• Source: 64th Wisconsin Legislature

The Sixty-Fourth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 11, 1939, to October 6, 1939, in regular session.
This session saw a significant reorganization of several state government functions, including the creation of the Department of Taxation, the Department of Public Welfare, the Department of Securities, and the Department of Motor Vehicles. This legislative term also coincided with the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
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 8, 1938. 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 3, 1936.




Major events


January 2, 1939: Inauguration of Julius P. Heil as the 30th Governor of Wisconsin.
February 10, 1939: Pope Pius XI died from a heart attack.
March 2, 1939: The 1939 papal conclave elected Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli as the next pope, he then took the papal name Pius XII.
March 15, 1939: German forces occupied the remaining independent portions of Bohemia and Moravia, abolishing the Republic of Czechoslovakia.
April 1, 1939: The Spanish Civil War came to an end when the last republican forces surrendered to the fascists.
April 3, 1939: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Reorganization Act of 1939, granting the president powers for two years to reorganize the executive branch.
July 1, 1939: The Executive Office of the President of the United States was established using the powers under the Reorganization Act of 1939.
July 4, 1939: Wisconsin U.S. representative Harry W. Griswold (WI-03) died in office.
August 2, 1939: Albert Einstein signed the Einstein–Szilard letter to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, advising him of the potential use of uranium to construct an atomic bomb.
August 23, 1939: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed pledging non-aggression between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence for the two empires.
September 1, 1939: German forces began the Invasion of Poland, inititating World War II.
September 3, 1939: The United Kingdom, France, New Zealand, Australia, and India declared war on Germany.
September 23, 1939: The recently completed Mississippi River Bridge at La Crosse, Wisconsin, was opened to traffic.
October 8, 1939: Germany officially annexed western Poland.
October 21, 1939: The first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium, a precursor of the Manhattan Project.
November 4, 1939: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing the sale of weapons to the United Kingdom and France.
November 30, 1939: Soviet forces invaded Finland, initiating the Winter War.
December 10, 1939: The Green Bay Packers won the 1939 NFL Championship Game.
March 5, 1940: Leaders of the Soviet Union signed the order leading to the Katyn massacre, mass executions of Polish intelligentsia.
March 12, 1940: The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War. Finland made territorial concessions to the Soviet Union.
April 9, 1940: German forces began Operation Weserübung, invading neutral countries Denmark and Norway.
May 10, 1940:
German forces began the invasion of the Low Countries and the Battle of France.
Neville Chamberlain resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in favor of Winston Churchill.
May 16, 1940: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt requested from Congress credit of $900 million for the construction of 50,000 airplanes per year.
May 17, 1940: German forces fully occupied the Netherlands, ending the Battle of Netherlands.
June 4, 1940: The Dunkirk evacuation ended after safely evacuating 338,226 British and allied soldiers from German-occupied Europe.
June 10, 1940: Italy declared war on the United Kingdom and France.
June 13, 1940: Paris was declared an open city to avoid destruction.
June 22, 1940: France and Germany signed the Armistice of 22 June 1940, ending the Battle of France. France was divided into a German occupied territory covering the north and west of the country, and a free state of Vichy France in the south.
July 10, 1940: The Battle of Britain began.
July 22, 1940: The United Kingdom refused a peace offer from Germany.
September 7, 1940: German air forces began a campaign of carpet bombing in Britain, known as The Blitz.
September 16, 1940: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940.
September 27, 1940: Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact.
November 5, 1940: 1940 United States general election:
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) re-elected President of the United States. The first and only time a president was elected to a third term.
Julius P. Heil (R) re-elected Governor of Wisconsin.
Robert M. La Follette Jr. (P) re-elected United States senator from Wisconsin.
November 11, 1940: The British Navy launched the first aircraft carrier strike in naval history against Italian naval units at the Battle of Taranto.
November 11–12, 1940: The 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard resulted in 154 deaths, including 13 in Wisconsin.
December 29, 1940: At one of his fireside chats, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt declared that the United States must become "the great arsenal of democracy."




Major legislation


1939 Act 57: Replaced the Wisconsin Labor Relations Board with the Employment Relations Board.
1939 Act 68: Created the Wisconsin Department of Securities to regulate the sale of stocks, bonds, etc.
1939 Act 85: Renamed the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Markets to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture.
1939 Act 410: Consolidated automobile registration, licensing, inspection, and enforcement with the Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles.
1939 Act 412: Created the Wisconsin Department of Taxation and the Wisconsin Board of Tax Appeals.
1939 Act 435: Created the Wisconsin Department of Public Welfare.




Party summary






= Senate summary

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= Assembly summary

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Sessions


Regular session: January 11, 1939 – October 6, 1939




Leaders






= Senate leadership

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President of the Senate: Walter S. Goodland (R)
President pro tempore: Edward J. Roethe (R–Fennimore)
Majority leader: Maurice Coakley (R–Beloit)
Minority leader: Philip E. Nelson (P–Maple)




= Assembly leadership

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Speaker of the Assembly: Vernon W. Thomson (R–Richland Center)




Members






= Members of the Senate

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Members of the Senate for the Sixty-Fourth Wisconsin Legislature:




= Members of the Assembly

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Members of the Assembly for the Sixty-Fourth Wisconsin Legislature:




Committees






= Senate committees

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Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Labor – C. Shearer, chair
Senate Standing Committee on Committees – H. W. Bolens, chair
Senate Standing Committee on Contingent Expenditures – M. Duel, chair
Senate Standing Committee on Corporations and Taxation – C. T. Young, chair
Senate Standing Committee on Education and Public Welfare – E. J. Roethe, chair
Senate Standing Committee on Highways – M. Mack, chair
Senate Standing Committee on the Judiciary – M. Coakley, chair
Senate Standing Committee on Legislative Procedure – E. J. Roethe, chair
Senate Standing Committee on State and Local Government – B. Gettelman, chair




= Assembly committees

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Assembly Standing Committee on Agriculture – O. R. Rice, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce and Manufactures – B. M. Engebretson, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Conservation – F. N. Graass, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Contingent Expenditures – E. Grassman, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Education – W. H. Goldthorpe, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Elections – M. Catlin, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Engrossed Bills – H. Youngblood, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Enrolled Bills – C. M. Nelson, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Excise and Fees – L. E. Douglass, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Highways – D. C. McDowell, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Insurance and Banking – M. Catlin, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on the Judiciary – R. W. Peterson, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Labor – A. R. Ludvigsen, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Municipalities – A. F. Hinz, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Printing – W. F. Miller, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Public Welfare – G. H. Hipke, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Revision – A. C. Grosvenor, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Rules – R. W. Peterson, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on State Affairs – C. A. Budlong, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Taxation – M. J. Fitzsimons, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Third Reading – L. T. Niemuth, chair
Assembly Standing Committee on Transportation – D. I. Hammergren, chair




= Joint committees

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Joint Standing Committee on Finance – O. Mueller (Sen.) & P. B. McIntyre (Asm.), co-chairs




Employees






= Senate employees

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Chief Clerk: Lawrence R. Larsen
Assistant Chief Clerk: Thomas M. Donahue
Sergeant-at-Arms: Emil A. Hartman
Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: Albert E. Daley




= Assembly employees

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Chief Clerk: John J. Slocum
Assistant Chief Clerk: Frederick W. Krez
Sergeant-at-Arms: Robert A. Merrill
Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: Phillip K. Lalor




Notes






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