68th Wisconsin Legislature
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||
| Term | January 6, 1947 – January 3, 1949 | ||||
| Election | November 5, 1946 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 33 | ||||
| Senate President | Oscar Rennebohm (R) (until Mar. 12, 1947) | ||||
| President pro tempore | Frank E. Panzer (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
| Assembly | |||||
| Members | 100 | ||||
| Assembly Speaker | Donald C. McDowell (R) | ||||
| Party control | Republican | ||||
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The Sixty-Eighth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 8, 1947, to September 11, 1947, in regular session, and reconvened in a special session in July 1948.
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, 1946. 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, 1944.
The governor of Wisconsin at the start of this legislative term was Republican Walter Samuel Goodland, of Racine County, serving the first months of his third two-year term, having won re-election in the 1946 Wisconsin gubernatorial election. Goodland died of a heart attack on March 12, 1947. At that time, the lieutenant governor, Republican Oscar Rennebohm, of Dane County, then ascended to become governor for the remainder of this legislative term.