Landon and Knox

Association Alfred Mossman Landon (1887 West Middlesex, Pennsylvania - 1987 Topeka, Kansas)

Association William Franklin Knox (1874 Boston, Massachusetts - 1944 Washington, District of Columbia)

Date1936

Mediummetal

Dimensions1/4 × 7/8 in. (0.6 × 2.2 cm)

ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Edward T. Peeples

Object numberPC1997.5.34

DescriptionThis campaign button was produced for Alfred Landon's 1936 bid for the United States presidency, along with his vice presidential candidate, Frank Knox. Landon and Knox lost the election to incumbent Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Republican Party lost the election after only obtaining 8 electoral votes, to the Democrats' 523 votes. Before the election, Landon was the Governor of Kansas, as Knox worked as a publisher and part owner of the Chicago Daily News. The button has a white background with an image of a large sunflower in the center. Text sits in the brown center of the flower, which reads "LANDON / AND / KNOX."

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