A list of the governors of the state of Montana.[1]
Governors of Montana Territory
| Name |
Years
|
| Sidney Edgerton
|
1864-1865
|
| Thomas Meagher
|
1865-1866
|
| Green Clay Smith
|
1866-1869
|
| James Monroe Ashley
|
1869-1870
|
| Benjamin F. Potts
|
1870-1873
|
| John Schuyler Crosby
|
1883-1884
|
| B. Platt Carpenter
|
1884-1885
|
| Samuel Thomas Hauser
|
1885-1887
|
| Preston Hopkins Leslie
|
1887-1889
|
| Benjamin F. White
|
1889
|
State Governors of Montana
| Name |
Party |
Years
|
| Joseph K. Toole
|
Democrat
|
1889–1893, 1901-1908
|
| John E. Rickards
|
Republican
|
1893-1897
|
| Robert B. Smith
|
Popularist Democrat
|
1897-1901
|
| Edwin L. Norris
|
Democrat
|
1908-1913
|
| Samuel V. Steward
|
Democrat
|
1913-1921
|
| Joseph M. Dixon
|
Democrat
|
1921-1925
|
| John E. Erickson
|
Democrat
|
1925-1933
|
| Frank H. Cooney
|
Democrat
|
1933-1935
|
| William Elmer Holt
|
Democrat
|
1935-1937
|
| Roy E. Ayers
|
Democrat
|
1937-1941
|
| Samuel C. Ford
|
Republican
|
1941-1949
|
| John W. Bonner
|
Democrat
|
1949-1953
|
| John Hugo Aronson
|
Republican
|
1953-1961
|
| Donald Nutter
|
Republican
|
1961-1962
|
| Tim Babcock
|
Republican
|
1962-1969
|
| Forrest Howard Anderson
|
Democrat
|
1969-1973
|
| Thomas L. Judge
|
Democrat
|
1973-1981
|
| Ted Schwinden
|
Democrat
|
1981-1989
|
| Stan Stephens
|
Republican
|
1989-1993
|
| Marc Racicot
|
Republican
|
1993-2001
|
| Judy Martz
|
Republican
|
2001-2005
|
| Brian Schweitzer
|
Democrat
|
2005–2013
|
| Steve Bullock
|
Democrat
|
2013-2021
|
| Greg Gianforte
|
Republican
|
2021-present
|
Notes
- ↑ http://www.montanahistory.net/governors/
