Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
This specific family group is a subset of the
much larger Four Thousand
Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed
with more than one subset.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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John Z. Saxton (1792-1872) —
of Fredonia, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.; Argyle, Lafayette
County, Wis.
Born in Fredonia, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., October
24, 1792.
Democrat. Postmaster at Fredonia,
N.Y., 1835-39.
Baptist.
Died in Argyle, Lafayette
County, Wis., October
30, 1872 (age 80 years, 6
days).
Interment at Old Argyle Cemetery, Argyle, Wis.
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Robert Marion LaFollette (1855-1925) —
also known as Robert M. LaFollette; "Fighting
Bob"; "Battling Bob" —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Primrose, Dane
County, Wis., June 14,
1855.
Lawyer;
Dane
County District Attorney, 1880-84; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 3rd District, 1885-91; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1896
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1904;
Governor
of Wisconsin, 1901-06; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1906-25; died in office 1925; candidate
for Republican nomination for President, 1908,
1916;
Progressive candidate for President
of the United States, 1924.
French
ancestry.
Died of heart
disease complicated by asthma
and pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., June 18,
1925 (age 70 years, 4
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Charles Sumner Eastman (1864-1939) —
also known as Charles S. Eastman —
of Hot Springs, Fall River
County, S.Dak.
Born in Primrose, Dane
County, Wis., January
23, 1864.
Democrat. Lawyer; real estate
business; Fall
River County Sheriff, 1897-1900; member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 44th District, 1907-08; postmaster;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Dakota, 1928.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died in Hot Springs, Fall River
County, S.Dak., August
26, 1939 (age 75 years, 215
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Marion LaFollette Jr. (1895-1953) —
also known as Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., February
6, 1895.
Wisconsin
Republican state chair, 1925; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1925-47; defeated in Republican primary,
1946; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1928
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1932.
Protestant.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, in the bathroom of his home, in Washington,
D.C., February
24, 1953 (age 58 years, 18
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert
Marion LaFollette and Belle (Case) LaFollette; brother of Philip
Fox LaFollette; married, September
17, 1930, to Rachel Wilson Young; father of Bronson
Cutting LaFollette. |
|  | Political family: LaFollette
family of Madison, Wisconsin (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
|  | Books about Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.:
Roger T. Johnson, Robert
M. LaFollette, Jr. and the Decline of the Progressive Party in
Wisconsin — Bernard A. Weisberger, The
LaFollettes of Wisconsin : Love and Politics in Progressive
America — Patrick J. Maney, Young
Bob : A Biography of Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. |
|  | Image source: Wisconsin Blue Book
1940 |
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Philip Fox LaFollette (1897-1965) —
also known as Philip F. LaFollette —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.; Douglaston, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., May 8,
1897.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; Dane
County District Attorney, 1925-26; Governor of
Wisconsin, 1931-33, 1935-39; defeated, 1938; colonel in the U.S.
Army during World War II; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1952.
Died August
18, 1965 (age 68 years, 102
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Bronson Cutting LaFollette (b. 1936) —
also known as Bronson C. LaFollette —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
2, 1936.
Democrat. Lawyer; Wisconsin
state attorney general, 1965-69, 1974-87; candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin, 1968.
Still living as of 2000.
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