Reminiscences of Burton Kendall Wheeler : oral history, 1969.

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Reminiscences of Burton Kendall Wheeler : oral history, 1969.

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Montana politics, 1920; Nonpartisan League; Anaconda Company; United States Senator, 1923-47: committee assignments, Teapot Dome investigations, silver bills, courtpacking issue, war preparations; accounts of Democratic conventions and campaigns, 1924, 1932, 1940, 1944; European trip, 1945. Impressions of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman; Senators William Borah, George Norris, Huey Long, and Thomas Walsh.

Transcript: 161 leaves.Tape: 3 reels.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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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...

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