Alf Landon
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Alfred Mossman Landon was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 1936 presid
Landon, c. 1936
Cover of Time magazine, May 18, 1936
Bull Moose Party
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The Progressive Party, popularly nicknamed the Bull Moose Party, was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination
Alf Landon
…Landon was married to Margaret Fleming until her death in 1918. Landon supported Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party in 1912, and by 1922, was private secretary to the governor of Kansas. He later became known as the leader of the liberal Republicans in the state. He…
The 1912 Progressive National Convention at the Chicago Coliseum
Punch in May 1912 depicts a no-holds-barred fight between Taft and Roosevelt.
Delegates to Bull Moose convention in 1912 resembled Roosevelt.
16-page campaign booklet with the platform of the new Progressive Party