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{{Short description|Organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1864 to 1889}}
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The '''Territory of Montana''' was an [[organized incorporated territory of the United States]] that existed from May 26, 1864,<ref>{{USStat|13|85}}</ref> until November 8, 1889, when it was admitted as the 41st state in the [[United States|Union]] as the state of [[Montana]].
 
==Original boundaries==
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<blockquote>The forty-fourth degree and thirty minutes of north latitude; thence due west along said forty-fourth degree and thirty minutes of north latitude to a point formed by its intersection with the crest of the Rocky Mountains; thence following the crest of the Rocky Mountains northward till its intersection with the Bitter Root Mountains; thence northward along the crest of the Bitter Root Mountains to its intersection with the thirty-ninth degree of longitude west from Washington; thence along said thirty-ninth degree of longitude northward to the boundary line of British possessions.</blockquote>
 
TheUpon boundariesthe establishment of the territory[[Wyoming didTerritory]] notin change1868, duringan itsenclave existenceof Dakota Territory known as [[Lost Dakota]] was accidentally created. ItThis error was overlooked by the federal government until 1873, when it was annexed and thereby incorporated into [[Gallatin County, Montana|Gallatin County]], Montana.<ref>{{USStat|17|464}}</ref> The Montana Territory was admitted to the Union as the [[Montana|State of Montana]] on November 8, 1889.
 
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; Parties
<span style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}; padding:3px; border=1px solid #000;">Dem</span> [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
<span style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}; padding:3px; border=1px solid #000;">Rep</span> [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
{| class="sortable wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Governors of Montana Territory<ref>Owings 1956, p. 62.</ref>
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! scope="row"| {{sortname|Sidney|Edgerton}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1864|06|22}}
| {{dts|1866|07|12}}
| {{sortname|Abraham|Lincoln}}
| Did not find out he had been appointed right away; left the stateMontana in September 1865 and did not return for 25 years
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Green Clay|Smith}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Dem
| {{dts|1866|07|13}}
| {{dts|1869|04|09}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|James Mitchell|Ashley}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| | {{dts|1869|04|09}}
| | {{dts|1870|07|12}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Benjamin F.|Potts}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1870|07|13}}
| {{dts|1883|01|14}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|John Schuyler|Crosby}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1883|01|15}}
| {{dts|1884|12|15}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|B. Platt|Carpenter}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1884|12|16}}
| {{dts|1885|07|13}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Samuel Thomas|Hauser}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Dem
| {{dts|1885|07|14}}
| {{dts|1887|02|07}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Preston Hopkins|Leslie}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Dem
| {{dts|1887|02|08}}
| {{dts|1889|04|08}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Benjamin F.|White|Benjamin F. White (Montana politician)}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1889|04|09}}
| {{dts|1889|11|08}}
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; Parties
<span style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}; padding:3px; border=1px solid #000;">Dem</span> [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
<span style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}; padding:3px; border=1px solid #000;">Rep</span> [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
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|+ Secretaries of Montana Territory<ref>Owings 1956, p. 62-63.</ref><ref>Spence 1975, p. 234.</ref>
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! scope="row"| {{sortname|Henry P.|Torsey}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1864|06|22}}
| {{sortname|Abraham|Lincoln}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|John|Coburn|John Coburn (Indiana politician)}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1865|03|03}}
| {{sortname|Abraham|Lincoln}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Thomas Francis|Meagher}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Dem
| | {{dts|1865|08|04}}
| {{sortname|Andrew|Johnson}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|James|Tufts}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1867|03|28}}
| {{sortname|Andrew|Johnson}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Wiley S.|Scribner|Wiley Scribner}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1869|04|20}}
| {{sortname|Ulysses S.|Grant}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Addison Hiatt|Sanders}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1870|07|19}}
| {{sortname|Ulysses S.|Grant}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|James E.|Callaway}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1871|01|27}}
| {{sortname|Ulysses S.|Grant}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|James Hamilton|Mills}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1877|05|10}}
| {{sortname|Rutherford B.|Hayes}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Isaac D.|McCutcheon}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1882|05|28}}
| {{sortname|Chester A.|Arthur}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|John S.|Tooker}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1883}}
| {{sortname|Chester A.|Arthur}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|William B.|Webb}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Dem
| {{dts|1885|10|23}}
| {{sortname|Grover|Cleveland}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Louis A.|Walker}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1889|04|15}}
| {{sortname|Benjamin|Harrison}}
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; Parties
<span style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}; padding:3px; border=1px solid #000;">Dem</span> [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
<span style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}; padding:3px; border=1px solid #000;">Rep</span> [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
{| class="sortable wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Delegates to Congress from Montana Territory<ref>Owings 1956, p. 63.</ref>
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! scope="row"| {{sortname|Samuel|McLean|Samuel McLean (congressman)}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Dem
| {{dts|1865|01|06}}
| {{dts|1867|03|03}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|James M.|Cavanaugh}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Dem
| {{dts|1867|03|04}}
| {{dts|1871|03|03}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|William H.|Clagett}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| | {{dts|1871|03|04}}
| | {{dts|1873|03|03}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Martin|Maginnis}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Dem
| {{dts|1873|03|04}}
| {{dts|1885|03|03}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Joseph|Toole}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Dem
| {{dts|1885|03|04}}
| {{dts|1889|03|03}}
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!scope="row"| {{sortname|Thomas H.|Carter}}
| style="color:#FFF; background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)/meta/color}}" | Rep
| {{dts|1889|03|04}}
| {{dts|1889|11|08}}
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*[[History of Montana]]
**[[Bibliography of Montana history]]
**[[Outline of Montana#History of Montana|Historical outline of Montana]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Montana: a State Guide Book |author=Federal Writers' Project |series=[[American Guide Series]] |year=1939 |location=NY |publisher=Viking Press |chapter=Chronology |chapterurlchapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/montanastateguid00federich#page/417/mode/1up|author-link=Federal Writers' Project }}</ref>
**[[List of people in Montana history]]
**[[Montana in the American Civil War]]
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==References==
{{commonsCommons category|Montana Territory}}
* {{cite web | url = http://courts.mt.gov/library/organic.pdf | title = An Act to provide a temporary Government for the Territory of Montana | publisher = [[Thirty-sixth United States Congress]] | date = May 26, 1864 | accessdateaccess-date = 2007-01-20 |archiveurlarchive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070112223516/http://courts.mt.gov/library/organic.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedatearchive-date = January 12, 2007}}
* {{cite book|last1=Leeson|first1=M. A.|title=History of Montana, 1739-1885|date=1885|publisher=Warner, Beers & Co.|location=Chicago}}
* {{cite book|last1=Malone|first1=Michael P.|last2=Roeder|first2=Richard B.|last3=Lang|first3=William L.|title=Montana : a history of two centuries|date=1991|publisher=University of Washington Press|location=Seattle|isbn=0295971290|edition=Rev.}}
* {{cite book|last1=Miller|first1=Joaquin|title=An Illustrated History of the State of Montana|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00mill|date=1894|publisher=The Lewis Publishing Co.|location=Chicago}}
* {{cite book|last1=Owings|first1=Ralph E.|title=Montana Directory of Public Affairs, 1864-1955|date=1956|publisher=Edwards Bothers, Inc.|location=Ann Arbor, MI}}
* {{cite web|last1=Palmer|first1=Betsy|title=Delegates to the U.S. Congress: History and Current Status|url=https://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/155017.pdf|website=U.S. Department of State|publisher=Congressional Research Service|accessdateaccess-date=14 November 2014|date=6 January 2011}}
* {{cite book|last1=Renne|first1=Roland R.|title=The Government and Administration of Montana|date=1958|publisher=Thomas Y. Crowell Company|location=New York}}
* {{cite journal|title=Spoilsman in Montana: James M. Ashley|journal=Montana The Magazine of Western History|publisher=Montana Historical Society|volume=18|issue=2|pages=24–35|date=Spring 1968|last=Spence|first=Clark C.}}
* {{cite book|last1=Spence|first1=Clark C.|title=Territorial Politics and Government in Montana, 1864-89|url=https://archive.org/details/territorialpolit0000spen|url-access=registration|date=1975|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana, IL|isbn=9780252004605 }}
 
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