Object Details
- associated person
- Landon, Alfred M.
- Description
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
- ID Number
- PL.227739.1936.X06
- catalog number
- 227739.1936.X06
- accession number
- 227739
- Object Name
- Button
- Physical Description
- paper; metal (overall material)
- tan; brown, white (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 in x 3 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 8.255 cm
- Associated Place
- United States: Kansas
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- Exhibition
- American Democracy
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- general subject association
- Political Campaigns
- Record ID
- nmah_491776
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-b37d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
