After his congressional district was eliminated, he failed to receive nomination to the at-large Minnesota delegation in 1932.
He was rated the third most liberal member of the Minnesota delegation in the 109th Congress, scoring 13% conservative by a conservative group and 86% progressive by a liberal group.
He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and is the dean of the Minnesota congressional delegation.
In 1952, at the Republican convention, he played a key role in Dwight D. Eisenhower's nomination by delivering the Minnesota delegation.
Wheaton's attendance as a part of the Minnesota delegation at the 1900 Republican National Convention would be his last major work for the state of Minnesota.
Kennedy hoped that Freeman, Minnesota's Governor, could help insure that the influential Minnesota delegation voted for Kennedy on the first ballot.
All eight seats of the Minnesota delegation in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2012.
The Minnesota delegation consists of seven members, including the Governor himself.
She is a former member of the Minnesota delegation to the Great Lakes Commission and, more recently, served on the Minnesota Statehood Sesquicentennial Commission from 2006-2008.
One woman in the Minnesota delegation, who is wearing a white muumuu and a large straw hat, has something besides politics on her mind.