The Forty-Second Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 9, 1895, to April 20, 1895, in regular session.

[1] They convened again in special session in February 1896 to pass a legislative redistricting law.

Senators representing odd-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first two years of a four-year term.

Senators representing even-numbered districts were serving the third and fourth year of a four-year term, having been elected in the general election of November 8, 1892.

[1] The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican William H. Upham, of Wood County, serving a two-year term, having won election in the 1894 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.