La Follette

[luh fol-it]

noun

1. Robert Marion, 1855–1925, U.S. political leader: U.S. senator 1906–25.

Example Sentences

At the state level, progressives like Wisconsin governor Robert La Follette battled the railroad monopolies that gouged farmers desperate to get their crops to market.

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New research led by Nemet, who is a professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs, finds that novel CDR methods need to scale at a much faster rate to meet the Paris Agreement's temperature goal of limiting warming to 2 or 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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“The party that puts the first fresh face forward wins this election,” Ryan said at an event on the University of Wisconsin campus organized by the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.

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Republicans have gutted the secretary of state’s office over the past 10 years, stripping the role of most of its power and staff before relegating La Follette to a small office in the Capitol basement.

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In his resignation letter, La Follette said he was leaving because he was tired of working with such limited resources.

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