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Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American politician who served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937. He was a banker and oil -well operator before he ran for public office. Landon was a key figure in the United States Republican party in the 1930s. He was best known as a Republican Presidential ...
Alfred Mossman Landon was born September 9, 1887, in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania to John Manuel and Anne (Mossman) Landon. The elder Landon was an oilman and moved the family to Marietta, Ohio, where Alfred Landon attended preparatory school. When he was 17 Landon moved with the family to Independence, Kansas.
Can you list the top facts and stats about Alf Landon? Alfred Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, and was defeated in a landslide ...
23 de may. de 2018 · Republican presidential candidate Alfred M. Landon holds the dubious distinction of being one of the great losers in American political history. Buried in the Democratic landslide of 1936, he managed to carry only two states against Franklin D. Roosevelt, a distinction unmatched until Democrat George McGovern's loss to Richard M. Nixon in 1972.
13 de oct. de 1987 · Death came Monday to Alfred M. (Alf) Landon, the plain-spoken Kansas Republican who lost the 1936 presidential election in an unprecedented landslide but won the enduring respect and affection of ...
See the PDF Version of this article. THE AVERAGE person remembers Alf M. Landon as a badly beaten presidential candidate in 1936, but there are better reasons for remembering him. Among other things, he used his meager and ill-defined powers as titular leader of the Republican minority between 1937 and 1940 to mitigate intraparty strife.
Alf Landon, Address Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination in Topeka, Kansas Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, ...
