April 12, 2024
Vintage Photo And ALS Robert Lafollette Wisconsin Governor-Senator-Rep-1915
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Vintage photo and TLS of Robert LaFollette Wisconsin politician and leader. Letter refer to Indian Affairs and Kickapoo. � Photo is approx. 3.5" x 5" w rounded edges. Letter is on US Senate letterhead and dated May, 1914. � 7" x 9" photo with unusual photo angle. Photo mounted on heavier brown card stock. � Robert Marion "Fighting Bob"[1] La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) was an American Republican (and later a Progressive) politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was also a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (1906 to 1925). He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in 1924, carrying Wisconsin and 17% of the national popular vote. His wife Belle Case La Follette and sons Robert M. La Follette Jr. and Philip La Follette led his political faction in Wisconsin into the 1940s. La Follette has been called "arguably the most important and recognized leader of the opposition to the growing dominance of corporations over the Government"[2] and is one of the key figures pointed to in Wisconsin's long history of political liberalism. He is best remembered as a proponent of progressivism and a vocal opponent of railroad trusts, bossism, World War I, and the League of Nations. In 1957, a Senate Committee selected La Follette
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