66th Wisconsin Legislature
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Wisconsin State Capitol ca.1915 | |||||
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
| Term | January 4, 1943 – January 1, 1945 | ||||
| Election | November 3, 1942 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | --Vacant-- | ||||
| President pro tempore | Conrad Shearer (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 100 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | Vernon W. Thomson (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
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The Sixty-Sixth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 13, 1943, to January 22, 1944, in regular session.
Senators representing odd-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first two years of a four-year term. Assembly members were elected to a two-year term. Assembly members and odd-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 3, 1942. Senators representing even-numbered districts were serving the third and fourth year of a four-year term, having been elected in the general election of November 5, 1940.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican Walter Samuel Goodland, of Racine County, serving a two-year term, having won the 1942 lieutenant gubernatorial election and then being sworn in as governor following the death of the governor-elect Orland Steen Loomis.