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| Date: | 07 1972 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey and Senator Gaylord Nelson posed talking in front of the statue of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in the National Statuary Hall in th... |
| Date: | 06 1970 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey and Senator William Proxmire outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The photograph was taken for use in the campaign li... |
| Date: | 11 1980 |
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| Description: | "Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan engage in a presidential debate on television." |
| Date: | 11 1980 |
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| Description: | "Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan engage in a presidential debate on television." |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Congressman Morris Udall speaking to a Wisconsin audience during his campaign for the presidency. Udall finished a close second to Jimmy Carter in the Wisc... |
| Date: | 09 03 1984 |
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| Description: | A brief shower failed to dampen the enthusiasm of Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale and Vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro during... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Running for his first term in the Wisconsin Assembly, Wausau Democrat Obey met with Governor Gaylord Nelson to take a publicity photograph. |
| Date: | 06 05 1884 |
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| Description: | Engraved portraits of candidates for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Robert T. Lincoln, General William T. Sherman, General Joseph Roswell Hawley, ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman Melvin R. Laird with four supporters of the re-election campaign of President Dwight Eisenhower and Dick Nixon, dressed in special ca... |
| U.S. Senator, Frontiersman, Soldier |
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| Brief biography of Henry Dodge (1782 - 1867). |
| A Dishonest Democrat and a Radical Republican |
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| Learn about the election that was so close that Wisconsin briefly had two governors until one was exposed for tampering with ballots. |
| Creating the Wisconsin Territory |
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| Discover the story of Wisconsin's first elections and how the state was divided into its present-day areas. |
| The Rise and Fall of Isaac Walker |
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| Discover the story of Isaac P. Walker, the first Wisconsin presidential contender in 1850. |
| View this image collection of the Wisconsin Democratic Senator William Proxmire. |
| Date: | 07 1970 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (facing away from the camera) with Democratic leaders John McCormack and Carl Albert. The photograph was taken for a br... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Democratic members of the Wisconsin congressional delegation with Morris Udall (center), probably at an event associated with Udall's attempted campaign fo... |
| Date: | 02 15 1960 |
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| Description: | Two Republican candidates for governor and their wives chat with Roger Radue, dinner chairman, before the annual Dane County GOP Lincoln Day fund-raising d... |
| Date: | 03 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Governor Orville Freeman of Minnesota (left) chats with Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson before a Freeman press conference in Nelson's office. Freeman is ... |
| Date: | 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Cartoon, mounted on board, by Clifford K. Berryman of candidates wearing spring dresses and hats or headbands, and dancing around a maypole, with the Washi... |
| Date: | 07 08 1960 |
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| Description: | Dane County Democrats file nomination papers to run for political offices. The candidates and the office they are running for are, left to right: Joseph We... |
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