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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Alfred M. Landon will always be known as a big loser in American politics and he used to joke about it. But in the months before the 1936 presidential election, Landon looked like a winner. Many wrote off Franklin D. Roosevelt as a one-term president. Landon wound up carrying only two states - Maine and Vermont - and wiseacres ...
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Alf Landon was born on 9 September 1887 in Middlesex, Pennsylvania to Anne Mossman and John Manuel Landon. Landon spent his childhood and adolescence in Marietta, Ohio, but in 1904 his father's career as an oilman led the family to relocate to Independence, Kansas. He attended law school at the University of Kansas, where he earned the nickname ...
Alf Landon, G.O.P. Stand-Bearer, Dies at 100. Alfred M. Landon, the former Governor of Kansas who gained lasting fame for his landslide defeat by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 Presidential election, died at his home in Topeka yesterday, 34 days after his 100th birthday. Mr. Landon was released on Saturday from Stormont-Vail Regional Medical ...
Alfred Mossman Landon was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of Kansas, a position he held from 1933 to 1937.
Alfred Mossman Landon was born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, on September 9, 1887. He grew up in Ohio and moved with his family to Kansas when he was seventeen. Landon was a key figure in the U.S. Republican party in the 1930s and ran unsuccessfully for president in 1936. "Alf" Landon first entered the national political arena in 1912 ...
Added: Sep 21, 1999. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 6454. Source citation. Kansas Governor. He was the 1936 Republican Party candidate for United States President, losing to Franklin D. Roosevelt. He graduated from the University of Kansas with a law degree, and decided to remain in Kansas, working in a bank. In 1912, he and three partners started a ...
