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Known as an Environmental activist before running for public office, he co-founded Wisconsin's Environmental Decade (now known as Clean Wisconsin ) in 1970 with Peter Anderson . He was also an assistant professor at the University Of Wisconsin .

He has served in the Wisconsin State Senate , where he was elected as a Democrat . LaFollette currently serves as the Wisconsin Secretary of State, to which he was elected in 1974 and 1982 and was reelected since
1986 .

He is the author of the 1991 book ''The Survival Handbook: A Strategy for Saving Planet Earth''.

He served on the board of directors of Friends Of The Earth . In 2003 he was elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Sierra Club .

LaFollette is a first cousin three times removed of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. , the former Wisconsin governor and United States Senator.


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