Alf Landon — American Politician born on September 09, 1887, died on October 12, 1987

Alfred Mossman "Alf" Landon , was an American Republican politician, who served as the 26th Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. He was best known for having been the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States, defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential election... (wikipedia)

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.