82nd Wisconsin Legislature
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| Legislative body | Wisconsin Legislature | ||||||||
| Meeting place | Wisconsin State Capitol | ||||||||
| Term | January 6, 1975 – January 3, 1977 | ||||||||
| Election | November 5, 1974 | ||||||||
| Senate | |||||||||
| Members | 33 | ||||||||
| Senate President | Martin J. Schreiber (D) | ||||||||
| President pro tempore | Fred Risser (D) | ||||||||
| Party control | Democratic | ||||||||
| Assembly | |||||||||
| Members | 99 | ||||||||
| Assembly Speaker | Norman C. Anderson (D) | ||||||||
| Speaker pro tempore | Edward Jackamonis (D) | ||||||||
| Party control | Democratic | ||||||||
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The Eighty-Second Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 6, 1975, to January 3, 1977, in regular session, and also convened in four special sessions.
This was the first legislative term since 1893, when the Democratic Party of Wisconsin held the Governor's office and majorities in both chambers of the Legislature.
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, 1974. 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, 1972.
The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Democrat Patrick Lucey, of Crawford County, serving the first two years of his second four-year term, having won re-election in the 1974 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.