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Spoiler Warning! [:)] (sorry for the copy and paste -- I knew he was a Progressive and had a major impact on government, but I couldn't remember the details) [url="http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/Bob.html"]Robert M. La Follette -- The Wisconsin Idea[/url] Robert M. “Fighting Bob” La Follette’s long public career in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century—as a U.S. Representative, three-term governor, and U.S. Senator—set precedents for generations of state and federal programs. La Follette worked on two fronts. He sought institutional changes to place government more directly in the hands of citizens, and he pursued public policies to improve the lot of farmers, workers, children, and women. [url="http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/Research/Publications/OtherPublications/LaFollette/LaFLegacy.html"]La Follette and His Legacy[/url] Revered by Wisconsinites and friends across the nation for being "the voice of humanism. in politics," he was eulogized for his philosophies, achievements, and most of all, his impeccable integrity. The Wisconsin legislature commissioned his sculpture to grace Statuary Hall in the nation's capitol. Two generations later "the dear old rotten Senate," as La Follette had called it, hung his portrait in the Senate lounge to honor him as one of the five most outstanding senators in the nation's history.
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