Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana
Subtitle: law and public affairs, from TR to FDR
By: J. Leonard Bates ; foreword by Richard Lowitt.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Walsh, Thomas James, 1859-1933.; United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.; Legislators -- United States -- Biography.; Montana -- Politics and government.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933.
Description: "This is the first comprehensive biography of Thomas J. Walsh, Democratic senator from Montana from 1913 to 1933, best known for his role in uncovering the Teapot Dome scandal. J. Leonard Bates places Walsh in his colorful and tumultuous times, illuminating Montana history and politics as well as broad national movements including Progressivism, internationalism, Prohibition, war, and so-called normalcy."--BOOK JACKET.

"In his most celebrated coup, breaking open the Teapot Dome scandal of 1923-24, Walsh revealed that the secretary of the interior had accepted "loans" from oil men in return for leases of U.S. naval oil reserves. Working through the Public Lands Committee of the Senate, Walsh enjoyed support for his investigation from members of both parties, and his interpretation of the scandal was endorsed by the Supreme Court in 1927.

Shortly before his death, he presided over the Democratic National Convention that nominated Franklin Roosevelt and served for a brief time as a key figure in the new leader's circle."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-393) and index.
Table of contents: title: An Irish-American family; title: The young intellectual; title: the Dakota frontier; title: Helena lawyer and Democrat; title: Politics, law, and the copper kings; title: Lawyer, Progressive, and public man; title: The emergence of a leader; title: To the Senate at last; title: The tariff fight of 1913; title: The "new freedom" in Montana: hopes and illusions; title: The "new freedom": a lawyer-senator at work; title: The "new freedom" and Western land policy; title: America and the "war-mad nations of Europe"; title: Winning the West with Wilson, 1915-16; title: From peace to war; title: Reelection in 1918; title: The League of Nations fight; title: 1920 politics and issues of the Red Scare; title: Walsh and Wheeler, 1922; title: Public lands, Native Americans, and campaigns for (honest) leasing; title: The investigator; title: New prospects for the Democrats; title: Winning a third term in 1924; title: Abiding the Coolidge administration; title: Oh! for a Jefferson; title: Prohibition and politics; title: The Continental Trading Company Limited and Senate; title: Revelations of 1928; title: The campaign of 1928; title: Gratifying victory in 1930; title: The rule