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Hace 1 día · Bob La Follette’s 1924 Bid for President with Historian Richard Drake. Published by Richard Drake on May 11, 2024. Richard is interviewed by Allen Ruff on “A Public Affair,” WORT Radio, Madison, Wisconsin, April 25, 2024. WORT 89.9FM Madison. Bob La Follette's 1924 Bid for President with Historian Richard Drake. Published in Notebook.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Party nominated Senator Robert M. La Follette for President. "Fighting Bob" is a Progressive Populist who thinks that Republicans are too conservative (Even though Albert Cummins is arguably as Progressive as Teddy Roosevelt) and he is an Anti-Interventionist who thinks that America shouldn't be involved in Europe's business.
Hace 4 días · America has had its share of charismatic politicians, from “The Kingfish” Huey Long and “Fighting Bob” La Follette to rough-riding Teddy Roosevelt and fiery Marion Barry. No one has ever described Anthony A. “Tony” Williams as charismatic. I was introduced to Tony by my former law school classmate and friend, Eric Lindner.
While at the university, he met Josephine La Follette, whom he later marry. Josephine was the sister of future Wisconsin Congressman, Governor, and U.S. Senator Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette. Siebecker was admitted to the bar in 1879 and entered into a law partnership with La Follette. Within a few years, both men entered public office.
- Karl, Robert, Lee, 1 other son (died young)
- John B. Winslow
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- Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin
Hace 3 días · In the earliest years of the twentieth century, when the country reeled under industrial monopolies and labor strikes, Wisconsin governor Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette and his colleagues advanced the idea that professors, lawmakers, and officials should work together to provide technical expertise to enable the state to mediate a fair relationship between workers and employers.
Hace 4 días · This ideology can also be found at the state-level with “Fighting Bob” La Follette who created his own political machine to take over the corrupt state legislature and enact reform. 5 This wave of progressivism through the local, state, and eventually federal, with Roosevelt, levels of government essentially combated corruption within American politics remaining from the Gilded Age and led ...
Hace 3 días · Capitol 2 E. Main St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703. media release: State workers, their unions and supporters will call for equal pay for equal work, especially justice for limited term employees ...
