Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district

Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district
Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Current Representative	Ron Kind (D–La Crosse)
Area	13,565.50 sq mi (35,134.5 km2)
Distribution	43.15% urban 56.85% rural
Population (2000)	670,462
Median income	40,006
Ethnicity	96.6% White 0.5% Black 1.2% Asian 0.9% Hispanic 0.6% Native American 0.2% other
Occupation	27.8% Blue-collar 53.6% White-collar 18.6% Gray-collar
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Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district is a U.S. congressional district covering much of the Driftless Area in southwestern and western Wisconsin. The district includes the cities of La Crosse and Eau Claire, as well as most of the Wisconsin side of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. It borders the states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. Democrat Ron Kind has represented the district since 1997.

The political nature of the district is moderate with a slight lean to the left, given its combination of an overall rural and suburban character counterbalanced by two significant urban centers (Eau Claire and La Crosse) and the Twin Cities suburbs. It historically elected moderate Republicans; before Kind's 1996 victory only two Democrats represented it in the 20th century.

John Kerry narrowly carried the district in 2004 with 51% of the vote. The district voted more Democratic in 2008, giving Barack Obama 58% of the vote and 41% to John McCain.

List of representatives

Congress(es)	Representative	Party	Years	Note
District created			March 4, 1849
31st 32nd	James Duane Doty	Democratic	March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851	[Data unknown/missing.]
		Independent Democrat	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853
33rd	John B. Macy	Democratic	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	[Data unknown/missing.]
34th 35th	Charles Billinghurst	Opposition	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857	[Data unknown/missing.]
		Republican	March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859
36th	Charles H. Larrabee	Democratic	March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861	[Data unknown/missing.]
37th	A. Scott Sloan	Republican	March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863	[Data unknown/missing.]
38th 39th 40th 41st	Amasa Cobb	Republican	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1871	[Data unknown/missing.]
42nd 43rd	J. Allen Barber	Republican	March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875	[Data unknown/missing.]
44th	Henry S. Magoon	Republican	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	[Data unknown/missing.]
45th 46th 47th	George Cochrane Hazelton	Republican	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883	[Data unknown/missing.]
48th	Burr W. Jones	Democratic	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885	[Data unknown/missing.]
49th 50th 51st	Robert M. La Follette, Sr.	Republican	March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1891	[Data unknown/missing.]
52nd	Allen R. Bushnell	Democratic	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893	[Data unknown/missing.]
53rd 54th 55th 56th 57th 58th 59th	Joseph W. Babcock	Republican	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1907	[Data unknown/missing.]
60th	James William Murphy	Democratic	March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1909	[Data unknown/missing.]
61st 62nd	Arthur W. Kopp	Republican	March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1913	[Data unknown/missing.]
63rd 64th 65th	John M. Nelson	Republican	March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1919	Redistricted from the 2nd district
66th	James G. Monahan	Republican	March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1921	[Data unknown/missing.]
67th 68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd	John M. Nelson	Republican	March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1933	[Data unknown/missing.]
73rd 74th 75th	Gardner R. Withrow	Republican	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	Redistricted from the 7th district
		Progressive	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939	[Data unknown/missing.]
76th	Harry W. Griswold	Republican	January 3, 1939 – July 4, 1939	Died
Vacant			July 4, 1939 – January 3, 1941
77th 78th 79th 80th	William H. Stevenson	Republican	January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1949	[Data unknown/missing.]
81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th 86th	Gardner R. Withrow	Republican	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1961	[Data unknown/missing.]
87th 88th 89th 90th 91st 92nd 93rd	Vernon Wallace Thomson	Republican	January 3, 1961 – December 31, 1974	Resigned
Vacant			December 31, 1974 – January 3, 1975
94th 95th 96th	Alvin Baldus	Democratic	January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1981	[Data unknown/missing.]
97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd 104th	Steve Gunderson	Republican	January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1997	[Data unknown/missing.]
105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th 111th 112th 113th 114th 115th	Ron Kind	Democratic	January 3, 1997 – Present	Incumbent

Election results from presidential races

Living former Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district

As of February 2017, one former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district is alive.

Historical district boundaries

2003 - 2013

See also

• Wisconsin's congressional districts
• List of United States congressional districts

References

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

External links

• Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District

Coordinates: 44°03′23″N 90°53′30″W / 44.05639°N 90.89167°W / 44.05639; -90.89167