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La Follette

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La Fol·lette  (l flt), Robert Marion 1855-1925.
American politician and reformer who served as a U.S. senator from Wisconsin (1906-1925). In 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for President on the Progressive Party ticket.


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The founder of The Progressive, Senator Robert La Follette of Wisconsin, took pains to insist upon the right of Congress to exercise its constitutional duties in wartime.
After years as a geek, Britney Johnson has remade herself and achieved prestige as the high school "hockey wife" of Ricky Piekowski, a star defenseman on the La Follette Rabid Raccoons varsity team.
Kaufman notes, "An apt analogy can be drawn comparing Jackson with John Calhoun, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft--all dominant and controversial senators who were at once revered and reviled, never attained the presidency; but nonetheless had a decisive impact on history.
 
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