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Why Erickson resigned and had his successor appoint him to the Senate

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On the face of it, it appears that Erickson tried to pull a fast one to get into the senate, which backfired on him. However, the account of the matter in Burton Wheeler's autobiography ("Yankee From the West" - 1962, pp 300-301) paints a rather different picture. In Wheeler's telling, Erickson did so reluctantly as a device to avoid appointing Montana's Democratic National Committeeman and committee vice-chairman J. Bruce Kremer, the obvious choice and a close confidant of FDR, to the seat, at the behest of Wheeler and Thomas Walsh's daughter. Wheeler insisted that before Walsh's untimely death, he had agonized over Kremer's likely appointment to his seat were he (Walsh) to accept the Attorney General post in FDR's cabinet (Which Walsh had done. He died, however, before FDR's inauguration and FDR appointed Kremer's close friend, Homer Cummings, as his AG.). On page 301, Wheeler states categorically that it was he who persuaded Erickson to resign and go into the senate, this after bullying the Anaconda Company and Montana Power into dropping their insistence on Kremer's appointment. Such was Wheeler's account of the matter. Jwilsonjwilson (talk) 01:02, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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