Alfred Mossman Landon
alfred mossman landon
governor of kansas
biography
Alfred Landon was born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania on September 9, 1887. A graduate of the University of Kansas, he embarked upon a banking career, but four years after it he found it distasteful and in 1912 became an independent petroleum producer. During World War I he served as a first lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service, United States Army.