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67th Wisconsin Legislature
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Wisconsin State Capitol ca.1915
Overview
Legislative bodyWisconsin Legislature
Meeting placeWisconsin State Capitol
TermJanuary 1, 1945 – January 6, 1947
ElectionNovember 7, 1944
Senate
Members33
Senate PresidentOscar Rennebohm (R)
President pro temporeConrad Shearer (R)
Party controlRepublican
Assembly
Members100
Assembly SpeakerDonald C. McDowell (R)
Party controlRepublican
Sessions
RegularJanuary 10, 1945 – September 6, 1945
Special sessions
Jul. 1946 Spec.July 29, 1946 – July 30, 1946

The Sixty-Seventh Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 10, 1945, to September 6, 1945, in regular session, and reconvened in a special session in July 1946.[1]

This legislative term saw the end of World War II and the establishment of the United Nations. The term also saw the end of the Wisconsin Progressive Party, which formally disbanded at a 1946 convention.[2]

Senators representing even-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 even-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 7, 1944. Senators representing odd-numbered districts were serving the third and fourth year of a four-year term, having been elected in the general election of November 3, 1942.[1]

Major events

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  • January 1, 1945: Second inauguration of Walter Samuel Goodland as Governor of Wisconsin.
  • January 20, 1945: Fourth inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States.
  • February 11, 1945: The Yalta Conference concluded, agreeing to the denazification and postwar partition of Germany, as well as self-determination rights for a liberated Poland.
  • April 3, 1945: Wisconsin voters ratified two amendments to the state constitution:
    • Aboliting the office of justice of the peace in first class cities.
    • Allowing the state to take on debt for aeronautical improvements.
  • April 12, 1945: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office. Vice President Harry S. Truman immediately succeeded him as the 33rd President of the United States.
  • April 28, 1945: Benito Mussolini was executed by partisans in Milan, Italy.
  • April 29, 1945: Axis forces in Italy signed an unconditional surrender to the Allies.
  • April 30, 1945: Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin, Germany.
  • May 2, 1945: Soviet forces captured Berlin.
  • May 8, 1945: Representatives of the German Army signed the German Instrument of Surrender, formally ending Germany's part in World War II.
  • June 26, 1945: The Charter of the United Nations was published at the end of the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
  • July 16, 1945: The first atomic bomb test took place at the Trinity site in New Mexico.
  • July 21, 1945: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed an order approving the use of atomic bombs against Imperial Japan.
  • August 6, 1945: U.S. forces detonated an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, killing at least 90,000 people and destroying much of the city.
  • August 8, 1945: The United States ratified the Charter of the United Nations, becoming the third nation to ratify the document.
  • August 9, 1945: U.S. forces detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki, killing at least 39,000 people.
  • August 14, 1945: Emperor Hirohito agreed to the unconditional surrender of Japan to Allied forces, ending major combat in World War II.
  • October 24, 1945: The United Nations was established as a sufficient number of nations had ratified the Charter.
  • March 17, 1946: At a convention in Portage, Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Progressive Party voted to disband. The majority of delegates voted to rejoin the Republican Party of Wisconsin.
  • March 19, 1946: Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Joseph Martin died in office.
  • April 2, 1946: Wisconsin voters rejected an amendment to the state constitution which would have removed term limits from the sheriffs.
  • April 6, 1946: Wisconsin governor Walter Samuel Goodland appointed James Ward Rector to the Wisconsin Supreme Court to succeed the deceased justice Joseph Martin.
  • April 18, 1946: The League of Nations met for the last time, transferred its mission to the United Nations and disbanded.
  • August 14, 1946: Wisconsin's senior United States senator Robert M. La Follette Jr., after the dissolution of the Wisconsin Progressive Party, was defeated in the Republican Party primary by Wisconsin circuit court judge Joseph McCarthy.
  • November 5, 1946:
    • Walter Samuel Goodland re-elected Governor of Wisconsin.
    • Joseph McCarthy elected United States senator from Wisconsin.
    • Wisconsin voters ratified two amendments to the state constitution:
      • Removing audit powers from the Secretary of State.
      • Assigning audit powers to the Legislature.
    • Wisconsin voters also rejected an amendment to the state constitution:
      • Allowing public transportation to be used for students to attend private or parochial schools.

Major legislation

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  • July 30, 1945: An Act ... relating to aeronautics, and making an appropriation, 1945 Act 513. Established Wisconsin's Aeronautics Commission.
  • August 27, 1945: An Act ... creating a Wisconsin department of veterans' affairs, providing educational aid, economic aid, medical, hospital, or other remedial care for World War II veterans and their dependents, transferring to said department certain powers, duties, and functions vested in the soldiers' rehabilitation board and adjutant general, and custodian of memorial hall, and making an appropriation, 1945 Act 580. Created the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs.
  • 1945 Joint Resolution 2: Second legislative passage of a proposed amendment to the state constitution to abolish the office of justice of the peace in first class cities. This amendment was ratified by voters at the April 1945 election.
  • 1945 Joint Resolution 3: Second legislative passage of a proposed amendment to the state constitution to allow the state to take on debt to fund aeronautical improvements.
  • 1945 Joint Resolution 47: Second legislative passage of a proposed amendment to the state constitution to abolish term limits for Wisconsin sheriffs. This amendment was rejected by voters at the April 1946 election.
  • 1945 Joint Resolution 73: Second legislative passage of a proposed amendment to the state constitution to remove audit powers from the Secretary of State and transfer those powers to the Legislature. This amendment was ratified by voters in two separate questions at the November 1946 election.
  • 1945 Joint Resolution 78: Second legislative passage of a proposed amendment to the state constitution to allow public transportation to be used for students to attend private and parochial schools in addition to existing transportation for public schools. This amendment was rejected by voters at the November 1946 election.

Party summary

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Senate summary

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Senate partisan composition
  Democratic: 6 seats
  Progressive: 5 seats
  Republican: 22 seats
Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total
Dem. Prog. Rep. Vacant
End of previous Legislature 4 6 22 32 1
Start of Reg. Session 6 5 22 33 0
From Mar. 19, 1946[note 1] 21 32 1
Final voting share 18.75% 15.63% 65.63%
Beginning of the next Legislature 5 1 27 33 0

Assembly summary

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Assembly partisan composition
  Democratic: 20 seats
  Progressive: 6 seats
  Republican: 74 seats
Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total
Dem. Prog. Rep. Vacant
End of previous Legislature 14 13 73 100 0
Start of Reg. Session 20 6 74 100 0
From Jul. 16, 1945[note 2] 19 99 1
From Oct. 11, 1945[note 3] 73 98 2
From Oct. 29, 1945[note 4] 72 97 3
From Mar. 25, 1946[note 5] 71 96 4
From May 1, 1946[note 6] 70 95 5
Final voting share 20% 6.32% 73.68%
Beginning of the next Legislature 12 0 88 100 0

Sessions

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  • Regular session: January 10, 1945 – September 6, 1945
  • July 1946 special session: July 29, 1946 – July 30, 1946

Leaders

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Senate leadership

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Assembly leadership

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Members

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Members of the Senate

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Members of the Senate for the Sixty-Seventh Wisconsin Legislature:[3]

Senate partisan representation
  Democratic: 6 seats
  Progressive: 5 seats
  Republican: 22 seats
Dist. Counties Senator Residence Party
01 Door, Kewaunee, & Manitowoc John E. Cashman Denmark Prog.
02 Brown & Oconto Harold A. Lytie Green Bay Dem.
03 Milwaukee (South City) Clement J. Zablocki Milwaukee Dem.
04 Milwaukee (Northeast County & Northeast City) John C. McBride Milwaukee Rep.
05 Milwaukee (Northwest City) Bernhard Gettelman Milwaukee Rep.
06 Milwaukee (North-Central City) Edward Reuther Milwaukee Dem.
07 Milwaukee (Southeast County & Southeast City) Anthony P. Gawronski Milwaukee Dem.
08 Milwaukee (Western County) Allen Busby West Milwaukee Rep.
09 Milwaukee (City Downtown) Robert E. Tehan Milwaukee Dem.
10 Buffalo, Pepin, Pierce, & St. Croix Warren P. Knowles New Richmond Rep.
11 Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, & Washburn Elmer Peterson Superior Prog.
12 Ashland, Iron, Price, Rusk, Sawyer, & Vilas Ernest A. Heden Glidden Rep.
13 Dodge & Washington Frank E. Panzer Oakfield Rep.
14 Outagamie & Shawano Gordon A. Bubolz Appleton Rep.
15 Rock Robert P. Robinson Beloit Rep.
16 Crawford, Grant, & Vernon Foster B. Porter Bloomington Rep.
17 Green, Iowa, & Lafayette Melvin Olson South Wayne Rep.
18 Fond du Lac, Green Lake & Waushara Louis J. Fellenz Jr. Fond du Lac Rep.
19 Calumet & Winnebago Taylor G. Brown Oshkosh Rep.
20 Ozaukee & Sheboygan Gustave W. Buchen Sheboygan Rep.
21 Racine Edward F. Hilker Racine Rep.
22 Kenosha & Walworth Conrad Shearer Kenosha Rep.
23 Portage & Waupaca Harley M. Jacklin Plover Dem.
24 Clark, Taylor, & Wood Melvin R. Laird Sr. (died Mar. 19, 1946) Marshfield Rep.
25 Lincoln & Marathon William McNeight Unity Rep.
26 Dane Fred Risser Madison Prog.
27 Columbia, Richland, & Sauk Jess Miller Richland Center Rep.
28 Chippewa & Eau Claire George H. Hipke Stanley Rep.
29 Barron, Dunn, & Polk Charles D. Madsen Luck Prog.
30 Florence, Forest, Langlade, Marinette, & Oneida Philip Downing Amberg Rep.
31 Adams, Juneau, Monroe, & Marquette J. Earl Leverich Sparta Prog.
32 Jackson, La Crosse, & Trempealeau Rudolph Schlabach La Crosse Rep.
33 Jefferson & Waukesha William A. Freehoff Waukesha Rep.

Members of the Assembly

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Members of the Assembly for the Sixty-Seventh Wisconsin Legislature:[3]

Assembly partisan composition
  Democratic: 20 seats
  Progressive: 6 seats
  Republican: 74 seats
Milwaukee County districts
Senate
Dist. 		County Dist. Representative Party Residence
31 Adams & Marquette Robert M. Long Rep. Westfield
12 Ashland John C. Chapple (died May 1, 1946) Rep. Ashland
29 Barron Charles H. Sykes Rep. Cameron
11 Bayfield Samuel E. Squires Rep. Mason
02 Brown 1 Robert E. Lynch Dem. Green Bay
2 William J. Sweeney Dem. De Pere
10 Buffalo & Pepin Grover L. Broadfoot Rep. Mondovi
11 Burnett & Washburn Guy Benson Rep. Spooner
19 Calumet Charles R. Barnard Rep. Brillion
28 Chippewa Arthur L. Padrutt Prog. Chippewa Falls
24 Clark Walter E. Cook Rep. Unity
27 Columbia Arthur E. Austin Rep. Rio
16 Crawford Donald C. McDowell Rep. Soldiers Grove
26 Dane 1 Lyall T. Beggs Prog. Madison
2 Earl Mullen Prog. Blooming Grove
3 Rudy W. Roethlisberger Rep. Verona
13 Dodge 1 Elmer L. Genzmer Dem. Mayville
2 Jesse A. Canniff Rep. Beaver Dam
01 Door Alex Meunier Rep. Sturgeon Bay
11 Douglas 1 Frank D. Sheahan Prog. Superior
2 Arthur Lenroot Jr. Rep. Superior
29 Dunn Earl W. Hanson Rep. Elk Mound
28 Eau Claire John T. Pritchard Rep. Eau Claire
30 Florence, Forest, & Oneida Walter S. Fisher Rep. Minocqua
18 Fond du Lac 1 William J. Nuss Rep. Fond du Lac
2 Alfred Van De Zande Rep. Campbellsport
16 Grant 1 William H. Goldthorpe Rep. Cuba City
2 Hugh A. Harper Rep. Lancaster
17 Green Harry A. Keegan Rep. Monroe
18 Green Lake & Waushara Halbert W. Brooks Rep. Green Lake
17 Iowa Glenn H. James Rep. Montfort
12 Iron & Vilas Alex J. Raineri Rep. Hurley
32 Jackson Casper D. Waller Prog. Black River Falls
33 Jefferson Palmer F. Daugs Dem. Lake Mills
31 Juneau Pat W. Brunner Rep. Lyndon Station
22 Kenosha 1 Frederick Pfennig Rep. Kenosha
2 Matt G. Siebert Dem. Salem
01 Kewaunee Joseph M. Mleziva Rep. Luxemburg
32 La Crosse 1 Edward C. Krause Rep. La Crosse
2 Ernest F. Storandt Rep. West Salem
17 Lafayette Henry Youngblood Rep. Wiota
30 Langlade Clair Finch Rep. Antigo
25 Lincoln James H. Hamlin Rep. Merrill
01 Manitowoc 1 Otto A. Vogel Prog. Manitowoc
2 Frank E. Riley Rep. Two Rivers
25 Marathon 1 Martin C. Lueck Rep. Hamburg
2 Paul A. Luedtke Rep. Wausau
30 Marinette Orin W. Angwall Rep. Marinette
09 Milwaukee 1 Charles P. Greene Dem. Milwaukee
06 2 Michael F. O'Connell Dem. Milwaukee
08 3 Alfred Swendson Dem. Greendale
09 4 Frank E. Schaeffer Jr. Dem. Milwaukee
03 5 Mary O. Kryszak (died Jul. 16, 1945) Dem. Milwaukee
09 6 Le Roy Simmons Dem. Milwaukee
06 7 Clyde Follansbee Rep. Milwaukee
08 8 Douglas C. Steltz Dem. Milwaukee
05 9 Edward L. Graf Rep. Milwaukee
07 10 Leland McParland Dem. Cudahy
03 11 Ervin J. Ryczek Dem. Milwaukee
07 12 Peter Pyszczynski Dem. Milwaukee
04 13 William Nawrocki Dem. Milwaukee
14 John R. Devitt Rep. Milwaukee
05 15 Charles E. Collar Rep. Milwaukee
06 16 Ernest L. Riebau Rep. Milwaukee
07 17 Roman R. Blenski Dem. Milwaukee
06 18 Charles M. Fisher Dem. Milwaukee
05 19 Charles F. Westfahl Rep. Milwaukee
08 20 Milton F. Burmaster Rep. Wauwatosa
31 Monroe Alex L. Nicol Rep. Sparta
02 Oconto John E. Youngs Rep. Oconto
14 Outagamie 1 Fred H. Frank Rep. Appleton
2 Gustave Hanges Rep. Kimberly
20 Ozaukee Fred L. Feierstein (died Oct. 29, 1945) Rep. Random Lake
10 Pierce Selmer W. Gunderson Rep. Spring Valley
29 Polk Raymond A. Peabody Rep. Milltown
23 Portage John Kostuck Dem. Stevens Point
12 Price Mike Cummings Rep. Fifield
21 Racine 1 Carl C. Christensen Rep. Racine
2 Willis Frazell Rep. Racine
3 Randolph H. Runden Rep. Union Grove
27 Richland Vernon W. Thomson Rep. Richland Center
15 Rock 1 Edward Grassman Rep. Edgerton
2 Burger M. Engebretson Rep. Beloit
12 Rusk & Sawyer Nicholas Christman Rep. Tony
27 Sauk George J. Woerth Rep. Prairie du Sac
14 Shawano Charles Ebert Rep. Gresham
20 Sheboygan 1 John Schneider Jr. Dem. Sheboygan
2 Henry W. Timmer Rep. Waldo
10 St. Croix Elmer L. Rundell Rep. Roberts
24 Taylor Carl M. Nelson Rep. Medford
32 Trempealeau Chauncey E. Heath Rep. Osseo
16 Vernon Jerome H. Wheelock Rep. Viroqua
22 Walworth Ora R. Rice Rep. Delavan
13 Washington Theodore Holtebeck Rep. West Bend
33 Waukesha 1 Frederic Woodhead Rep. Waukesha
2 Alfred R. Ludvigsen Rep. Hartland
23 Waupaca Julius Spearbraker Rep. Clintonville
19 Winnebago 1 Edward M. Schneider (died Mar. 25, 1946) Rep. Oshkosh
2 James C. Fritzen (died Oct. 11, 1945) Rep. Neenah
24 Wood William W. Clark Rep. Vesper

Committees

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Senate committees

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  • Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Labor – M. R. Laird, chair
  • Senate Standing Committee on Committees – W. P. Knowles, chair
  • Senate Standing Committee on Conservation – T. G. Brown, chair
  • Senate Standing Committee on Contingent Expenditures – E. F. Hilker, chair
  • Senate Standing Committee on Corporations and Taxation – L. J. Fellenz, chair
  • Senate Standing Committee on Education and Public Welfare – W. A. Freehoff, chair
  • Senate Standing Committee on Highways – J. Miller, chair
  • Senate Standing Committee on the Judiciary – G. W. Buchen, chair
  • Senate Standing Committee on Legislative Procedure – C. Shearer, chair
  • Senate Standing Committee on State and Local Government – B. Gettelman, chair
  • Senate Standing Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs – R. Schlabach, chair

Assembly committees

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  • Assembly Standing Committee on Agriculture – O. R. Rice, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce and Manufactures – E. Grassman, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Conservation – J. E. Youngs, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Contingent Expenditures – A. A. Lenroot, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Education – W. W. Clark, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Elections – C. E. Collar, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Engrossed Bills – H. Youngblood, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Enrolled Bills – F. E. Riley, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Excise and Fees – F. Pfennig, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Highways – H. A. Keegan, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Insurance and Banking – B. M. Engebretson, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on the Judiciary – V. W. Thomson, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Labor – G. Benson, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Municipalities – E. C. Krause, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Printing – J. C. Chapple, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Public Welfare – E. W. Hanson, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Rules – W. J. Nuss, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on State Affairs – A. E. Austin, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Taxation – J. A. Canniff, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Third Reading – F. L. Feierstein, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Transportation – A. Van De Zande, chair
  • Assembly Standing Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs – C. C. Christensen, chair

Joint committees

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  • Joint Standing Committee on Finance – G. H. Hipke (Sen.) & J. Spearbraker (Asm.), co-chairs
  • Joint Standing Committee on Revisions, Repeals, and Uniform Laws – G. W. Buchen (Sen.) & C. F. Westfahl (Asm.), co-chairs

Employees

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Senate employees

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  • Chief Clerk: Lawrence R. Larsen[4]
  • Sergeant-at-Arms: Harold Damon
    • Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: Kenneth Hoard

Assembly employees

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  • Chief Clerk: Arthur L. May[4]
    • Assistant Chief Clerk: Joseph S. Einberger
  • Sergeant-at-Arms: Norris J. Kellman
    • Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: J. Irvin Thomas

Notes

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  1. ^ Republican Melvin R. Laird Sr. (24th District) died.
  2. ^ Democrat Mary O. Kryszak (Milwaukee County) died.
  3. ^ Republican James C. Fritzen (Winnebago County) died.
  4. ^ Republican Fred L. Feierstein (Ozaukee County) died.
  5. ^ Republican Edward M. Schneider (Winnebago County) died.
  6. ^ Republican John C. Chapple (Ashland County) died.

References

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  1. ^ a b Barish, Lawrence S.; Lemanski, Lynn, eds. (2021). "Historical Lists" (PDF). State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2021–2022 (Report). Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. pp. 468, 471, 475, 479–480. ISBN 978-1-7333817-1-0. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  2. ^ "Progressives Reluctantly go Republican". The Capital Times. March 18, 1946. p. 1. Retrieved July 26, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b Ohm, Howard F.; Kuehn, Hazel L., eds. (1946). "Members of the Legislature". The Wisconsin Blue Book 1946 (Report). Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library. pp. 23–70. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  4. ^ a b Ohm, Howard F.; Kuehn, Hazel L., eds. (1946). "The State Government: Legislative Branch". The Wisconsin Blue Book 1946 (Report). Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library. pp. 251–258. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
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