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Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855June 18, 1925) was an American Republican (and later a Progressive) politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1906 to 1925. He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in 1924, carrying Wisconsin and winning 17% of the national popular vote. His wife Belle Case La Follette, and his sons Robert M. La Follette Jr. and Philip La Follette led his political faction in Wisconsin into the 1940s. La Follette has been called "arguably the most important and recognized leader of the opposition to the growing dominance of corporations over the Government" and is one of the key figures pointed to in Wisconsin's long history of political liberalism. He is best remembered as a proponent of progressivism and a vocal opponent of railroad trusts, bossism, World War I, and the League of Nations. In 1957, a Senate Committee selected La Follette as one of the five greatest U.S. Senators, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and Robert A. Taft. A 1982 survey asking historians to rank the "ten greatest Senators in the nation's history" based on "accomplishments in office" and "long range impact on American history," placed La Follette first, tied with Henry Clay.〔David L. Porter, "America's Ten Greatest Senators." The Rating Game in American Politics: An Interdisciplinary Approach. New York: Irvington, 1987.〕 Robert La Follette is one of five outstanding senators memorialized by portraits in the Senate reception room in US Capitol. One of (America's top schools for public affairs ), located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison bears his name. ==Early life== La Follette was born in a log cabin in the Town of Primrose, Wisconsin, just outside New Glarus, to Josiah La Follette and Mary Ferguson (widow of Alexander Buchanan). His paternal great-grandfather, Joseph La Follette, was born in France, emigrated to New Jersey, fought in the American Revolutionary War, led his family through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky, and crossed the Ohio River into Indiana with his son, Jesse LaFollette.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joseph Lafollett / Lafollette )〕 Joseph married Phoebe Gobel, whose family came to the Massachusetts Colony from England in the 1630s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Goble Genealogy Homepage sponsored by the Goble Family Association )〕 Jesse's sons, Josiah and Harvey La Follette, moved to Primrose, where they established farms and participated in local government.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LAFOLLETTE, Harvey Marion )〕 La Follette grew up in rural Dane County, Wisconsin. The death of his father in 1856 and the subsequent bad relationship with his stepfather made it a difficult childhood.〔 Following the death of his stepfather, his mother sold the family farm and moved to nearby Madison. He began teaching school for tuition money for the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was "a very mediocre student who enjoyed social activities."〔 At the school, he was deeply influenced by University president John Bascom on issues of morality, ethics and social justice.〔 La Follette studied oratory and, during his senior year, won a major Midwestern oratorical competition.〔 He graduated in 1879. La Follette met Belle Case while attending the University of Wisconsin, and they married on December 31, 1881, at her family home in Baraboo, Wisconsin. She became a leader in the feminist movement, an advocate of women's suffrage and an important influence on the development of La Follette's ideas.〔 La Follette attended law school briefly and passed the bar in 1880.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert M. La Follette Sr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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