LA FOLLETTE, Robert Marion, (father of
Robert Marion La Follette, Jr.), a Representative and a Senator from Wisconsin;
born in Primrose, Dane County, Wis., June 14, 1855; graduated from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1879; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1880 and commenced practice in Madison, Wis.; district attorney of Dane
County 1880-1884; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and
Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Fifty-first Congress); resumed
the practice of law in Madison, Wis.; Governor of Wisconsin 1901-1906, when he
resigned, having previously been elected Senator; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate on January 25, 1905, for the term beginning March 4, 1905,
but did not assume these duties until later, preferring to continue as Governor;
reelected in 1911, 1917, and 1923, and served from January 2, 1906, until his
death; chairman, Committee on the Census (Sixty-first and Sixty-second
Congress), Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia
(Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Manufactures
(Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses); one of the founders of the
National Progressive Republican League and several times unsuccessfully sought
the Republican and Progressive Party presidential nominations; died in
Washington, D.C., June 18, 1925; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison,
Wis.
Bibliography
American National Biography;Dictionary of American Biography; La
Follette, Belle C., and Fola La Follette. Robert M. La Follette. 2 vols.
New York: Macmillan, 1953; Unger, Nancy C. Fighting Bob La Follette: The
Righteous Reformer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000;
Weisberger, Bernard A. The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in
Progressive America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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