• Source: 52nd Wisconsin Legislature

The Fifty-Second Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 13, 1915, to August 24, 1915, in regular session, and re-convened in a special session on October 10 and October 11, 1916.
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, 1914. 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, 1912.




Major events


May 7, 1915: The ocean liner RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sunk off the coast of Ireland.
January 24, 1916: The U.S. Supreme Court decided the case Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., affirming the constitutionality of the federal income tax.
March 8, 1916: Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa led a force across the border into the U.S. state of New Mexico, killing twelve U.S. soldiers.
March 15, 1916: In response to the New Mexico raid, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson ordered 12,000 U.S. military personnel to cross into Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa.
April 4, 1916: Judge Franz C. Eschweiler was elected justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to succeeded William H. Timlin.
May 4, 1916: The German Empire issued the Sussex pledge in an attempt to appease the United States over the issue of unrestricted submarine warfare.
May 16, 1916: Following a coup in the Dominican Republic, United States marines landed in the country and began an eight-year occupation.
May 22, 1916: The U.S. Supreme Court decided the case Wisconsin v. Phila. & Reading Coal Co., finding that Wisconsin's corporate regulations placed an unconstitutional burden on corporations operating in Wisconsin but incorporated in other states.
June 13, 1916: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Defense Act of 1916, expanding the National Guard and creating an Officers Reserve Corps, Enlisted Reserve Corps, and the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and expanding the powers of the President to federalize the National Guard.
July 30, 1916: German saboteurs caused the Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey, destroying an American ammunition depot and killing seven people.
August 21, 1916: Wisconsin Supreme Court justice William H. Timlin died in office.
August 30, 1916: Governor Emanuel L. Philipp appointed Franz C. Eschweiler to begin his term early on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, following the death of justice William H. Timlin.
November 7, 1916: 1916 United States general election:
Woodrow Wilson re-elected President of the United States.
Emanuel L. Philipp re-elected Governor of Wisconsin.
Robert M. La Follette re-elected United States senator from Wisconsin.




Major legislation


July 15, 1915: An Act ... abolishing the offices of state fish and game warden, state board of forestry, state conservation commission, commissioners of fisheries and the state park board, and providing for the appointment of a state conservation commission of Wisconsin, and making an appropriation, 1915 Act 406. Created the Wisconsin Conservation Commission.
July 19, 1915: An Act ... abolishing the state board of agriculture, the state board of immigration, the board of veterinary examiners, the state live stock sanitary board, the state inspector of apiaries, the state orchard and nursery inspector and the office of state veterinarian as now established ... creating a department of agriculture, a state live stock sanitary board, the office of state entomologist, a state fair advisory board, and prescribing their powers and duties, and making an appropriation, 1915 Act 413. Created the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and transformed several other farm examination entities.




Party summary






= Senate summary

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= Assembly summary

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Sessions


1st Regular session: January 13, 1915 – August 24, 1915
October 1916 special session: October 10, 1916 – October 11, 1916




Leaders






= Senate leadership

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President of the Senate: Edward Dithmar (R)
President pro tempore: Edward T. Fairchild (R–Milwaukee) (until Sep. 25, 1916)




= Assembly leadership

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Speaker of the Assembly: Lawrence C. Whittet (R–Edgerton)




Members






= Members of the Senate

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Members of the Senate for the Fifty-Second Wisconsin Legislature:




= Members of the Assembly

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Members of the Assembly for the Fifty-Second Wisconsin Legislature:




Committees






= Senate committees

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Senate Standing Committee on Contingent Expenditures – R. W. Monk, chair
Senate Standing Committee on Corporations – O. Bosshard, chair
Senate Standing Committee on Education and Public Welfare – M. W. Perry, chair
Senate Standing Committee on the Judiciary – T. Burke, chair
Senate Standing Committee on Legislative Procedure – E. Fairchild, chair
Senate Standing Committee on State Affairs – W. T. Stevens, chair
Senate Special Committee on Committees – T. Burke, chair
Senate Special Committee on Conservation – E. Ackley, chair
Senate Special Committee on Highways – W. J. Bichler, chair




= Assembly committees

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Assembly Standing Committee on Agriculture – H. J. Grell, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce and Manufactures – C. K. Ellingson, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Contingent Expenditures – F. Hess, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Education – S. A. Schindler, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Elections – C. Paulus, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Engrossed Bills – E. Heathcote, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Enrolled Bills – D. L. Dobie, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Excise and Fees – J. M. Engebretson, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Fish and Game – B. N. Moran, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Insurance and Banking – H. M. Laursen, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on the Judiciary – G. P. Hambrecht, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Labor – A. J. Winegar, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Municipalities – R. J. Nye, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Printing – C. Pieper, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Public Welfare – W. A. Kay, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Revision – F. S. Hanson, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Rules – L. C. Whittet, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on State Affairs – Ax. Johnson, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Taxation – G. Harrington, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Third Reading – H. S. Berninger, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Transportation – E. A. Everett, chair
Assembly Special Committee on Rules – L. C. Whittet, chair




= Joint committees

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Joint Standing Committee on Finance – G. E. Scott (Sen.) & F. W. Kubasta (Asm.), co-chairs
Joint Special Committee on Investigations of State Boards and Commissions – E. Fairchild (Sen.), chair




Employees






= Senate employees

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Chief Clerk: Oliver G. Munson
Assistant Chief Clerk: C. E. Mullen
Journal Clerk: W. N. Mackin
Assistant Journal Clerk: James B. Ackley
Bookkeeper: Carle E. Dietze
Assistant Bookkeeper: Henry C. Priester
Engrossing Clerk: A. J. Nelson
Index Clerk: L. H. Cannon
Revision Clerk: D. J. Hotchkiss
Clerk of the Committee on Corporations: A. C. Miller
Clerk of the Committee on Education and Public Welfare: R. H. Hillyer
Clerk of the Committee on Finance: Arthur F. Steffen
Clerk of the Committee on Highways: L. G. Vogt
Clerk of the Committee on the Judiciary: Paul C. Bode
Clerk of the Committee on State Affairs: A. A. Heinrich
Stenographic Reporter: Roy E. Gordon
Stenographers:
E. L. Stapleton
Albert R. Millett
W. J. Van Den Berg
Mailing Clerk: E. G. Cooper
Sergeant-at-Arms: F. E. Andrews
Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: Edward F. McCarthy
Document Clerk: Emil Hartman
Day Police: Edward J. Samp
Night Police: Archibald McQuarrie
Gallery Police: Albert Daley
Night Laborers:
Arlie M. Mucks
Stewart S. Williams
Postmaster: Frank E. Riley
Messengers:
John Lorigan
Robert Kilgust
H. B. Haley
Harvey C. Hartwig
Herbert N. Marsh
Orin F. Neibuhr
Robert A. Cobban
Merlin Conley
Paul W. Dietz
John E. McNeil




= Assembly employees

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Chief Clerk: C. E. Shaffer
Journal Clerk: W. W. Jones
Assistant Journal Clerk: Charles E. Tuffley
Bookkeeper: W. J. Goldschmidt
Assistant Bookkeeper: J. C. Hawker
General Clerks:
W. F. Bart
M. B. Pinkerton
Index Clerk: Paul M. Brown
Proofreaders and Enrolling Clerks:
H. E. Whipple
Geo. F. Sharpe
Mailing Clerk: Edwin L. Shaffer
Stenographers:
W. E. Kirk
A. H. Gardiner
Alvah V. Gruhn
C. E. Thayer
N. E. Lummerding
M. B. Allison
Norman L. Anderson
G. E. Wuensch
L. M. Mielke
Frank Robotka
Henry G. Lee
William Sneeberger
Louis G. Meisenheimer
Typists:
L. L. Oeland
Harry J. Campaign
Emil Lusthaus
P. J. Knippel
Sergeant-at-Arms: William S. Irvine
Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: Olaf Goldstrand
Document Room Custodian: Helmer O. Femrite
Assistant Document Room Custodian: John D. Morner
Floor Police: Ernest F. Wright
Cloak Room Attendant: Peter Duex
Gallery Police:
Elmer R. Meacham
C. H. Sanderson
Cloak Room Attendant: Martin Olson
Night Laborer: Hilding E. Anderson
Night Watch: C. C. Fenn
Postmaster: Geo. M. Emerich
Post Office Messenger: Julius O. Hembre
Messengers:
Frank P. Vogt
Meade Durbrow
Helmer Hembre
M. M. Arnold
R. L. Jacobson
John W. Holm
George R. Qualey
B. C. Wilcox
A. H. Emerson
C. A. Meister
L. F. Greeley
Benjamin Glass
Paul W. Lappley
Orville Radke




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