Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....LA FOLLETTE , ROBERT MARION ************************************************ 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 tsvickery@adelphia.net March 17, 2007, 2:15 pm Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. STATE OFFICERS. GOVERNOR. ROBERT MARION LA FOLLETTE (Rep.), was born at Primrose, Dane Co., Wis., June 14th, 1855, son of Josiah and Mary (Ferguson) La Follette. He comes from an old French Huguenot family which settled in this country more than a century ago. After attending the district school and a preparatory academy at Madison, he entered the preparatory department of the State University in 1874, graduated from the General Science course with the class of 1879 and entered the Law department the same year. In February, 1880, he passed the state bar examinations, was admitted to practice, and immediately opened an office in the city of Madison. At the ensuing election he was elected district attorney of Dane county, and was re-elected to that office in 1882, carrying Dane county by 118 votes, although all other Republican nominees in Dane county suffered defeat by about 2,000 votes. In 1884 he was elected a member of Congress from the then Third Congressional district, comprising Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa, and La Fayette counties, defeating Burr W. Jones', democrat. He was three times elected to Congress and again renominated in 1890, but was defeated in common with most Republican nominees in the state that year. During his last term in Congress he served on the Ways and Means committee and framed several schedules of the McKinley Tariff law. Upon his retirement from Congress Mr. La Follette entered upon the practice of his profession at Madison as the senior member of the firm of La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman. This partnership was dissolved in 1894, since which time he has practiced alone. He was elected governor in 1900, and re-elected in 1902, receiving 193,417 votes against 145,818 for David S. Rose (Den.), 9,647 for Edwin W. Drake (Pro.), 15,970 for Emil Seidel (Soc. Dem), and 791 for Henry E. D. Puck (Soc. Lab.). Additional Comments: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069 - 1117. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1903/bios/lafollet21gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb