One hundred ten years ago, on January 9, 1909, a new magazine appeared in Madison, Wisconsin. La Follette's Weekly was a project of then-Senator Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette and his wife, women's suffrage and peace activist Belle Case La Follette. Fighting Bob was already well known as a progressive Republican politician, a former U.S. Representative and Governor of Wisconsin, and now a member of the U.S. Senate. La Follette's goal for this new magazine, as he stated in the opening pages, was to “aid in making our government represent with more fidelity, the will of the people.
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