The life and public career of Burton K. Wheeler.

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The life and public career of Burton K. Wheeler.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154298813

148 pp.

University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, UNM-Los Alamos Library

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University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, UNM-Los Alamos Library

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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...