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unusual facts about governor of Montana



Draft Goldwater Committee

F. Clifton White, a longtime party activist and official from Upstate New York, discussed the possibility of a Goldwater campaign with twenty-two activists, most of them members of Young Republican organizations throughout the U.S. A December meeting (this one attended by Governor Tim Babcock of Montana) determined to divide the country into nine regions for organizing, and to raise sufficient funds to open a national office.


see also

Colonel Crosby

John Schuyler Crosby (1839-1914), Governor of Montana from 1882 to 1884 and was a Colonel of United States Civil War

Eric Stern

Eric A. Stern, Senior Counselor to the Governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer

Griffith Barracks

Prominent Irish Nationalist leaders such as William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher (later Acting Governor of Montana), James Stephens (founder of the IRB) and "Honest" Tom Steele, were among its famous historical prisoners.

Robert B. Smith

Robert Burns Smith (1854–1908), American politician, Governor of Montana

Voter caging

On October 5, 2008 the Republican (but elected on the Democratic ticket) Lt. Governor of Montana, John Bohlinger, accused the Montana Republican Party of vote caging to purge 6,000 voters from three counties which trend Democratic.