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    • Legislative Time Capsule - 59th Legislature (1955-1956)

    Session Dates (All Sessions)

      Convened Adjourned Calendar Days Legislative Days - House Legislative Days - Senate
    1955
    		1/4/1955 4/21/1955 108 79 78
    1955 1st Special Session
    To provide for adoption of revenue measures to balance appropriations already passed. Matters considered: Adopted foundation aid formula; provided for appropriations; increased income tax rates and other taxes; proposed constitutional amendment to use occupation tax receipts for current education expenditures.         		4/26/1955 4/26/1955 1 1 1

    Legislation (All Sessions)

      House - Bills Introduced Senate - Bills Introduced Laws Resolutions
    1955 1869 1638 882   Search 8
    1955 1st Special Session 4 8 6   Search 0

    Other Information

    Vetoes (All Sessions)

      Full Bills Vetoed
    (including pockets)    		 Pocket Vetoes Bills with Line Item Vetoes [# of lines vetoed] TOTAL
    Full Bills Vetoed + Lines Vetoed    		 TOTAL
    Full Bills Vetoed + Bills with Lines Vetoed
    1955 2 1 0   [0] 2 2
    1955 1st Special Session 0 0 0   [0] 0 0

    Legislators

    All House Senate

    Leadership         

    Speaker of the House Alfred I. Johnson  (Nonpartisan Election-Liberal Caucus)
    House Majority Leader Frederick Anthony Cina  (Nonpartisan Election-Liberal Caucus)
    House Minority Leader John A. Hartle  (Nonpartisan Election-Conservative Caucus)
    President of the Senate This position was handled multiple ways historically - See full list
    Senate Majority Leader Archie H. Miller  (Nonpartisan Election-Conservative Caucus)
    Senate Minority Leader Harold W. Schultz, Sr.  (Nonpartisan Election-Liberal Caucus)

    Officers

    Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives George H. Leahy
    House Sergeant-at-Arms Fred Denfeld
    Secretary of the Senate Herbert Y. Torrey
    Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Bert M. Lennon

    Election Results

    - Selected election results are available at this page.

    Party Control of the House of Representatives (All Sessions)

    Date Event Note Total Seats C/R/IR L/DFL Other Margin
    1/4/1955 Convenes [Total seats possible = 131] 131 65 66 0 1
    C=Conservative  R=Republican  IR=Independent Republican  L=Liberal  DFL=Democratic-Farmer-Labor

    Party Control of the Senate (All Sessions)

    Date Event Note Total Seats C/R/IR L/DFL Other Margin
    1/4/1955 Convenes [Total seats possible = 67] 67 48 19 0 29
    C=Conservative  R=Republican  IR=Independent Republican  L=Liberal  DFL=Democratic-Farmer-Labor

    House Committees

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    Governor (Full List)

    Orville Freeman (Democratic-Farmer-Labor)