Robert Marion la Follette

By Government Printing Office

Book Id: WPLBN0000200745
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Robert Marion la Follette
Author:	Government Printing Office
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Economic & political studies
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Printing Office
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt: In 1955, by resolution of the Senate, the Special Committee on the movement, Robert Marion La Follette was a Senate Reception Room was established to select five outstandingU.S. representative, governor, and U.S. senator from Wisconsin, and an unsuc-persons who had served as members of the Senate. Their likecessful candidate for the presidency. La nesses would be placed in the room’s medallion ovals that were Follette was born in the town of Primrose, left vacant in the mid-19th century by artist Constantino Brumidi.Wisconsin, the son of settlers from Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1880, he Chaired by Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the committee sought entered the U.S. House of Representatives the counsel of historians, political scientists, former senators, and other in 1885. After three terms in the House, he public figures in the selection process. The committee had little troublewas elected governor of Wisconsin and served from 1901 to 1906. As governor, selecting the first three senators-both the members and their historical La Follette pushed for a direct primary advisory panel unanimously chose the “Great Triumvirate” of Henry Clay system, tax reform legislation, railroad rate (p. 72), Daniel Webster (p. 418), and John C. Calhoun (p. 54). However, control, and other measures known as the “Wisconsin idea,” collectively aimed at the committee had far greater trouble selecting the final two senators. weakening the control of party bosses and The historians polled selected George Norris, a Nebraska Republican, but turning over public administration to popu-Norris was still too controversial a figure to meet the committee’s requirelarly elected leaders. Nicknamed “Fighting Bob,” La Follette ment for selection by unanimous vote. After much deliberation, the continued to champion Progressive causes committee chose Robert M. La Follette, Sr., of Wisconsin and Robert A. during a Senate career extending from Taft, Sr., of Ohio (p. 354) for the remaining paintings.

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