54th Wisconsin Legislature
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Wisconsin State Capitol ca.1915 | |||||
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
| Term | January 6, 1919 – January 3, 1921 | ||||
| Election | November 5, 1918 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | Edward Dithmar (R) | ||||
| President pro tempore | Willard T. Stevens (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 100 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | Riley S. Young (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
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The Fifty-Fourth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 8, 1919, to July 30, 1919, in regular session, and re-convened in two special sessions in September 1919 and May 1920.
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 5, 1918. 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 7, 1916.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican Emanuel L. Philipp, of Milwaukee County, serving his third two-year term, having won re-election in the 1918 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.