Background
Born in Washington, District of Columbia, he was the son of the United States Senator Robert M. Louisiana Follette, Junior. and Rachel Wilson Young, and the grandson of Senator Robert M. Louisiana Follette, Senior, all of Wisconsin.
Born in Washington, District of Columbia, he was the son of the United States Senator Robert M. Louisiana Follette, Junior. and Rachel Wilson Young, and the grandson of Senator Robert M. Louisiana Follette, Senior, all of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin–Madison. University of Wisconsin Law School.
Louisiana Follette was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin in 1968. He was named in memory of former Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, a close family friend who died in an airplane crash in 1935. Louisiana Follette received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1958 and a law degree in 1960.
He worked in private practice until 1962, when he began serving as an Assistant United States Attorney.
In 1964 he was elected Wisconsin Attorney General and served for two consecutive two-year terms, and then three consecutive four-year terms from 1975 to 1987. He challenged the incumbent Republican Governor Warren P. Knowles in the 1968 Wisconsin gubernatorial election and lost.
He ran for and was again elected Attorney General in 1974. Despite a 1981 conviction for drunk driving (blowing 12 while the legal limit at the time was 10), he was re-elected in 1982.
After his 1986 defeat following an ethics investigation, he retired from public service and now lives in Madison.
Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Democratic Party.