The 1936 Republican National Convention selected Landon as the Republican Party 's presidential nominee . He proved to be an ineffective campaigner and carried just two states in the election . After the election , he left office as governor and did not again seek public office . Later in life , he supported the Marshall Plan and President Lyndon B. Johnson 's Great Society programs . He gave the first in a series of lectures , now known as the Landon Lecture Series , at Kansas State University . Landon lived to the age of 100 and died in Topeka , Kansas , in 1987 . His daughter , Nancy Kassebaum , represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997
1936 Republican National Convention
1936 Republican National Convention
Alf Landon