Wisconsin Senate, District 1

The 1st District of the Wisconsin Senate is located in Eastern Wisconsin, and is currently composed of Brown, Door, Kewaunee, and Calumet Counties. The district does not contain, but is adjacent to the Green Bay area.^[1]

Current elected officials

Caleb Frostman is the current senator serving the 1st district. He was elected in 2018 in a special election to replace Frank Lasee, who resigned in December 2017.^[2]

The area of the 1st Senate District contains three State Assembly Districts:^[3]

• The 1st (represented by Joel Kitchens)
• The 2nd (represented by Andre Jacque)
• The 3rd (represented by Ron Tusler).

The district is also located within Wisconsin's 8th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Reid Ribble.^[4][5]

Past senators

At Wisconsin statehood, the Senate had only 19 districts. The 1st District consisted of Brown, Calumet, Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties.^[6] It elected:

• Harrison C. Hobart, 1848; a Democrat from Sheboygan
• Lemuel Goodell, 1849–1850; a Democrat from Stockbridge
• Theodore Conkey, 1851–1852; a Democrat from Appleton

For the 1853 session, the Senate was expanded to 25 members, and the 1st District lost Brown County. The new District elected:

• Horatio N. Smith, 1853–1854; a Democrat from Sheboygan
• David Taylor, 1855–1856; a Republican from Sheboygan
• Elijah Fox Cook, 1857–1858; a Republican from Sheboygan

For the 1859 session, the Senate was again expanded, to 30 members, and the District was reduced to Sheboygan County alone (the rest of the district became the new 19th District); the new 1st District elected:

• Robert H. Hotchkiss, 1859–1860; a Democrat from Plymouth
• Luther H. Cary, 1861–1862; a Republican from Greenbush

As of 1862, the Senate expanded to 33 seats, a size it would retain well into the 21st century; the 1st District remained unchanged. It elected:

• John E. Thomas, 1863–1864; a Democrat from Sheboygan Falls
• John A. Bentley, 1865–1866; elected on the National Union ticket with Abraham Lincoln (a Republican) and Andrew Johnson (a Democrat), from Sheboygan
• Van Eps Young, 1867; a National Union candidate from Sheboygan
• Robert H. Hotchkiss, 1868, returned to his old seat from Plymouth
• David Taylor, 1869–1870, returned to his old seat from Sheboygan
• John H. Jones, 1871–1872; a Republican from Sheboygan
• Patrick H. O'Rourk (or O'Rourke), 1873–1874; a Democrat from Lyndon
• Enos Eastman, 1875–1876; a Democrat from Plymouth

The Senate was totally redistricted in 1876; Sheboygan County was now part of the 20th Senate District (along with part of Fond du Lac County). The new 1st District was made up of Door Kewaunee, Oconto and Shawano counties, which had previously been part of the 2nd and 8th Districts. This completely new district elected:

• George Grimmer, 1877–1880; a Republican from Kewaunee
• William A. Ellis, 1881–1882; a Republican from Peshtigo
• Edward S. Minor, 1883–1886; a Republican from Sturgeon Bay (later became a Congressman)
• Edward Scofield, 1887–1890; a Republican from Oconto (later became Governor)
• John Fetzer, 1891–1894; a Democrat from Forestville
• De Wayne Stebbins, 1895–1902; a Republican from Algoma
• Harlan P. Bird, 1903–1910; a Republican from Waunakee
• M. W. Perry, 1911–1918; a Republican from Algoma
• Herbert Peterson, 1919–1922; a Republican from Sturgeon Bay
• John E. Cashman, 1923–1938; from Denmark, initially a Republican, later a Progressive
• Francis A. Yindra, 1939–1940; a Democrat from Manitowoc
• John E. Cashman, 1941–1946; Progressive, returned to his old seat from Denmark
• Everett F. LaFond, 1947–1954; Republican from Two Rivers
• Alfred A. Laun Jr., 1955–1962
• Alex Meunier, 1963–1970
• Jerome Martin, 1971–1976
• Alan Lasee, 1977–2011^[7]
• Frank Lasee, 2011–2017

Note: the boundaries of districts have changed over history. Previous politicians of a specific numbered district have represented a different geographic area, due to redistricting.

See also

Political subdivisions of Wisconsin

Notes