(1882-1975), lawyer and politician. Wheeler won the nomination for vice president to run with
Robert La Follette in 1924 on the
Progressive party ticket, but lost to Calvin Coolidge. Wheeler served in the U.S. Senate as a Republican from Montana from 1923 to 1947. He cosponsored the Wheeler-Howard Act (1934), which was aimed at improving the plight of the American Indians, the Wheeler-Lea Transportation Act (1940), and the Wheeler-Rayburn Act (1935) to eliminate abuses in public utilities. He helped expose the political corruption during Warren G. Harding's administration and became an extreme isolationist in the years before World War II.
