Lafollette, William L.
 

La Follette, William L., congressman, was born in Boone County, Ind., Nov. 30, 1860. He engaged in fruit, grain, and stock raising for thirty years, and served one term in the Washington legislature and on various appointive commissions. He was elected to the sixty-second and sixty-third congresses as a Progressive Republican.
 

Source Citation: Boone County Biographies [database online] Boone County INGenWeb. 2007. <http://www.rootsweb.com/~inboone> Original data: "Builders of Our Nation: Men of 1913." Chicago, IL, USA: 1914, p 294.

Transcribed by: T. Stover - August 16, 2007

LA FOLLETTE, William Leroy, a Representative from Washington; born in Thorntown, near Shammondale,[sic] Boone County, Ind., November 30, 1860; attended the graded schools in Thorn-town,[sic] Ind., and at the same time clerked in a store and was employed at the jewelry trade; attended Indiana Central Normal College in Thorntown; moved to the Territory of Washington in 1876 and located in the Willamette Valley in Oregon; the following year he went on horseback to Spokane Valley, Washington, and then moved to the Palouse country in 1877; engaged in agricultural pursuits, stock raising, and fruit growing in Whitman County, and was also extensively engaged as an orchardist at Wawawai, Wash.; disposed of his fruit interests in 1908 and moved to Pullman, Wash.; member of the State house of representatives 1899-1901; member of the World's Fair Commission and had charge of the Washington State building at the Chicago Exposition in 1893; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918; resided in Spokane, Wash., 1920-1923, and Princess Anne, Md., 1924 and 1925; moved to Colfax, Wash., in 1927; resumed his former business activities; died in Colfax, Wash., December 20, 1934; interment in Colfax Cemetery.

Source Citation: Boone County Biographies [database online] Boone County INGenWeb. 2007. <http://www.rootsweb.com/~inboone> Original data: "Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949": The Continental Congress September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788 and The Congress of the United States From the First to the Eightieth Congress March 4, 1789 to January 3, 1949, Inclusive. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.: 1950, p. 1429.

Transcribed by: T. Stover - August 20, 2007