Act to incorporate the Fire Department of the City of Milwaukee, 1851 Act 26
February 4, 1851: Act providing for the election of a Chief Justice, 1851 Act 39
February 6, 1851: Act to set apart and incorporate the County of Oconto, 1851 Act 44
February 11, 1851: Act to set apart and incorporate Door County, 1851 Act 66
February 15, 1851: Act to set apart and incorporate the County of Waushara, 1851 Act 77
February 17, 1851: Act to incorporate the County of Waupaca, 1851 Act 78
February 17, 1851: Act to divide the county of Brown and create the county of Outagamie, 1851 Act 83
March 10, 1851: Act to prevent the killing of deer in certain months of the year, 1851 Act 171
March 11, 1851: Act to change the name of the town of "Pike" in Kenosha county to "Somers," 1851 Act 211

Party summary

Senate

	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)			Total
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	Democratic	Free Soil	Whig		Vacant
End of previous Legislature	13	2	4	19	0

1st Session	14	2	3	19	0

Final voting share	73.68%	10.53%	15.79%

Beginning of the next Legislature	12	1	6	19	0

Assembly

	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)			Total
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	Democratic	Free Soil	Whig		Vacant
End of previous Legislature	43	8	15	66	0

1st Session	49	7	10	66	0

Final voting share	74.24%	10.61%	15.15%

Beginning of the next Legislature	29	6	31	66	0

Sessions

1st Regular session: January 8, 1851–March 17, 1851

Leaders

Senate

President of the Senate: Samuel Beall, Lieutenant Governor
President pro tempore: Duncan Reed

Assembly

Speaker of the Assembly: Frederick W. Horn

Members

Senate

Members of the Wisconsin Senate for the Fourth Wisconsin Legislature:

District	Counties	Senator	Party
1	Brown, Calumet, Manitowoc, Sheboygan	Theodore Conkey	Democrat
2	Columbia, Marathon, Marquette, Portage, Sauk, Waushara	George DeGraw Moore	Whig
3	Crawford, Chippewa, St. Croix, La Pointe	Hiram A. Wright	Democrat
4	Fond du Lac, Winnebago	John A. Eastman	Democrat
5	Iowa, Richland	Levi Sterling	Whig
6	Grant	John H. Rountree	Whig
7	Lafayette	Samuel G. Bugh	Democrat
8	Green	William Rittenhouse	Democrat
9	Dane	Eliab B. Dean, Jr.	Democrat
10	Dodge	James Giddings	Democrat
11	Washington	Harvey G. Turner	Democrat
12	Jefferson	Peter H. Turner	Democrat
13	Waukesha	George Hyer	Democrat
14	Walworth	George Gale	Free Soil
15	Rock	Andrew Palmer	Democrat
16	Kenosha	Orson S. Head	Democrat
17	Racine	Stephen O. Bennett	Free Soil
18	Milwaukee 1	Duncan Reed	Democrat
19	Milwaukee 2	Francis Huebschmann	Democrat

Assembly

Members of the Assembly for the Fourth Wisconsin Legislature:

Counties	Representative	Party
Brown	John F. Lessey	Democrat
Calumet	William H. Dick	Democrat
Columbia	William T. Bradley	Democrat
Crawford & Chippewa	William T. Price	Democrat
Dane 1	Abram A. Boyce	Democrat
Dane 2	Augustus A. Bird	Democrat
Dane 3	Gabriel Bjornson	Democrat
Dodge 1	John Muzzy	Democrat
Dodge 2	Asa W. French	Democrat
Dodge 3	John Lowth	Democrat
Dodge 4	Charles B. Whitton	Democrat
Dodge 5	William E. Smith	Whig
Fond du Lac 1	Morris S. Barnett	Democrat
Fond du Lac 2	Charles L. Julius	Democrat
Grant 1	James B. Johnson	Democrat
Grant 2	John N. Jones	Democrat
Grant 3	William R. Biddlecome	Democrat
Grant 4	Robert M. Briggs	Democrat
Green	Julius Hulburt	Whig
Iowa & Richland 1	Charles Rodolf	Democrat
Iowa & Richland 2	Richard J. Tregaskis	Democrat
Jefferson 1	Alonzo Wing	Democrat
Jefferson 2	Patrick Rogan	Democrat
Jefferson 3	Samuel T. Clothier	Democrat
Kenosha 1	Obed Hale	Free Soil
Kenosha 2	Henry Johnson	Whig
Lafayette 1	Nathan Olmsted	Whig
Lafayette 2	Samuel Cole	Democrat
Manitowoc	G. C. Oscar Malmros	Democrat
Marquette & Waushara	Charles Waldo	Whig
Milwaukee 1	William K. Wilson	Democrat
Milwaukee 2	Charles E. Jenkins	Democrat
Milwaukee 3	John L. Doran	Democrat
Milwaukee 4	George H. Walker	Democrat
Milwaukee 5	Enoch Chase	Whig
Milwaukee 6	Tobias G. Osborne	Democrat
Milwaukee 7	Patrick Carney	Democrat
St Croix & La Pointe	John O. Henning	Democrat
Portage & Marathon	Thomas J. Morman	Democrat
Racine 1	William L. Utley	Free Soil
Racine 2	Peter Van Vliet	Free Soil
Racine 3	James Tinker	Free Soil
Rock 1	Edward Vincent	Whig
Rock 2	William F. Tompkins	Whig
Rock 3	John Bannister	Democrat
Rock 4	Joseph Kinney, Jr.	Democrat
Rock 5	John D. Seaver	Whig
Sauk	Nathaniel Perkins	Democrat
Sheboygan 1	Albert D. La Due	Democrat
Sheboygan 2	John D. Murphy	Democrat
Walworth 1	Adam E. Ray	Free Soil
Walworth 2	Henry C. Hemingway	Whig
Walworth 3	Experience Estabrook	Democrat
Walworth 4	Elijah Easton	Free Soil
Walworth 5	Wyman Spooner	Free Soil
Washington 1	Frederick W. Horn	Democrat
Washington 2	Harvey Moore	Democrat
Washington 3	Frederick Stock	Democrat
Washington 4	Francis Everley, Jr.	Democrat
Washington 5	John C. Toll	Democrat
Waukesha 1	John C. Snover	Democrat
Waukesha 2	Peter D. Gifford	Democrat
Waukesha 3	Aaron V. Groot	Democrat
Waukesha 4	William A. Cone	Democrat
Waukesha 5	Hosea Fuller, Jr.	Democrat
Winnebago	Edward Eastman	Democrat

Employees

Senate

Chief Clerk: William Hull
Sergeant-at-Arms: E. D. Masters

Assembly

Chief Clerk: Alexander T. Gray
Sergeant-at-Arms: Charles S. Kingsbury

References

^ "Annals of the legislature". The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin 1881 (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 182–183.
^ Journal of the Senate of Wisconsin, Annual Session A.D. 1851 (Report). 1851. p. 60. Retrieved June 18, 2019.

External links

[1] "Annals of the legislature". The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin 1881 (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 182–183.

[2] Journal of the Senate of Wisconsin, Annual Session A.D. 1851 (Report). 1851. p. 60. Retrieved June 18, 2019.

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