Wisconsin Senate, District 8

Senate District 8
Type	District of the Upper House
Location	Eastern Wisconsin
Region served	North of Milwaukee
Senator	Alberta Darling
Parent organization	Wisconsin Legislature
Website	Official Site

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.^[1]

Current elected officials

District boundaries from 2002 to 2012

Alberta Darling is the senator serving the 8th district. She has served since 1992, and was re-elected in 2008 to another four-year term. Before serving as a senator, she held an office in the State Assembly, serving the 10th District from 1990 to 1993.^[2]

The area of the 8th Senate District contains three State Assembly Districts:^[3]

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,^[4] 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

Notes

External links

Alberta Darling official campaign site (2008)

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Wisconsin Senate, District 8

Current elected officials

Past senators

See also

Notes

External links