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 | | Alf Landon was the only Republican Governor elected in 1934 in the United States. | | | Alf Landon became interested in politics and at the age of 27 became Montgomery County (KS) Chairman for the Progressive Party. | | | This house became a political hub for Kansas and to a large extent, the Nation during the 1920's and 30's. |
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http://www.landoncenter.com
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| | Transcript - Landon for President: Alf Landon's Nomination & its Impact on Kansas |
| | Narrator: Former Kansas Governor Alf Landon ran for President in 1936, but his political roots went back to his youth before he moved to Kansas and became Governor of the state. | | | Landon for President: Alf Landon's Nomination & its Impact on Kansas | | | Loren Pennington, Emporia State University - Alf Landon became connected with politics because his father was very interested in Republican politics, his father worked for the Union Oil Company in Ohio. |
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http://ktwu.wuacc.edu/journeys/scripts/1305b.html
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| | From Landon, the 1936 Republican presidential nominee who won just two states in a landslide loss to Franklin Roosevelt, to Dole, who 60 years later lost the presidency to Bill Clinton, Kansas politicians commanded their share of national attention. | | | But he did often forget his presidential rival's name in the final years, calling him simply, "that Democrat." Landon's daughter, Nancy Kassebaum, caused the old man what he said was the most upsetting time of his life when she ran for the U.S. Senate in 1978. | | | Landon, the 1930s Kansas governor who achieved patriarchal status in the GOP, died in October 1987, a month after his 100th birthday. |
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http://www.cjonline.com/fieldedFiles/011999/ferguson
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| | Politics1: Campaign Buttons & Collectibles Auction |
| | Landon's daughter, Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R), served as a US Senator from Kansas in 1978-96. | | | Landon, a wealthy oil/gas and radio executive, was narrowly elected Governor in 1932 over the incumbent -- thus becoming the only GOP statewide candidate in the entire nation that year to overcome the national Democratic sweep and defeat an incumbent Democrat. | | | Knox went on to serve in FDR's Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy from 1940 until Knox's death in 1944. |
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http://www.politics1.com/auction8.htm
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| | Dummeldinger Teaching |
| | Even Landon's home state of Kansas, where he was the popular governor, voted for Roosevelt. | | | On October 17, Landon was ahead in 32 of the 48 states, with FDR leading in only 16 states. | | | The Republican Convention, meeting in Cleveland in early June, nominated the popular Governor Alf Landon of Kansas on the first ballot. |
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http://www.coba.usf.edu/departments/isds/faculty/dummeldinger/landon.htm
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| | AllRefer.com - Nancy Landon Kassebaum-Baker (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Topeka, Kans. A Republican and the daughter of Kansas governor Alfred Mossman (Alf) Landon, she was the first woman who had not entered politics as the widow of a congressman to be elected to the Senate. | | | Nancy Landon Kassebaum-Baker[kas´ubOm´´, –boum´´] Pronunciation Key, 1932&;, U.S. senator from Kansas (1979–97), b. | | | Kassebaum was an early proponent of term limits, supported abortion rights and gun control, and became chairwoman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee in 1995. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/K/Kassebau.html
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| | Alf Landon permitted himself to josh Harry Woodring, his Democratic predecessor as Governor, now Assistant Secretary of War, who had bet against Landon's luck. | | | The 47th state, Wisconsin, renews the buzz by voting "six for Landon, 18 for Borah." Wisconsin's Progressive-tinged Republicans are also set on their gesture. | | | Washington votes as "a typical Republican State." Forty-five states in succession cast every vote for Landon. |
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http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9606/19/bit.txt
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| | Alf laws Information |
| | Alf Laws was a Los Angeles County lifeguard for... | | | Alf Laws are great for when you're looking to get better at alf laws for selfish purposes. | | | If you need help locating alf laws then you've come to the right place because we have all the alf laws you could want. |
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| | Alf, for one thing, has a co-protagonist: U.S. President James Buchanan. | | | Alf likens Buchanan to Ford: Both were stolid, gentlemanly, unimaginative. | | | It says something about the differences between these authors and Updike that his own favorite chief executive is Honest Abe's dull, elderly predecessor, who looked on helplessly while the Union fell apart. |
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http://www.brucebawer.com/updike3.htm
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| | Landon Lecture by William Cohen, Sept. 12, 1997 |
| | And the greatest tribute to Governor Landon I know is the enduring legacy of his daughter, my friend and former Senate colleague, Nancy Kassebaum-Baker. | | | And so this legacy of modesty and candor and selflessness that Governor Landon had has been passed on to his daughter, Nancy. | | | Following is the complete text of the Landon Lecture presented Friday at Kansas State University by Secretary of Defense William Cohen. |
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http://www.newss.ksu.edu/WEB/News/NewsReleases/cohenlandontext.html
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| | The Authentic History Center |
| | On June 12, 1936, the Republican National Convention chose Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas to challenge President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his bid for a second term. | | | A wealthy oilman before he entered politics, Landon's conservative economics appealed to a Republican Party strongly opposed to Roosevelt's New Deal and the emerging welfare state. | | | Alfred M. Landon, Governor of Kansas, Campaigns for The Presidency, 1936 (:51) |
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http://www.authentichistory.com/audio/1930s/history/1936_Alf_Landon_Campaign_Speech.html
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| | Landon in a Landslide: The Poll That Changed Polling |
| | Our own opinion was that they would be found in the Roosevelt column, and they were. | | | The 1936 presidential election proved a decisive battle, not only in shaping the nation’s political future but for the future of opinion polling. | | | The 1936 postal card poll claimed to have asked one forth of the nation’s voters which candidate they intended to vote for. |
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http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5168
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| | Data Measurement and Variation |
| | Despite the findings of the poll, however, Roosevelt defeated Landon in one of the largest landslide presidential elections ever. | | | The magazine Literary Digest sent a survey to 10 million Americans to determine how they would vote in the upcoming election between Democrat Franklin Roosevelt and Republican Alf Landon. | | | A voter poll taken during the 1936 presidential election provides a good example of the danger of biased sampling. |
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http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/learningmath/data/session1/notes_d.html
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| | 2000.11.17: Alf Landon Lecture, Kansas State University, Manhattan , Kansas |
| | Landon also demonstrated that spirit-in the words of another former Kansas governor, John Carlin-"by not being a partisan." For example, while Landon undertook the daunting challenge of running against Franklin Roosevelt in 1936-he also supported many of FDR's views on the role of government. | | | In 1964, only 50 percent of seniors had insurance for hospital care. | | | 2000.11.17: Alf Landon Lecture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas |
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| | U.S. News & World Report: An American original. (Alf Landon) (obituary)@ HighBeam Research |
| | A long line of Presidents--from Franklin Roosevelt, who beat him by a historic margin in 1936 and then offered him a cabinet seat, to Ronald Reagan--valued his advice on the changing world he viewed from his front porch in Topeka. | | | In his own wry self-portrait, he was "a lawyer who never had a case, an oilman who never made a million and a presidential candidate who carried only Maine and Vermont.' But by the time he died last week at age 100, Alfred Mossman Landon was also the grand old man of U.S. politics. | | | Landon won two terms as governor of Kansas... |
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| | Alf Landon List |
| | Used in the 1936 Republican campaign of Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas. | | | Although Landon was defeated soundly by Roosevelt, he remains a popular figure | | | Landon used the Kansas State Flower (the Sunflower) as his campaign motiff. |
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| | 1936: Political Satire |
| | Alf Landon won the straw vote at Case. | | | Just wrote him a diplomatic note like this: Dear Alf, Like to have a talk with you. | | | The cover of The Red Cat featured a caricature of Roosevelt. |
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| | LIS380 Session 12: Surveys |
| | Result: Landon in a landslide (predicted 57% of the vote, Roosevelt predicted 40%) | | | 1936 Presidential election: Alf Landon (R) vs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) Literary Digest had been conducting successful presential election polls since 1916 | | | Election result: Roosevelt received approximately 60% of the vote |
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| | The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Landon |
| | Lawyer; Justice of New York Supreme Court 4th District, 1900-01; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 3rd Department, 1900. | | | President of the United States, 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas, | | | Landon, Alfred Mossman (1887-1987) — also known as Alf M. Landon — of Independence, |
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| | Introduction to Polling Section 1. |
| | When they were all in, the magazine predicted that Alf Landon would carry 32 states and defeat Roosevelt by 57% to 43%. | | | Needless to say, the Digest was sorely embarrassed by the final outcome, a 61% to 37% Roosevelt landslide that left Landon with only two states and eight electoral votes compared to Roosevelt's 523. | | | When the Literary Digest predicted a Landon win in 1936, and Gallup had Dewey favored over Truman in 1948, they were brought up short by the hard numbers of election returns. |
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| | The Turning Tide |
| | Alf Landon lecture address at Kansas State University, October 1993 | | | So it is truly an honor to be here at Kansas State University. | | | This is the message that we have heard from Alf Landon and the newly freed peoples of the old Soviet bloc -- that faith in God is not, as some believe, a threat to democracy. |
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| | Despite the “Western Conference” and Hearst’s overtures, the California Delegation was headed by Earl Warren and was “uninstructed.” President Hoover had no delegates and Alf Landon became the nominee of the Republican Party. | | | Factions within the CRA were divided between Governor Frank Merriam, President Hoover and Earl Warren. | | | The CRA was split between Alf Landon and Governor Frank Merriam of California. |
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| | President Alf Landon? |
| | In the election, Roosevelt only got 61% of the vote. | | | Over 2 million people responded, giving Landon a 57 percent to 43 percent margin over Roosevelt. | | | In 1936, they sent ten million ballots to people listed in telephone directories and on automobile registration lists. |
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| | This is a man the family always considered a relative of Mary's, and who was at least partially responsible for her family's move to Yacolt. | | | He just made the boat to America ahead of the law. | | | Within a year, Mary had her first child, William Landon. |
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| | Get Out The Vote! |
| | Alf Landon was Franklin D. Roosevelt's Republican opponent during the 1936 election. | | | He adopted the sunflower as his campaign symbol, as did Robert Dole, Republican candidate for President in 1996. | | | Alf Landon Sunflower Campaign Buttons and Pins, 1932-1936. |
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| | Presidential Election of 1936 |
| | The Republicans meeting in Cleveland nominated Alf Landon of Kansas. | | | The convention eliminated the rule that required 2/3 of the delegates to vote for the nomination of a Presidential candidate, thus, simplifying the future selection of Presidential candidates. | | | Roosevelt took to the road and airways in October and proved that there was no peer to him as a campaigner. |
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| | MS 33 Don L. Berry (1880-1974) Papers, 1936-1970 |
| | The Way Farmers Look at Landon and Roosevelt (mimeo; letter to Don Berry, 7 September 1936 about soil conservation program in Warren (Iowa) County (name erased); interview with a Mr. | | | E - F, Includes letter about Alf M. Landon by C. Evans, John W. Evans (16), Kirk Fox (4) | | | Gustafson, chief clerk, Iowa House of Representatives and Executive Secretary of Committee of 100 and of the Iowa Club (25) |
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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- People -- Sep. 23, 1985 |
| | Landon's daughter Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, 53, was there also. | | | Certainly there were many happy returns last week as hundreds turned out in Topeka to help the former Kansas Governor (1932 to 1936) celebrate his 98th birthday. | | | Students from Topeka's Landon Junior High School serenaded him with "Happy Birthday" and presented the grand old party with a book of newspaper clippings dating back to 1935. |
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| | Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former U.S. senator and daughter of Alf Landon Grant Cushinberry, community philanthropist President Dwight Eisenhower Ted Ensley, Shawnee County commissioner Gov. | | | Harriet Lerner, psychologist and author Amy Lietz, news anchor for KSNT-TV, channel 27 James McClinton, city council member Kay McFarland, chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court Robert McFrazier, new superintendent of Topeka Unified School District 501 Kathleen Sebelius, Kansas insurance commissioner Mayor Joan Wagnon | | | Bill Graves Bob Hentzen, columnist and former sports editor for The Topeka Capital-Journal Pedro Irigonegaray, Topeka lawyer Alf Landon, former governor and 1936 Republican presidential nominee Dr. |
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| | Great American History Fact-Finder - -Landon, Alf |
| | Landon served two terms as governor of Kansas and ran as the Republican candidate for president in the election of 1936, losing to Franklin D. Roosevelt in a landslide; he won only the electoral votes of Maine and Vermont. | | | Following his defeat he pursued business interests as a petroleum producer. | | | Terms and Conditions of Use, Privacy Statement, and Trademark Information |
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| | I'm doubly pleased because Governor Landon's daughter Nancy was my friend and colleague for many years in the U.S. Congress. | | | The last Landon lecture I attended was given in 1991 by former President Jimmy Carter. | | | It is an honor to participate in the distinguished lecture series which bears his name and his imprint. |
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| | The Republican candidate for president against Franklin D. Roosevelt that year, Alf Landon, governor of Kansas, was the first to run on "reforming" Social Security, which he dubbed a "hoax." Roosevelt's victory seemingly settled the question of Social Security and the basic programs of the New Deal. | | | The coming defeat of President Bush on Social Security will be the defining moment in domestic policy and politics for his second term and for the future of the Republican Party. | | | He has tried to dress up his effort as a "reform," as a "new idea," but the language, upon historical examination, turns out to be recycled from the 1936 Republican platform, the Landon and Goldwater campaigns, and words that Reagan discarded as president. |
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| | Before the election of 1936, a contest between Democratic incumbent Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Republican Alf Landon, the magazine Literary Digest had been extremely successful in predicting the results in U.S. presidential elections. | | | Those who felt strongly about the outcome of the election were most likely to respond. | | | To add insult to injury, young pollster George Gallup, who had just founded the American Institute of Public Opinion in 1935, not only correctly predicted Roosevelt as the winner of the election, he also predicted that the Literary Digest would get it wrong. |
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http://www.duxbury.com/statistics_d/templates/student_resources/0534357865_utts/case_studies/case_study4-1.html
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| | WIBW Alf Landon's Former Home Moves |
| | The plan is to turn it into a center and museum on early 20th century politics and the Landon family, which also includes former U.S. Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker. | | | The three-story Victorian home was once owned by former Governor and failed presidential candidate Alf Landon. | | | The family owned the house from 1904 to about 1937. |
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| | In the 1936 United States Presidential election, a widely read and highly respected magazine conducted a survey poll as to who would win between Governor Alf Landon of Kansas and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the incumbent. | | | If readers of this magazine would have known something about statistics, they would have been skeptical about the claim that Alf Landon was the easy favorite to win. | | | As we know today, FDR was an easy winner in the 1936 elections, and this represents just one example of how bias in surveys may draw false conclusions. |
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http://www.faculty.umb.edu/peter_taylor/misuse.html
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| | It's a great privilege and a very high honor to have the opportunity of being on the Kansas State University campus. | | | There was one that struck me because of my longstanding personal friendship with him, a person on the other side of the political aisle, an individual who was sworn into the United States Senate, the same day that Jerry Ford became a member of the House on January 3, 1949. | | | President Acker, Governor Landon, Governor Bennett, distinguished state officials, my former colleague in the House of Representatives, Keith Sebelius, members of the faculty, student body and guests. |
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http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/speeches/780220.htm
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| | Ron Rosenbaum |
| | As Went Alf Landon, So Did McGovern— But How About Dean? | | | George McGovern was, in the sense that Landon had won only two states, while McGovern had won only one (and the District of Columbia). | | | Little did we know that the Biggest Loser of Them All, now celebrating victory, would be out on his ear in less than two years, the first President to resign in disgrace. |
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