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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MontanaWHEELER, Burton Kendall
(1882—1975)
Senate Years of Service:
1923-1947
Party:
Democrat
WHEELER, 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
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Anderson, John Thomas. “Senator Burton K. Wheeler and United States Foreign Relations.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1982.
Burke, Robert E. “A Friendship in Adversity: Burton K. Wheeler and Hiram W. Johnson.” Montana
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Cameron, Donald J. “Burton K. Wheeler, Spokesman for the Progressive Movement.” In Landmarks in Western Oratory
, edited by David H. Grover, pp. 159-79. University of Wyoming Publications, vol. 34. Laramie: University of Wyoming, 1968.
Colman, Elizabeth Wheeler. Mrs. Wheeler Goes to Washington: Mrs. Burton Kendall Wheeler, Wife of the Senator from Montana
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Ruetten, Richard T. “Burton K. Wheeler of Montana: A Progressive Between Wars.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon, 1961.
___. “Burton K. Wheeler and the Montana Connection.” Montana
27 (July 1977): 2-19.
___. “Senator Burton K. Wheeler and Insurgency in the 1920’s.” InThe American West: A Reorientation
, edited by Gene M. Gressley, pp. 111-31. University of Wyoming Publications, vol. 32. Laramie: University of Wyoming, 1966.
___. “Showdown in Montana, 1938: Burton Wheeler’s Role in the Defeat of Jerry O’Connell.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
54 (January 1963): 19-28.
Spritzer, Donald E. “B.K. Wheeler and Jim Murray: Senators in Conflict.” Montana
23 (April 1973): 16-33.
Wheeler, Burton K., with Paul F. Healy. 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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