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Highlights in the life of Gov Alf Landon
Alf Landon born in 1887 West Middlesex Pennsylvania moved to Ohio then Kansas attended Kansas State University studied law but did not practice worked in a bank then oil and gas served in World War I as a chemical warfare lieutenant by 1927 pursued politics full time won Kansas governorship in 1932 and 1934 promoted economic restraint supported parts of the New Deal while opposing its breadth led Kansas through dust storms seeking federal help active in American Legion and fraternal groups. Methodist with three children and two marriages.
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Alfred Mossman Landon
West Middlesex
Ohio
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Marietta Academy
Indepence
Kan
Kansas State University
Chemical Warfare Service
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Theodore Roosevelt
Early
Ali
Gost Gland” Brinkley
Kansas
Toto
NEA