(1887-09-09)September 9, 1887 West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died
October 12, 1987(1987-10-12) (aged 100) Topeka, Kansas, U.S.
Resting place
Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka
Political party
Republican
Other political affiliations
Progressive "Bull Moose"
Spouses
Margaret Fleming
(m. 1915; died 1918)
Theo Cobb
(m. 1930)
Children
3, including Nancy
Education
University of Kansas (LLB)
Profession
Oil producer
Military service
Branch/service
United States Army
Years of service
1918–1919
Rank
Captain
Unit
Chemical Corps
Battles/wars
World War I
Alfred Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, and was defeated in a landslide by incumbent president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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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convention. In 1936, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated AlfLandon in a historic landslide; his party expanded its majority in both houses...
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of the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997. She is the daughter of AlfLandon, who was Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican...
Republican Party candidate AlfLandon of Kansas, over Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Landon won Maine by a margin...
Owens rejected those overtures: as a staunch Republican, he endorsed AlfLandon, Roosevelt's Republican opponent in the 1936 presidential race. Owens...
persons of note: 1934, Erich Fromm, the German psychoanalyst 1936, Gov. AlfLandon (R, Kansas) while running for president against Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
nominee, Kansas Governor AlfLandon, over the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Landon's running mate was newspaper...
France. The 1936 Republican National Convention nominated a ticket of AlfLandon and Knox, and they were defeated by Roosevelt and John Nance Garner in...
Republican candidate AlfLandon against Democratic incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt: in the election, Roosevelt defeated Landon to win re-election...
Depression. Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt trounced Governor AlfLandon of Kansas in a landslide and the Democrats built on their majorities in...
Kansas (2002), at 266 McCoy, Donald R., Landon of Kansas, University of Nebraska Press (1966), at 45. "AlfLandon, G.O.P. Standard Bearer Dies at 100",...
Jr., cousin of Democratic incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt. Governor AlfLandon of Kansas Senator William Borah of Idaho (Not Nominated) Newspaper Publisher...
control. Woodring ran for re-election in 1932, but lost to Republican AlfLandon in a three-way race, again featuring John Brinkley. On July 25, 1933,...
and vice president John Nance Garner, defeating Republican candidate AlfLandon and his running mate Frank Knox by 317,061 votes, or a margin of 17.57%...
gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1934. Incumbent Republican AlfLandon defeated Democratic nominee Omar B. Ketchum with 53.51% of the vote. Primary...
Party frequently won the national nomination with candidates such as AlfLandon, Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon...
Kansas governor AlfLandon. In the general election, Hoover delivered numerous well-publicized speeches on behalf of Landon, but Landon was defeated by...
Nance Garner, with 69.85% of the popular vote, against Governor of Kansas AlfLandon (R–Kansas), running with publisher Frank Knox, with 26.93% of the popular...
visitors heard addresses by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Republican nominee AlfLandon, and two third-party candidates. A route taken by a troupe of Chautauqua...
D. Roosevelt won Arizona, defeating the Republican Party's candidate AlfLandon by 42.92%, which remains the largest margin of victory in the state's...
Roosevelt leading Republican nominee and Kansas Governor AlfLandon by four-to-one despite Landon leading the nation as a whole. Another poll two weeks later...
defeated by AlfLandon, a Republican. Landon polled 34.82%, Woodring 34.14%, and John R. Brinkley, an independent, polled 30.58%. Landon won 34 counties...
Roosevelt won the state over Kansas governor AlfLandon by a margin of 348,350 votes, or 30.83%—nearly doubling Landon's overall share of the state's vote. Nationally...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, over the Republican nominee, Kansas Governor AlfLandon, by a large margin of 16.04%. After the state narrowly voted to re-elect...
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