Dynastic Downfall
Up to last week no La Follette had ever been defeated for public office in Wisconsin in the 20th century. For 25 years the late great political dynast Robert Marion La Follette kept getting himself elected regularly as Governor or Senator. When he died in 1925, his son & namesake inherited his seat in the Senate, his power at home. Two years ago his younger son. Philip Fox La Follette, first charged into the State arena to joust Walter Jodok Kohler, stalwart Republican, out of...
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