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	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)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Robert La Follette, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		La Follette gained national prominence between 1936 and 1940 as chairman of a special Senate investigating committee, commonly called the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, which exposed the surveillance, physical intimidation and other techniques used by large employers to prevent workers from organizing.
		La Follette was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on September 29, 1925, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father.
		La Follette was elected Dane County District Attorney in 1880.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-La-Follette%2C-Jr. (379 words)

	Eastland Memorial Society
		La Follette's progressive cause was promoted with the help of Lincoln Steffens, who was a noted correspondent of McClure's Magazine, known for articles exposing corrupt political practices with academic impartiality during the early twentieth century.
		La Follette acquired instant fame as a new type of senator, one who was not controlled by "the interests," and in his first three years there La Follette achieved the passage of laws aimed against the freight rates, labour policies, and financing practices of the railroads.
		La Follette introduced and carried through the bill against bitter odds, believing that this, one of his most famous achievements, would increase the safety of passengers while also improving the working conditions for sailors once the law went into effect in November 1915.
	www.eastlandmemorial.org /lafollette.shtml (2264 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)

	Robert La Follette hero
		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.thirdworldtraveler.com /Heroes/FightingBobLaFollette.html (1730 words)

	Robert M. La Follette
		La Follette was elected in 1900 and re-elected in 1902 and 1904.
		As Wisconsin governor La Follette gave special attention to the regulation of the railroads because his constituents, the farmers, were particularly vulnerable to the actions and rates of the railroads.
		La Follette became the acknowledged leader of the Progressives in Congress and throughout the country.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/lafollette.htm (539 words)

	Robert La Follette - MSN Encarta
		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.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
		La Follette was born in the township of Primrose, Wisconsin, just outside of Madison, to Josiah La Follette and Mary Ferguson Buchanan; his paternal great-grandfather, Joseph La Follette, was born in France, and he also had English ancestry.
		La Follette spent the remainder of his life, from January 2, 1906 until his death in 1925, serving in the United States Senate.
		La Follette's platform called for government ownership of the railroads and electric utilities, cheap credit for farmers, the outlawing of child labor, stronger laws to help labor unions, more protection of civil liberties, an end to American imperialism in Latin America, and a plebiscite before any president could again lead the nation into war.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette,_Sr. (1830 words)

	Robert M. La Follette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		La Follette remained a lawyer until 1885, when he was elected to Congress as a Republican.
		La Follette was one of the most eloquent voices of his day in speaking out in favor of popular democracy and in opposition to government by special interests.
		La Follette broke with the Republicans in 1924 when conservative Calvin Coolidge was nominated for President.
	reds.linefeed.org /bios/lafollette.html (425 words)

	Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer by Nancy C. Unger. Chapter 1. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Robert La Follette lived out the ancient Chinese blessing (or is it a curse?), "May you live in interesting times," beginning with his birth, on 14 June 1855, in the township of Primrose, Wisconsin, a state which only seven years before had graduated from territorial status.
		La Follette's image of his father as a totally righteous man was never tarnished by the words or actions of the real man, human and, therefore, flawed.
		As a child, Bob La Follette was described as "irrepressible," "extroverted," "agile," "mischievous," and "social"; a short little boy with "a notable penchant for mischief." He was never handicapped by shyness and claimed to have made his first public speech between the ages of three and four at an entertainment at the local schoolhouse.
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	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)

	La Follette and His Legacy
		La Follette had laid the base for such change with his fiery oratory and vilification of machine politicians and greedy corporate bosses, but it was Francis McGovern who, during the 1911 legislative session, put through a record number of progressive acts.
		La Follette's expectations for his children were many, including the desire for them to continue the work that he knew he would leave unfinished.
		The mission of the La Follette Institute is to overcome the threat of such barriers and to encourage the cooperation of university scholars and government practitioners in the progressive tradition of the institute's namesake.
	www.lafollette.wisc.edu /publications/otherpublications/LaFollette/LaFLegacy.html (6533 words)

	Robert M. La Follette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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)

	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)

	LaFollette Family Papers (Library of Congress)
		The papers of Belle Case La Follette (1859-1931), wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., span the period 1879-1931, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1898-1931.
		Her niece, Sherry La Follette Zabriskie, daughter of Philip and Isabel La Follette, cowrote a biography of Belle Case La Follette, and her consultation with Mary La Follette on the project is documented in the family papers.
		The Fola La Follette Papers in Part II include material relating to the donation of the La Follette Family Papers to the Library of Congress and to the estate of her husband, George Middleton, as well as assorted notes and an address book.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/lafollette.html (4045 words)

	Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Follette was born in the township of Primrose, Wisconsin, just outside of Madison, to Josiah La Follette and Mary Ferguson Buchanan; his paternal great-grandfather, Joseph La Follette, was born in France, and he also had English ancestry.
		La Follette was elected Dane County District Attorney in 1880.
		La Follette returned to Wisconsin where he claims 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. (1661 words)

	Manitowoc County Democratic Party - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Robert Marion La Follette was born in Primrose township in Dane County on June 14, 1855.
		In 1900, Robert M La Follette Sr was elected Governor of Wisconsin with the largest plurality ever given to a candidate and for the next 50 years, Wisconsin politics would not be divided between Democrats and Republicans, but instead between pro-La Follette and anti-La Follette factions.
		Robert Marion La Follette Sr, died in Washington D.C. on June 18, 1925 and was buried in Madison, WI.
	www.mantydems.com /lafollette.shtml (1052 words)

	La Follette, Robert Marion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
		When Theodore Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the nomination, however, many of La Follette’s supporters switched to Roosevelt, who eventually ran on the Progressive party ticket.
		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.
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	Primrose Roots of Robert M. La Follette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1850, Josiah and Mary La Follette immigrated to Primrose Township.
		Robert was an irrepressible child and loved to be with people of any age, and like other boys, liked to play soldier.
		Robert's brother, who had married, was managing the farm but decided to move to Iowa.
	www.belleville.k12.wi.us /communit/historic/millmem/millston/rootsof.html (649 words)

	Robert Marion La Follette Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Robert Marion La Follette (1855-1925), governor of Wisconsin and U.S. senator, was one of the leading Progressive reform politicians of his day.
		Robert M. La Follette was born June 14, 1855, on a frontier farm in Dane County, Wis. As a teenager, he farmed for several years before entering the University of Wisconsin.
		Uncompromising, La Follette carried his program to the voters in his 1904 campaign, using the ingenious device of "reading the roll call" of the legislature's votes to show citizens how their representatives had voted on key issues.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-marion-la-follette (612 words)

	Robert M. La Follette
		Robert Marion La Follette was born in Primrose, Wisconsin, the son of a prominent farmer and political activist.
		La Follette advanced what came to be known as the “Wisconsin Idea,” calling upon university professors and other outside experts to help tailor reform legislation and staff the resulting regulatory agencies.
		La Follette had expressed isolationist views well before the outbreak of World War I. He reasoned that international conflicts almost always stemmed from efforts to extend or protect overseas business interests, and that the common man was forced to offer his blood and treasure to accomplish the aims of the wealthy.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h988.html (976 words)

	Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Biography and Summary
		Robert M. La Follette was born June 14, 1855, on a frontier farm in Dane County, Wis. As a teenager, he farme...
		Robert M. La Follette Born June 14, 1855 (Primrose, Wisconsin) Died June 18, 1925 (Washington, D.C.) Politician Lawyer Robert M. La Follette served in the United States Senate for nearly twenty years, and was a key figure in the Progressive Era (the peri...
		Robert Marion La Follette, Sr.(June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) (also known as "Fighting Bob" La Follette) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Congressman, the 20th Governor of Wisconsin from 1901- 1906, and Senator from Wisconsin from 1...
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	La Follette, Robert Marion - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		La Follette, Robert Marion, 1855-1925, American political leader, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (1906-25), b.
		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.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-laf1ollet.html (729 words)

	"FIGHTING BOB" LA FOLLETTE, PART I
		Robert “Fighting Bob” Marion La Follette was probably the leading progressive politician of the Progressive Era.
		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 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 (530 words)

	GovTrack: Senate Record: HONORING ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, SR. (109-s20050614-32)
		Robert Marion La Follette, Sr., was born on June 14, 1855, in Primrose, a small town southwest of Madison in Dane County.
		La Follette was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1884, and he served three terms as a member of that body, where he was a member of the Ways and Means Committee.
		La Follette's son, Robert M. La Follette, Jr., was appointed to his father's seat, and went on to be elected in his own right and to serve in this body for more than 20 years, following the progressive path blazed by his father.
	www.govtrack.us /congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20050614-32 (1782 words)

	Robert M. La Follette, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Follette was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on September 29, 1925, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father.
		One of La Follette's major accomplishments was the drafting and passage of the Congressional Reorganization Act of 1946, which modernized the legislative process in Congress.
		On February 24, 1953, La Follette was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Washington, D.C. On September 9, 1953, John Lautner testified before McCarthy's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and revealed he knew of Communists who had served on La Follette's subcommittee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_La_Follette,_Jr. (620 words)

	Robert M. La Follette, Sr. — www.greenwood.com
		Robert M. La Follette, Sr., The Voice of Conscience by Professor Carl R. Burgchardt fills a need in the study of the life of Robert La Follette.
		This systematical analysis of Senator La Follette's public speeches is a short and highly readable history of the Progressive era, World War I and its aftermath, and the early 1920s from the perspective of a leading political figure of the times.
		The analysis of La Follette's rhetorical strategy illuminates his use of confrontational tactics, such as the filibuster in Congress to educate the voter and to plead for reforms that he considered essential.
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		Robert Marion La Follette was born in June 1855 on a farm in
		In 1900 La Follette was elected Governor of Wisconsin, reelected in 1902 and 1904.
		Robert M. La Follette, Sr.'s wife Belle Case La Follette was co-founder of their magazine, a worker with the Woman's Peace Party during World War I, and a co-founder thereafter of the Women's Committee for World Disarmament.
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