Robert M. La Follette Memorial Addresses : Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Memory of Robert M. La Follette, Sixth-Ninth Congress

Washington: United States Government Printing Office. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1927. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 233 pages: 6 x 9 in. : 2: KB#016161: Boards are Dark Black with Gilt Lettering on front. Includes tissue-protected frontispiece portrait. Board corners are slightly scuffed; otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. 26th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document No. 157. Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855 - June 18, 1925), was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the Governor of Wisconsin. With the support of the Socialist Party, farmer's groups, labor unions, and others, La Follette briefly appeared to be a serious threat to unseat Republican President Calvin Coolidge. La Follette stated that his chief goal was to break the "combined power of the private monopoly system over the political and economic life of the American people," and he called for government ownership of railroads and electric utilities, cheap credit for farmers, the outlawing of child labor, stronger laws to help labor unions, and protections for civil liberties. .