Wisconsin's 3rd Assembly district

The 3rd Assembly district of Wisconsin is one of 99 districts in the Wisconsin State Assembly.^[1] Located in northeast Wisconsin, the district comprises nearly all of Calumet County, and parts of western Manitowoc County. It includes the cities of Brillion, Chilton, and New Holstein, and the parts of Appleton and Menasha which fall within Calumet County. It also contains the villages of Hilbert, Potter, Sherwood, Stockbridge, St. Nazianz, Valders, and Whitelaw.^[2] The district is represented by Republican Ron Tusler, since January 2017.^[3]

Wisconsin's 3rd State Assembly district
From 2024 to 2031 From 2022 to 2023 From 2012 to 2021 2024 map defined in 2023 Wisc. Act 94 2022 map defined in Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission 2011 map was defined in 2011 Wisc. Act 43
Assemblymember	Ron Tusler R–Appleton since January 3, 2017 (7 years)
Demographics	90.83% White 0.9% Black 4.1% Hispanic 2.2% Asian 1.48% Native American 0.09% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
Population (2020)  • Voting age	59,173 44,983
Website	Official website
Notes	Northeast Wisconsin

The 3rd Assembly district is located within Wisconsin's 1st Senate district, along with the 1st and 2nd Assembly districts.^[4]

History

The district was created in the 1972 redistricting act (1971 Wisc. Act 304) which first established the numbered district system, replacing the previous system which allocated districts to specific counties.^[5] The 3rd district was drawn mostly in line with the previous Manitowoc County 2nd district, but exchanged towns in southern Manitowoc for towns in southeastern Brown County, which previously made up the southern half of the Brown County 2nd district.^[6] The last representative of the Manitowoc 2nd district, Everett E. Bolle, went on to win the first election to represent the 3rd Assembly district.^[7]

The boundaries of the 3rd district have changed significantly over the various redistricting laws passed since 1972. The 1982 court-ordered redistricting, which completely scrambled State Assembly districts, moved the 3rd district to southeast Milwaukee County for the 1983–1984 session.^[8] The 1983 redistricting act restored the district closer to its previous location, but located it almost entirely in Calumet County.^[9] The 1992 court-ordered redistricting added more of southern Brown County and northern Fond du Lac County to the district and removed areas of southeastern Outagamie County.^[10] The 2002 court-ordered redistricting plan removed towns of Fond du Lac and southern Calumet, and added back areas of southeastern Outagamie County.^[11] The district only changed slightly in the 2011 redistricting act (2011 Wisc. Act 43), removing the remaining towns of Brown County from the district. The 2022 court-ordered redistricting shifted the district further west, adding part of Manitowoc County and shedding towns along the east shore of Lake Winnebago. The 2024 redistricting act restored nearly all of Calumet County to the district (excluding only the part of the city of Kiel that crosses into Calumet County), removed all territory in Outagamie County, and added more of rural western Manitowoc County.

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  Chilton Post Office
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  Uptown Chilton, Wisconsin
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  Downtown New Holstein
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  Sherwood viewed from High Cliff State Park

List of past representatives

List of representatives to the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 3rd district

Member	Party	Residence	Counties Represented	Term Start	Term End	Ref.
District Created
Everett E. Bolle	Dem.	Francis Creek	Brown, Manitowoc	January 1, 1973	January 6, 1975	[7][12]: 124
Alan Lasee	Rep.	De Pere		January 6, 1975	January 3, 1977	[13][12]: 154
Daniel Fischer	Dem.	Whitelaw		January 3, 1977	January 3, 1983	[14][12]: 138
Chester A. Gerlach	Dem.	South Milwaukee	Milwaukee	January 3, 1983	January 7, 1985	[8][12]: 140
Gervase A. Hephner	Dem.	Chilton	Calumet, Fond du Lac, Outagamie	January 7, 1985	January 5, 1987	[9][12]: 145
Alvin Ott	Rep.	Forest Junction		January 5, 1987	January 3, 2017	[15]
			Brown, Calumet, Fond du Lac, Outagamie			[10][12]: 164
			Calumet, Outagamie			[11]
Ron Tusler	Rep.	Appleton		January 3, 2017	Current	[3]
			Calumet, Outagamie, Manitowoc

References

1. "Assembly District 3". Wisconsin Legislature. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
2. "Wisconsin Legislative Districts - Assembly District 3 Boundaries". Wisconsin Legislature. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
3. "Representative Ron Tusler". Wisconsin Legislature. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
4. An Act ... relating to: legislative redistricting (Act 94). Wisconsin Legislature. 2023. Retrieved February 23, 2024.
5. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (1973). "Legislature" (PDF). In Theobald, H. Rupert; Robbins, Patricia V. (eds.). The state of Wisconsin 1973 Blue Book (Report). Madison, Wisconsin: State of Wisconsin. pp. 227–230. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
6. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (1971). "Biographies" (PDF). The state of Wisconsin Blue Book, 1971 (Report). State of Wisconsin. p. 48. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
7. Theobald, H. Rupert; Robbins, Patricia V., eds. (1973). "Biographies" (PDF). The state of Wisconsin 1973 Blue Book (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 22–23. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
8. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (1983). "Biographies" (PDF). In Theobald, H. Rupert; Robbins, Patricia V. (eds.). The state of Wisconsin 1983-1984 Blue Book (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 34–35. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
9. Theobald, H. Rupert; Robbins, Patricia V., eds. (1985). "Biographies" (PDF). The state of Wisconsin 1985-1986 Blue Book (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 22–23. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
10. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (1993). "Biographies" (PDF). In Barish, Lawrence S.; Theobald, H. Rupert (eds.). State of Wisconsin 1993-1994 Blue Book (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 22–23. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
11. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. "Biographies" (PDF). In Barish, Lawrence S.; Lemanski, Lynn (eds.). State of Wisconsin 2005-2006 Blue Book (Report). pp. 20–21. ISBN 0-9752820-1-8. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
12. Barish, Lawrence S.; Lemanski, Lynn, eds. (2007). "Feature Article: Those Who Served: Wisconsin Legislators 1848 – 2007" (PDF). State of Wisconsin 2007-2008 Blue Book (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 124, 138, 140, 145, 154, 164. ISBN 978-0-9752820-2-1. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
13. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (1975). "Biographies" (PDF). In Theobald, H. Rupert; Robbins, Patricia V. (eds.). The state of Wisconsin 1975 Blue Book (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 22–23. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
14. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (1981). "Biographies" (PDF). In Theobald, H. Rupert; Robbins, Patricia V. (eds.). The state of Wisconsin 1981-1982 Blue Book (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 22–23. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
15. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (1991). "Biographies" (PDF). In Barish, Lawrence S.; Theobald, H. Rupert (eds.). State of Wisconsin 1991-1992 Blue Book (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 22–23. Retrieved February 7, 2021.