Alfred Mossman "Alf" Landon (9 September 1887-12 October 1987) was the Republican Governor of Kansas from 9 January 1933 to 11 January 1937, succeeding Harry Hines Woodring and preceding Walter A. Huxman.
Biography[]
Alfred Mossman Landon was born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania on 9 September 1887, and he was raised in Marietta, Ohio. He went on to become an independent oil producer in Lawrence, Kansas, becoming a millionaire and an influential liberal Republican leader. Landon served as Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937, reducing taxes and balancing the budget amid the Great Depression and supporting many components of the New Deal. In 1936, he ran for President of the United States against the popular Democratic incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt, but he proved to be an inefficient campaigner and carried just two states. After the election, he retired from politics, and he later supported the Marshall Plan and Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. He lived to the age of 100 and died in Topeka in 1987. His daughter Nancy Kassebaum went on to serve as a US Senator from 1978 to 1997.