1953 Alfred Landon Kansas Governor Presidential Candidate Autograph Letter for Sale

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1953 Alfred Landon Kansas Governor Presidential Candidate Autograph Letter:
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Alfred Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937.
A member of the Republican Party, he was the party\'s nominee in the 1936 presidential election, and was defeated by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
As governor, Landon gained a reputation for reducing taxes and balancing the budget. Landon is often described as a fiscal conservative who nevertheless believed that government must also address certain social issues.
He supported parts of the New Deal and labor unions. Later in life, Landon would come out against Right-to-Work laws. Landon was opposed to segregation. When newly elected black party officials asked where their office space would be, Landon responded with \"Right here with the rest of us.\"
Born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, Landon spent most of his childhood in Marietta, Ohio, before moving to Kansas. After graduating from the University of Kansas, he became an independent oil producer in Lawrence, Kansas. His business made him a millionaire, and he became a leader of the liberal Republicans in Kansas.
Landon won election as Governor of Kansas in 1932 and sought to reduce taxes and balance the budget in the midst of the Great Depression. He supported many components of the New Deal but criticized some aspects that he found inefficient.
The 1936 Republican National Convention selected Landon as the Republican Party\'s presidential nominee. He proved to be an ineffective campaigner and carried just two states in the election.
After the election, he left office as governor and never sought public office again. Later in life, he supported the Marshall Plan and President Lyndon B. Johnson\'s Great Society programs.
He gave the first in a series of lectures, now known as the Landon Lecture Series, at Kansas State University. Landon lived to the age of 100 and died in Topeka, Kansas, in 1987.
His daughter, Nancy Kassebaum, represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997.
Landon supported Theodore Roosevelt\'s Progressive Party in 1912, and by 1922, was private secretary to the governor of Kansas. He later became known as the leader of the liberal Republicans in the state.
He was elected chairman of the Republican state central committee in 1928 and directed the successful Republican presidential and gubernatorial campaigns in Kansas in that year.
In 1930, however, incumbent Republican Kansas governor Clyde M. Reed failed to gain renomination, as he was defeated by challenger Frank Haucke, who would later go on to lose the general election to Harry H. Woodring.
The election left the Kansas Republican Party damaged and divided. Landon decided to run in 1932 as a candidate who would reunite the Kansas GOP, and he won the nomination.
Landon was elected Governor of Kansas in the general election, where he defeated both the incumbent Democrat Woodring and independent challenger John R. Brinkley in a closely contested race.
He was re-elected governor in 1934, over Democrat Omar B. Ketchum (whose campaign was directed by Clyde Short); Gov. Frank Merriam of California and Landon were the only Republican governors in the nation to be re-elected that year.
During the 1932 presidential campaign, a degree of animosity developed between Landon and then U.S. President Herbert Hoover. During his gubernatorial years, Landon attempted to address the needs of his Depression-battered state while still advancing the Republican Party.
After his speech at the Cleveland convention in 1936, Landon stated, \"My chief concern in this crisis is to see the Republican Party name its strongest possible candidate and a man that would be a good president.\"
During the election year, Landon called for a \"special session of the Legislature to enact measures to bring Kansas within the requirements of the federal social security program.\"