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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)
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
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

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.
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Biographical Note

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.

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Content Description

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.

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Use of the Collection

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.

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Administrative Information

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

1:3-7

Acquisition 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.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection

  • General Correspondence

    • Description: W. Horsly Gantt
      Dates: 1923-1924
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: William H. Johnson
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Katherine D. Blake
      Dates: 1925
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Collier's Weekly
      Dates: 1925
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Dartmouth College (re admission of son)
      Dates: 1925
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Elizabeth G. Evans
      Dates: 1925-1926, 1931
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: W. Horsley Gantt
      Dates: 1925
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mercer G. Johnston (re B.K. Wheeler indictment)
      Dates: 1925-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Henry W. Elliott
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: The Public Ledger (includes articles "What is a Demagogue"); The Survey (includes article "What Has Become of the Pre-War Radical?")
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Foreign Policy Association (re Mexican land and oil law)
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: W. Horsly Gantt
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: G-N (correspondents include George Grose; National Magazine)
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: N-P (correspondents include North Dakota voters; Pacific Coast Review, re impressions of Greece)
      Dates: 1928, 1931
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: B. R. Albin
      Dates: 1934-1935
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 19
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: James H. Baldwin (includes letters re Baldwin's appointment as district court judge)
      Dates: 1934-1935
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 20
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 21
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: B. R. Albin
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 22
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: C-W (correspondents include Elizabeth Glendower Evans; Harry B. Hawes; Charles Hosmer; C.B. Horsford; Edward Wheeler)
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 23
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 24
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Charles Evans Hughes
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 25
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: H-W (correspondents include Douglas Wilson Johnson; Mrs. George T. Haw; H.W. Nethken; Lowell Wadmond)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 26
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: B. R. Albin
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 27
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 28
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: M-W (correspondents include Edward C. Maguire; H.W. Nethren; Joseph W. Rebholz; A.J. Ribe; H.S. Sackett; Anna C. Wood)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: B. R. Albin
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Wheeler Family
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana constituents: A-D (include Joe Bosone; J. Burke Clements; Thomas F. Corbally; Barclay Craighead; Ed Craney)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana constituents: N (include John W. Nelson; G.A. Norris; H. Norskog)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: A-B (include P.M. Abbott; O.J. Arnold; Elmer Benson; W.J. Borland; John F. Byrne)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: F (include Perlie P. Fallon; Louis N. Fehlberg; Edward FitzGerald; Clarence Francis)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: G (include Ray George; Robert L. Glenn; William Green, AFL; Joseph H. Griffin)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: H (include Frederick Brown Harris; Milton W. Harrison; J.N. Haynie; Albert Charles Hyland)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: J-L (include Mercer T. Johnston; Frank E. Lawrence; Lawrence Lipkin, Young Folks Civic League)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: M (include Ray McKaig; Lemuel P. Mathews; Harold J. May; Frank Miles, Iowa Legionaire; Julius H. Miner; Maude T. Mitchell; John Moses)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: T-Y (include Sol Taishoff; Charles E. Taylor; Lockwood Thompson; A.J. Thoner; Brice Toole; Walter S. Wheeler; B. Loring Young)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: B. R. Albin
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: J. Burke Clements
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Barclay Craighead
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ed Craney
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Arthur Lamey
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Lee Metcalf
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mike Mansfield
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Richard Neuberger
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: R. Bailey Stortz
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana constituents: C (include Ed Campbell; Pat Carter; E.B. Coolidge; Thomas F. Corbally)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana constituents: D (include F.L. Darland; J.C. Darrah)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana constituents: E-F (include Willard Fraser; Mearl Fagg; Grace Field; W.F. Flynn, Miles City Star; L.D. French)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana constituents: N-R (include John W. Nelson; Albert J. Partoll; Margaret Patterson; Lewis Penwell; Peter Rorvick)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana constituents: W-Z (include O.S. Warden, Great Falls Tribune; Sam B. Winn)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: A (include P.M. Abbott; H.C. Alderson; O.K. Armstrong enclosing article from NY Journal-American)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: C (include William J. Clark; Ed P. Cleary; A.B. Cochran; Thomas E. Cooper; W.F. Cooper; Howard Costigan)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: E-F (include George Eyrich; William L. Fitzgerald; Margaret A. Flanagan; Vin Fortune)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: L (include George J. Leary; Ernest K. Lindley)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: Mc (include Charles A. McCarron; C.B. McCullar, Milledgeville News)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: M (include Dona Marchand; Edward Marsten; George W. Merkle; James W. Miller, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; J. Emerson Miller; J. Merancy Murphy)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Non-constituents: W (include E. Welsh; William Allen White; A.F. Whitney, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; Richard W. Wilson)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1941-1943
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: K-Y (correspondents include Mrs. S. Franklin Pierce enclosing flyer on Under Cover; Sam Swain re Under Cover)
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Elizabeth Wheeler Colman
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: C (correspondents include J. Burke Clements; R.C. Crays)
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1946-1947
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: 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)
      Dates: 1951-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ed Craney
      Dates: 1960-1970
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Elizabeth Wheeler Colman
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: C-T (mostly re Yankee from the West)
      Dates: 1961-1969
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ed Craney
      Dates: 1971-1973
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana Historical Society (re the New Deal)
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: M-W (correspondents include William C. Sullivan; K. Ross Toole; Edward F. McGrady; Oscar Wheeler)
      Dates: 1971-1972, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Crow-Assiniboine Indians (re right to sue in court)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence

  • Miscellaneous Correspondence

    • Description: Daugherty Investigating Committee (re Japanese fishing near California and re Gaston B. Means)
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 9
      Location: Miscellaneous Correspondence
    • Description: O. E. Pagan to William J. Donovan (re Gordon Campbell)
      Dates: 1925
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 10
      Location: Miscellaneous Correspondence
    • Description: Mercer G. Johnston to Mr. Sherman (re National Committee on Relations with Latin America)
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 11
      Location: Miscellaneous Correspondence
    • Description: B. R. Albin and Willard E. Fraser (re B. K. Wheeler and Charles Lindbergh)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 12
      Location: Miscellaneous Correspondence
    • Description: B. R. Albin (re Sewell Avery-Montgomery Ward controversy)
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 13
      Location: Miscellaneous Correspondence
    • Description: B. R. Albin and B. Clements
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 14
      Location: Miscellaneous Correspondence
    • Description: Frances Wheeler Sayler (re Wheeler biography)
      Dates: 1951-1956
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 15
      Location: Miscellaneous Correspondence

  • Campaign Materials

    • Description: B.K. Wheeler senate campaign
      Dates: 1922
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 16
      Location: Campaign Materials
    • Description: LaFollette-Wheeler campaign
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 17
      Location: Campaign Materials
    • Description: B.K. Wheeler senate campaigns
      Dates: 1928, 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 18-19
      Location: Campaign Materials
    • Description: Wheeler for President Club
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 20
      Location: Campaign Materials
    • Description: "The Wheeler-for-President Circular"
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Oversize Folder 1
      Location: Campaign Materials
    • Description: Wheeler for President Club
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 22
      Location: Campaign Materials
    • Description: B.K. Wheeler senate campaigns
      Dates: 1940, 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 23-24
      Location: Campaign Materials

  • Court Papers

    • Description: Grossman vs. United States; and Grossman vs. Frank et al. transcript of record
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 25
      Location: Court Papers
    • Description: United States vs. Means deposition; Charles Weinfeld deposition
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 26
      Location: Court Papers
    • Description: John J. McGrain vs. Mally S. Daugherty Appellee's briefs
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 27
      Location: Court Papers
    • Description: United States vs. Joseph McWilliams et al. plea of defendant Eugene Nelson Sanctuary [copy; also includes pamphlet "Roosevelt's Impeachment Blocked by Congressmen"]
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 28
      Location: Court Papers

  • Financial Records

    • Description: Wheeler for President Club: paid contributions and list of expenditures
      Dates: December 1939- July, 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 28
      Location: Financial Records

  • Press Releases

    • Description: re Progressive Party; Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.; B.K. Wheeler indictment
      Dates: 1924-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1
      Location: Press Releases
    • Description: re prohibition; announcement for re-election; Fordney-McCumber tariff act
      Dates: 1926-1929
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 2
      Location: Press Releases
    • Description: re remonetization of silver; Democratic National Convention
      Dates: 1926-1929
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 3
      Location: Press Releases
    • Description: re announcement for re-election; remonetization of silver
      Dates: 1934, 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 4
      Location: Press Releases
    • Description: re reorganization of Supreme Court; Federal Land Bank interest rates
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 5
      Location: Press Releases
    • Description: re investigation of railroad finance; arms race; Railway Labor Executives' Association; waste and losses in railroad industry
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 6
      Location: Press Releases
    • Description: 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.)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 7
      Location: Press Releases
    • Description: re Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act; Nazi control of American defense industries; profiteering in national defense
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 8
      Location: Press Releases
    • Description: re investigation of alleged attacks by U.S. Navy on German submarines; Nazi domination of Europe; Anti-Sabotage Act
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 9
      Location: Press Releases
    • Description: re neglect by railroads of safety devices; legislation for dependent relatives of soldiers killed in action
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 10
      Location: Press Releases
    • Description: re Burton K. Wheeler Scholarship, Montana State University Law School
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 11
      Location: Press Releases
    • Description: 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
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 12
      Location: Press Releases

  • Photographs

    • Description: List of photographs transferred to the Photo Archives
      Dates:
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 13
      Location: Photographs

  • Printed Material

    • Description: "Indian Affairs: Letters of Commissioner" (re land allotments, liens upon Indian lands, tribal claims pending before Commission, and irrigation of Indian lands)
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 14
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: 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
      Dates: 1896, 1932-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 15
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: "Brief on Peace-Time Military Conscription" submitted by Lawyers Committee to Keep the United States Out of War
      Dates: circa 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 16
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: Congressional Record reprints re B.K. Wheeler
      Dates: 1924-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 17-18
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: Democratic Party
      Dates: 1932-1940
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 19
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: Jerry O'Connell for Congress
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 20
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: List of printed material transferred to the Library
      Dates:
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 21
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: "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)
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / OvFd
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: "Rules of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia"
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 22
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: Supreme Court reorganization
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 23-24
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. House Judiciary Committee inquiry into the conduct of Harry M. Daugherty: adverse report and minority views
      Dates: January 1923
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 25
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. Senate Select Committee on the Investigation of the Attorney General, hearings Vol. 1-3 (re Harry M. Daugherty and Teapot Dome scandal)
      Dates: March-June 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 1-2
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Interstate Commerce: To Prevent Uniform Delivered Prices, hearings
      Dates: March-April 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 3
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies: preliminary report (re MidAmerica Corporation)
      Dates: March 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 4
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies: hearings, parts 1-10
      Dates: December 1936- October 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 1-5
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies: hearings, parts 11-22
      Dates: October 1937- March 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 1-6
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies: hearings, parts 23-29
      Dates: March 1938- 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 1-3
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies: report no. 25, parts 1-27
      Dates: 1939-1940
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 4
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies: report no. 1182 parts 1-2
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 5
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies: report no. 1182 parts 3-5
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 1-2
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies: report no. 26 parts 1-2
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 3
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce: Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies: report no. 714 parts 1-4
      Dates: 1941-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 4-5
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: "War and Labor Voting Records: U.S. Congress 1937-1941" compiled and published by Congressional Intelligence
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 1
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: B.K. Wheeler
      Dates: circa 1925- 1944, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 2
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: World War II [additional material in Oversize Folder]
      Dates: 1940-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 3
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: Miscellaneous government publications
      Dates: 1936-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 4
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1938-1969
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 5
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: "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)
      Dates: circa 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 6-10
      Location: Printed Material

  • Speeches

    • Description: "The Building of a Nation" (re American politics)
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 1
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Address before the laymen of the Methodist Conference at City Club, Boston (excerpts, re the economy)
      Dates: January 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 2
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Speeches made during the LaFollette-Wheeler campaign
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 3
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Child Labor Amendment"
      Dates: 1925
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 4
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: re Robert M. Lafollette, Sr.; Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.
      Dates: 1925
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 5
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "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)
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 6
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: re Nicaragua; "Farm Relief"
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 7
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Concessions in Foreign Countries"; "Why Are We in Nicaragua?"; "Pullman Surcharge"; "Railroad Rates on Agricultural Products"; "Campaign Expenditures"; "Mexican Situation"
      Dates: 1928
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 8
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Farm Relief Bill"; "Federal Farm Board"; "Grundy Appointment"; "Grundyism"; Senator Brookhart's re-election
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 9
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "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)
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 10
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "What the Nation Needs"; "The Farm Problem"; "Lobbying"; the Balkan situation; power rates' Tom Moody pardon
      Dates: 1931
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 11
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Remonetization of Silver"; "Money and the Price Level"; "Muscle Shoals and the Power Question"; Thomas Jefferson
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 12
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt nomination; National Farmers' Union; "The United States and Europe"
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 13
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Remonetization of Silver"; "Dishonest Bankers"; "Silver Money"; "The Silver Question"; "Inflation"; "Bimetallism"
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 14
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "The Five Year Plan" (re Soviet Union); "Will of the West"; "Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Treaty"; St. Patrick's Day address; silver remonetization
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 1
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "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
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 2
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Consumer Cooperatives"; "Cooperatives in Rural Electrification"; problems posed by the Depression; "Railroads' Problems Today"
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 3
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Senate campaign speeches
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 4
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: 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
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 5
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Reorganization of the Supreme Court
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 6-8
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "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
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 9
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Railroad Situation Today"; regulation of broadcasting; waste in railroad industry; "Transportation Outlook"
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 1
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "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"
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 2
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Foreign Policy and Neutrality"; "America Must Remain at Peace"
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 3
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Farm-Mortgage Refinancing"; Wheeler homecoming
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 4
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: National issues; agricultural legislation; "A Liberal Looks at Private Enterprise"; speech to National Association of Manufacturers; neutrality and the national economy
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 5
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Present Railroad Problems"; "Our Transportation Problem"; "How Can We Solve the Railroad Problem"; "Railroad Problems and Their Relief"
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 6
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "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?"
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 7
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Andrew Jackson; transportation legislation; United Mine Workers; Abraham Lincoln; railroad problem; "Government Control of Business"; "1940 Liberalism"; neutrality
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 8
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Railroad legislation; "The Railroads and Economic Conditions Confronting the Country"; farm appropriations legislation; "The Relief Problem"; "Youth: Jobs and War"
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 9
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Neutrality speech on NBC Radio Network (phonograph records]
      Dates: circa 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 1-4
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: 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"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 1
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: HB 1776; neutrality; "The American Enabling Act of 1941"; "War or Peace"; "America First Tribute"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 2
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Neutrality; modification of neutrality act
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 3
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Neutrality; "Participation by the United States in War"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 4
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Neutrality; "Tribute to Senator Hiram Johnson"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 5
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Neutrality; "Prevent War by Fighting for Peace"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 6
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Neutrality
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 7
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Senator Murray's accusations
      Dates: July 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 1
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "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
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 2
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "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
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 3
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "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
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 4
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Sound American Policy"; Tyler Kent trial; "Finland"; Atlantic Charter and post-war realities; government in post-war Europe
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 5
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "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"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 6
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "The United Nations and Peace"; "Report on European Trip"; "Our Position in Post War"
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 7
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "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"
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 8
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Agriculture"; "Much-Maligned American Coal Miners Break All Production Records in 1944"
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 9
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Remarks, extensions of remarks, etc. from Congressional Record (includes annotations re speeches of others)
      Dates: Jan-June 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 10
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Remarks, extensions of remarks, etc. from Congressional Record (includes annotations re speeches of others)
      Dates: July 1945- June 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 1-2
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "The British Loan"; Palestine
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 3
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Primary election campaign
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 4
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1947-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 5
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Fragments and unidentified
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 6
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Addresses and Statements of Hon. B.K. Wheeler", collected by E.B. Craney
      Dates: 1930-1939
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 7
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: "Addresses and Statements of Hon. B.K. Wheeler", collected by E.B. Craney [2 vol.]
      Dates: 1940-1946
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 1-2
      Location: Speeches

  • Subject Files

    • Description: J.G. Darden investigation
      Dates: 1910-1920
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Harry M. Daugherty investigation (re Teapot Dome scandal, etc.) [includes Oversize Folder]
      Dates: 1924-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 4-8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: U.S. Justice Department investigations (re McGrain vs. Daugherty)
      Dates: 1920-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 1-5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Wheeler Defense Committee
      Dates: 1925-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler indictment
      Dates: 1924-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 7
      Location: Subject Files

  • Writings

    • Description: "Why Are We in Nicaragua?"; "Individualism Gains in Russia"; economic demands of farmers; sound money and silver; memo re public utilities
      Dates: 1927-1932
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 9
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "American Points of View"
      Dates: August 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 10
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Memo on Conference at the White House with the President" (re third term)
      Dates: August 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 11
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Railroads on the Witness Stand"; "Shall We Permit Loans to the Allies?"; "America--Gone by Tomorrow?" (re peacetime conscription)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 12
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "The Shocking Truth about Radio"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 13
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Dangers of Post-War Alliances"; "The Road to Enduring Peace" (re implications of the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations on post-war policies)
      Dates: 1944, 1947
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 14
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Transcripts of B.K. Wheeler dictation for autobiography
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 15
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Yankee from the West, early drafts (chapters 1-5)
      Dates: 1961-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 16
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Yankee from the West, early drafts (chapters 6-11)
      Dates: 1961-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 1
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Yankee from the West, revised drafts
      Dates: 1961-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 2-4
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Yankee from the West, notes
      Dates: 1961-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 5
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Some of the Devious Paths of the Law"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 6
      Location: Writings
    • Description: B.K. Wheeler re references to him in Arthur Schlesinger's biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 7
      Location: Writings

  • Miscellany

    • Description: Bills and resolutions introduced by Wheeler
      Dates: 1933-1938
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 8
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Carbon County, Montana, Democratic Central Committee endorsements
      Dates: August 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 9
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Cartoons [photographic copies] used in Cartoons Concerning some Actions of Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler
      Dates: circa 1937- circa 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 1
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Ed Craney re European war and discussion of American neutrality on the radio
      Dates: June 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 2
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Edward J. Earley, "Burton Kendall Wheeler and the Election of 1924"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 3
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Harrison J. Freebourn statements re indictment
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 4
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Hart-Albin strike and B.K. Wheeler
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 5
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: List of artifacts transferred to the Museum
      Dates:
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 6
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "List of Attorneys in Montana Arranged According to Towns"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 7
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Magazine articles on B.K. Wheeler
      Dates: 1924-1940, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 8
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Political materials of others
      Dates: 1923-1924
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 9
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt re goals of Administration
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 10
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Richard T. Ruetten's thesis on B.K. Wheeler [fragments]
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 11
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Frances Wheeler Sayler's notes, etc. for proposed Wheeler biography
      Dates: 1951-1956
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 12
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Dayton Stoddard manuscript for Wheeler biography [drafts]
      Dates: 1958-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 13-14
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Dayton Stoddard manuscript for Wheeler biography [drafts]
      Dates: 1958-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 1-6
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: U.S. House Special Committee on Un-American Activities subversive investigations materials
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 1
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: U.S. State Department news releases
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 2
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler anecdotes re childhood experiences
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 3
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler birthday celebration invitation
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 4
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler diplomatic passport
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 5
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler indictment (speeches by Thomas J. Walsh, W.C. Brown, and J.A. Reed)
      Dates: 1925-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 6
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler interview re Thomas J. Walsh [transcript]
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 7
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler interview [transcript]
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 8
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler interview [transcript]
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 9
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler presidential candidacy endorsements
      Dates: 1939-1940
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 10
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler voting record
      Dates: 1923-1943
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 11-17
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler voting record
      Dates: 1943-1946
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 1
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler voting record on farm issues
      Dates: 1923-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 2
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Wheeler's Seventeen Years of Voting for Labor"
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 3
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1931-1945, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 4
      Location: Miscellany

  • Clippings

    • Description: Butte Miner
      Dates: 1916
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 5
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Butte Bulletin
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 6
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Solidarity
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 7
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1922-1924
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 8-11
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler indictment
      Dates: April 1925
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 12
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1925-1936
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 1-2
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Reorganization of the Supreme Court
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 3
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Jerry O'Connell
      Dates: 1937-1938
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 4
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1937-1938
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 5
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler presidential candidacy
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 6
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler homecoming, Hudson, Massachusetts
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 7
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 8
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Harrison Freebourn indictment
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 9
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler senate campaign
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 9-10
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler presidential candidacy
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 12
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 13-14
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes accusations of mail fraud)
      Dates: 1941-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 15
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes accusations of mail fraud)
      Dates: 1943-1944
      Container: Box/Folder 30 / 1
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 30 / 2
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler senate campaign
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 30 / 3
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1946-1972
      Container: Box/Folder 30 / 4-9
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 30 / 10-11
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Scrapbook re LaFollette-Wheeler campaign
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 31 / 1
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Scrapbook re LaFollette-Wheeler campaign
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Volume 1
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Scrapbook re Wheeler political activities and indictment
      Dates: 1924-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 31 / 2
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Scrapbook re reorganization of Supreme Court
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Volume 2
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Scrapbook "From the Detroit Chapter of the America First Committee, 'The Vietigs'"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 31 / 3
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Scrapbook re Yankee from the West
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Volume 3
      Location: Clippings

  • Audio Recordings

    • Description: Untitled
      Dates: Undated
      Container: Box/Folder Media Cabinet
      Location: Audio Recordings
    • Description: Untitled
      Dates: Undated
      Container: Box/Folder Media Cabinet
      Location: Audio Recordings
    • Description: Untitled
      Dates: Undated
      Container: Box/Folder Media Cabinet
      Location: Audio Recordings
    • Description: B. K. Wheeler Speech, American Neutrality
      Dates: circa 1940
      Container: Box/Folder Media Cabinet
      Location: Audio Recordings
    • Description: B. K. Wheeler Speech, American Neutrality
      Dates: circa 1940
      Container: Box/Folder Media Cabinet
      Location: Audio Recordings
    • Description: B. K. Wheeler Speech, American Neutrality
      Dates: circa 1940
      Container: Box/Folder Media Cabinet
      Location: Audio Recordings
    • Description: B. K. Wheeler Speech, American Neutrality
      Dates: circa 1940
      Container: Box/Folder Media Cabinet
      Location: Audio Recordings

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

Finding aid prepared by MHS staff
2005

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