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Born in Pennsylvania, Alfred Mossman Landon grew up in Marietta, Ohio. In 1904 his family moved to Independence, Kansas, and for the next four years Landon studied law at the University of Kansas. Though admitted to the bar in 1908, Landon chose to enter the business world. After a brief time as a banker he worked as an oil driller and in other commercial endeavors. Following his father into the Progressive wing of the Republican Party, Landon became county chairman for the short-lived Progressive Party in 1914 and secretary to Kansas governor Henry J. Allen in 1922. In 1924, at a time when the racist Ku Klux Klan was a force in Kansas politics, Landon worked closely with newspaperman William Allen White in White's anti-Klan campaign for the governorship. By 1928 Landon had become chairman of the Republican state committee, and he managed Clyde Reed's gubernatorial campaign that year.
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