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@gmail.com October 29, 2007, 11:20 am Author: Beck, J. D. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. UNITED STATES SENATORS. ROBERT MARION LA FOLLETTE (Rep.) was born at Primrose, Dane county, Wisconsin, June 14th, 1855; graduated from the 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 June, 1896: elected a delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention June, 1904; elected governor of Wisconsin 1900; re-elected 1902; reelected 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. Additional Comments: Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1909/bios/lafollet461nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb