Landon, Alf

orig. Alfred Mossman Landon

(born Sept. 9, 1887, West Middlesex, Pa., U.S.—died Oct. 12, 1987, Topeka, Kan.) U.S. politician. He received a law degree from the University of Kansas in 1908 and entered the oil business in 1912. He became active in Progressive Party politics and campaigned in Kansas for the party's 1912 presidential candidate, Theodore Roosevelt. He was elected governor of Kansas in 1932 and again in 1934, the only incumbent Republican governor to be reelected that year. As the Republican candidate in the presidential election of 1936 he lost in a landslide to Democratic incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Landon, (Alfred Mossman) Alf (1887–1987) governor; born in West Middlesex, Pa. (father of Nancy Landon Kassenbaum). Starting A. M. Landon & Company to produce oil in 1912, he had become a millionaire by 1929. As governor of Kansas (Rep., 1933–37), he supported the New Deal, but opposed labor unions. After losing the 1936 presidential election, he returned to his oil firm.

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