Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....LA FOLLETTE, ROBERT MARION June 14, 1855 - ************************************************ 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 10, 2007, 3:57 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. SENATORS ROBERT MARION LA FOLLETTE, senior United States Senator, has held a public office during 31 of the last 41 years. He was born at Primrose, Dane county, June 14, 1855; was graduated from the University of Wisconsin with the class of 1879; admitted to the bar in February 1880 and that fall was elected district attorney of Dane county and was re-elected in 1882. In 1884 he was elected to the 49th congress and was re-elected in 1886 and 1888 but defeated in 1890. Was elected governor of Wisconsin in 1900 and re-elected in 1902 and 1904, but resigned January 1, 1906, to succeed J. V. Quarles as United States Senator and was re-elected in 1911, 1916 and 1922. His present term expires in 1929. He was elected a district delegate to the national republican convention in 1896 and delegate-at-large to the convention in 1904. He was three times a candidate for the republican nomination for president. Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598- 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/lafollet4bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb