Lieutenant Governor of Montana
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Lieutenant Governor of Montana is an official in the state of Montana
Montana
Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

 that ranks just below the Governor of Montana. The current lieutenant governor is John Bohlinger
John Bohlinger
John Bohlinger, Jr. is the current Lieutenant Governor of Montana. Bohlinger for lieutenant governor ran as a Republican on a bipartisan ticket headed by Democrat Brian Schweitzer...

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List of Lieutenant Governors

  • John E. Rickards
    John E. Rickards
    John Ezra Rickards was a Montana legislator and politician.Rickards was a businessman in Butte, Montana. He was a member of the territorial legislature from 1888-89, and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1889...

    , Republican, (1889-1893)
  • Alexander Campbell Botkin
    Alexander Campbell Botkin
    Alexander Campbell Botkin was a United States politician from Montana.Botkin was born on October 13, 1842 in Dane County, Wisconsin....

    , Republican, (1893-1897)
  • A.E. Spriggs (1897-1901)
  • Frank G. Higgins
    Frank G. Higgins
    Francis Grant "Frank" Higgins was an American football player, lawyer and politician. He played college football at the University of Michigan. He was the first native-born person from Montana to become a member of the state's bar and of the state's legislature...

     (1901-1905)
  • Edwin L. Norris
    Edwin L. Norris
    Edwin Lee Norris was a Montana politician who served as the fifth Governor of Montana.Norris moved from Kentucky to Montana in 1889. He practiced law in Dillon, Montana and was city attorney there for five years. Norris was elected to the Montana State Senate in 1896 and served until 1900. From...

    , Democrat, (1905-1908)
  • Benjamin F. White
    Benjamin F. White (Montana politician)
    Benjamin Franklin White was an American lawyer, banker, and politician. He lived in California and Idaho Territory before moving to Montana Territory and founding the city of Dillon...

    , Republican, (1908-1909) (acting)
  • William R. Allen (1909-1913)
  • W.W. McDowell
    W.W. McDowell
    William Wallace McDowell was the "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary" of the United States to the Irish Free State. He was appointed on 15 January 1934 and presented his credentials in Dublin on 27 March 1934. He has previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Montana...

     (1913-1921)
  • Nelson Story, Jr. (1921-1925)
  • W.S. McCormack (1925-1929)
  • Frank A. Hazelbacker (1929-1933)
  • Frank Henry Cooney
    Frank Henry Cooney
    Frank Henry Cooney was the ninth Governor of Montana from 1933-35.Cooney, a businessman, was public administrator for Silver Bow County, Montana from 1898-1900. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1932...

    , Democrat, (1933)
  • Tom Kane
    Tom Kane
    Tom Kane is a prominent American voice actor with over 25 years of experience. He is most widely known for his animation work...

     (1933) (acting)
  • Ernest T. Eaton (1934) (acting)
  • Elmer Holt
    Elmer Holt
    William Elmer Holt was the tenth Governor of Montana from 1935 to 1937.Holt graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1902. He served in the Montana House of Representatives and the Montana Senate, where he was chosen president pro tempore in 1935...

     (1935) (acting)
  • William P. Pilgeram (1935-1937) (acting)
  • Hugh R. Adair (1937-1941)
  • Ernest T. Eaton (1941-1949)
  • Paul Cannon, Democrat, (1949-1953)
  • George M. Gosman, Republican, (1953-1957)
  • Paul Cannon, Democrat, (1957-1961)
  • Tim M. Babcock
    Tim M. Babcock
    Tim Milford Babcock was the 16th Governor of the U.S. state of Montana. He was born in Littlefork, Minnesota.Babcock served in the Montana legislature prior to being elected lieutenant governor in 1960. He became governor in 1962 upon the death of Governor Donald Nutter. Babcock served until 1969,...

    , Republican, (1961-1962)
  • David F. James (1962-1965 (acting)
  • Ted James
    Ted James
    Albert Edward James is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Sussex. He was a right-hand batsman and right arm medium pace bowler who in 12 years of county cricket took 843 wickets.James began his cricket career with Buckinghamshire, playing four matches in the 1947 Minor...

    , Republican, (1965-1969)
  • Thomas Lee Judge
    Thomas Lee Judge
    Thomas Lee Judge was an American politician.Judge was born in Helena, Montana. He served in the Montana House of Representatives from 1961 to 1967 and in the Montana Senate from 1967 to 1969, and as Lieutenant Governor of Montana from 1969 to 1973. Judge was the 18th Governor of Montana from 1973...

    , Democrat, (1969-1973)
  • Ted Schwinden
    Ted Schwinden
    Theodore "Ted" Schwinden served as the 19th Governor of Montana from 1981 until 1989.Schwinden was Lieutenant Governor under Thomas Judge and defeated his predecessor in the Democratic primary in 1980...

    , Democrat, (1973-1981)
  • George Turman
    George Turman
    George Fugett Turman was a former Lieutenant Governor of Montana. Originally a Republican state legislator before becoming a Democrat, he was elected to the position in 1981 on a ticket with fellow Democrat Ted Schwinden. They were re-elected in 1985. Turman relinquished the position in 1988...

    , Democrat, (1981–1989)
  • Allen Kolstad
    Allen Kolstad
    Allen C. Kolstad was an American farmer and politician from Montana. A Republican from Chester in Liberty County, Montana, he was prominent in state politics for more than 40 years, beginning in 1968 with his election to the state House of Representatives...

    , Republican, (1989–1991)
  • Denny Rehberg
    Denny Rehberg
    Dennis R. "Denny" Rehberg is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life, education and career:...

    , Republican, (1991-1997)
  • Judy Martz
    Judy Martz
    Judy Martz was the 22nd Governor of Montana, having served a single term from January 2, 2001, to January 3, 2005. Earlier, she was the Lieutenant Governor under Marc Racicot from 1997-2001...

    , Republican, (1997-2001)
  • Karl Ohs
    Karl Ohs
    Karl Ohs was the Lieutenant Governor of the state of Montana under Judy Martz.-Background:Karl Ohs was born in Malta, Montana and was a Montana rancher and farmer before entering politics...

    , Republican, (2001-2005)
  • John Bohlinger
    John Bohlinger
    John Bohlinger, Jr. is the current Lieutenant Governor of Montana. Bohlinger for lieutenant governor ran as a Republican on a bipartisan ticket headed by Democrat Brian Schweitzer...

    , Republican, (2005-Present)
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