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Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Speaking from Wagon

Date: 1897
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with his fist in the air, speaking from the back of a wagon. He is wearing a hat and a suit without the coat. It was in part du...
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Aviation-Minded Governor

Date: 1928
Description: Walter J. Kohler, Sr., (partially hidden, wearing a straw hat and with a flower in his lapel) makes a stop to which he had flown in his airplane, the "Vill...
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Votes

Date: 1924
Description: View of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., at the voting booth in Maple Bluff, Wisconsin at the conclusion of his independent, third-party Presidential campaign.
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Wendell Willkie with Carroll L. Coon

Date: 03 25 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie speaks with Carroll L. Coon, Commander of Madison's William B. Cairns American Legion Post No. 57, during Willkie's 1944 campaign for the P...
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Wendell Willkie and Delegates

Date: 03 1944
Description: Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie with Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Fellenz Jr. (R-Fond du Lac), sitting at a banquet table in front of a large ph...
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Wendell Willkie with the Johnsons

Date: 03 24 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie with two men by the name of Johnson, possibly George H. Johnson and Herbert Fisk Johnson, Sr.
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Dewey Presidential Campaign Train

Date: 1944
Description: Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the Republican Party presidential candidate aboard the campaign train, making a stop in Baraboo.
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McCarthy, the Primary Winner

Date: 09 18 1952
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy speaking with reporters at LaGuardia Airport shortly after his victory over Len Schmitt in the Wisconsin Republican primary. McC...
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Stassen's Campaign Bus

Date: 03 25 1952
Description: Presidential candidate Harold E. Stassen, standing by his campaign bus, beseiged by young autograph collectors. On January 29, Stassen, a former governor o...
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Harold E. Stassen President Campaign Tour

Date: 03 05 1948
Description: Harold E. Stassen (left), in Fort Atkinson, shaking hands with Ernest Marsh of Palmyra. Other men are lined up behind to shake hands.
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Harold E. Stassen President Campaign Tour

Date: 03 05 1948
Description: Harold E. Stassen (left), greets three men after his campaign speech in Fort Atkinson. Left to right are Clarence and William Trieloff, and Roy Marshall, p...
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Harold E. Stassen President Campaign Tour

Date: 03 06 1948
Description: Harold E. Stassen at the speaker's table at a campaign luncheon in Monroe. Seated (left to right) are: Mrs. R.L. Rote, Rev. E.C. McCollow, District Attorne...
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Harold E. Stassen President Campaign Tour

Date: 03 06 1948
Description: Elevated view of Harold E. Stassen greeting a crowd of people during a campaign tour in Monroe.
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Earl Warren for Vice-President Campaign

Date: 10 07 1948
Description: California Governor Earl Warren and his family at a rally at the University of Wisconsin stock pavilion where Gov. Warren made a half-hour talk in his bid ...
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Earl Warren for Vice-President Campaign

Date: 10 07 1948
Description: People involved in the Earl Warren United States vice-presidential campaign standing in front of the campaign train shortly after its arrival at the railro...
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Senator Karl Mundt at Airport

Date: 09 02 1954
Description: Senator Karl Mundt, (S.D., Rep.) who is wearing a suit and hat, and putting a cigar up to his mouth. Mundt came to Madison to address a session of the Univ...
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Gaylord Nelson Campaigning at Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 08 20 1958
Description: A straw hatted fairgoer from Oshkosh clutched Republican leaflets as he tried to straighten out State Senator Gaylord Nelson on world affairs. Nelson, Demo...
Poster

Nixon's The One!

Date: 1968
Description: Political campaign poster that features a drawing of Richard Nixon surrounded by contemporary celebrities and politicians in the center. He is wearing a bu...
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William Steiger Campaigning

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Description: Bill Steiger (right) speaks to several men as he campaigns for congress. Dick Cheney is visible on the far left.
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GOP Campaign Starts in Ripon at the Little White Schoolhouse

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: Philip Kuehn, left, Republican candidate for governor, chats in Ripon with Harry Dunbar, who will be 92 years old by the time he votes this fall. Dunbar, a...

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