Wisconsin Senate, District 6

Senate District 6
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Type	District of the Upper House
Location	South-eastern Wisconsin;
Region served	Milwaukee area
Senator	Nikiya Harris (D)
Parent organization	Wisconsin Legislature
Website	Official Site

The 6th District of the Wisconsin Senate is located in Southern Wisconsin, and is composed of parts of Milwaukee County.^[1]

Current elected officials

Nikiya Harris is the senator serving the 6th district. Spencer Coggs had served since winning a primary during the 2003 recall election, thus unseating incumbent Gary George, and was re-elected in 2008 to another four-year term.^[2] In 2012, he was elected Treasurer of the City of Milwaukee; Coggs announce he would serve out the rest of his term to maintain the 16-16 split between Democrats and Republicans, but would not run for re-election.^[3]

There was a five-way race in the heavily-Democratic District. Candidates included Coggs' counsin Assemblywoman Elizabeth Coggs and Milwaukee County Supervisors Nikiya Harris and Michael Mayo. Harris won the August primary election (tantamount to election in this inner-city seat) with 47.9% of the vote.^[4] She won the November 2012 election, without an opponent.

The area of the 3rd Senate District contains three State Assembly Districts:^[5]

The 16th (represented by Leon Young)
The 17th (represented by La Tonya Johnson)
The 18th (represented by Evan Goyke)

The district is also located mostly within Wisconsin's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Gwen Moore.^[6]

Past senators

At Wisconsin statehood the Senate had only nineteen districts, and the 6th District centered on Platteville and the surrounding region. The district was represented by:

George Lakin - Whig, 1848-1849
John Rountree - Whig, 1850-1851
Joel Squires - Democrat 1852

After the fifth (1852) session of the state legislature, the Senate was expanded to 25 members. The Sixth District was now a Milwaukee County district, and would remain so well into the 21st century. It was represented by:

Duncan Reed - D, 1853
Edward McGarry - D, 1854-1855
Edward O'Neill - D, 1856-1857
Patrick Walsh - D, 1858-1859
Michael Egan - D, 1860-1861
Edward Keogh - D, 1862-1863
Hugh Reynolds - D, 1864-1865
Charles H. Larkin - D, 1866-1869
Peter V. Deuster - D, 1870-1871
John L. Mitchell - D, 1872-1873
John Black - D, 1874-1875
John L. Mitchell - D, 1876-1877
George Paul - D, 1878-1881
Enoch Chase - D, 1882-1883
Julius Wechselberg, - Republican, 1885-1888
Herman Kroeger - Union Labor, then D, 1889-1892
Oscar Altpeter - D, 1893-1896
William Devos - R, 1897-1902
Rip Reukema - R, 1903-1904
Winfield R. Gaylord - Soc., 1909-1912
George Weissleder - D, 1913-1917
Joseph Hirsch - Soc., 1921-1924
Joseph Padway - Soc., 1925-1926
Thomas N. Duncan - Soc., 1929-1932
Charles H. Phillips - D, 1933-1936
George Hampel - Prog., 1937-1944
Edward Reuther - D, 1945-1948
William A. Schmidt - D, 1949-1956
William Moser - D, 1957-1962
Martin J. Schreiber - D, 1963-1971
Mark Lipscomb, Jr. - D, 1971-1972
Monroe Swan - D, 1973-1980
Gary George - D, 1981-2003

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.

Notes

External links

District 6 Constituency Site

[1] District Map

[2] Taylor Biography

[3] Marley, Patrick. "Elizabeth Coggs to seek Senate seat her cousin is vacating" All Politics Blog Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online; April 17, 2012

[4] Henzl, Ann-Elise. "Nikiya Harris wins Bid for Spencer Coggs' Senate Seat" WUWM August 14, 2012

[5] District Map

[6] Congressional District Map

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