Badge, Alf Landon, 1936
name: label: associated person
content: Landon, Alfred M.
notes: label: Description
content: Alf Landon and Frank Knox were the 1936 Republican nominees for president and vice president. Because Landon was the governor of Kansas many of his campaign items featured its state flower. The sunflower printed on this button is echoed in the surrounding cloth rosette. Landon and Knox lost in a landslide to Democratic incumbents President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President John Nance Garner. The Republicans, who failed even to carry Kansas, received only eight Electoral College votes, the fewest ever recorded for a second-place candidate.
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Kansas
topic: label: general subject association
content: Political Campaigns
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1936.X06
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1936.X06
label: accession number
content: 227739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper; metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan; brown, white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 3 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 8.255 cm