Wheeler, Burton Kendall

Wheeler, Burton Kendall,

1882–1975, U.S. senator (1923–47), b. Hudson, Mass. He practiced law in Butte, Mont. Wheeler was (1911–13) a member of the state legislature and was appointed (1913) federal attorney by President Woodrow Wilson. He was elected (1922) to the Senate from Montana on the Democratic ticket, but in 1924 was the vice presidential candidate of the Progressive party on the ticket with Robert La FolletteLa Follette, Robert Marion
, 1855–1925, American political leader, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (1906–25), b. Primrose, Wis. Early Career

Admitted (1880) to the Wisconsin bar, he practiced in Madison, Wis.
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. He soon returned to the Democratic party and backed much of the New DealNew Deal,
in U.S. history, term for the domestic reform program of the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; it was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic party nomination for President in 1932.
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 legislation. With the outbreak of World War II he became a leading exponent of isolationism and by 1940 had broken with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1946, Wheeler was defeated in the Democratic primaries.

Bibliography

See his autobiography, Yankee from the West (with P. F. Healy, 1962).