Lewis W. Fenske, Sr., papers, 1925-1948.

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Lewis W. Fenske, Sr., papers, 1925-1948.

Letters received from Montana governor Sam C. Ford, U.S. senator Burton K. Wheeler, and agricultural economist Milburn Lincoln Wilson. Topics include Fairway Farms Corporation of Montana and its experimental farm project; economic and political conditions in postwar Europe; Burton K. Wheeler's defeat for reelection in 1946; and the 1948 senatorial campaign in Montana.

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Wilson, M. L. (Milburn Lincoln), 1885-1969

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Professor of Agriculture at Montana State College. From the description of Papers, 1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155525246 Milburn Lincoln Wilson was born in Atlantic, Iowa on 23 October 1885, the son of John Wesley and Mary E. (Magee) Wilson. He received a B.S.A. from Iowa State College, Ames, in 1907 and his M.S. in agricultural economics and rural sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1920. He began his career as a farmer in 1907. He served as Ass...

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...

Fairway Farms Corporation of Montana

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Fenske, Lewis W.

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Ford, Sam C. (Sam Clarence), 1882-1961

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