16th Wisconsin Legislature

16th Wisconsin Legislature
	Wisconsin State Capitol, 1863
Overview
Legislative body	Wisconsin Legislature
Meeting place	Wisconsin State Capitol
Term	January 1, 1863 – January 1, 1864
Election	November 4, 1862
Senate
Members	33
Senate President	Vacant
President pro tempore	Wyman Spooner (R)
Party control	Republican
Assembly
Members	99
Assembly Speaker	J. Allen Barber (R)
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st	January 14, 1863 – April 2, 1863

The Sixteenth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 14, 1863, to April 2, 1863, 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. Assembly members were elected to a one-year term. Assembly members and even-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 4, 1862. 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 5, 1861.[1]

Major events

January 1, 1863: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect.
April 30–May 8, 1863: Battle of Chancellorsville took place in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Six regiments of Wisconsin Volunteers participated in the battle.
May 18–July 4, 1863: Siege of Vicksburg took place in Warren County, Mississippi. Seventeen regiments of Wisconsin Volunteers participated in the siege.
July 1–3, 1863: Battle of Gettysburg took place near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Six regiments of Wisconsin Volunteers participated in the battle. Future-Governor of Wisconsin Lucius Fairchild and future State Treasurer Henry Baetz were wounded.
November 3, 1863: James T. Lewis elected Governor of Wisconsin.

Major legislation

March 13, 1863: Joint Resolution recommending Colonels J. C. Starkweather and Geo. E. Bryant to promotion, 1863 Joint Resolution 2
March 25, 1863: Joint Resolution relative to adopting state flag, 1863 Joint Resolution 4
March 26, 1863: Act to provide for continuing the work on the state capitol, 1863 Act 107
March 28, 1863: Act to authorize the borrowing of money to repel invasion, suppress insurrection and defend the state in time of war, 1863 Act 157
April 1, 1863: Act authorizing the governor to take care of the sick and wounded soldiers of the Wisconsin volunteers, and appropriating money out of the treasury for that purpose, 1863 Act 196
April 1, 1863: Act to provide for compensating parties whose property may be injured or destroyed in consequence of mobs or riots, 1863 Act 211
April 1, 1863: Act to provide for the enrollment of persons liable to perform military duty, and the organization of the state militia for active service, 1863 Act 242
April 2, 1863: Act to provide for the relief of families of persons who may die in the military service of the United States or of the state of Wisconsin, 1863 Act 264

Party summary

Senate

	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)			Total

	Democratic	Union	Republican		Vacant
End of previous Legislature	11	2	20	33	0

1st Session	14	1	18	33	0

Final voting share	42%	3%	55%

Beginning of the next Legislature	11	22	0	33	0

Assembly

	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)			Total

	Democratic	Union	Republican		Vacant
End of previous Legislature	46	10	42	98	1

Start of 1st Session	45	2	52	99	0
after February 8	44	2	53	99	0

Final voting share	44%	2%	54%

Beginning of the next Legislature	29	70	0	99	0

Sessions

1st Regular session: January 14, 1863 – April 2, 1863

Leaders

Senate

President of the Senate: Vacant
President pro tempore: Wyman Spooner

Assembly

Speaker of the Assembly: J. Allen Barber

Members

Senate

Members of the Wisconsin Senate for the Sixteenth Wisconsin Legislature:[2]

District	Counties	Senator	Party
1	Sheboygan	John E. Thomas	Democrat
2	Brown, Kewaunee	Edward Hicks	Democrat
3	Ozaukee	John R. Bohan	Democrat
4	Washington	Frederick O. Thorpe	Democrat
5	Northern Milwaukee	William K. Wilson	Democrat
6	Southern Milwaukee	Edward Keogh	Democrat
7	Racine	Timothy D. Morris	Republican
8	Kenosha	Herman S. Thorp	Republican
9	Adams, Juneau, Waushara	Alanson M. Kimball	Republican
10	Waukesha	George C. Pratt	Democrat
11	Eastern Dane	Willard H. Chandler	Republican
12	Walworth	Wyman Spooner	Republican
13	Lafayette	James H. Earnest	Democrat
14	Sauk	Smith S. Wilkinson	Republican
15	Iowa	George L. Frost	Democrat
16	Grant	Milas K. Young	Republican
17	Rock	William A. Lawrence	Republican
18	Western Dodge	Joe Rich	Democrat
19	Manitowoc, Calumet	Joseph Vilas, Jr.	Democrat
20	Fond du Lac	George W. Mitchell	Democrat
21	Winnebago	Joseph B. Hamilton	Republican
22	Door, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawanaw	Thomas R. Hudd	Democrat
23	Jefferson	J. D. Clapp	Democrat
24	Green	Edmund A. West	Republican
25	Columbia	Jonathan Bowman	Republican
26	Western Dane	Benjamin F. Hopkins	Republican
27	Marathon, Portage, Waupaca, Wood	Alexander S. McDill	Republican
28	Ashland, Burnett, Dallas, Douglas, La Pointe, Pierce, Polk, St. Croix	Herman L. Humphrey	Union
29	Marquette, Green Lake	Charles S. Kelsey	Republican
30	Bad Ax, Crawford, Richland	William S. Purdy	Republican
31	La Crosse, Monroe	Angus Cameron	Republican
32	Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson, Pepin, Trempealeau	M. D. Bartlett	Republican
33	Eastern Dodge	Satterlee Clark, Jr.	Republican

Assembly

Members of the Assembly for the Sixteenth Wisconsin Legislature:[2]

Counties		Representative	Party
Adams		Otis B. Lapham	Republican
Ashland, Burnett, Dallas, Douglas, La Pointe, Polk		Henry D. Barron	Union
Brown		Frederick S. Ellis	Democrat
Buffalo, Pepin, Trempealeau		Alfred W. Newman	Republican
Calumet		James Robinson	Democrat
Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire		William H. Smith	Democrat
Clark, Jackson		Carl C. Pope	Republican
Columbia	1	A. J. Turner	Republican
	2	John Q. Adams	Republican
	3	Yates Ashley	Republican
Crawford		James Fisher	Democrat
Dane	1	Charles R. Head	Republican
	2	William H. Miller	Republican
	3	Alden Sprague Sanborn	Democrat
	4	George Wright	Republican
	5	George Hyer	Republican
Dodge	1	Oliver Ashley	Republican
	2	John F. McCollum	Democrat
	3	Oscar F. Jones	Democrat
	4	Albert Burtch	Democrat
	5	Ferdinand Wagner	Democrat
Door, Oconto, Shawano		George Clay Ginty	Republican
Fond du Lac	1	William Starr	Republican
	2	Freeman M. Wheeler	Republican
	3	Edwin H. Galloway	Republican
	4	Samuel O'Hara	Democrat
	5	Egbert Foster	Democrat
Grant	1	John Harms Until February 8	Democrat
	1	From February 8 John H. Rountree	Republican
	2	James F. Chapman	Democrat
	3	J. Allen Barber	Republican
	4	William W. Field	Republican
	5	Robert Glenn	Republican
Green	1	Walter S. Wescott	Republican
Green	2	Ezra Wescott	Republican
Green Lake		Samuel W. Smith	Union
Iowa	1	David McFarland	Democrat
Iowa	2	John H. Vivian	Republican
Jefferson	1	Emil Rothe	Democrat
	2	Nathan S. Greene	Republican
	3	Lucien B. Caswell	Republican
	4	James M. Bingham	Republican
Juneau		James B. Frazell	Democrat
Kenosha		Benjamin T. Hatch	Republican
Kewaunee		Matthias Simon	Democrat
La Crosse		Enos M. Philips	Republican
Lafayette	1	Joseph White	Democrat
Lafayette	2	Lloyd T. Pullen	Republican
Manitowoc	1	Daniel Shanahan	Democrat
	2	James Cahill	Democrat
	3	Elijah K. Rand	Democrat
Marathon, Wood		Levi P. Powers	Democrat
Marquette		Horatio S. Thomas	Democrat
Milwaukee	1	John Sharpstein	Democrat
	2	George Abert	Democrat
	3	John W. Eviston	Democrat
	4	Martin Larkin, Jr.	Democrat
	5	Peter V. Deuster	Democrat
	6	Adam Poertner	Democrat
	7	John Hanrahan	Democrat
	8	Edward Collins	Democrat
	9	John Bentley	Democrat
Monroe		William W. Jackson	Republican
Outagamie		Byron Douglas	Democrat
Ozaukee		Robert Power	Democrat
Pierce, St. Croix		Charles B. Cox	Republican
Portage		Enoch Webster	Republican
Racine	1	Horatio T. Taylor	Republican
	2	Orlando C. Munroe	Republican
	3	Hiram L. Gilmore	Republican
Richland		John Walworth	Republican
Rock	1	Jonathan Cory	Republican
	2	Joseph Spaulding	Republican
	3	Jacob Fowle	Republican
	4	C. Mortimer Treat	Republican
	5	Allen C. Bates	Republican
	6	Denison Alcott	Republican
Sauk	1	Alonzo Wilcox	Republican
Sauk	2	Argalus W. Starks	Republican
Sheboygan	1	Carl Zillier	Democrat
	2	Charles Oetling	Democrat
	3	Henry Hayes	Democrat
	4	Benjamin Dockstader	Republican
Vernon	1	James H. Layne	Republican
Vernon	2	Daniel B. Priest	Republican
Walworth	1	Samuel Pratt	Republican
	2	Thomas W. Hill	Republican
	3	Charles H. Sturtevant	Republican
	4	George H. Foster	Republican
Washington	1	Adam Schantz	Democrat
	2	Henry Hildebrandt	Democrat
	3	Martin Schottler	Democrat
Waukesha	1	Silas Richardson	Democrat
	2	Elisha W. Edgerton	Republican
	3	David G. Snover	Democrat
	4	Nelson Burroughs	Democrat
Waupaca		Albert K. Osborn	Republican
Waushara		William C. Webb	Republican
Winnebago	1	William E. Hanson	Republican
	2	Michael Hogan	Democrat
	3	Emery F. Davis	Republican

Employees

Senate

Chief Clerk: Frank M. Stewart[2]
- Assistant Clerk: J. M. Randall
- Engrossing Clerk: G. W. Campbell
- Enrolling Clerk: George W. Stoner
- Transcribing Clerk: J. J. Tschudy
Sergeant-at-Arms: Luther Basford
- Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: James L. Wilder
Postmaster: James L. Hosford
- Assistant Postmaster: John Van t'Woud
Doorkeeper: B. S. Miller
- Assistant Doorkeeper: Francis Mika
- Assistant Doorkeeper: Samuel Bachman
- Assistant Doorkeeper: Paul Halverson
Firemen:
- Alex Stilwell
- John Crowley
Messengers:
- J. E. Brown
- John Hutchins
- Albert F. Dexter
- Frank Kellogg
Porter: George E. Albee

Assembly

Chief Clerk: John S. Dean[2]
- Assistant Clerk: Ephraim W. Young
  - Bookkeeper: Merrick P. Wing
- Engrossing Clerk: Herbert A. Lewis
- Enrolling Clerk: S. Canning Fisher
- Transcribing Clerk: Henry C. Hadley
Sergeant-at-Arms: A. M. Thomson
- 1st Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: C. D. Lon
- 2nd Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: D. S. Hawley
Postmaster: M. B. Patchin
- 1st Assistant Postmaster: John B. Eugene
- 2nd Assistant Postmaster: Oscar Babcock
Doorkeeper: Franklin Kelly
- Assistant Doorkeeper: A. J. Fuller
- Assistant Doorkeeper: P. P. Davis
- Assistant Doorkeeper: William C. Lesure
Firemen:
- H. H. Hayward
- Philip Carey
- Iver Knudsen
Messengers:
- Adam Waltz
- James E. Dean
- Richard L. Hayward
- Edgar C. McLaughlin
- Patrick W. Lannen
- William H. Miller
- Louis Sholes
- George D. Potter
- Mark W. Bailey

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References

"Annals of the legislature". The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin 1882 (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 205–207. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
Dean, John S., ed. (1863). "Legislative department". The legislative manual of the state of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 76–77, 88–91. Retrieved October 20, 2019.

Notes

External links

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[1] "Annals of the legislature". The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin 1882 (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 205–207. Retrieved October 20, 2019.

[bb1863-2] Dean, John S., ed. (1863). "Legislative department". The legislative manual of the state of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 76–77, 88–91. Retrieved October 20, 2019.