Wisconsin Senate, District 4
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| Type | District of the Upper House |
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Region served
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Milwaukee area |
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Senator
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Lena Taylor (D) |
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Parent organization
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Wisconsin Legislature |
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The 4th District of the Wisconsin Senate is located in Southern Wisconsin, and is composed of parts of Milwaukee County.
Lena Taylor is the senator serving the 4th district. She has served since 2004, and was re-elected in 2012 to another four-year term. Before serving as a senator, she held an office in the State Assembly, serving the 18th District from 2003 to 2005.
The area of the 4th Senate District contains three State Assembly Districts:
The district is also located within Wisconsin's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Gwen Moore.
At the time of the creation of the state of Wisconsin, the 4th Senate District was defined in the Constitution as consisting of Fond du Lac and Winnebago Counties. In the first two sessions of the state legislature, the 4th District was represented by:
The Senate was redistricted from 19 to 25 districts before the 1853 session; the old 4th Senate District was now the 20th and 21st Districts, and the new 4th District consisted of the Towns of Erin, Richfield, Germantown, Jackson, Polk, Hartford, Addison, West Bend, Newark, Trenton, Farmington, Kewaskum and Wayne, in Washington County, formerly part of the original 11th District. The new 4th was represented by:
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