The 13th Senate district of Wisconsin is one of 33 districts in the

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. Located in south central Wisconsin, the district comprises all of Green Lake and Marquette counties, along with most of Dodge County, western Fond du Lac County, and parts of northern Jefferson County, eastern Adams County, northeast Columbia County, and southwest Winnebago County. It includes the cities of

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, Horicon, Markesan, Mayville, Montello,

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Ripon Ripon () is a cathedral city and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Within the boundaries of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire, the ...

, Watertown, and

Waupun Waupun is a city in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 11,344 at the 2020 census. Of this, 7,795 were in Dodge County, and 3,549 were in Fond du Lac County. In Fond du Lac County, the Town of Waup ...

Current elected officials

John Jagler is the senator representing the 13th district. He was first elected in a 2021

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. He previously served 8 years in the

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. Each Wisconsin State Senate district is composed of three

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districts. The 13th Senate district comprises the 37th, 38th, and 39th Assembly districts. The current representatives of those districts are: * Assembly District 37: Mark Born (R–

) * Assembly District 38:

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(R– Hustisford) * Assembly District 39:

Alex Dallman Alex A. Dallman (born May 22, 1992) is an American Republican politician from Green Lake County, Wisconsin. He is a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Wisconsin's 39th Assembly district since 2025; he previously represent ...

(R– Markesan) The 13th Senate district, in its current borders, crosses three different congressional districts. The part of the district in Adams County falls within

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, represented by U.S. Representative

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. The parts of the district in Jefferson County and the southern half of Dodge County fall within

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, represented by

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. All of the remainder falls within

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, represented by

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. File:HoriconMarshBoardwalk.jpg, Path in the

Horicon Marsh Horicon Marsh is a marsh located in northern Dodge and southern Fond du Lac counties of Wisconsin. It is the site of both a national and a state wildlife refuge. Geological history Horicon Marsh was created by the Green Bay lobe of the Wiscon ...

State Wildlife Area File:WaupunPublicLibraryNRHP.jpg, Historic Waupun Carnegie Library (now museum) in

File:Fox_Lake_Historic_Depot.jpg, Fox Lake

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File:Watertown River Walk 02.jpg, Watertown River Walk File:JuneauWisconsinDowntownWIS26.jpg, Downtown

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File:Horicon Wisconsin Downtown Looking West WIS28.jpg, Downtown Horicon File:JeffersonWisconsinDowntown.jpg, Downtown Jefferson File:LittleWhiteSchoolhouse.jpg, Little White Schoolhouse, birthplace of the Republican Party File:Fox_River_National_Wildlife_Refuge.jpg, Fox River National Wildlife Refuge File:WIS146 looking north from County P Cambria.jpg,

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File:Summerton_Bog.jpg, Summerton Bog

Past senators

The district has previously been represented by:Wisconsin Blue Book, 1991-92 edition, ''Statistics: History'', pages 657-666. 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

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References

External links

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Wisconsin Legislature The Wisconsin Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house, Wisconsin State Senate, and the lower Wisconsin State Assembly, both of which have had Republ ...

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Senator John Jagler (2023)
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Senator John Jagler (2021)
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Senator Scott L. Fitzgerald (2019)
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Senator Scott L. Fitzgerald (2017)
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