Burton K. Wheeler

Years in Senate:: 1923-47
Party: Democrat
State: Montana

The lawyer-turned-politician was indicted only a year after first taking office for accepting a fee to represent a client before the Department of the Interior (a conflict of interest with his legislative duties). Both the Senate and the courts later acquitted him.

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