Bronson Cutting La Follette (February 2, 1936 – March 15, 2018) was an American
Democratic lawyer and politician. He was the 36th and 39th
Attorney General of the state of
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
, and was an unsuccessful candidate for
Governor of Wisconsin in 1968.
Family
Born in
Washington, D.C.
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, he was the son of
U.S. Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. and Rachel Wilson Young, and the grandson of U.S. Senator
Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr., all of Wisconsin. He was named in memory of former U.S. Senator
Bronson Cutting
Bronson Murray Cutting (June 23, 1888May 6, 1935) was a United States senator from New Mexico. A prominent progressive Republican, he had also been a newspaper publisher and military attaché.
Biography
Bronson Cutting was born in Great River, ...
of
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, a close family friend who died in an airplane crash in 1935.
Biography
La Follette went to
Landon School
Landon School is a private, college preparatory school for boys in grades 3–12, with an enrollment of approximately 680 students, in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.
Background
Paul Landon Banfield and his wife, Mary Lee, fo ...
in
Bethesda, Maryland
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. He received a bachelor of arts degree in
political science
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...
from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, UW–Madison ...
in 1958 and a
law degree in 1960.
[Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (comp.). ]
State of Wisconsin 1985–1986 Blue Book
'. Madison: Wisconsin Department of Administration, 1985, pp. 6–7. He worked in private practice until 1962, when he was appointed an
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the
Western District of Wisconsin
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by U.S. Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, ...
.
[ ]
In 1964 he was elected Wisconsin Attorney General and served for two consecutive two-year terms, and later three consecutive four-year terms from 1975 to 1987.
[ He challenged the incumbent Republican Governor Warren P. Knowles in the 1968 Wisconsin gubernatorial election and lost.][ He ran for and was again elected Attorney General in 1974. Despite a 1981 conviction for drunk driving, he was re-elected in 1982, and in the process became the first candidate for Wisconsin statewide office to receive one million votes. After his 1986 defeat following an ethics investigation, he retired from public service and lived in ]Madison Madison may refer to:
People
* Madison (name), a given name and a surname
* James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States
Place names
* Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital of Wisconsin and the largest city known by this ...
.
Death
La Follette died on March 15, 2018 at the age of 82 at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, in Madison, Wisconsin.Bronson C. La Follette-obituary
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Governor Scott Walker said in a statement: "Tonette
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and I send our prayers to the family of former Wisconsin Attorney General Bronson La Follette. He was a dedicated public servant for several decades."
See also
* La Follette family
Electoral history
Wisconsin Attorney General (1964, 1966)
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Wisconsin Governor (1968)
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Wisconsin Attorney General (1974-1986)
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References
External links
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1936 births
2018 deaths
La Follette family
Wisconsin Attorneys General
Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
Politicians from Madison, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
University of Wisconsin Law School alumni
Wisconsin Democrats
Lawyers from Madison, Wisconsin
20th-century American lawyers