13th Wisconsin Legislature

13th Wisconsin Legislature
13th Wisconsin Legislature
Overview
Legislative body	Wisconsin Legislature
Meeting place	Wisconsin State Capitol
Term	January 11, 1860 – January 9, 1861
Election	November 8, 1859
Senate
Members	30
Senate President	Butler G. Noble (R)
President pro tempore	Moses M. Davis (R)
Party control	Republican
Assembly
Members	97
Assembly Speaker	William P. Lyon (R)
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 11, 1860 – April 2, 1860

The Thirteenth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 11, 1860, to April 2, 1860, 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 odd-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 8, 1859. 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 2, 1858.^[1]

Major events

January 2, 1860: Governor Alexander Randall was sworn in for his 2nd term as Governor of Wisconsin.
January 7, 1860: Assemblymember Andrew Eble, representing southwest Milwaukee County, died in a hunting accident.
January 17, 1860: Assemblymember Daniel C. Jenne, representing Outagamie County, resigned his seat after it was demonstrated that he had actually lost his election to Milo Coles.
January 23, 1860: Theodore Hartung won a special election to fill the Assembly vacancy created by Andrew Eble's death.
November 6, 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the United States.
December 24, 1860: Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union issued by the government of South Carolina.

Major legislation

March 27, 1860: Act to organize the county of Ashland, 1860 Act 211
March 28, 1860: Joint Resolution relative to grants of public lands to actual settlers and to passage of "The Homestead Bill," 1860 Joint Resolution 1
March 30, 1860: Act to establish an official State paper, 1860 Act 240. Established the Wisconsin State Journal as the official state paper.
March 30, 1860: Joint Resolution objecting to any change of the Naturalization Law, 1860 Joint Resolution 2
March 31, 1860: Joint Resolution in relation to the Homestead Bill in Congress, 1860 Joint Resolution 3

Party summary

Senate

	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)		Total
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	Democratic	Republican		Vacant
End of previous Legislature	16	14	30	0

1st Session	13	17	30	0

Final voting share	43%	57%

Beginning of the next Legislature	8	22	30	0

Assembly

	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)			Total
	style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color" \|	style="background-color:Template:Independent (United States)/meta/color" \|	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" \|
	Democratic	Ind.	Republican		Vacant
End of previous Legislature	41	1	55	97	0

Start of 1st Session	37	1	59	97	0
after January 7	36		59	96	1
after January 17	37		58	97	1
after February 2	38		58	97	0
Final voting share	39%	1%	60%

Beginning of the next Legislature	27	0	70	97	0

Sessions

1st Regular session: January 11, 1860 – April 2, 1860

Leaders

Senate

President of the Senate: Butler G. Noble, Lieutenant Governor
President pro tempore: Moses M. Davis

Assembly

Speaker of the Assembly: William P. Lyon

Members

Senate

Members of the Wisconsin Senate for the Thirteenth Wisconsin Legislature:^[2]

District	Counties	Senator	Party
1	Sheboygan	Robert H. Hotchkiss	Democrat
2	Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawanaw	Edward Decker	Democrat
3	Ozaukee	Frederick Hilgen	Democrat
4	Washington	Densmore W. Maxon	Democrat
5	Northern Milwaukee	Cicero Comstock	Republican
6	Southern Milwaukee	Michael J. Egan	Democrat
7	Racine	Nicholas D. Fratt	Democrat
8	Kenosha	George Bennett	Republican
9	Adams, Juneau, Sauk	Henry W. Curtis	Republican
10	Waukesha	Denison Worthington	Republican
11	Eastern Dane	William Robert Taylor	Democrat
12	Walworth	Oscar F. Bartlett	Republican
13	Lafayette	Philemon B. Simpson	Democrat
14	Northern Jefferson	Charles R. Gill	Republican
15	Iowa, Richland	Charles Rodolf	Democrat
16	Grant	Noah H. Virgin	Republican
17	Western Rock	Zebulon P. Burdick	Republican
18	Eastern Rock	Alden I. Bennett	Republican
19	Manitowoc, Calumet	Samuel H. Thurber	Democrat
20	Fond du Lac	Elihu Phillips	Republican
21	Winnebago	Ganem W. Washburn	Democrat
22	Dodge	Benjamin Ferguson	Republican
23	Southern Jefferson	Enias D. Masters	Republican
24	Green	John W. Stewart	Republican
25	Columbia	Moses M. Davis	Republican
26	Western Dane	John B. Sweat	Democrat
27	Marathon, Portage, Waupaca, Waushara, Wood	Luther Hanchett	Republican
28	Burnett, Chippewa, Clark, Douglas, Dunn, La Pointe, Pierce, Polk, St. Croix	Charles B. Cox	Democrat
29	Marquette	M. W. Seely	Republican
30	Bad Ax, Buffalo, Crawford, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Tremealeau	Buel E. Hutchinson	Republican

Assembly

Members of the Assembly for the Thirteenth Wisconsin Legislature:^[3]

Counties		Representative	Party
Adams, Juneau		Albert Wood	Republican
Ashland, Burnett, Douglas, La Pointe, Polk, St. Croix		Asaph Whittlesey	Republican
Bad Ax, Crawford		William C. McMichael	Republican
Brown		John C. Neville	Democrat
Buffalo, Jackson, Trempealeau		Romanzo Bunn	Republican
Calumet		Asaph Green	Democrat
Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Pierce		William P. Bartlett	Republican
Columbia	1	Henry B. Munn	Democrat
	2	William M. Griswold	Republican
	3	Marcus Barden	Republican
Dane	1	William W. Blackman	Republican
	2	Eleazor Grover, Jr.	Democrat
	3	John Beath	Democrat
	4	Francis Fischer	Republican
	5	Leonard J. Farwell	Republican
	6	Cassius Fairchild	Democrat
Dodge	1	Elva Simpson	Democrat
	2	Max Bachhuber	Democrat
	3	Jonathan W. Nash	Republican
	4	Stoddard Judd	Republican
	5	David S. Ordway	Republican
	6	Harvey C. Griffin	Democrat
Door, Kewaunee, Oconto, Shawano		John Wiley	Democrat
Fond du Lac	1	Alvan E. Bovay	Republican
	2	Benjamin H. Bettis	Republican
	3	John C. Lewis	Republican
	4	John Boyd	Democrat
	5	Wolcott T. Brooks	Republican
Grant	1	James K. Spottswood	Republican
	2	James Wilson Seaton	Democrat
	3	Jonathan Baker Moore	Republican
	4	Samuel F. Clise	Republican
	5	George Ballantine	Republican
Green	1	Walter S. Wescott	Republican
Green	2	Martin Mitchell	Republican
Green Lake		James W. Burt	Republican
Iowa	1	Gardner C. Meigs	Democrat
Iowa	2	Amasa Cobb	Republican
Jefferson	1	Norman Horton	Republican
	2	Charles Hammarquist	Republican
	3	Heber Smith	Republican
	4	Herman H. Winter	Democratic Republican
	5	John Sutton	Democrat
Kenosha	1	Meredith Howland	Republican
Kenosha	2	Salmon Upson	Republican
La Crosse, Monroe		John J. McKay	Republican
Lafayette	1	Samuel Cole	Democrat
	2	Thomas C. L. Mackay	Democrat
	3	Elijah C. Townsend	Democrat
Manitowoc	1	Joseph Rankin	Democrat
Manitowoc	2	Henry Mulholand	Democrat
Marathon, Portage, Wood		John Phillips	Republican
Marquette		Orrin W. Bow	Democrat
Milwaukee	1	Henry L. Palmer	Democrat
	2	Leonard Schmidtner	Democrat
	3	Edward Keogh	Democrat
	4	Edward D. Holton	Republican
	5	Edward G. Hayden	Republican
	6	Matthias Humann	Democrat
	7	Patrick Dockry	Democrat
	8	John Ruan	Democrat
	9	Andrew Eble Until January 7	Democrat
	9	From February 2 Theodore Hartung	Democrat
Outagamie		Daniel C. Jenne Until January 17	Republican
Outagamie		From January 17 Milo Coles	Democrat
Ozaukee	1	Anthony Ahlhauser	Democrat
Ozaukee	2	Frederick W. Horn	Douglas Democrat
Racine	1	William P. Lyon	Republican
	2	Lewis L. Baldwin	Republican
	3	Knud Langeland	Republican
	4	Frederick A. Weage	Republican
Richland		Jeremiah L. Jackson	Democrat
Rock	1	William E. Wheeler	Republican
	2	Thomas C. Westby	Republican
	3	John P. Dickson	Republican
	4	Jeremiah Johnson	Republican
	5	George Golden	Republican
Sauk	1	Ephraim W. Young	Republican
Sauk	2	Edward Sumner	Republican
Sheboygan	1	James T. Kingsbury	Democrat
	2	Erastus W. Stannard	Republican
	3	Oran Rogers	Republican
Walworth	1	Clarkson Miller	Republican
	2	John DeWolf	Republican
	3	Anderson Whiting	Republican
	4	James Child	Republican
Washington	1	George Kiefer	Democrat
	2	Matthias Altenhofen	Democrat
	3	Tisdale E. Vander Cook	Republican
Waukesha	1	Albert Alden	Republican
	2	William R. Hesk	Republican
	3	Andrew E. Elmore	Democrat
	4	Benjamin Hunkins	Democrat
	5	Robert C. Robertson	Republican
Waupaca		Melvin B. Patchin	Democrat
Waushara		Jacob S. Bugh	Republican
Winnebago	1	Gabriel Bouck	Democrat
	2	George B. Goodwin	Republican
	3	George S. Barnum	Republican

Employees

Senate

Chief Clerk: John H. Warren^[2]
- Assistant Clerk: Willard Merrill
- Engrossing Clerk: J. B. Selby
- Enrolling Clerk: G. M. Powell
- Transcribing Clerk: A. L. Burke
Sergeant-at-Arms: Asa Kinney
- Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: S. S. Keyes
Postmaster: James L. Wilder
- Post Messenger: Garret J. Mahoney
Doorkeeper: Henry M. Higbee
Fireman: Franz G. L. Struve
Messengers:
- William W. Worthington
- Walter C. Wyman
- Sylvester Mygatt

Assembly

Chief Clerk: L. H. D. Crane^[3]
- Assistant Clerk: John S. Dean
- Engrossing Clerk: R. S. Kingman
- Enrolling Clerk: Thaddeus C. Pound
- Transcribing Clerk: E. Gilbert Jackson
Sergeant-at-Arms: Joseph Gates
- Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: A. Armstrong
Postmaster: Marcus Otterbourg
- Assistant Postmaster: Chancey B. Valentine
Doorkeeper: William C. Lessure
- Assistant Doorkeeper: John T. Taylor
Firemen:
- Nelson C. Andrews
- Stephen S. Woodward
- Phillip Cary
- Robert R. Jores
Messengers:
- Samuel H. Fernandez
- Carlton C. Hart
- Edward Livingston
- William H. Barnes
- George W. Yout
- William H. Bennett

References

^ "Annals of the legislature". The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin 1882 (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 199–200.
^ ^a ^b "Statistical list of members of the Senate of the state of Wisconsin". A manual of customs, precedents, and forms, in use in the Assembly of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. 1860. pp. 12–13. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Statistical list of the members and officers of the Assembly of Wisconsin". A manual of customs, precedents, and forms, in use in the Assembly of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. 1860. pp. 7–11. Retrieved September 28, 2019.

Notes

External links

[1] "Annals of the legislature". The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin 1882 (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 199–200.

[senate1860-2] "Statistical list of members of the Senate of the state of Wisconsin". A manual of customs, precedents, and forms, in use in the Assembly of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. 1860. pp. 12–13. Retrieved September 28, 2019.

[assembly1860-3] "Statistical list of the members and officers of the Assembly of Wisconsin". A manual of customs, precedents, and forms, in use in the Assembly of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. 1860. pp. 7–11. Retrieved September 28, 2019.

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