Joseph Dixon bust unveiling ceremony, 1972 Nov. 17.

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Joseph Dixon bust unveiling ceremony, 1972 Nov. 17.

This collection consists of the proceedings accompanying the unveiling of the bust of Joseph M. Dixon in the Montana State Capitol rotunda in Helena on 17 Nov. 1972, and includes three primary speakers, the historian John Toole; Gov. Forrest Anderson; and Montana politician Burton K. Wheeler.

Sound recording : 1 tape (45 min.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8055151

Montana Historical Society Library

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Montana Historical Society

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Dixon, Joseph M. (Joseph Moore), 1867-1934

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Joseph Moore Dixon was born at the Quaker enclave of Snow Camp, North Carolina, in 1867 to Hugh Woody and Adaline Murchison Dixon. He was the third of four children and their only son. The Dixons were Quakers who traced their origins to England. Dixon attended the Sylvan Academy and the New Garden Boarding School, both Quaker institutions, then Earlham College in Indiana. He withdrew from Earlham in 1888 and finished his education at Guilford College that spring. In 1891...

Toole, John H.

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Anderson, Forrest Howard, 1913-1989

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General Montana History Collection (Montana Historical Society)

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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...

Montana State Capitol (Helena, Mont.)

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