Later Life
Wheeler sought renomination in 1946 but was defeated by Leif Erickson, who attacked Wheeler as insufficiently liberal, in the Democratic primary. Erickson was then defeated by Republican state Representative Zales Ecton. Wheeler did not return to politics and returned to his law practice. He died in Washington, D.C. and is interred there at Rock Creek Cemetery.
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