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Wisconsin Senate, District 8

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Region served
  
North of Milwaukee

Website
  
Official Site

Location
  
Eastern Wisconsin

Parent organization
  
Wisconsin Legislature

Senator
  
Alberta Darling


Type
  
District of the Upper House

The 8th District of the Wisconsin Senate is located in Southern Wisconsin, and is composed of parts of Milwaukee County, Ozaukee County, and Washington County.

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Current elected officials

Alberta Darling is the senator serving the 8th district. She was first elected in 1992, and has been re-elected every four years since.

The area of the 8th Senate District contains three State Assembly Districts:

  • The 22nd (represented by Don Pridemore)
  • The 23rd (represented by Jim Ott)
  • The 24th (represented by Dan Knodl)

    • The district is also located within Wisconsin's 5th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin's 6th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Tom Petri, and Wisconsin's 4th congressional district which is represented by U.S. Representative Gwen Moore.

    Past senators

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

    The Eighth District as originally created consisted of Green County. It was represented by:

  • Elisha Gardner, 1848–49
  • William Rittenhouse, 1850–51
  • Thomas Bowen, 1852

    • The legislature was redistricted completely before the 1852 election.

  • John Sharpstein, 1853
  • Levi Grant, 1854
  • Francis Paddock, 1855
  • Christopher Latham Sholes, 1856–57
  • Samuel R. McClellan, 1858–59
  • George Bennett, 1860–61
  • Herman Thorp, 1862–63
  • Anthony Van Wyck, 1864–65, 1868–69
  • Charles Sholes, 1866–67
  • Milton Pettit, 1870–71 (elected Lieutenant Governor)
  • Samuel Pratt, 1872–73
  • Thompson Weeks, 1874–1875
  • Asahel Farr, 1876–77
  • Benoni Reynolds, 1878–79
  • Joseph V. Quarles, 1880–81
  • Charles Palmetier, 1882–83
  • Walter Maxwell, 1885–88
  • James C. Reynolds, 1889–92
  • Michael Kruszka, 1893–96
  • Julius Edward Roehr, 1897–1908
  • John C. Kleczka, 1909–1911 (later elected to U.S. Congress)
  • Alexander E. Martin, 1913–1916
  • Frank Raguse, 1917 (Socialist; expelled from the Senate for suggesting that the sinking of the Maine was plotted by the McKinley administration)
  • Louis Fons, 1918–20
  • George Czerwinski, 1921–24
  • Harry Daggett, 1925–32
  • William Shenners, Jr., 1933–36
  • Allen Busby, 1937–72
  • James Flynn (politician), 1973–1982
  • Joseph Czarnezki, 1983–92

    • References

    Wisconsin Senate, District 8 Wikipedia
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