Rusty
Regular Member
- Messages
- 26
- Reaction score
- 21
- Points
- 3
- Location
- Indiana, U.S.A.
- Ethnic group
- Colonial American, primarily British
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- I1
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H1c
Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follete, a U.S. Senator who was one of the most prominent American politicians of the early 20th century and a candidate for President with the Progressive Party in 1924 belonged to haplogroup I1. He was descended from Jean La Follette, who lived from approx 1720 to 1763 or 1775 (different sources give different dates) originally from Anjou, France who settled in New Jersey in the middle 1700s. One descendant of Jean is shown on the Lafollette DNA Project at FTDNA, along with a descendent of Georges La Follette, who seems to have been a son or grandson of Jean
Robert La Follette was the most famous descendant of the family, but there is a Wikipedia article on the La Follette family which shows multiple descendants prominent enough to be the subject of their own Wikipedia articles.
Robert La Follette was the most famous descendant of the family, but there is a Wikipedia article on the La Follette family which shows multiple descendants prominent enough to be the subject of their own Wikipedia articles.