View Robert Marion La Follette PNG. La follette launched his political career as dane county district attorney in 1881 in spite of objections from republican bosses who felt his ideas were too progressive. La follette began organizing an alternate republican party which eventually became the progressive party.
Was an american politician, the senator from wisconsin.
La follette launched his political career as dane county district attorney in 1881 in spite of objections from republican bosses who felt his ideas were too progressive. Its aim was to wrest the republican presidential nomination from taft in 1912 and secure it. And belle case la follette, and the brother of philip la follette and fola la follette. La follette was born june 14, 1855, on a frontier farm in dane county, wis.
