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	Nader Is Running On Principle, As Did La Follette
		La Follette's purpose in making that race was starkly similar to the 66-year-old Nader's rationale for mounting this year's challenge to Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.
		La Follette was able to campaign in 1924 as a free man. But that does not mean that he was given a free or fair shot at winning the presidency.
		La Follette was condemned as everything from a radical to a bitter old man on an ego trip.
	www.commondreams.org /views/110100-102.htm (1192 words)

	Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theodore Roosevelt called him a "skunk who should be hanged" when he opposed the arming of American merchant ships; one of his colleagues in the Senate said he was "a better German than the head of the German parliament" when he opposed the Wilson Administration's request for a declaration of war in 1917.
		La Follette was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1884, where he served until 1890.
		La Follette returned to Wisconsin where he refused a bribe offered by a powerful Wisconsin Republican, Philetus Sawyer, to influence a judge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette,_Sr. (697 words)

	Suzanne La Follette - The Freewoman
		La Follette saw marriage as a one-sided contract with all the rights on the side of the husband, countered by unjust privileges on the side of the wife.
		La Follette's approach to art was as individualistic as her approach to feminism and to politics.
		La Follette passed away in 1982 but is remembered vividly by her friends as a beautiful and cultivated woman, "opinionated," "overwhelming" but "perfectly gracious," "extremely kind" and loyal.
	www.alf.org /papers/LaFollette.shtml (2769 words)

	Fighting Bob La Follette
		La Follette began his speech with the formalities of the day, acknowledging old supporters and recognizing that this was a pivotal moment for him politically.
		La Follette declared in a post-campaign article for the national publication he edited, La Follette's Weekly, which would soon be renamed The Progressive, that, while threats and intimidation had weakened the 1924 drive, "the Progressives will close ranks for the next battle."
		From the Senate floor, La Follette argued: "We should not seek [to] inflame the mind of our people by half truths into the frenzy of war." He painted the impending conflict as a war that would benefit the wealthy of the world but not the workers, who would have to fight it.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Heroes/FightingBobLaFollette.html (1730 words)

	Thelen on La Follette
		La Follette, as what Thelen called an insurgent, remained constantly aware of the changing focus of Progressivism and adjusted his politics accordingly.
		In 1901, La Follette won the race for governor of Wisconsin by appealing to the grievances of the powerless.
		In 1906 La Follette arrived in Washington DC as the newly elected senator from Wisconsin.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /history/johnson/7706916notes.htm (603 words)

	Our Story, Vol IV - La Follette name, reforms synonymous
		Despite a serious illness, La Follette was re-elected in 1902 but was not able to enact much of his reform program until after victory in the 1904 "Gymnasium Convention" and a successful plebiscite on a law requiring nomination by primary election.
		La Follette's opposition to the war and an Associated Press misquote caused the Wisconsin legislature to pass the Wilcox Resolution, requesting the U.S. Senate to expel La Follette.
		La Follette himself was expelled from the Madison Club, burned in effigy; publicly insulted and ostracized in the U.S. Senate.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/wi/county/eauclaire/history/ourstory/vol4/lafollette.html (2723 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: La Follette, Robert Marion @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		LA FOLLETTE, ROBERT MARION [La Follette, Robert Marion], 1855-1925, American political leader, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (1906-25), b.
		At odds with the conservative leadership of President Taft, La Follette helped found (1911) the National Progressive Republican League; its aim was to wrest the Republican presidential nomination from Taft in 1912 and secure it for La Follette.
		In the Senate, La Follette generally supported the reform measures of President Wilson 's administration, championing federal railroad regulation, sponsoring (1915) the act that elevated and regulated conditions of maritime employment, and advocating (1913) passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:LaFollet&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (604 words)

	MSN Encarta - Robert La Follette
		La Follette was born June 14, 1855, in Primrose, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisconsin.
		La Follette's most spectacular dissent occurred when he voted against United States entry into World War I. He continued his isolationist policy in the postwar period, opposing American participation in the League of Nations and the World Court.
		In domestic affairs, La Follette advocated public ownership of waterpower and railroads, progressive income taxes, government control of banking, industry, and natural resources, and the abrogation of the power of the Supreme Court to declare legislation unconstitutional.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567174/La_Follette_Robert_Marion_Sr.html (429 words)

	La Follette, Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Follette is a city located in Campbell County, Tennessee.
		Located in eastern Tennessee, it is near Norris Lake and northwest of Knoxville on the Cumberland Plateau.
		La Follette is located at 36°22'30" North, 84°7'39" West (36.375006, -84.127623)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Follette,_Tennessee (410 words)

	Encyclopedia: Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
		La Follette, as pictured on a 1928 cover of Time Philip Fox La Follette (May 8, 1897â€“August 18, 1965), son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
		Bronson Cutting La Follette was attorney general of the state of Wisconsin.
		Belle Case La Follette (1859 - 1931) was a lawyer and a womens suffrage activist in Wisconsin.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-M.-La-Follette,-Sr. (2190 words)

	La Follette Robert Marion: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		At odds with the conservative leadership of President Taft, La Follette helped found (1911) the National Progressive Republican League; its aim was to wrest the Republican presidential nomination from Taft in 1912 and secure it for La Follette.
		In the Senate, La Follette generally supported the reform measures of President Wilson's administration, championing federal railroad regulation, sponsoring (1915) the act that elevated and regulated conditions of maritime employment, and advocating (1913) passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
		LA FOLLETTE, ROBERT MARION l fol it, 1855 1925, American political leader, U.S. Senator...ably advised her husband throughout his life.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/la-follette-robert-marion.jsp?l=L&p=1 (1259 words)

	Robert La Follette
		La Follette supported the growth of trade unions as he saw them as a check on the power of large corporations.
		La Follette became the candidate of the Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election.
		Governor La Follette was a powerful man, who, short but solid, swift and willful in motion, in speech, in decision, gave the impression of a tall, a big, man. He had meant to be an actor; he was one always.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAlafollette.htm (1943 words)

	Belle Case La Follette at the Wisconsin Historical Society
		Belle Case La Follette was a lawyer, journalist, editor, suffragist, and counselor who provided much of the intellectual sophistication behind the progressive movement for which her husband was known.
		After Bob’s death in 1925, La Follette was urged to fill his seat in the Senate but she declined in no uncertain terms: “at no time in my life would I ever have chosen a public career for myself.” Instead, her son Robert Jr.
		La Follette began work on a biography of Bob but died before it was finished: her daughter Fola completed it.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /topics/lafollette (635 words)

	History News Service
		La Follette was cast as a righteous man in a sea of political corruption, a caring man genuinely committed to protecting consumers, promoting peace and saving the environment.
		La Follette was the first independent presidential candidate to be backed officially by the American Federation of Labor.
		Each found it to their advantage to assert that La Follette was showing great strength at the expense of the other; both credited him with more support than he really had.
	www.h-net.org /~hns/articles/2000/082200a.html (845 words)

	AlterNet: Nader and La Follette: History Repeats Itself
		La Follette was able to campaign in 1924 as a free man. But that does not mean that he was given a free or fair shot at winning the presidency.
		La Follette was condemned as everything from a radical to a bitter old man on an ego trip.
		La Follette would chastise today's cynics, as he did his compromised contemporaries, telling them that no believer in democracy will ever dismiss the sincerely rendered choice of a citizen on Election Day as anything less than the most noble of all statements.
	www.alternet.org /story/10037 (1207 words)

	Belle Case La Follette was her husband (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She and La Follette met at the University of Wisconsin, where she had begun her studies at age 16 and where she would become the first woman law school graduate.
		She was involved in social and political issues such as suffrage for women and pacifism, but she also influenced La Follette's writing and speaking on the topics.
		Belle La Follette argued in her own speeches that "government is considered as men's exclusive province, a limitation that has narrowed the lives of the women, that has robbed the children, and that has reacted most injuriously upon the state."
	www.jsonline.com /news/state/wis150/stories/1015sesq.stm (420 words)

	Robert M. La Follette, Sr. -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		La Follette was elected to the (The lower legislative house of the United States Congress) United States House of Representatives in 1884, where he served until 1890.
		La Follette returned to Wisconsin, where he served as a (A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice) judge.
		Another son, (additional info and facts about Philip La Follette) Philip La Follette, was later Governor of Wisconsin–the only Governor elected by the Progressive Party.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_m._la_follette,_sr.htm (389 words)

	Fighting Bob - about us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		La Follette began his speech with the formalities of the day, acknowledging old supporters and recognizing that this was a pivotal moment for him politically.
		Steeped in the ideals of Jefferson and Lincoln, La Follette developed his revulsion for corporate capital as a young man--taking his cue from Edward Ryan, a fiery Irish radical who rose to the position of chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court during the great populist upsurge of the 1870s.
		From the Senate floor, La Follette argued: "We should not seek [to] inflame the mind of our people by half truths into the frenzy of war." He painted the impending conflict as a war that would benefit the wealthy of the world but not the workers, who would have to fight it.
	www.fightingbob.com /aboutbob.cfm (1771 words)

	The Capital Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This was the La Follette that the senator's friend, Emma Goldman, referred to lovingly as "the finest, most inconsistent anarchist" of his time.
		La Follette genuinely believed that the inheritors of America's revolutionary tradition would, if given the truth, opt not for moderation but for the most radical of solutions.
		Despite the machinations of Wilson and the Senate leaders, La Follette was still able to register his objections to sending young Americans to die on behalf of the king of England's fight with the German kaiser.
	www.madison.com /tct/news/bob/index.php?ntid=42975 (2311 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -LA FOLLETTE, ROBERT M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Born into a poor but respectable farming family in pioneer Wisconsin on the eve of the Civil War, La Follette ranks high among those progressives who tried to bring the twentieth century into harmony with the Republican ideal of a self-ruling republic of independent producers.
		Journalists publicized the "Wisconsin Idea," and La Follette's continual struggle to implement it soon marked him as a rising star in the nationwide progressive firmament.
		La Follette sought to take the presidential nomination away from the incumbent William Howard Taft that year, but his bid was preempted by that of Theodore Roosevelt (whose progressive credentials La Follette had always doubted).
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_051300_lafollettero.htm (581 words)

	Robert M. La Follette
		The driving force of the Progressive Movement, Robert La Follette was born in Primrose, Wisconsin, on June 14, 1855.
		He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1879, was admitted to the bar in 1880, was appointed district attorney of Dane County from 1880 to 1884, and served from 1885 to 1891 in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he supported the McKinley Tariff Bill.
		Breaking with the party leadership, La Follette returned to his law practice and concentrated on improving the political system in Wisconsin.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/lafollette.cfm (257 words)

	La Follette, Robert Marion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the Senate, La Follette generally supported the reform measures of President Wilson’s administration, championing federal railroad regulation, sponsoring (1915) the act that elevated and regulated conditions of maritime employment, and advocating (1913) passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
		Robert La Follete’s wife, Belle Case La Follette, 1859–1931, b.
		Their older son, Robert Marion La Follette, Jr., 1895–1953, b.
	www.bartleby.com /65/la/LaFollet.html (588 words)

	La Follette School - Degree Programs
		The La Follette School of Public Affairs and the University of Wisconsin Law School offer a dual degree program with a total of 111 credits leading towards the Master of Public Affairs degree and a J.D. in Law.
		Further, application to La Follette requires submission of application material to both the La Follette School and the Graduate School.
		Only those La Follette credits earned within a two-year period preceding the date of admission to the Law School and earned within six years prior to the date of the JD degree may be counted towards satisfaction of the JD requirements.
	www.lafollette.wisc.edu /degreeprograms/joint/law.html (555 words)

	"FIGHTING BOB" LA FOLLETTE, PART I
		La Follette was turned away from religion by his stepfather when Saxton told La Follette that his father had gone to hell when he died because he was not a religious person.
		La Follette had a life-long distrust and contempt of capitalists throughout his career.
		La Follette did not have the money for a college education, and solved the problem by purchasing a newspaper, the University Press, with borrowed money.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/87479 (538 words)

	JS Online: La Follette gets late heroics
		La Follette got 20 points from 6-5 senior Curtrel Robinson, and now has the services of Michael Flowers, a 6-2 senior who will play at Wisconsin next year.
		The first turnover was a stolen cross-court pass that resulted in DuBois scoring on a rebound and converting a free throw to pull La Follette within 58-56 with 1:34 left.
		Nelson said he thought this was the first time in 41 years that La Follette had won a boys basketball game in Milwaukee.
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	La Follette Real Estate Agents, La Follette Homes For Sale, REALTORS and La Follette
		Find La Follette school district information, including elementary, middle and high school test scores, student faculty ratios and other k-12 statistics.
		HomeGain has services to help you find a top La Follette real estate broker or agent, get the value of your La Follette home and a comparative market analysis (CMA), view La Follette real estate and MLS listings, prepare your home for sale, and more.
		Cuando se registre para encontrar un agente de bienes raices en La Follette, simplemente indique que necesita un agente que habla Español.
	www.homegain.com /local_real_estate/TN/la_follette.html (541 words)

	The Career of Robert M. La Follette - Wisconsin Historical Society
		Robert La Follette developed his fierce opposition to corporate power and political corruption as a young man. Affiliated with the Republican Party for almost his entire career, La Follette embarked on a political path that would take him to Congress, the governorship of Wisconsin, and the U.S. Senate.
		Born in Primrose township, Dane County, in 1855, La Follette worked as a farm laborer before entering the University of Wisconsin in 1875.
		Flag used to drape the caskets of La Follette Sr.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /turningpoints/tp-035 (280 words)

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