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La Follette and Wheeler
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Republican Senator and independent, third-party presidential candidate, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., chats with Senator Burton K. Wheeler, a Democratic senator from Montana, his vice-presidential running mate.
July 20, 1924
International News Photos (New York, N.Y.)
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
July 3, 1924
Publicity photograph of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., in a characteristicly forceful pose, shortly after his selection as an independent, third-party Presidential candidate in 1924.
Mrs. Wheeler and Daughter Marion
September 15, 1932
Portrait of Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler and daughter, Marion Montana Wheeler, of Butte Montana, on the porch of the La Follette farmhouse. In 1924 Robert M. La Follette selected Senator Wheeler as the v...
Robert La Follette Reading a Newspaper
1924
Publicity photograph of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., for his independent, third-party candidacy for the Presidency in 1924. La Follette is outdoors reading, while sitting on an living room chair.
La Follette Family Listens to the Returns
November 1924
Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with Isabel Bacon La Follette (Mrs. Philip La Follette), Mrs. John J. Blaine, Philip Fox La Follette, Governor John J. Blaine, and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., listening ...
La Follette Presidential Rally
September 21, 1924
Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., waves to the crowd at the close of a presidential campaign speech at Yankee Stadium. Robert M. La Follette, Jr., is behind the senator and to his right.
Borglum and La Follette-Wheeler Medallion
1924
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum at work on his bust of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Burton K. Wheeler. The medallion was the official medal of La Follette's Independent Progressive Party Presidential ca...
