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Robert M. La Follette
Sign in to saveAlso known as Bob La Follette, Robert La Follette, Robert Marion La Follette, Fighting Bob La Follette, Robert M. La Follette Sr., Robert Marion La Follette Sr., Robert Marion Lafollette, Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette
American progressive politician from Wisconsin (1855–1925)
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- Born
- 1855
- Died
- 1925
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Proposed recognition of the Irish Republic
- Valuation of the several classes of property of common carriers
- Primary elections for the nomination of all candidates by Australian ballot
- Safety at sea
- Address
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- Works
- 20
- Cited by
- 105
Research areas
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5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,805x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,572x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,854x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,814x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,527x
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Quotes
- “Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.”
- “The real cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.”
- “There is another plane of thought into which some have entered. It holds up a vision of a society redeemed by true democracy. It believes in a time when monopoly shall be no more, and labor and capital, no longer at war, shall cooperate to the wiping out of involuntary and undeserved poverty in an era of industrial equality and social peace.”
- “We are slow to realize that democracy is a life; and involves continual struggle. It is only as those of every generation who love democracy resist with all their might the encroachments of its enemies that the ideals of representative government can even be nearly approximated.”
- “The ill-gotten surplus capital acquired by exploiting the resources and the people of our country begets the imperialism which hunts down and exploits the natural resources and the people of foreign countries, erects huge armaments for the protection of its investments, breeds international strife in the markets of the world, and inevitably leads to war.”
- “I have become more and more impressed with the deep underlying singleness of the issue. It is not the tariff or conservation or the currency. It is not the trusts. The supreme issue, involving all the others, is the encroachment of the powerful few upon the rights of the many.”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Joseph V. Quarles
- Succeeded by
- Robert M. La Follette Jr.
- Lieutenant
- Jesse Stone James O. Davidson
- Born
- Robert Marion La Follette , ( 1855-06-14 ) June 14, 1855, Primrose, Wisconsin , U.S.
- Died
- June 18, 1925 (1925-06-18) (aged 70), Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Resting place
- Forest Hill Cemetery
- Party
- Republican
- Other political affiliations
- Progressive (1924)
- Spouse
- Belle Case
- Children
- 4, including Robert Jr. , Philip , and Fola
- Education
- University of Wisconsin–Madison ( BS )
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Marion La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925), nicknamed "Fighting Bob", was an American lawyer and the leading progressive politician in Wisconsin from the 1890s until his death in 1925. He served as U.S. senator from Wisconsin for the last 20 years of his life; prior to that he served as the 20th governor of Wisconsin (1901–1906) and served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1885–1891). A Republican for most of his life, he ran for president of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 United States presidential election. Historian John D. Buenker describes La Follette as "the most celebrated figure in Wisconsin history".
Born and raised in Wisconsin, La Follette won election as the Dane County district attorney in 1880. Four years later, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was friendly with party leaders like William McKinley. After losing his seat in the Democratic wave election of 1890, La Follette regrouped. As a populist, he embraced progressivism and built up a coalition of disaffected Republicans. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor in 1896 and 1898 before winning the nomination and the office in the 1900 gubernatorial election. As governor of Wisconsin, La Follette enacted a bold a progressive agenda, including progressive taxation, banking and railroad regulation, labor and sanitation protections, and campaign finance and civil service reforms. La Follette also pushed strongly for and achieved the passage of a law requiring state elected officials to be nominated by primary elections, replacing the old system in which small party conventions chose all nominees.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert M. La Follette” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.