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Robert M. La Follette. Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) was an American Republican. He was a Senator from Wisconsin from January 2, 1906 until his death on June 18, 1925. He ran for President in 1924, but lost. If La Follette won he would have been the seventh President to die in office.
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Robert M. La Follette - Antiwar, Progressive, Wisconsin: Foreign affairs catapulted La Follette back into a leadership position in 1917, this time of the antiwar movement. Since 1910 he had argued that U.S. interventions in the problems of foreign governments were intended to protect the investments of U.S. corporations and to smash revolutions. Now he believed that the United States entered ...
Robert M. La Follette. Robert M. La Follette was a charismatic politician who created major innovations in public policy. He was the recognized leader of the Progressive Moment. He was born in rural Wisconsin in 1855. When he completed his legal trainging at the University of Wisconsin in 1879 he immediately went into the public sector.
In 1911, La Follette was the acknowledged Congressional leader of the progressive wing of the Republican Party and his presidential aspirations were apparent. He was confident that he could mount a formidable challenge against William Howard Taft in 1912. However, Theodore Roosevelt, who had earlier rejected the notion of reentering the ...
Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (1895–1953), was elected in 1925 to fill his father’s unexpired term in the Senate and was reelected three times thereafter, serving until 1947.
LA FOLLETTE, ROBERT M. (1855–1925)Robert Marion La Follette was one of the few giants in the history of the United States senate, ranking with henry clay and daniel webster. Born in a Wisconsin log cabin, he was graduated from his state's university in Madison, began his legal practice there, and spent three undistinguished terms (1885–1891 ...
