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Burton Kendall Wheeler papers, 1910-1972
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975
- Title
- Burton Kendall Wheeler papers
- Dates
- 1910-1972 (inclusive)19101972
- Quantity
- 15 linear feet of shelf space
- Collection Number
- MC 34
- Summary
- Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975) was U.S. Senator from Montana from 1923 to 1946. Papers include biographical materials; general correspondence (1910-1972, but primarily 1939-1940); campaign materials (1924-1946); speeches (1923-1959); clippings (1916-1971); transcripts of interviews; drafts of his autobiography; a childhood reminiscence; writings; press releases; printed material of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee investigation (1936-1942) of the nation's railroads; etc. Subject matter is concentrated on foreign neutrality policy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Supreme Court reorganization plan, and monetary policy.
- Repository
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Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov - Access Restrictions
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Collection open for research.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Burton Kendall Wheeler was born February 27, 1882, at Hudson, Massachusetts. After his public schooling and a period of work in the Boston area, Wheeler attended the University of Michigan. He received his law degree in 1905. In October 1905, he settled in Butte, Montana, and began work as a clerk for an established lawyer. The following year, Wheeler went into practice on his own. In 1910, he was elected to serve in the Montana House of Representatives as a Democrat from Silver Bow County. While in the legislature, Wheeler supported the candidacy of Thomas J. Walsh for Senator. For this support, Walsh arranged to have Wheeler appointed U.S. District Attorney for Montana in 1913. He served in this capacity throughout World War I and was the subject of much controversy for his actions in protecting the right of dissent. He resigned in 1918 to avert a possible Walsh defeat.
In 1920, Wheeler was defeated by Joseph M. Dixon in a bitter campaign for governor, but two years later, he was elected U.S. Senator. He held this Senate seat until his defeat in the primary election of 1946. During his Senate career, Wheeler was a constant foe of the "interests" and was chiefly responsible for the exposure and investigation of graft in the Department of Justice (1924-1925). Wheeler was an early supporter of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, and served as chairman of the powerful Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. However, in 1937, Wheeler broke with the administration over Roosevelt's unsuccessful bid to "pack" the Supreme Court. His opposition to Roosevelt was again of major importance as a member of the America First Committee and as a supporter of non-involvement in the European war, which began in 1939. Wheeler, because of his widespread support in the Democratic party, was considered a major contender for the presidential nomination in 1940, until Roosevelt announced for a third term. He was strongly considered as a running mate with Roosevelt that year, but refused to accept the nomination. Wheeler again supported non-involvement in 1945-1946, when he opposed the United Nations and loans to our allies after the war.
After his defeat for reelection to the Senate by Leif Erickson in the 1946 primary, Wheeler retired to private law practice in partnership with his son Edward, in Washington, D.C. Burton K. Wheeler died in 1975, at age 93.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Wheeler collection consists of thirteen series: General Correspondence (1923-1972), Miscellaneous Correspondence (1924-1956), Campaign Materials (1922-1946), Court Papers (1920, 1924, 1944), Financial Records (1939-1940), Press Releases (1924-1957), Printed Material (1929-1969), Reports (circa 1937), Speeches (1923-1959), Subject Files (1910-1925), Writings (1925-1962), Miscellany (1923-1972), and Clippings (1916-1972).
B.K. Wheeler's General Correspondence concerns the Senate investigation of the Justice Department (1924-1925), neutrality (1939-1942), and other political issues. Correspondents include B.R. Albin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles Evans Hughes, Barclay Craighead, Lee Metcalf, Mike Mansfield, Ed Craney, Elizabeth Wheeler Colman, and constituents. The Miscellaneous Correspondence consists of letters neither to nor from Wheeler, but concern subjects Wheeler was interested in, such as the Daugherty Investigating Committee regarding Japanese fishing near California (1924), the National Committee on Relations with Latin America (1927), and the Sewell Avery-Montgomery Ward controversy (1944).
The Campaign Materials consist of pamphlets, flyers, campaign letters from the Wheeler for President Club and the Wheeler for Senate Club, transcripts of radio broadcasts, and a booklet--"That Man Wheeler of Montana"--published and circulated by the Wheeler for President Club.
The Press Releases, Printed Material, and Speeches all cover a wide variety of topics, such as the Progressive Party, Robert M. LaFollette, Sr., Wheeler's indictment, remonetization of silver, reorganization of the Supreme Court, neutrality, World War II, America's post-war policy, agricultural problems, and railroads. In addition, the Printed Material includes Senate committee reports and hearings transcripts of investigations of the attorney general and corruption in the Justice Department (1924) and of corruption in the railroad industry (1937). The Reports consist of the text, index, and exhibits of "An Answer to the Testimony in Behalf of the President's Plan" to reorganize the Supreme Court.
The Subject Files contain material on the investigations of J.G. Darden (1910-1920), Harry M. Daugherty (1924), and the U.S. Justice Department (1920-1925). There are also files on the Wheeler Defense Committee and Wheeler's indictment. Wheeler's Writings include many of the same topics found in the printed material, press releases, and speeches. In addition, there are early drafts of Wheeler's autobiography, Yankee from the West.
The Miscellany series contains biographical material on Wheeler, notably Dayton Stoddard's manuscript for a Wheeler biography. Also included are transcripts of an oral interview (1961) and Wheeler's voting record (1923-1946). The Clippings series includes scrapbooks of clippings on the LaFollette-Wheeler campaign (1924), reorganization of the Supreme Court (1937), the Detroit Chapter of the America First Committee (1941), and Yankee from the West.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.
Preferred Citation
Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arranged by series. Some material housed in manuscript volumes. Some material housed in oversize folder in archives map case. See inventory below for more information.
Location of Collection
1:3-7Acquisition Information
Acquisition information available upon request
Future Additions
There are ongoing accruals to this collection.
Acquisition Information
Acquisition information available upon request
Separated Materials
Photographs, selected printed material, and artifacts were transferred from this collection to the M.H.S. Photo Archives, Library, and Museum respectively.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection
General Correspondence Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
1 / 1 | W. Horsly Gantt |
1923-1924 |
1 / 2 | William H. Johnson |
1924 |
1 / 3 | Katherine D. Blake |
1925 |
1 / 4 | Collier's Weekly |
1925 |
1 / 5 | Dartmouth College (re admission of son) |
1925 |
1 / 6 | Elizabeth G. Evans |
1925-1926, 1931 |
1 / 7 | W. Horsley Gantt |
1925 |
1 / 8 | Mercer G. Johnston (re B.K. Wheeler
indictment) |
1925-1926 |
1 / 9 | Henry W. Elliott |
1926 |
1 / 10 | The Public Ledger (includes articles
"What is a Demagogue"); The Survey (includes article "What Has Become of
the Pre-War Radical?") |
1926 |
1 / 11 | Foreign Policy Association (re Mexican
land and oil law) |
1927 |
1 / 12 | W. Horsly Gantt |
1927 |
1 / 13 | G-N (correspondents include George Grose;
National Magazine) |
1927 |
1 / 14 | N-P (correspondents include North Dakota
voters; Pacific Coast Review, re impressions of Greece) |
1928, 1931 |
1 / 15 | A-F (correspondents include Arthur
Babbitt; R.C. Battey; M. Seaton Cohen; Harry L. Day; Denver Trades and
Labor Assembly 50th Anniversary Committee; Vin Fortune) |
1932 |
1 / 16 | G-L (correspondents include Robert A.
Gilchrist; Frank Hancock; "J.H."; Thomas M. Kehoe; Mrs. H.N. Kennedy;
Ernest L. Klein; Lester H. Loble; J.B. Love; Allan S. Lund) |
1932 |
1 / 17 | M-W (correspondents include James J.
Miles; Gerald P. Nye; O'Connor for Congress Club; A.D. Sperry; "J.A.S.";
Thomas A. Tobin; U.S. Office of Indian Affairs Fort Belknap Agency;
Maude Wheeler) |
1932 |
1 / 18 | The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) |
1933 |
1 / 19 | B. R. Albin |
1934-1935 |
1 / 20 | James H. Baldwin (includes letters re
Baldwin's appointment as district court judge) |
1934-1935 |
1 / 21 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
1935 |
1 / 22 | B. R. Albin |
1936 |
1 / 23 | C-W (correspondents include Elizabeth
Glendower Evans; Harry B. Hawes; Charles Hosmer; C.B. Horsford; Edward
Wheeler) |
1936 |
1 / 24 | A-G (correspondents include Wallace E.
Bacheller; Max Bend-Cohen; H.E. Beverage; James Emery Brooks; Mark
Childs; M.A. Deas Jr.; Jean Wilson Dewey; M.J. Francill; O. Gunvaldsen) |
1937 |
1 / 25 | Charles Evans Hughes |
1937 |
1 / 26 | H-W (correspondents include Douglas
Wilson Johnson; Mrs. George T. Haw; H.W. Nethken; Lowell Wadmond) |
1937 |
1 / 27 | B. R. Albin |
1938 |
1 / 28 | Montana constituents: A-S (includes T.J.
Collins; Thomas F. Corbally; Eugene Graf; B.C. Kinman; Jerry O'Connell;
M.O. Olsen; Tom Ralston; Ben Stern) |
1938 |
2 / 1 | B-L (correspondents include Bendix
Products Corporation; Perry B. Dillman; Arthur Franklin Durand; H.H.
Evans; John Gaskill; Mark Gibson; Freeman H. Hubbard Railroad Magazine;
Edith Hyatt; R.J. Lewis) |
1938 |
2 / 2 | M-W (correspondents include Edward C.
Maguire; H.W. Nethren; Joseph W. Rebholz; A.J. Ribe; H.S. Sackett; Anna
C. Wood) |
1939 |
2 / 3 | B. R. Albin |
1939 |
2 / 4 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
1939 |
2 / 5 | Wheeler Family |
1939 |
2 / 6 | Montana constituents: A-D (include Joe
Bosone; J. Burke Clements; Thomas F. Corbally; Barclay Craighead; Ed
Craney) |
1939 |
2 / 7 | Montana constituents: F-H (include Frank
Finnegan; S.C. Ford; P.L. Grantham; Leverne Hamilton; Helena Trades and
Labor Assembly; Mike Holland; Fred G. Huntington; W.C. Husband) |
1939 |
2 / 8 | Montana constituents: J-M (include Frank
T. Kelsey; Elizabeth V. Kennedy; H.R. Kester, Miles City Star; A.F.
Lamey, Democratic State Central Committee; Norman LeFever; E.G.
Leipheimer; J.B. Lowe; Harry McGregor; E.M. Mestad; R.R. Mowry) |
1939 |
2 / 9 | Montana constituents: N (include John W.
Nelson; G.A. Norris; H. Norskog) |
1939 |
2 / 10 | Montana constituents: O-S (include James
F. O'Connor; John C. O'Grady; Lewis Penwell; E.L. Shields; Pat C.
Sullivan; E.E. Sweitzer; Lloyd W. Swords) |
1939 |
2 / 11 | Montana constituents: T-W (include Earl
Talbott; O.S. Warden, Great Falls Tribune; Dan Whetstone, Cut Bank
Pioneer Press; Sid A. Willis; George A. Wright) |
1939 |
2 / 12 | Non-constituents: A-B (include P.M.
Abbott; O.J. Arnold; Elmer Benson; W.J. Borland; John F. Byrne) |
1939 |
2 / 13 | Non-constituents: C-E (include Joseph E.
Cassidy; S. Bayard Colgate; Howard Coonley; Bessie W. Croxdale; John P.
Devaney; Wallace Doying, enclosing a biographical sketch of Wheeler;
Harry M. Doyle, Hudson, Mass. News-Enterprise; Cyrus S. Eaton) |
1939 |
2 / 14 | Non-constituents: F (include Perlie P.
Fallon; Louis N. Fehlberg; Edward FitzGerald; Clarence Francis) |
1939 |
2 / 15 | Non-constituents: G (include Ray George;
Robert L. Glenn; William Green, AFL; Joseph H. Griffin) |
1939 |
2 / 16 | Non-constituents: H (include Frederick
Brown Harris; Milton W. Harrison; J.N. Haynie; Albert Charles Hyland) |
1939 |
3 / 1 | Non-constituents: J-L (include Mercer T.
Johnston; Frank E. Lawrence; Lawrence Lipkin, Young Folks Civic League) |
1939 |
3 / 2 | Non-constituents: M (include Ray McKaig;
Lemuel P. Mathews; Harold J. May; Frank Miles, Iowa Legionaire; Julius
H. Miner; Maude T. Mitchell; John Moses) |
1939 |
3 / 3 | Non-constituents: N-P (include New York
Committee to Keep America Out of War, enclosing radio speech of Rev.
F.J. Beckman; Charles H. O'Donnell; James F. O'Kelly, Paul Revere
Sentinels, Inc.; Anthony J. O'Malley, Wheeler Homecoming Celebration,
Hudson, Mass.; Harry E. Polk, Williston Daily Herald; E.A. Purdy) |
1939 |
3 / 4 | Non-constituents: R-S (include C.A.
Robertson; Reid Robinson, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers; C.C. Rowan; Andrew G. Sathre; Arthur E. Seagrave; Harold M.
Sherman; James A. Stone) |
1939 |
3 / 5 | Non-constituents: T-Y (include Sol
Taishoff; Charles E. Taylor; Lockwood Thompson; A.J. Thoner; Brice
Toole; Walter S. Wheeler; B. Loring Young) |
1939 |
3 / 6 | B. R. Albin |
1940 |
3 / 7 | J. Burke Clements |
1940 |
3 / 8 | Barclay Craighead |
1940 |
3 / 9 | Ed Craney |
1940 |
3 / 10 | Arthur Lamey |
1940 |
3 / 11 | Lee Metcalf |
1940 |
3 / 12 | Mike Mansfield |
1940 |
3 / 13 | Richard Neuberger |
1940 |
3 / 14 | R. Bailey Stortz |
1940 |
3 / 15 | Montana constituents: A-B (include W.F.
Aldrich; F.L. Anderson; Roy E. Ayers; D.A. Batchoff enclosing statement
of Harrison Freebourn about his persecution by Anaconda Company; William
K. Brown; John E. Byrne) |
1940 |
3 / 16 | Montana constituents: C (include Ed
Campbell; Pat Carter; E.B. Coolidge; Thomas F. Corbally) |
1940 |
3 / 17 | Montana constituents: D (include F.L.
Darland; J.C. Darrah) |
1940 |
3 / 18 | Montana constituents: E-F (include
Willard Fraser; Mearl Fagg; Grace Field; W.F. Flynn, Miles City Star;
L.D. French) |
1940 |
4 / 1 | Montana constituents: G-K (include P.E.
Geagan; Robert Granger enclosing flyer "Highlights of the Roosevelt
Record on Indian Affairs"; Claude B. Gray, Montana Farm Bureau; Leo C.
Graybill; Charles D. Greefield; T.J. Hocking, Glasgow Courier; A.J.
Holderman; Mike Holland; Charles E. Holly; T.E. Kamrud; Elizabeth
Kennedy) |
1940 |
4 / 2 | Montana constituents: L-M (include John
Leahy; Lester H. Loble (enclosing article on founding of Helena airplane
mechanics training program; J.B. Love; John A. Lovelace; George N.
McCabe; Joe McCabe; Earl McGinnis, Lewistown Democrat-News; C.H. McLeod;
Bob Mackie; Pat Murphy) |
1940 |
4 / 3 | Montana constituents: N-R (include John
W. Nelson; Albert J. Partoll; Margaret Patterson; Lewis Penwell; Peter
Rorvick) |
1940 |
4 / 4 | Montana constituents: S-V (include O.H.P.
Shelley, Red Lodge Picket-Journal; Lewis Spaulding, Townsend News and
Comments; Tom Stout, Lewistown Democrat-News; A.J. Stuart; E.E.
Sweitzer; Amanda O. Swift) |
1940 |
4 / 5 | Montana constituents: W-Z (include O.S.
Warden, Great Falls Tribune; Sam B. Winn) |
1940 |
4 / 6 | Non-constituents: A (include P.M. Abbott;
H.C. Alderson; O.K. Armstrong enclosing article from NY
Journal-American) |
1940 |
4 / 7 | Non-constituents: B (include William L.
Bay; Brancko Bechir; David L. Behncke, Air Line Pilots Assn.; Robert
Bendiner The Nation re article on Wheeler; Arthur L. Boreman Dry Goods
Journal; Rolland Bradley; Martin O. Brandon; J.G. Bruce, Idaho Public
Utilities Commission; Charles C. Buck; J.W. Buckwelter) |
1940 |
4 / 8 | Non-constituents: C (include William J.
Clark; Ed P. Cleary; A.B. Cochran; Thomas E. Cooper; W.F. Cooper; Howard
Costigan) |
1940 |
5 / 1 | Non-constituents: D (include Kenneth C.
Davis; Vincent A. Day; Prescott Dennett; R.W. Digges; C.C. Dill; E.Z.
Dimitman, Philadelphia Inquirer; Manuel Dittenheimer) |
1940 |
5 / 2 | Non-constituents: E-F (include George
Eyrich; William L. Fitzgerald; Margaret A. Flanagan; Vin Fortune) |
1940 |
5 / 3 | Non-constituents: G (include Linn A.E.
Gale, Make Europe Pay War Debts Committee; Phil H. Gallagher; Harry
Gambichler; Ralph E. Gates; Arthur M. Geary; Ben S. Gellenbeck; B.M.
Gentry; Ray George) |
1940 |
5 / 4 | Non-constituents: H (include Louis Bree
Harrison; W.E. Hassler, Washington State Democrat; Edward E. Henry;
Charles J. Hitchcock; Roy W. Howard, Scripps-Howard Newspapers) |
1940 |
5 / 5 | Non-constituents: I-K (include Adolph
Igra; George P. Jones; Charles M. Kearney, National Beet Growers Assn.;
Edward Keating, Labor; Warren G. Keith; L.M. Kesler) |
1940 |
5 / 6 | Non-constituents: L (include George J.
Leary; Ernest K. Lindley) |
1940 |
5 / 7 | Non-constituents: Mc (include Charles A.
McCarron; C.B. McCullar, Milledgeville News) |
1940 |
6 / 1 | Non-constituents: M (include Dona
Marchand; Edward Marsten; George W. Merkle; James W. Miller, Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers; J. Emerson Miller; J. Merancy Murphy) |
1940 |
6 / 2 | Non-constituents: N-O (include Willard J.
Nash; Lawrence E. Nelson, enclosing paper on legality of third term;
Norman C. Norman; Eugene P. O'Brien, Albany County Commissioner,
Pennsylvania; Carl D. Oppenheimer, enclosing radio talks on Wheeler) |
1940 |
6 / 3 | Non-constituents: P-R (include Samuel B.
Pettengill, enclosing a legislative newsletter re third term issue;
Harold Putnam, Boston Globe; Adolphus Ragan; Calvin M. Roberts; Frank A.
Roberts; C.A. Robertson; D.B. Robertson, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen; Reid Robinson, International Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers; C.C. Rowan) |
1940 |
6 / 4 | Non-constituents: S-V (include Fred H.
Schomburg; Elizabeth Scott; E.C. Scoyen; Arthur E. Seagrave; John W.
Smith re farm situation in Colorado; Clyde H. Tavenner, aide to
Congressman A.J. Sabath; M.W. Thatcher, Farmers Union Grain Terminal
Association; Francis E. Townsend) |
1940 |
6 / 5 | Non-constituents: W (include E. Welsh;
William Allen White; A.F. Whitney, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen;
Richard W. Wilson) |
1940 |
6 / 6 | C-W (correspondents include Columbia
Broadcasting System; Detroit News WWJ re Wheeler radio speech; Frank
Evans re Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, Inc.;
"Hutch" re Sen. Murray; Gerald Jones; J.J. Kindscher) |
1941-1943 |
6 / 7 | A-H (correspondents include Arthur M.
Anderson; William J.H. Boetcher; R.L. Frazier, re Under Cover by John
Roy Carlson, a.k.a. Avedis Derounian; Milton W. Harrison) |
1944 |
6 / 8 | K-Y (correspondents include Mrs. S.
Franklin Pierce enclosing flyer on Under Cover; Sam Swain re Under
Cover) |
1944 |
6 / 9 | Elizabeth Wheeler Colman |
1945 |
6 / 10 | C (correspondents include J. Burke
Clements; R.C. Crays) |
1945 |
6 / 11 | A-V (correspondents include Joe Bauer;
Dan Bollich, Treasury Dept. re David George Kin, aka Samuel Roth, and
book Plot Against America; Mearl Fagg; James Forrestal; Fred Naegele;
Martin Norager; Clarence Hughes; Ricardo Seeber; unidentified) |
1946-1947 |
7 / 1 | A-W (correspondents include E.F.
McDonald, Jr.; Felix Frankfurter re old indictment against Wheeler;
Dayton Stoddard re book; M.W. Thatcher; Robert G. Athearn) |
1951-1959 |
7 / 2 | Ed Craney |
1960-1970 |
7 / 3 | Elizabeth Wheeler Colman |
1962 |
7 / 4 | C-T (mostly re Yankee from the West) |
1961-1969 |
7 / 5 | Ed Craney |
1971-1973 |
7 / 6 | Montana Historical Society (re the New
Deal) |
1970 |
7 / 7 | M-W (correspondents include William C.
Sullivan; K. Ross Toole; Edward F. McGrady; Oscar Wheeler) |
1971-1972, undated |
7 / 8 | Crow-Assiniboine Indians (re right to sue
in court) |
undated |
Miscellaneous Correspondence Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
7 / 9 | Daugherty Investigating Committee (re
Japanese fishing near California and re Gaston B. Means) |
1924 |
7 / 10 | O. E. Pagan to William J. Donovan (re
Gordon Campbell) |
1925 |
7 / 11 | Mercer G. Johnston to Mr. Sherman (re
National Committee on Relations with Latin America) |
1927 |
7 / 12 | B. R. Albin and Willard E. Fraser (re B.
K. Wheeler and Charles Lindbergh) |
1941 |
7 / 13 | B. R. Albin (re Sewell Avery-Montgomery
Ward controversy) |
1944 |
7 / 14 | B. R. Albin and B. Clements |
1945 |
7 / 15 | Frances Wheeler Sayler (re Wheeler
biography) |
1951-1956 |
Campaign Materials Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
7 / 16 | B.K. Wheeler senate campaign |
1922 |
7 / 17 | LaFollette-Wheeler campaign |
1924 |
7 / 18-19 | B.K. Wheeler senate campaigns |
1928, 1934 |
7 / 20 | Wheeler for President Club |
1938 |
Oversize Folder | ||
1 | "The Wheeler-for-President Circular"
|
1940 |
Box/Folder | ||
7 / 22 | Wheeler for President Club |
1940 |
7 / 23-24 | B.K. Wheeler senate campaigns |
1940, 1946 |
Court Papers Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
7 / 25 | Grossman vs. United States; and Grossman
vs. Frank et al. transcript of record |
1920 |
7 / 26 | United States vs. Means deposition;
Charles Weinfeld deposition |
1924 |
7 / 27 | John J. McGrain vs. Mally S. Daugherty
Appellee's briefs |
1924 |
7 / 28 | United States vs. Joseph McWilliams et
al. plea of defendant Eugene Nelson Sanctuary [copy; also includes
pamphlet "Roosevelt's Impeachment Blocked by Congressmen"] |
1944 |
Financial Records Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
7 / 28 | Wheeler for President Club: paid
contributions and list of expenditures |
December 1939- July, 1940 |
Press Releases Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
8 / 1 | re Progressive Party; Robert M.
LaFollette, Sr.; B.K. Wheeler indictment |
1924-1925 |
8 / 2 | re prohibition; announcement for
re-election; Fordney-McCumber tariff act |
1926-1929 |
8 / 3 | re remonetization of silver; Democratic
National Convention |
1926-1929 |
8 / 4 | re announcement for re-election;
remonetization of silver |
1934, 1936 |
8 / 5 | re reorganization of Supreme Court;
Federal Land Bank interest rates |
1937 |
8 / 6 | re investigation of railroad finance;
arms race; Railway Labor Executives' Association; waste and losses in
railroad industry |
1938 |
8 / 7 | re Felix Frankfurter; reorganization of
Federal Communications Commission; investigation of railroads; survey of
telegraph industry; President Roosevelt's Reorganization Plan No. 1;
Transportation Act (S.2009); Wheeler homecoming, Hudson, Mass.) |
1939 |
8 / 8 | re Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act;
Nazi control of American defense industries; profiteering in national
defense |
1940 |
8 / 9 | re investigation of alleged attacks by
U.S. Navy on German submarines; Nazi domination of Europe; Anti-Sabotage
Act |
1941 |
8 / 10 | re neglect by railroads of safety
devices; legislation for dependent relatives of soldiers killed in
action |
1945 |
8 / 11 | re Burton K. Wheeler Scholarship, Montana
State University Law School |
1957 |
8 / 12 | re Railroad Reorganization Act (S 2009);
Seaboard Company, Ltd.; federal guarantee of bank deposits; U.S.
Reclamation Service; drought in Montana; Gerald P. Nye; the Flathead
Project; William Leahy; American workers; seed loans to farmers on
relief; 73rd Congress |
undated |
Photographs Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
8 / 13 | List of photographs transferred to the
Photo Archives |
Printed Material Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
8 / 14 | "Indian Affairs: Letters of Commissioner"
(re land allotments, liens upon Indian lands, tribal claims pending
before Commission, and irrigation of Indian lands) |
1929 |
8 / 15 | Bimetallism (includes "Independent
Bimetallism or Bolschevism?" by Jonathan Bourne, Jr.; "The Silver
Question: Elementary Facts Bearing on the Silver Question" by Joel F.
Vaile, 1896 |
1896, 1932-1933 |
8 / 16 | "Brief on Peace-Time Military
Conscription" submitted by Lawyers Committee to Keep the United States
Out of War |
circa 1940 |
8 / 17-18 | Congressional Record reprints re B.K.
Wheeler |
1924-1959 |
8 / 19 | Democratic Party |
1932-1940 |
8 / 20 | Jerry O'Connell for Congress |
1938 |
8 / 21 | List of printed material transferred to
the Library |
|
8 / OvFd | "Report of the Official Canvass of the
Vote Cast at the Primary Election Held in the State of Montana, July 21,
1936" (annotated with Jerry O'Connell votes, July 19, 1938) |
1936 |
8 / 22 | "Rules of the Municipal Court for the
District of Columbia" |
1950 |
8 / 23-24 | Supreme Court reorganization |
1937 |
8 / 25 | U.S. House Judiciary Committee inquiry
into the conduct of Harry M. Daugherty: adverse report and minority
views |
January 1923 |
9 / 1-2 | U.S. Senate Select Committee on the
Investigation of the Attorney General, hearings Vol. 1-3 (re Harry M.
Daugherty and Teapot Dome scandal) |
March-June 1924 |
9 / 3 | U.S. Senate Select Committee on
Interstate Commerce: To Prevent Uniform Delivered Prices, hearings |
March-April 1936 |
9 / 4 | U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated
Companies: preliminary report (re MidAmerica Corporation) |
March 1937 |
10 / 1-5 | U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee
on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies,
and Affiliated Companies: hearings, parts 1-10 |
December 1936- October 1937 |
11 / 1-6 | U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee
on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies,
and Affiliated Companies: hearings, parts 11-22 |
October 1937- March 1938 |
12 / 1-3 | U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee
on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies,
and Affiliated Companies: hearings, parts 23-29 |
March 1938- 1942 |
12 / 4 | U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee
on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies,
and Affiliated Companies: report no. 25, parts 1-27 |
1939-1940 |
12 / 5 | U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee
on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies,
and Affiliated Companies: report no. 1182 parts 1-2 |
1940 |
13 / 1-2 | U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee
on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies,
and Affiliated Companies: report no. 1182 parts 3-5 |
1940 |
13 / 3 | U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee
on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies,
and Affiliated Companies: report no. 26 parts 1-2 |
1941 |
13 / 4-5 | U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee
on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies,
and Affiliated Companies: report no. 714 parts 1-4 |
1941-1942 |
14 / 1 | "War and Labor Voting Records: U.S.
Congress 1937-1941" compiled and published by Congressional Intelligence |
1942 |
14 / 2 | B.K. Wheeler |
circa 1925- 1944, undated |
14 / 3 | World War II [additional material in
Oversize Folder] |
1940-1942 |
14 / 4 | Miscellaneous government publications |
1936-1942 |
14 / 5 | Miscellaneous |
1938-1969 |
14 / 6-10 | "An Answer to the Testimony in Behalf of
the President's Plan" (re reorganization of the Supreme Court: includes
index, text, and exhibits; some material in Oversize Folder) |
circa 1937 |
Speeches Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
15 / 1 | "The Building of a Nation" (re American
politics) |
1923 |
15 / 2 | Address before the laymen of the
Methodist Conference at City Club, Boston (excerpts, re the economy) |
January 1924 |
15 / 3 | Speeches made during the
LaFollette-Wheeler campaign |
1924 |
15 / 4 | "Child Labor Amendment" |
1925 |
15 / 5 | re Robert M. Lafollette, Sr.; Robert M.
LaFollette, Jr. |
1925 |
15 / 6 | "Irresponsible Autocracy" (re Coolidge
administration); "It Is Time to Call a Halt" (re Indians' right to sue
the federal government); "Long-and-Short-Haul Clause of Interstate
Commerce Act"; "Reply to Commissioner Burke's Accusations"; "What the
Progressive Farmers of the South Think of the McNary-Haugen Bill"; "What
is Back of the So-Called Administration Farm Bill" (re farm prices,
agriculture) |
1926 |
15 / 7 | re Nicaragua; "Farm Relief" |
1927 |
15 / 8 | "Concessions in Foreign Countries"; "Why
Are We in Nicaragua?"; "Pullman Surcharge"; "Railroad Rates on
Agricultural Products"; "Campaign Expenditures"; "Mexican Situation" |
1928 |
15 / 9 | "Farm Relief Bill"; "Federal Farm Board";
"Grundy Appointment"; "Grundyism"; Senator Brookhart's re-election |
1929 |
15 / 10 | "What the Progressive Democrats and
Republicans Are Fighting for in Congress"; "The Rayon Industry and the
Tariff"; "Muscle Shoals and the Power Question"; national parks;
monopolies; Smoot-Hawley Tariff; "The Trend from Democracy to Autocracy"
(re government by commissions and bureaus) |
1930 |
15 / 11 | "What the Nation Needs"; "The Farm
Problem"; "Lobbying"; the Balkan situation; power rates' Tom Moody
pardon |
1931 |
15 / 12 | "Remonetization of Silver"; "Money and
the Price Level"; "Muscle Shoals and the Power Question"; Thomas
Jefferson |
1932 |
15 / 13 | Franklin D. Roosevelt nomination;
National Farmers' Union; "The United States and Europe" |
1932 |
15 / 14 | "Remonetization of Silver"; "Dishonest
Bankers"; "Silver Money"; "The Silver Question"; "Inflation";
"Bimetallism" |
1933 |
16 / 1 | "The Five Year Plan" (re Soviet Union);
"Will of the West"; "Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Treaty"; St. Patrick's Day
address; silver remonetization |
1934 |
16 / 2 | "World Court"; "Government Ownership of
Railroads"; "Public Utility Holding Company Bill"; "The Real Red Menace"
(re public utility holding companies); "Issues Before America" (re
corporations); "Interstate Bus Control"; interest rates and the farm
depression; silver remonetization |
1935 |
16 / 3 | "Consumer Cooperatives"; "Cooperatives in
Rural Electrification"; problems posed by the Depression; "Railroads'
Problems Today" |
1936 |
16 / 4 | Senate campaign speeches |
1936 |
16 / 5 | Investigation of agricultural income and
the financial and economic condition of agricultural producers; "What Is
the Most Important Issue Before the American People Today?"; "America
Must Choose"; water conservation; Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act |
1936 |
16 / 6-8 | Reorganization of the Supreme Court |
1937 |
16 / 9 | "The Interstate Commerce Act and the
Interstate Commerce Commission from the Standpoint of the United States
Senate"; "What Congress Can Do Now on Taxation"; "Naziism vs.
Americanism"; executive reorganization; U.S. Constitution |
1937 |
17 / 1 | "Railroad Situation Today"; regulation of
broadcasting; waste in railroad industry; "Transportation Outlook" |
1938 |
17 / 2 | "Statement on the Big Navy Bill"; "W.P.A.
and Politics"; "Reorganization of Executive Departments"; "The Silver
Policy"; speech to United Palestine Appeal; "False Statements of
Congressman Jerry O'Connell" |
1938 |
17 / 3 | "Foreign Policy and Neutrality"; "America
Must Remain at Peace" |
1939 |
17 / 4 | "Farm-Mortgage Refinancing"; Wheeler
homecoming |
1939 |
17 / 5 | National issues; agricultural
legislation; "A Liberal Looks at Private Enterprise"; speech to National
Association of Manufacturers; neutrality and the national economy |
1939 |
17 / 6 | "Present Railroad Problems"; "Our
Transportation Problem"; "How Can We Solve the Railroad Problem";
"Railroad Problems and Their Relief" |
1939 |
17 / 7 | "Keep Out of War"; nomination of Henry L.
Stimson and Frank Knox; "The Dangers of Peacetime Conscription with
Democracy"; "Is Peace Time Conscription Consonant with Democracy?";
"Peacetime Conscription"; "Let's Go to War Now: an Answer";
"Conscription and National Defense"; "Our Foreign Policy"; "A Just
Peace"; "Should the United States Urge a Negotiated Peace Now?" |
1940 |
17 / 8 | Andrew Jackson; transportation
legislation; United Mine Workers; Abraham Lincoln; railroad problem;
"Government Control of Business"; "1940 Liberalism"; neutrality |
1940 |
17 / 9 | Railroad legislation; "The Railroads and
Economic Conditions Confronting the Country"; farm appropriations
legislation; "The Relief Problem"; "Youth: Jobs and War" |
1940 |
18 / 1-4 | Neutrality speech on NBC Radio Network
(phonograph records] |
circa 1940 |
19 / 1 | Neutrality; "The Lend-Lease Bill Means
War"; "Lend-Lease Bill"; "America, You Will Love War!"; "The Bill 1776:
The Road to War"; "Unity for Peace"; "Convoy of Supplies Means War";
"Peace" |
1941 |
19 / 2 | HB 1776; neutrality; "The American
Enabling Act of 1941"; "War or Peace"; "America First Tribute" |
1941 |
19 / 3 | Neutrality; modification of neutrality
act |
1941 |
19 / 4 | Neutrality; "Participation by the United
States in War" |
1941 |
19 / 5 | Neutrality; "Tribute to Senator Hiram
Johnson" |
1941 |
19 / 6 | Neutrality; "Prevent War by Fighting for
Peace" |
1941 |
19 / 7 | Neutrality |
1941 |
20 / 1 | Senator Murray's accusations |
July 1942 |
20 / 2 | "Let Us Defend the American Home";
"Americanism versus Internationalism in the Post-War Picture"; "The War
and the Peace"; "Sound American Policy"; conscription; "To Defer Fathers
from Draft"; Senate Resolution 192; planning to win the war |
1943 |
20 / 3 | "Bases for Permanent Peace"; "The Balance
of Power in Europe"; "Our Post War Policy"; "An International Police
Force"; "Conditions on the Home Front"; "Artificial Rubber in the
Post-War World"; American war aims |
1943 |
20 / 4 | "Our Dilemma in China"; "Should We Join a
World Organization Which May Require Us to Fight to Enforce Its
Decisions?"; "World Police Force"; "A People's Peace"; domestic and
foreign problems facing post-war Americans |
1944 |
20 / 5 | "Sound American Policy"; Tyler Kent
trial; "Finland"; Atlantic Charter and post-war realities; government in
post-war Europe |
1944 |
20 / 6 | "Our Liberal Heritage"; "The Truth about
Fort Peck"; "The Future of Communications"; Senator Nye's re-election;
future development of communications industry; "Use of Waters of the
Missouri River"; "Freedom of Speech on the Air" |
1944 |
20 / 7 | "The United Nations and Peace"; "Report
on European Trip"; "Our Position in Post War" |
1945 |
20 / 8 | "Shall Congress Give Up Its
Constitutional Right to Declare War?"; "The Crimea Conference"; "The
United Nations Charter"; "American Foreign Policy and Attainment of
Peace"; "What Great Britain Can Do to Strengthen her Relations with the
United States"; "Universal Military Training"; "America's War and
Foreign Policy" |
1945 |
20 / 9 | "Agriculture"; "Much-Maligned American
Coal Miners Break All Production Records in 1944" |
1945 |
20 / 10 | Remarks, extensions of remarks, etc. from
Congressional Record (includes annotations re speeches of others) |
Jan-June 1945 |
21 / 1-2 | Remarks, extensions of remarks, etc. from
Congressional Record (includes annotations re speeches of others) |
July 1945- June 1946 |
21 / 3 | "The British Loan"; Palestine |
1946 |
21 / 4 | Primary election campaign |
1946 |
21 / 5 | Miscellaneous |
1947-1959 |
21 / 6 | Fragments and unidentified |
undated |
21 / 7 | "Addresses and Statements of Hon. B.K.
Wheeler", collected by E.B. Craney |
1930-1939 |
22 / 1-2 | "Addresses and Statements of Hon. B.K.
Wheeler", collected by E.B. Craney [2 vol.] |
1940-1946 |
Subject Files Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
22 / 3 | J.G. Darden investigation |
1910-1920 |
22 / 4-8 | Harry M. Daugherty investigation (re
Teapot Dome scandal, etc.) [includes Oversize Folder] |
1924-1925 |
23 / 1-5 | U.S. Justice Department investigations
(re McGrain vs. Daugherty) |
1920-1925 |
23 / 6 | Wheeler Defense Committee |
1925-1926 |
23 / 7 | Burton K. Wheeler indictment |
1924-1925 |
Writings Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
23 / 9 | "Why Are We in Nicaragua?";
"Individualism Gains in Russia"; economic demands of farmers; sound
money and silver; memo re public utilities |
1927-1932 |
23 / 10 | "American Points of View" |
August 1938 |
23 / 11 | "Memo on Conference at the White House
with the President" (re third term) |
August 1938 |
23 / 12 | "Railroads on the Witness Stand"; "Shall
We Permit Loans to the Allies?"; "America--Gone by Tomorrow?" (re
peacetime conscription) |
1940 |
23 / 13 | "The Shocking Truth about Radio" |
1944 |
23 / 14 | "Dangers of Post-War Alliances"; "The
Road to Enduring Peace" (re implications of the Atlantic Charter and the
United Nations on post-war policies) |
1944, 1947 |
23 / 15 | Transcripts of B.K. Wheeler dictation for
autobiography |
1961 |
23 / 16 | Yankee from the West, early drafts
(chapters 1-5) |
1961-1962 |
24 / 1 | Yankee from the West, early drafts
(chapters 6-11) |
1961-1962 |
24 / 2-4 | Yankee from the West, revised drafts |
1961-1962 |
24 / 5 | Yankee from the West, notes |
1961-1962 |
24 / 6 | "Some of the Devious Paths of the Law" |
undated |
24 / 7 | B.K. Wheeler re references to him in
Arthur Schlesinger's biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
undated |
Miscellany Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
24 / 8 | Bills and resolutions introduced by
Wheeler |
1933-1938 |
24 / 9 | Carbon County, Montana, Democratic
Central Committee endorsements |
August 1932 |
25 / 1 | Cartoons [photographic copies] used in
Cartoons Concerning some Actions of Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler |
circa 1937- circa 1941 |
25 / 2 | Ed Craney re European war and discussion
of American neutrality on the radio |
June 1940 |
25 / 3 | Edward J. Earley, "Burton Kendall Wheeler
and the Election of 1924" |
undated |
25 / 4 | Harrison J. Freebourn statements re
indictment |
1940 |
25 / 5 | Hart-Albin strike and B.K. Wheeler |
1939 |
25 / 6 | List of artifacts transferred to the
Museum |
|
25 / 7 | "List of Attorneys in Montana Arranged
According to Towns" |
undated |
25 / 8 | Magazine articles on B.K. Wheeler |
1924-1940, undated |
25 / 9 | Political materials of others |
1923-1924 |
25 / 10 | Franklin D. Roosevelt re goals of
Administration |
1933 |
25 / 11 | Richard T. Ruetten's thesis on B.K.
Wheeler [fragments] |
1961 |
25 / 12 | Frances Wheeler Sayler's notes, etc. for
proposed Wheeler biography |
1951-1956 |
25 / 13-14 | Dayton Stoddard manuscript for Wheeler
biography [drafts] |
1958-1960 |
26 / 1-6 | Dayton Stoddard manuscript for Wheeler
biography [drafts] |
1958-1960 |
27 / 1 | U.S. House Special Committee on
Un-American Activities subversive investigations materials |
1943 |
27 / 2 | U.S. State Department news releases |
1943 |
27 / 3 | Burton K. Wheeler anecdotes re childhood
experiences |
1972 |
27 / 4 | Burton K. Wheeler birthday celebration
invitation |
1972 |
27 / 5 | Burton K. Wheeler diplomatic passport |
1923 |
27 / 6 | Burton K. Wheeler indictment (speeches by
Thomas J. Walsh, W.C. Brown, and J.A. Reed) |
1925-1926 |
27 / 7 | Burton K. Wheeler interview re Thomas J.
Walsh [transcript] |
1949 |
27 / 8 | Burton K. Wheeler interview [transcript] |
1961 |
27 / 9 | Burton K. Wheeler interview [transcript] |
undated |
27 / 10 | Burton K. Wheeler presidential candidacy
endorsements |
1939-1940 |
27 / 11-17 | Burton K. Wheeler voting record |
1923-1943 |
28 / 1 | Burton K. Wheeler voting record |
1943-1946 |
28 / 2 | Burton K. Wheeler voting record on farm
issues |
1923-1942 |
28 / 3 | "Wheeler's Seventeen Years of Voting for
Labor" |
1940 |
28 / 4 | Miscellaneous |
1931-1945, undated |
Clippings Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
28 / 5 | Butte Miner |
1916 |
28 / 6 | Butte Bulletin |
1920 |
28 / 7 | Solidarity |
1920 |
28 / 8-11 | Miscellaneous |
1922-1924 |
28 / 12 | Burton K. Wheeler indictment |
April 1925 |
29 / 1-2 | Miscellaneous |
1925-1936 |
29 / 3 | Reorganization of the Supreme Court |
1937 |
29 / 4 | Jerry O'Connell |
1937-1938 |
29 / 5 | Miscellaneous |
1937-1938 |
29 / 6 | Burton K. Wheeler presidential candidacy |
1939 |
29 / 7 | Burton K. Wheeler homecoming, Hudson,
Massachusetts |
1939 |
29 / 8 | Miscellaneous |
1939 |
29 / 9 | Harrison Freebourn indictment |
1940 |
29 / 9-10 | Burton K. Wheeler senate campaign |
1940 |
29 / 12 | Burton K. Wheeler presidential candidacy |
1940 |
29 / 13-14 | Miscellaneous |
1940 |
29 / 15 | Miscellaneous (includes accusations of
mail fraud) |
1941-1942 |
30 / 1 | Miscellaneous (includes accusations of
mail fraud) |
1943-1944 |
30 / 2 | Miscellaneous |
1945 |
30 / 3 | Burton K. Wheeler senate campaign |
1946 |
30 / 4-9 | Miscellaneous |
1946-1972 |
30 / 10-11 | Miscellaneous |
undated |
31 / 1 | Scrapbook re LaFollette-Wheeler campaign |
1924 |
Volume | ||
1 | Scrapbook re LaFollette-Wheeler campaign |
1924 |
Box/Folder | ||
31 / 2 | Scrapbook re Wheeler political activities
and indictment |
1924-1925 |
Volume | ||
2 | Scrapbook re reorganization of Supreme
Court |
1937 |
Box/Folder | ||
31 / 3 | Scrapbook "From the Detroit Chapter of
the America First Committee, 'The Vietigs'" |
1941 |
Volume | ||
3 | Scrapbook re Yankee from the West |
1962 |
Audio Recordings Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
Media Cabinet | Untitled |
Undated |
Media Cabinet | Untitled |
Undated |
Media Cabinet | Untitled |
Undated |
Media Cabinet | B. K. Wheeler Speech, American
Neutrality |
circa 1940 |
Media Cabinet | B. K. Wheeler Speech, American
Neutrality |
circa 1940 |
Media Cabinet | B. K. Wheeler Speech, American
Neutrality |
circa 1940 |
Media Cabinet | B. K. Wheeler Speech, American
Neutrality |
circa 1940 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Authors
- Elections
- Investigations--Government
- Legislators--United States
Personal Names
- Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975 (creator)
Geographical Names
- United States--Politics and Government
- Washington (D.c.)--Politics and Government