Biographical Sketches:  ROBERT MARION LA FOLLETTE


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. Members of the
Sixtieth Congress. United States Senators, p. 1115

ROBERT MARION LA FOLLETTE (Rep.) was born at Primrose, Dane county,
Wisconsin, June 14th, 1855; graduated from state university of
Wisconsin January, 1879; admitted to the bar February 1880; elected
district attorney of Dane County November, 1880; re-elected in 1882;
elected a member of the forty-ninth congress 1884; re-elected in 1886;
re-elected in 1888; defeated for re-election in 1890; elected a
district delegate to the national republican convention in June, 1896;
elected a delegate at large to the republican national convention
June, 1904; elected to the United States senate to succeed Joseph Very
Quarles January 25, 1905. Took his seat as United States senator
January 4th, 1906. His term of service will expire March 3, 1911.