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    325–333. online Alf Landon's Obituary (New York Times) Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series on Public Issues (Kansas State University) Alf Landon and Social Security...
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    Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas in a landslide. Roosevelt won the highest share of the popular...
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    convention. In 1936, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Alf Landon in a historic landslide; his party expanded its majority in both houses...
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  • player Landon Wilson (born 1975), American ice hockey player Landon Young (born 1997), American football player Top A B C D E F H J K L M N P R S T W Alf Landon...
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    Alf Landon of Kansas (who did not attend) was nominated for president; Colonel Frank Knox was nominated as the vice presidential candidate. Landon and...
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    Owens rejected those overtures: as a staunch Republican, he endorsed Alf Landon, Roosevelt's Republican opponent in the 1936 presidential race. Owens...
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    of the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997. She is the daughter of Alf Landon, who was Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican...
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    Republican Party candidate Alf Landon of Kansas, over Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Landon won Maine by a margin...
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    politician Alf Landon, former Governor of Kansas and Republican presidential candidate. The first lecture in the series was given by Landon on December...
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    Depression. Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt trounced Governor Alf Landon of Kansas in a landslide and the Democrats built on their majorities in...
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  • False False 8 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) Alf Landon (Republican) True True True True True True True True True True False True...
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    D. Roosevelt Dem. 523/531 98.49% 60.80% 24.26% 27,752,648 11,070,786 Alf Landon Rep. 61.0% 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt Dem. 449/531 84.56% 54.74% 9.96%...
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    France. The 1936 Republican National Convention nominated a ticket of Alf Landon and Knox, and they were defeated by Roosevelt and John Nance Garner in...
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    persons of note: 1934, Erich Fromm, the German psychoanalyst 1936, Gov. Alf Landon (R, Kansas) while running for president against Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
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    nominee, Kansas Governor Alf Landon, over the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Landon's running mate was newspaper...
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    Jr., cousin of Democratic incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt. Governor Alf Landon of Kansas Senator William Borah of Idaho (Not Nominated) Newspaper Publisher...
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  • Kansas (2002), at 266 McCoy, Donald R., Landon of Kansas, University of Nebraska Press (1966), at 45. "Alf Landon, G.O.P. Standard Bearer Dies at 100",...
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  • in the 1936 presidential election. Running against Republican nominee Alf Landon, Roosevelt won a second term with over 60% of the popular vote, while...
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    Republican candidate Alf Landon against Democratic incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt: in the election, Roosevelt defeated Landon to win re-election...
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    917 (57.43%) Alf Landon – 260,170 (42.58%) 1936 Republican presidential primaries: William Edgar Borah – 1,478,676 (44.48%) Alf Landon – 729,908 (21...
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    Roosevelt leading Republican nominee and Kansas Governor Alf Landon by four-to-one despite Landon leading the nation as a whole. Another poll two weeks later...
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    and vice president John Nance Garner, defeating Republican candidate Alf Landon and his running mate Frank Knox by 317,061 votes, or a margin of 17.57%...
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    gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1934. Incumbent Republican Alf Landon defeated Democratic nominee Omar B. Ketchum with 53.51% of the vote. Primary...
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    defeated by Alf Landon, a Republican. Landon polled 34.82%, Woodring 34.14%, and John R. Brinkley, an independent, polled 30.58%. Landon won 34 counties...
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  • Polling aggregates Candidates   Franklin Roosevelt   Alf Landon   William Lemke   Norman Thomas...
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    control. Woodring ran for re-election in 1932, but lost to Republican Alf Landon in a three-way race, again featuring John Brinkley. On July 25, 1933,...
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    Kansas governor Alf Landon. In the general election, Hoover delivered numerous well-publicized speeches on behalf of Landon, but Landon was defeated by...
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    (introduced by a film by her father, 1936 Republican presidential nominee Alf Landon); former Texas Governor John Connally and former Ambassador to the United...
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    Literary Digest (based on cards mailed in by its readers) predicted that Alf Landon would win by a large margin. George Gallup predicted a Roosevelt win,...
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    Party frequently won the national nomination with candidates such as Alf Landon, Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon...
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