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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MontanaBurton Kendall WHEELER
(1882-1975)
Senate Years of Service:
1923-1947Party: DemocratWHEELER, Burton Kendall, a
Senator from Montana; born in Hudson, Middlesex County, Mass.,
February 27, 1882; attended the common schools; worked as a
stenographer in Boston, Mass.; graduated from the law department of
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905; admitted to the
bar the same year and commenced practice in Butte, Silver Bow
County, Mont.; member, State house of representatives 1910-1912;
United States district attorney for Montana 1913-1918; resumed the
practice of law in Butte; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
governor of Montana in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1922 for the term ending March 3, 1929;
unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States in
1924 on the Progressive Party ticket; reelected to the United
States Senate in 1928, 1934 and 1940 and served from March 4, 1923,
to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1946; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-third
Congress), Committee on Interstate Commerce (Seventy-fourth through
Seventy-ninth Congresses); resumed the practice of law; died in
Washington, D.C., January 6, 1975; interment in Rock Creek
Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Anderson, John Thomas. “Senator Burton K.
Wheeler and United States Foreign Relations.” Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Virginia, 1982; Wheeler, Burton
Kendall. Yankee From the West: The Candid, Turbulent Life Story
of the Yankee-Born U.S. Senator from Montana. 1962. Reprint.
New York: Octagon Books, 1977.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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