Citizenship Test Answers for Wisconsin
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Wisconsin.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Wisconsin
Madison
This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for Wisconsin now
- Ron Johnson
- Tammy Baldwin
You only need to give one of these names.
Wisconsin has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.
Look up Wisconsin's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.
All 8 of Wisconsin's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bryan Steil |
| 2 | Mark Pocan |
| 3 | Derrick Van Orden |
| 4 | Gwen Moore |
| 5 | Scott Fitzgerald |
| 6 | Glenn Grothman |
| 7 | Thomas P. Tiffany |
| 8 | Tony Wied |
If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for Wisconsin now
Tony Evers
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on Wisconsin
Madison is Wisconsin's capital, built on an isthmus between two lakes and chosen as a compromise site in 1836, while Milwaukee is the larger city. Wisconsin became the 30th state in 1848. It has 8 congressional districts and 10 electoral votes. Two political developments started here that bear on the test: the Republican Party held one of its founding meetings in Ripon in 1854, and the Progressive movement of the early 1900s made Wisconsin the first state to adopt a direct primary, letting voters rather than party officials choose nominees — the kind of civic participation the test asks about. The capital is the only one of the four answers here that will not change.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.