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Alf Landon
Alfred Mossman "Alf" Landon (September 9, 1887October 12, 1987), was an American Republican politician, who served as the 26th Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. He was best known for having been the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States, defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential election.
==Early life and education==
Landon was born in 1887 in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, the son of Anne (Mossman) and John Manuel Landon.〔http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/landon.html〕 Landon grew up in Marietta, Ohio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cjonline.com/stories/040603/our_landon.shtml )〕 He moved with his family to Kansas at age 17 and graduated from the University of Kansas in 1908. He first pursued a career in banking, but in 1912 he became an independent petroleum producer in Independence, Kansas. During World War I, Landon served in the Army as a first lieutenant in chemical warfare.
By 1929, the oil industry had made him a millionaire. Landon was instrumental in the establishment of the Kansas-Oklahoma division of the United States Oil and Gas Association, then known as the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, a petroleum lobbying organization.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association of Oklahoma )〕
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