Alf Landon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alf Landon

American politician

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1887

Place of Birth: West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 12-Oct-1987

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Alf Landon

  • Alfred Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American politician from the Republican Party.
  • He served as the twenty-sixth Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937.
  • He was the Republican Party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, but was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D.
  • Roosevelt who won the electoral college vote 523 to 8. Born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, Landon spent most of his childhood in Marietta, Ohio before moving to Kansas.
  • After graduating from the University of Kansas, he became an independent oil producer in Lawrence, Kansas.
  • His business made him a millionaire, and he became a leader of the liberal Republicans in Kansas.
  • Landon won election as Governor of Kansas in 1932 and sought to reduce taxes and balance the budget in the midst of the Great Depression.
  • He supported many components of the New Deal but criticized some aspects that he found inefficient. The 1936 Republican National Convention selected Landon as the Republican Party's presidential nominee.
  • He proved to be an ineffective campaigner and carried just two states in the election.
  • After the election, he left office as governor and never sought public office again.
  • Later in life, he supported the Marshall Plan and President Lyndon B.
  • Johnson's Great Society programs.
  • He gave the first in a series of lectures, now known as the Landon Lecture Series, at Kansas State University.
  • Landon lived to the age of 100 and died in Topeka, Kansas, in 1987.
  • His daughter, Nancy Kassebaum, represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997.

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