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  Belle Case LaFollette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She is best remembered as the wife and helpmate of Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette -- a prominent Progressive Republican politician both in Wisconsin and on the national scene -- and as co-editor with her husband of "La Follette’s Weekly Magazine".
The ceremony was performed by a Unitarian minister and by mutual agreement, the word “obey” was omitted from the marriage vows.
Her other children were Robert Jr., born in 1895, who succeeded his father as Senator; Philip, born in 1897, who became Governor of Wisconsin; and Mary, born in 1899.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belle_Case_LaFollette   (605 words)

  
 Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1924 LaFollette again ran for President of the United States, this time as a Progressive, but came in third after incumbent President Calvin Coolidge and Democratic candidate John W. Davis, carrying only Wisconsin.
LaFollette died several months later; his son, Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
In 1909, La Follette and his wife, Belle Case LaFollette, founded the publication La Follette's Weekly.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette,_Sr.   (700 words)

  
 Robert M. LaFollette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
LaFollette's subsequent rise coincided with unrest among farmers angry at Eastern capitalists who controlled money and credit and who dictated railroad freight rates.
Supporting LaFollette, they were joined by small businessmen, professionals, and intellectuals disturbed by how wealthy businessmen controlled access to political power.
Reelected by a landslide to a fourth term in 1922, LaFollette mounted an independent campaign for president in 1924 and won 17% of the vote.
www.course-notes.org /biographies/robertmarionlafollette.htm   (675 words)

  
 Timber Ridge Christian Church Cemetery, Highview, WV
Robert A. Arnold: born Aug 7, 1882; died Feb 15, 1926; "son of Amos & Eliza Randell Arnold".
Winifred Lafollette: born Mar 23, 1905; died Jul 10, 1920; "dau".
Robert B. Parish: born Jul 13, 1965; died Jul 17, 1965.
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 Robert La Follette Biography
Robert La Follette, the son of a small farmer, was born in Dane County, Wisconsin, on 14th June, 1855.
Robert La Follette Jr., the son of Robert La Follette and Belle La Follette, was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on 6th February, 1895.
LA FOLLETTE, Robert Marion, (father of Robert Marion La Follette, Jr.), a Representative and a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Primrose, Dane County, Wis.,...
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 EPIC | Robert M. LaFollette Elementary School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
LaFollette School is a warm, caring, family focused environment where all children can learn.
LaFollette School is unable to serve physically handicapped students requiring a wheelchair due to the structure of the building.
LaFollette School expects parents to volunteer one hour per month and attend three PTO meetings per year.
www.cuir.uwm.edu /EPIC/English/data/robert32.html   (590 words)

  
 Eastland Memorial Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
KEYWORD(S) Robert Marion La Follette was born June 14, 1855 in Primrose, Dane County, Wisconsin.
As a boy growing up in moderately prosperous rural areas, as a student at the University of Wisconsin (1875-79), as a county district attorney (1880-84) and congressman from southwestern Wisconsin, La Follette developed the personality and style that made him a popular leader.
Robert S. Maxwell, La Follette and the Rise of the Progressives in Wisconsin (1956, reprinted 1973).
www.eastlandmemorial.org /lafollette.shtml   (2264 words)

  
 Robert LaFollette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
"Battling Bob" LaFollette was born June 14, 1855 in Primrose township, Dane county, in the state of Wisconsin.
In 1879 LaFollette won the oratorical contest at the University, the state contest and the inter state contest oratorical in Iowa City.
LaFollette had many dreams, he fought for things like social and economic reforms like, direct primary elections, and more equitable taxed.
www.pittsford.monroe.edu /PittsfordMendon/socstud/decarlo/reform/Lafollette/Lafollette9/lafollettesum.htm   (446 words)

  
 Robert LaFollette
Unwilling to compromise on principle, "Fighting Bob" LaFollette earned the deep admiration of his supporters and the hatred of many foes.
LaFollette was born in Primrose, Wis., on June 14, 1855.
A farmer's son, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1879 and practiced law in Madison.
www.socialstudieshelp.com /Lesson_66_Handout_Robert_LaFollette.htm   (532 words)

  
 JS Online: LaFollette's little house holds lots of history
LaFollette, who was born in 1855, has always been associated with the family farm in the Town of Primrose in rural Dane County.
It is true that he was born in Primrose, and it was the farm in Primrose that he left in the 1870s to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he polished the skills that would make him a state, and later national, figure.
Weaver, who has collected LaFollette memorabilia through the years, said he later returned often to his boyhood home, and his wife, Belle, brought their daughter, Fola, to Argyle to see where her father had grown up.
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 06-18-2004 - Sentence Meted In Pizza Hut Robbery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Robert Lafollette, 18, Syracuse, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in the armed robbery.
Lafollette could have received up to 40 years for the felony crimes of criminal confinement and robbery while armed, but the sentence was lessened per plea agreement.
Ashkins was sentenced May 20 to a sentence similar to Lafollette’s, and Kennelley is scheduled for a trial in November.
www.timeswrsw.com /N0618042.HTM   (156 words)

  
 La Follette and His Legacy
In 1858, when Robert La Follette was just three years old, he recited a two-line poem at the newly built schoolhouse a mile from his home.
That tradition, his primary school education during the Civil War, and the concerns and beliefs of the surrounding agricultural community ensured his early adherence to the Republican Party.
The many ideas and laws that they and their father promoted and achieved-the direct primary, civil service reform, protection of civil liberties, university/state government cooperation, and numerous others-provided a valuable base upon which public officials could build for generations to come.
www.lafollette.wisc.edu /publications/otherpublications/LaFollette/LaFLegacy.html   (6533 words)

  
 The Yelton Family - Person Page 52
William J. LaFollette is the son of Carlos Ivan LaFollette and Rosalie Rice.
James Robert Yelton was born on 4 December 1897 in Pendleton County, Kentucky.
Robert Napier is the son of Danny Napier and Iona Yelton.
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 Social Security Online
was the eldest son of Robert LaFollette, a progressive Senator from Wisconsin and one-time presidential candidate.
LaFollette served on the House-Senate conference committee that drafted the final version of the Social Security bill.
Both individuals are standing to the left of Chairman Robert Doughton and they had been cropped out of previously seen versions of the signing photos.
www.ssa.gov /history/fdrsign.html   (1864 words)

  
 Robert M. LaFollette
LaFollette had pioneered a number of Progressive reforms while governor of Wisconsin—he had made his state a "laboratory of democracy." LaFollette was now in the U.S. Senate, and so was his running mate Wheeler.
LaFollette carried his home state of Wisconsin, and was thus one of only three formal third-party candidates of the twentieth century to win electoral votes.
With the death of Robert LaFollette in the year after his presidential run, any plans for keeping the Progressive party alive as national party were dashed.
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 Robert C. LaFollette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
LaFollette was born on July 11, 1926, in Boone County, Indiana, the son of the late Glenn E. and Beulah Dawn (Patterson) LaFollette.
He was a 1944 graduate of Dover High School where he had lettered in basketball and played the tuba in the Jazz Band.
A son, Robert C. LaFollette, II, and two sisters, Louise LaFollette and Lois LaFollette, are deceased.
www.myersmortuary.com /Obits/LaFollette,%20Robert%20C.htm   (188 words)

  
 Welcome to The American Presidency
In national politics the term is associated with the unsuccessful presidential campaigns of Theodore Roosevelt (1912), Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.
In 1934 LaFollette's sons, Sen. Robert LaFollette, Jr., and Philip, organized a Progressive party in Wisconsin.
After Philip had been defeated for renomination as governor on the Republican ticket in 1932, the brothers concluded that the increasingly conservative GOP was no longer a reliable vehicle for advancing Progressive principles.
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 Lafollette Family Genealogy Forum (All Messages)
Re: Lafollette and Slover - Deborah Brownfield-Stanley 5/24/02
Re: Descendants of Joesph LaFOLLETTE - Janie Swingley 6/08/98
Re: Descendants of Joesph LaFOLLETTE - Janie Swingley 5/30/98
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 Aug1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Progressive from Wisconsin, known by the nickname "Battling Bob," was one of the leading advocates of liberal causes and political reform in early twentieth century politics.
LaFollette supported the use of direct primary elections, the regulation of railroads, civil service reform, equitable tax laws, and aid to farmers - all issues that placed him at odds with the Republican Party of which he was a member.
Obviously, LaFollette's political ideology had a certain resonance in the heart of central Illinois.
www.eureka.edu /emp/jrodrig/otdieh/aug1.htm   (335 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Classic Senate Speeches
Six months after the United States entered World War I, in the midst of the war fever then sweeping the country, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., of Wisconsin defended his right to speak out against the war in a forceful address to the Senate.
Robert La Follette, one of the five outstanding senators memorialized by portraits in the U.S. Capitol's Senate Reception Room, was acutely aware of the power of oratory.
His October 6, 1917, speech is still regarded by scholars of rhetoric and congressional history as "a classic argument for free speech in time of war."
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_LaFollette_FreeSpeech.htm   (670 words)

  
 H Robert La Follette H   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Robert LaFollette was born on June 14, 1855, in Primrose, Wisconsin.
As the son of a farmer, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1879 and soon began to practice law in Madison.
Supporters of LaFollette were farmers, small business men, professionals, and intellectuals disturbed by how wealthy businessmen controlled access to political power.
www.pittsford.monroe.edu /directory/~decarlo/reform/Lafollette/Lafollette2/lafollettesum.htm   (274 words)

  
 1908: Mock Conventions
A recurring element of student political activity was the spring mock political convention, in which students mimicked the (pre-primary) work of the party conventions of drafting platforms and selecting nominees.
The WRU student choice for the Republican Party nominee in 1908 was Robert LaFollette, Wisconsin Senator.
This first mock political convention held by either Case or WRU nominated Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin for president.
www.cwru.edu /its/archives/campaign/1908.htm   (115 words)

  
 Citizen Channel: Ballot Box   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Wisconsin is said to have enjoyed its golden age during Robert LaFollette's tenure as governor (1901-06) and U.S. senator (1906-25).
More changes were made in Wisconsin's laws, with a greater impact on the state's life, during this period than at any other time in the state's history.
LaFollette unquestionably played a large role in effecting those changes.
www.uwgb.edu /abelt/Teaching/SLG/ballots_files/slide0039.htm   (209 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Ladendorf to Lair
Grandson of Robert Marion LaFollette; son of Robert Marion LaFollette, Jr.
Son of Robert Marion LaFollette; brother of Robert Marion LaFollette, Jr.
Son of Robert Marion LaFollette; brother of Philip Fox LaFollette; father of Bronson Cutting LaFollette.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/ladislas-lair.html   (1875 words)

  
 Robert La Follette's Support for Women's Suffrage
Robert La Follette (1855-1925) was a Republican politician who held a variety of public offices, from county district attorney, to Wisconsin Governor, to national representative and Senator.
He championed most reforms associated with the progressive movement--regulation of business interests (especially the railroads) and utilities; election reforms; taxation reform; and public management of public resources by highly qualified, non-partisan public servants.
View the Table of Contents of LaFollette's Autobiography, from Pioneering the Upper Midwest, ca.
memory.loc.gov /learn/features/timeline/progress/suffrage/publrole.html   (345 words)

  
 Welcome to The American Presidency
When LaFollette opposed the arming of U.S. merchant ships, Wilson denounced the "little group of wilful men" who he said had made the government "helpless and contemptible." In April 1917, LaFollette voted against declaring war.
He won passage for the nation's first unemployment compensation act, pushed through programs to aid workers and farmers, and reorganized the state government.
LaFollette, Robert M., LaFollette's Autobiography (Univ. of Wis. Press 1960).
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 Lafollette--BSU Office of Housing and Residence Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
LaFollette Complex is the largest complex on campus.
LaFollette is named for Dr. Robert LaFollette, who was a social science professor and department head at Ball State University from 1921 to 1961, and houses approximately 1,900 men and women.
We embrace all of the people that complete our campus community and pledge to challenge and support our students in overcoming the barriers of prejudice and discrimination in an increasingly global society.
web.bsu.edu /housing/lafollette.html   (327 words)

  
 Robert M. La Follette
Robert Marion La Follette was born in Primrose, Wisconsin, the son of a prominent farmer and political activist.
More books on Robert M. La Follette can be found at Barnes & Noble.
Memorabilia related to Robert M. La Follette is at auction on eBay.
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 Robert M. Lafollette: June 14, 1855 - June 18, 1925 (Vol 1&2) - LAFOLLETTE, BELLE CASE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Robert M. Lafollette: June 14, 1855 - June 18, 1925 (Vol 1&2) - LAFOLLETTE, BELLE CASE
These twin volumes are a handsomeslipcase, emblazoned with a portrait photograph of one of Wisconsin's preeminent representatives.
This work encompasses the life and times of Robert LaFollette, a prominent politican in the early 20th century.
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 Encyclopedia: Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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