The 34th Assembly district of
Wisconsin
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is one of 99 districts in the
Wisconsin State Assembly
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. Located in northern Wisconsin, the district comprises all of
Vilas County and most of
Oneida County. It contains the cities of
Rhinelander and
Eagle River and most of the
Lac du Flambeau Reservation. It also contains parts of the
Nicolet National Forest
Nicollet or Nicolet may refer to:
Canada
*Nicolet, Quebec, the county seat of Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality
*Nicolet River, Quebec, Canada
*Nicolet (federal electoral district)
People
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, including the
Blackjack Springs Wilderness
The Blackjack Springs Wilderness is a wilderness area northeast of Eagle River, Wisconsin. It is located within the Nicolet unit of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and is administered by the US Forest Service. The area protects four ...
. The district is represented by
Republican Rob Swearingen
Rob Swearingen (born July 23, 1963) is an American businessman and politician.
Swearingen was born in Oneida County, Wisconsin. He went to Rhinelander High School in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, where Swearingen and his wife now own the AL-GEN din ...
, since January 2013.
The 34th Assembly district is located within
Wisconsin's 12th Senate district
The 12th Senate district of Wisconsin is one of 33 districts in the Wisconsin Senate. Located in northern Wisconsin, the district comprises Florence, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Marinette, Oneida, and Vilas counties, and parts of northern Oc ...
, along with the
35th Military units
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*35th Infantry Division (United States), a formation of the National Guard since World War I
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and
36th Assembly districts.
File:Rhinelander Wisconsin Downtown Looking East.jpg, Downtown Rhinelander
File:Eagle River Wisconsin.jpg, The Eagle River flowing through Eagle River
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.
The 34th district was drawn with novel boundaries, taking the southern half of the former
Price County–
Rusk County–
Sawyer County district (all of Rusk County and southern Price County) and the western half of the former
Lincoln County–
Taylor County district (Taylor County) along with part of northern
Clark County Clark County may refer to:
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*Clark County, Kansas
*Clark County, Kentucky
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. The last representative of the Lincoln–Taylor district,
Joseph Sweda, was elected in the 1972 election as the first representative of the 34th Assembly district.
Following the 1982 court-ordered redistricting, which scrambled all State Assembly districts, the 1983 redistricting moved the 34th district to
Oneida County and
Vilas County. The district's boundaries did not change through redistricting in 1992, but the 2002 plan removed part of southwest Oneida County from the district. The controversial 2011 redistricting plan
2011 Wisc. Act 43 was the most significant change to the district since 1983, stretching the boundaries east through rural northern Forest County and Florence County. The 2022 redistricting restored a configuration closer to the previous map, by removing the Forest and Florence portions.
List of past representatives
References
{{Wisconsin state legislature districts
Wisconsin State Assembly districts
Oneida County, Wisconsin
Vilas County, Wisconsin