Description:Kapitel: Lee Metcalf, Thomas Henry Carter, John Edward Erickson, Liste Der Senatoren Der Vereinigten Staaten Aus Montana, Joseph Dixon, Burton K. Wheeler, Thomas J. Walsh, Max Baucus, Henry L. Myers, Lee Mantle, Paris Gibson, James Edward Murray, Zales Ecton, John Melcher, Jon Tester, Conrad Burns. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882 - January 6, 1975) was a Montana politician of the Democratic Party and a United States Senator from 1923 until 1947. Wheeler was born in Hudson, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Elizabeth Rice (n e Tyler) and Asa Leonard Wheeler. 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-preside...http: //booksllc.net/?l=dWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Senator Der Vereinigten Staaten Aus Montana: Lee Metcalf, Thomas Henry Carter, John Edward Erickson. To get started finding Senator Der Vereinigten Staaten Aus Montana: Lee Metcalf, Thomas Henry Carter, John Edward Erickson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2010
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Senator Der Vereinigten Staaten Aus Montana: Lee Metcalf, Thomas Henry Carter, John Edward Erickson
Description: Kapitel: Lee Metcalf, Thomas Henry Carter, John Edward Erickson, Liste Der Senatoren Der Vereinigten Staaten Aus Montana, Joseph Dixon, Burton K. Wheeler, Thomas J. Walsh, Max Baucus, Henry L. Myers, Lee Mantle, Paris Gibson, James Edward Murray, Zales Ecton, John Melcher, Jon Tester, Conrad Burns. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882 - January 6, 1975) was a Montana politician of the Democratic Party and a United States Senator from 1923 until 1947. Wheeler was born in Hudson, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Elizabeth Rice (n e Tyler) and Asa Leonard Wheeler. 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-preside...http: //booksllc.net/?l=dWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Senator Der Vereinigten Staaten Aus Montana: Lee Metcalf, Thomas Henry Carter, John Edward Erickson. To get started finding Senator Der Vereinigten Staaten Aus Montana: Lee Metcalf, Thomas Henry Carter, John Edward Erickson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.