Taft ultimately outmaneuvered Roosevelt and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in delegate count, regained control of the GOP convention ; and defeated Roosevelt for the nomination.

Another US law that specifically protects whistleblowers is the Lloyd – La Follette Act of 1912.

** Suzanne La Follette, libertarian feminist ( d. 1983 )

* June 18 – Robert M. La Follette, Sr., American politician ( b. 1855 )

* Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Senator from Wisconsin

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The three states holding primaries to select delegates without the preference component were split: California chose a slate of delegates that supported Taft ; Wisconsin elected a slate that supported Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Pennsylvania elected a slate that supported its Senator Philander C. Knox.

* Robert M. La Follette, Senator from Wisconsin

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Robert M. La Follette won two of the first four primaries ( North Dakota and Wisconsin ).

Roosevelt's only hope at the convention was to form a " stop-Taft " alliance with La Follette, but Roosevelt had alienated La Follette, and the alliance could not form.

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Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin was not formally placed in nomination, but received the votes of his state delegation nonetheless.

Since Davis was a conservative, many liberal Democrats bolted the party and backed the third-party campaign of Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, who ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party.

The third place candidate, Robert La Follette, however, campaigned on a contrary platform.

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The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).

A Bureau De La Demographie ( A. Romaniuk, Director ) was formed under AIMO in the Congo, to work in close rapport with the Section Statistique of the Secretariat General.

To settle this slight, O'Banion went down to the La Salle Theatre in the Loop, where, he had learned, Dave Miller was attending the opening of a musical comedy.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

With a cop patrolling the road Muller would have to be inside a building -- if he was here at all, and not waiting for the prime minister somewhere between this street and the terminal building at La Guardia Airport.

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established.

" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.

Braudel's first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.

It already included a large country house called Larrard House or Muntaner de Dalt House, and was next to a neighborhood of upper class houses called La Salut ( The Health ).

Sargon was claimed to be the son of La ' ibum or Itti-Bel, a humble gardener, and possibly a hierodule, or priestess to Ishtar or Inanna.

Henry de Montherlant's French drama La Reine morte was inspired by the conflict between King Afonso and Pedro and Inês.

But her paternity was questioned, as rumour said the king was impotent and the queen, Joan of Portugal, had an amorous affair with a nobleman named Beltrán de La Cueva.

The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.

Commissioned for an unknown occasion Salieri's Armida was based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ) and premiered on 2 June 1771.

Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).

La fiera was written for Carnival in 1772 and premiered on 29 January.

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

* Ronald La Pread ( bass guitar, trumpet ) – born September 4, 1949, Alabama.

* Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation, who was born blind and uses optical implants combined with a removable unit called a VISOR, to see.

Ortega was born in La Libertad, department of Chontales, Nicaragua.

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947 ) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican.

* Juan Ismael: the painter, cartoonist and poet born in La Oliva in 1907, considered one of the great Canarian surrealists.

He was born as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a small city in Neuchâtel canton in north-western Switzerland, in the Jura mountains, just across the border from France.

Louis was born on 25 April 1214 at Poissy, near Paris, the son of Prince Louis the Lion and Blanche of Castile, and baptised in La Collégiale Notre-Dame church. His grandfather was King Philip II of France.

La Malinche ( also known as Malinali or Malintzin ) was born in 1496, in a then " frontier " region between the Aztec Empire and the Maya states of the Yucatán Peninsula ).

Alfonso de Borja was born in La Torreta, now a neighbourhood of Canals, Valencia – today in Spain – but at that time in the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon.

He was born around 1225 near Moûtiers in the Tarentaise region of the County of Savoy, but another hypothesis affirms he was born in La Salle.

Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine ( now Descartes ), Indre-et-Loire, France.

La Forge was born February 16, 2335 in the African Confederation on Earth to Silva La Forge, a Starfleet command track officer and eventual Captain of the USS Hera NCC-62006 ( TNG: " Interface ") and Edward M. La Forge, a Starfleet exozoologist ( TNG: " Interface ").

Sonny Bono was born in Detroit to Italian immigrants Santo Bono ( born in Montelepre, Palermo, Italy ) and Zena " Jean " La Valle.

The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers ( born Wonskolaser WON Sko La ' Ser or Wonsal )— Harry ( born Hirsz ), Albert ( born Aaron ), Sam ( born Szmul ), and Jack ( Itzhak or to some sources Jacob ).

* The modern rose is born, with the introduction of Rosa ' La France ' by Jean-Baptiste Guillot ( 1803 – 1882 ).

Falcone was born in 1939 to a middle-class family in the Via Castrofilippo near the seaport district La Kalsa, a neighborhood of central Palermo which suffered extensive destruction by aerial attacks during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.

Benigni was born in Manciano La Misericordia ( a frazione of Castiglion Fiorentino ), Italy, the son of Isolina Papini, a fabric inspector, and Remigio Benigni, a bricklayer, carpenter, and farmer.

Jane Seymour, OBE ( born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg ; 15 February 1951 ) is an English actress best known for her performances in the James Bond film Live and Let Die ( 1973 ), Somewhere In Time ( 1980 ), East of Eden ( 1982 ), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World ( 1988 ), War and Remembrance ( 1988 ), the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette in the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, Wedding Crashers ( 2005 ), and the American television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ( 1993 – 1998 ).