The 2nd Assembly district of

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is one of 99 districts in the

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. Located in northeast

, the district comprises most of northern

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and southern Brown County, along with parts of southeast

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. It includes the villages of

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, Francis Creek, Kimberly, Mishicot, and Reedsville, and most of the village of Wrightstown and the southern half of Kaukauna. The district is represented by Republican

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, since January 2019. The 2nd Assembly district is located within

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, along with the

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and 3rd Assembly districts.

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 2nd district was drawn to combine the previous

1st district (the city of Manitowoc) with municipalities of southeastern Manitowoc County which had been part of the Manitowoc County 2nd district.

Donald K. Helgeson Donald K. Helgeson was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Biography Helgeson was born on May 30, 1932, in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He graduated from high school in Valders, Wisconsin and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the Ko ...

, the last representative of the Manitowoc 1st district, was defeated in the 1972 election to represent the new 2nd Assembly district. Other than the 1982 court-ordered redistricting plan which scrambled state legislative maps for one term, the location of the 2nd district has remained relatively consistent—based in northern Manitowoc County and southern Brown County.

List of past representatives

Electoral history

References

{{Wisconsin state legislature districts Wisconsin State Assembly districts Brown County, Wisconsin Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Outagamie County, Wisconsin