Sold – Theodore Roosevelt Signed Photograph to Robert La Follette
From the Great Progressive President to the Founder of the Progressive Movement.
To Senator Robert M. LaFollette, with the regards of Theodore Roosevelt, March 1st 1909
Robert LaFollette founded the progressive movement in the early 1890’s in an attempt to achieve good effective government for all and to limit the excessive power of the few. Serving as Republican governor of Wisconsin from...
To Senator Robert M. LaFollette, with the regards of Theodore Roosevelt, March 1st 1909
Robert LaFollette founded the progressive movement in the early 1890’s in an attempt to achieve good effective government for all and to limit the excessive power of the few. Serving as Republican governor of Wisconsin from 1901–6, his state became a laboratory for political and economic experimentation. He secured a direct primary law, tax reform legislation, railroad rate control, civil service and conservation programs, workers’ compensation, and many other reform measures that became collectively known as the Wisconsin Idea. Theodore Roosevelt liked what he saw in Wisconsin and began positioning himself as a Progressive. In 1906 La Follette entered the U.S. Senate, so for a time the two great Progressives – LaFollotte and Roosevelt – were in Washington together. After TR left office, at odds with the conservative leadership of President Taft, LaFollette helped found the National Progressive Republican League, with the aim of wresting the Republican presidential nomination from Taft in 1912. When Theodore Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the same nomination, many of La Follette’s supporters switched to Roosevelt, who eventually ran on the Progressive Party [Bull Moose] ticket. Embittered, La Follette supported Woodrow Wilson’s candidacy.
A 7 by 10 inch photograph of TR, beautifully framed to 13 by 16 inches, inscribed and signed as President “To Senator Robert M. LaFollette, with the regards of Theodore Roosevelt, March 1st 1909.” We obtained this photograph directly from the LaFollette descendants and it has never before been offered for sale.
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