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Alfred Mossman Landon was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, and was defeated in a landslide by incumbent president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Landon, who got a mere 8 votes in the electoral college, saw Roosevelt get 523 votes, the biggest victory of the 4 times he got voted into the office of president. Landon lived a long life, and died in October 1987 at age 100. Wikipedia