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Senate Service
Longest Service (24 years or more): William Proxmire Alexander Wiley

Wisconsin Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions
President Pro Tempore: Matthew H. Carpenter Republican Conference Secretary: Robert W. Kasten, Jr. Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947: Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: William Proxmire Foreign Relations: Alexander Wiley Government Operations: Joseph R. McCarthy Judiciary: Alexander Wiley Special Aging: Herbert H. Kohl
Wisconsin Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection
Statuary: Pere Jacques Marquette by Gaetano Trentanove (House connecting corridor); Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. by Jo Davidson (Statuary Hall) Portraits: Robert M. LaFollette, Sr., by Chester La Follette, one of the five outstanding senators memorialized in the Senate Reception Room (S-213).

Unusual Facts
Henry Dodge represented Wisconsin in the Senate during the Thirtieth to Thirty-fourth congresses, while his son, Senator Augustus C. Dodge, was representing Iowa in the Thirtieth to Thirty-third congresses. The La Follette family held the same Senate seat from 1905 to 1947; Robert, Sr. served in the Fifty-ninth to Sixty-ninth congresses, and Robert, Jr., in the Sixty-ninth to Seventy-ninth congresses.


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