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    • Legislative Time Capsule - 61st Legislature (1959-1960)

    Session Dates (All Sessions)

      Convened Adjourned Calendar Days Legislative Days - House Legislative Days - Senate
    1959
    		1/6/1959 4/21/1959 106 77 77
    1959 1st Special Session
    To provide for appropriation and tax measures not adopted during regular session. Matters considered: Adopted 90 laws relating to appropriations, taxation, salaries, retirement fees, distressed school districts, claims, reapportionment, daylight savings time, school laws recodification, interim commissions and local laws.         		4/25/1959 7/1/1959 68 48 45

    Legislation (All Sessions)

      House - Bills Introduced Senate - Bills Introduced Laws Resolutions
    1959 1895 1676 703   Search 8
    1959 1st Special Session 211 202 90   Search 2

    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
    1959 4 4 0   [0] 4 4
    1959 1st Special Session 0 0 0   [0] 0 0

    Leadership         

    Speaker of the House Edwin J. Chilgren  (Nonpartisan Election-Liberal Caucus)
    House Majority Leader Frederick Anthony Cina  (Nonpartisan Election-Liberal Caucus)
    House Minority Leader Lloyd L. Duxbury, Jr.  (Nonpartisan Election-Conservative Caucus)
    President of the Senate This position was handled multiple ways historically - See full list
    Senate Majority Leader John Matthew Zwach, Sr.  (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 Daniel J. McCarthy
    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
    1/6/1959 Convenes [Total seats possible = 131] 131 59 72 0 13
    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
    1/6/1959 Convenes [Total seats possible = 67] 67 43 24 0 19
    C=Conservative  R=Republican  IR=Independent Republican  L=Liberal  DFL=Democratic-Farmer-Labor

    House Committees

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    Senate Committees

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    Governor (Full List)

    Orville Freeman (Democratic-Farmer-Labor)