Robert Marion "Young Bob" La Follette Jr. (6 February 1895 – 24 February 1953) was a Republican US Senator from Wisconsin from 30 September 1925 to 3 January 1947, succeeding Robert M. La Follette and preceding Joseph McCarthy.
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Robert Marion La Follette Jr. was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1895, the son of Robert M. La Follette and the brother of Philip La Follette. He served as his father's private secretary from 1919 to 1925 before filling his father's vacant US Senate seat on his death in 1925, and he served until 1947. He supported Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and cofounded the Wisconsin Progressive Party in 1934, supporting isolationism during World War II. He returned to the GOP on the Progressive Party's dissolution in 1946, and he lost his party's primary to Joseph McCarthy in 1946 due to his alienation of progressive voters due to his isolationist stance towards the United Nations. He shot himself in Washington DC in 1953 at the age of 58.