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- Burton Kendall Wheeler was a Montana politician of the Democratic Party and a United States Senator from 1923 until 1947. Wheeler was born in Hudson, Massachusetts. He grew up in Massachusetts, attending the public schools and working as a stenographer in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1905. He initially headed for Seattle, Washington, but after getting off the train in Butte, Montana and losing his belongings in a poker game, he settled there and began practicing law. He became a Montana state legislator in 1910 where he gained a reputation as a champion of labor against the Anaconda Copper Mining Company which dominated the state. He then served as a United States Attorney where he most famously refused to hand down a single sedition indictment during World War I, especially significant as Montana was a large stronghold of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In 1920 he ran for Governor of Montana as a candidate of the Non-Partisan League. The ticket included a multi-racial set of candidates, unusual for 1920, including an African-American and a Blackfoot Indian. Wheeler was defeated by Republican Joseph M. Dixon, but ran for U.S. Senator two years later. Wheeler won election to the United States Senate from Montana in 1922 with 55% of the vote over Republican Congressman Carl W. Riddick and served four terms, being reelected in the 1928, 1934 and 1940 elections. He broke with the Democratic Party in 1924 to run for vice-president of the United States on the Progressive Party ticket led by Robert La Follette, Sr. He returned to the Democratic Party after the election, which was not successful for the Progressives or the Democrats. Wheeler supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt's election, and many of his New Deal policies, but broke with him over his opposition to Roosevelt's court-packing schemes and also opposed much of Roosevelt's foreign policy before World War II. In 1930, Wheeler gained national attention when he successfully campaigned for the reelection to the US Senate of his friend and Democratic colleague Thomas Gore, the colorful "Blind Cowboy" of Oklahoma. Wheeler is often credited for steering public opinion in Gore's favor with a series of speeches in which, with characteristic hyperbole, he repeatedly implied that he would personally play the part of the Blind Cowboy's horse on his ride to Washington. In the 1940 presidential election, there was a large movement to "Draft Wheeler" into the presidential race, possibly as a third party candidate, led primarily by John L. Lewis. As tensions mounted in Europe, he became a supporter of the anti-war America First Committee. As chair of the Senate Interstate Commerce Commission, Wheeler announced in August 1941 he would investigate “interventionists” in the motion picture industry. Most studio heads, he would soon be surprised to learn, were Jews. Wheeler questioned why so many foreign born were allowed to shape American opinion. After the start of World War II in Europe, he opposed any aid to Britain or the countries involved in the war. On 17 October 1941, Wheeler said: " I can't conceive of Japan being crazy enough to want to go to war with us. " One month later, he added: "If we go to war with Japan, the only reason will be to help England. " The United States Army secret Victory Plan was leaked on 4 December 1941 to Wheeler who passed the Plan on to three newspapers. Wheeler did not, however, vote against America's participation in World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, saying the only thing left to do was "to lick hell out of them". Wheeler sought renomination in 1946 but was defeated by liberal Leif Erickson in the Democratic primary. Erickson had attacked Wheeler as insufficiently liberal. Erickson was then defeated by Republican state Representative Zales Ecton. Wheeler did not return to politics and returned to his law practice. He died in Washington, D.C. and is interred there at Rock Creek Cemetery. In the alternate history novel The Plot Against America (2004) by Philip Roth, Wheeler serves as Vice President in the administration of President Charles Lindbergh. Roth depicts Wheeler imposing martial law in Lindbergh's absence, whereas the real Wheeler had been a leading opponent of the martial law imposed in Montana during World War I. Author Bill Kauffman describes Wheeler as being, in fact an "anti-draft, antiwar, anti-big business defender of civil liberties". The Plot Against America: Senator Wheeler and the Forces Behind Him is also the name of a pamphlet by David George Kin published against Wheeler during the 1946 campaign by supporters of the Communist Party USA, which accused both Wheeler and Harry S. Truman of a fascist conspiracy.
- Burton Kendall Wheeler war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Demokratischen Partei und von 1923 bis 1947 US-Senator aus dem Staat Montana. Wheeler wuchs in Massachusetts auf, besuchte dort die öffentlichen Schulen und arbeitete als Stenograph in Boston. Er machte 1905 seinen Abschluss in Rechtswissenschaften an der University of Michigan. Ursprünglich wollte er nach seinem Abschluss nach Seattle, Washington gehen. Aber als er in Butte, Montana den Zug verließ und sein gesamtes Geld beim Poker verlor, ließ er sich kurzerhand dort nieder und praktizierte als Anwalt. Später arbeitete er als Staatsanwalt und wurde 1920 als Kandidat der Demokraten für das Amt des Gouverneurs von Montana ausgewählt. Er verlor die Wahl gegen den Republikaner Joseph M. Dixon. Im Jahr 1922 gewann er die Wahl für einen Sitz im US-Senat. Diese Funktion übte er über vier Wahlperioden hinweg aus. Er trat aus der Demokratischen Partei aus, um für das Amt des Vizepräsidenten zu kandidieren. Dafür arbeitete er mit der Progressive Party und deren Präsidentschaftskandidat Robert La Follette zusammen. Nach der für die Progressive Party wenig erfolgreichen Wahl kehrte er zu den Demokraten zurück. Wheeler unterstützte die Wahl von Präsident Franklin D. Roosevelt, da er mit vielen Punkten aus dessen New Deal übereinstimmte. Nach dem Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs sprach er sich gegen jegliche Hilfeleistungen für Großbritannien oder andere Länder, die in den Krieg involviert waren, aus. Er wurde ein Mitbegründer des isolationistischen America First Committee. Wheeler war jedoch nicht gegen den Eintritt der Vereinigten Staaten in den Krieg, nachdem die Japaner Pearl Harbor angegriffen hatten. Nachdem er 1946 daran scheiterte, seine politische Laufbahn fortzusetzen, zog er sich aus der Politik zurück und konzentrierte sich gänzlich auf seinen Beruf als Rechtsanwalt.
- Burton Kendall Wheeler (né le 27 février 1882, mort le 6 janvier 1975) était un homme politique américain, membre du parti démocrate, qui fut notamment Sénateur du Montana de 1923 à 1947. En 1924, Wheeler fut candidat à la vice-présidence des États-Unis sur le ticket du Parti progressiste. Wheeler était au départ un fervent partisan de Franklin Delano Roosevelt et de son New Deal, cependant, ils tombèrent en désaccord sur la réforme de la Cour suprême en 1937, puis sur l'entrée des États-Unis dans le conflit au début des années 1940. Il fut ainsi l'un des avocats du comité America First.
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- Burton Kendall Wheeler was a Montana politician of the Democratic Party and a United States Senator from 1923 until 1947. Wheeler was born in Hudson, Massachusetts. He grew up in Massachusetts, attending the public schools and working as a stenographer in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1905.
- Burton Kendall Wheeler war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Demokratischen Partei und von 1923 bis 1947 US-Senator aus dem Staat Montana. Wheeler wuchs in Massachusetts auf, besuchte dort die öffentlichen Schulen und arbeitete als Stenograph in Boston. Er machte 1905 seinen Abschluss in Rechtswissenschaften an der University of Michigan. Ursprünglich wollte er nach seinem Abschluss nach Seattle, Washington gehen.
- Burton Kendall Wheeler (né le 27 février 1882, mort le 6 janvier 1975) était un homme politique américain, membre du parti démocrate, qui fut notamment Sénateur du Montana de 1923 à 1947. En 1924, Wheeler fut candidat à la vice-présidence des États-Unis sur le ticket du Parti progressiste.
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