18th Wisconsin Legislature
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Wisconsin State Capitol, 1863 | |||||
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
| Term | January 2, 1865 – January 1, 1866 | ||||
| Election | November 8, 1864 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | Wyman Spooner (U) | ||||
| President pro tempore | Willard H. Chandler (U) | ||||
| Party control | National Union | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 100 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | William W. Field (U) | ||||
| Party control | National Union | ||||
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The Eighteenth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 11, 1865, to April 10, 1865, in regular session.
Senators representing even-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 8, 1864. Senators representing odd-numbered districts were serving the second year of their two-year term, having been elected in the general election held on November 3, 1863.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican James T. Lewis, of Columbia County, serving the second year of a two-year term, having won election in the 1863 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.