"Fighting Bob" La Follette: The Ultimate Progressive Republican
The 1884 election produced a rather adverse outcome for the GOP in the election of Democrat Grover Cleveland to the presidency, the first Democrat to win a presidential election since 1856. In another development, Republican Robert Marion La Follette (1855-1925) was elected to Congress from Wisconsin’s 3rd district. Although he was from the get-go an in…
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