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Bronson Cutting La Follette (February 2, 1936 – March 15, 2018) was an American Democratic lawyer and politician. He was the 36th and 39th Attorney General of the state of Wisconsin and was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1968 .
La Follette's great-great-grandfather, Joseph La Follette emigrated from France to New Jersey in 1745. La Follette's great-grandfather moved to Kentucky, where they were neighbors to the Lincoln family. [6] Josiah died just eight months after Robert was born, [4] and in 1862, Mary married John Saxton, a wealthy, seventy-year-old merchant. [7]
Charles Marion La Follette (February 27, 1898 – June 27, 1974) was an American lawyer and politician. [ 1 ] His great-grandfather was William Heilman , who was in the United States House of Representatives from Indiana .
Robert Marion La Follette Jr. (February 6, 1895 – February 24, 1953) was an American politician who served as United States senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947. A member of the La Follette family, he was often referred to by the nickname "Young Bob" to distinguish him from his father, Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette, who had served as a U.S. senator and governor of Wisconsin.
The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. The party was established in 1934 as an alliance between the longstanding "Progressive" faction of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, led by the La Follette family and their political allies, and certain radical farm and labor ...
Douglas J. La Follette (born June 6, 1940) is a retired American academic, environmental scientist, and Democratic politician from Wisconsin. He was the 28th and 30th secretary of state of Wisconsin , serving from 1975 to 1979, and from 1983 to 2023.
Harvey Marion LaFollette (September 8, 1858 – September 20, 1929) was an American teacher and educator, who as a young man, [1] served two terms as Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction. [2] He then moved to Tennessee , where he established the town of LaFollette .
In 1986 La Follette made national headlines when she called for drug tests for California legislators. She also pushed for legislation to enact the death penalty for drug kingpins. La Follette left the Assembly in 1990 to care for her ailing husband John Travis and endorsed her top aide, 24-year-old Rob Wilcox for the Republican nomination.