The 13th Illinois General Assembly, consisting of the Illinois Senate and the Illinois House of Representatives, met from December 5, 1842, to March 6, 1843 (1st session).[1]
The 13th General Assembly was preceded by the 12th Illinois General Assembly, and was succeeded by the 14th Illinois General Assembly.
On January 14, 1841, during the 12th Illinois General Assembly, the ratio of population per Senate seat was fixed at 12,000, and for Representatives at 4,000 resulting in a Senate of forty-one members and a House of one hundred twenty-one members.[2] This arrangement lasted until February 25, 1847, when a new apportionment was made.[2]
Senate
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The reapportionment of the Senate created problems as it made no accounting for the sixteen senators whose terms did not expire creating a number of disputes.[3] Holdover senators combined with newly elected senators led to 4 senators in districts where the new apportionment had only allocated 3 senators (Madison, St. Clair, Monroe, and Randolph counties). As the situation was deemed too difficult to solve and was not challenged, the Senate retained all 4 senators and the Senate had 42 members for the length of the term.[3]
House
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Works cited
edit- Moses, John (1892). Illinois, historical and statistical.
- Blue Book of the State of Illinois. 1919.
- Blue Book of the State of Illinois - Illinois Legislative Roster — 1818-2024 (PDF). 2024.
- Laws of the state of Illinois, passed by the twelfth general assembly : at their session, began and held at Springfield, on the seventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty. William Walters Public Printers. 1841. pp. 23–25.
- Pease, Theodore Calvin (1923). Statistical Series: Illinois Election Returns (1818-1848) (PDF). Vol. 1. Illinois State Historical Library.
References
edit- ↑ Illinois Blue Book 1919, p. 532-534.
- 1 2 Moses, p. 1155
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Clyne, Kathleen M. Jr. (April 1914). "Senatorial Disputes Resulting from the Apportionment Act of 1841". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 7 (1): 51–55.
- 1 2 Illinois Blue Book 1919, pp. 532–534.
- 1 2 Illinois State Laws 1841, pp. 23–25.
- ↑ Chosen from the counties where their elected Senator, Ira Minard, does not reside