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    • Legislative Time Capsule - 60th Legislature (1957-1958)

    Session Dates (All Sessions)

      Convened Adjourned Calendar Days Legislative Days - House Legislative Days - Senate
    1957
    		1/8/1957 4/25/1957 108 75 79
    1957 1st Special Session
    To provide for appropriation and tax measures not adopted during regular session. Matters considered: Adopted omnibus tax measure; appropriated funds for buildings and general operation of state government; revised laws relating to the Railroad and Warehouse Commission; provided for reimbursement of utilities; adopted new salaries schedule for judges and changed judicial districts; changed retirement laws.         		4/30/1957 4/30/1957 1 1 1
    1958 2nd Special Session
    Unemployment benefits; Korean veterans' bonuses.         		6/23/1958 6/26/1958 4 4 4

    Legislation (All Sessions)

      House - Bills Introduced Senate - Bills Introduced Laws Resolutions
    1957 2097 1917 964   Search 15
    1957 1st Special Session 12 20 22   Search 0
    1958 2nd Special Session 15 9 3   Search 1

    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
    1957 5 4 0   [0] 5 5
    1957 1st Special Session 0 0 0   [0] 0 0
    1958 2nd 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 Aubrey W. Dirlam  (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 Clint Haroldson
    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
    1/8/1957 Convenes Seth R. Phillips and George E. Ericson contested the 1956 election the District 52 seat. The seat was declared vacant when the House convened and a special election was held. [Total seats possible = 131] 131 65 66 0 1
    2/28/1957 Special election Bob Renner (Nonpartisan Election-Conservative Caucus) won the special election for a House seat in District 52 on February 26, 1957. He was sworn in on February 28, 1957. 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
    1/8/1957 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)