Dane County WI Archives Biographies.....LA FOLLETTE, ROBERT M., Jr. 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Tina Vickery http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0005998 October 18, 2008, 12:12 pm

Author: Compiled by The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library.

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FROM WISCONSIN
WISCONSIN MEMBERS OF THE 79TH CONGRESS
SENATORS

ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE JR. (Prog.) was born
February 6, 1895 at Madison.  He was educated in the
public schools of Madison and Washington, D. C.  He
received early training in public affairs as intimate
companion and later as private secretary to his
father who, at that time, was  United States Senator
from Wisconsin.  In 1924 he delivered his father's
message to the National Conference for Progressive
Political Action which launched the elder La
Follette's candidacy for President of the United
States.  In 1925, at the age of thirty, he was
elected to the Senate to succeed his father.  He was
chosen a delegate-at-large to the 1928 Republican
National Convention and as the Wisconsin member of
the Committee on Resolutions, presenting the
Progressive minority report.  In the same year he was
re-elected to the Senate.  He married Rachel Wilson
Young in 1930.  They have two children, Jo Oden and
Bronson Cutting.  He was reelected to the Senate in
1934 as candidate of the Progressive Party, and again
in 1940.  Ie is first-ranking  minority member of the
Senate Committees on Finance, Education and Labor,
Manufactures, and Indian Affairs; and second-ranking
minority member of the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations.  Home Address:  Maple Bluff Farm, Madison.



Additional Comments:
The Wisconsin Blue Book 1946.  Compiled by The
Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library.  Published
Biennially by the State of Wisconsin pgs. 13 - 70.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/dane/bios/lafollet1129gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/

File size: 2.2 Kb