Burton Kendall Wheeler photograph collection 1909-1958

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Burton Kendall Wheeler photograph collection 1909-1958

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Burton Kendall Wheeler (1882-1975) was a United States Senator from Montana from 1923 until 1946. This collection includes photographs of Wheeler, his wife and children, but primarily it contains photographs taken of Wheeler's political and senatorial activities and views of Wheeler with other senators and people connected with his career as a United States Senator.

1 box; 116 photographic prints; 2 safety film negatives

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Montana Historical Society Research CenterPhotograph Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6374207

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Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975

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Burton Kendall Wheeler was born in Hudson, Mass., on 27 Feb. 1882 and moved to Montana shortly after his graduation from law school in 1905. He began his law career in Butte, serving as U.S. Attorney for Montana from 1913 to 1918 prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. In 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for vice-president on the Progressive Party presidential ticket. Wheeler is remembered as one of the most powerful senators in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s. Chairman of the Interstate Comm...

United States. Congress. Senate

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Wheeler, Lulu White, 1883-1962

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