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Senate Years of Service: 1923-1947 Party: Democrat
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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.
BibliographyAmerican 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.
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