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{{Infobox Former subdivision

|conventional_long_name = Territory of Montana

|flag_p2 =

|s1 = Montana

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|flag_s2 =

|symbol_type =

|image_map = MontanaTerritory1879.jpg

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|government_type = Organized incorporated territory

|title_leader = [[List of Governors of Montana|Governor]]

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==Original boundaries==

{{Main|Territorial evolution of Montana}}

The Montana Territory was organized out of the existing [[Idaho Territory]] by Act of [[United States Congress|Congress]] and signed into law by [[Abraham Lincoln|President Abraham Lincoln]] on May 26, 1864. The areas east of the [[Continental Divide]] had been previously part of the [[Nebraska Territory]] and [[Dakota Territory]] and had been acquired by the United States in the [[Louisiana Purchase]].

 

<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>

 

 

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; Parties

{| class="sortable wikitable plainrowheaders"

|+ Governors of Montana Territory<ref>Owings 1956, p. 62.</ref>

| 1

! scope="row"| {{sortname|Sidney|Edgerton}}

| {{dts|1864|06|22}}

| {{dts|1866|07|12}}

| {{sortname|Abraham|Lincoln}}

|- valign="top"

| 2

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Green Clay|Smith}}

| {{dts|1866|07|13}}

| {{dts|1869|04|09}}

| 3

!scope="row"| {{sortname|James Mitchell|Ashley}}

| | {{dts|1869|04|09}}

| | {{dts|1870|07|12}}

| 4

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Benjamin F.|Potts}}

| {{dts|1870|07|13}}

| {{dts|1883|01|14}}

| 5

!scope="row"| {{sortname|John Schuyler|Crosby}}

| {{dts|1883|01|15}}

| {{dts|1884|12|15}}

| 6

!scope="row"| {{sortname|B. Platt|Carpenter}}

| {{dts|1884|12|16}}

| {{dts|1885|07|13}}

| 7

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Samuel Thomas|Hauser}}

| {{dts|1885|07|14}}

| {{dts|1887|02|07}}

| 8

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Preston Hopkins|Leslie}}

| {{dts|1887|02|08}}

| {{dts|1889|04|08}}

| 9

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Benjamin F.|White|Benjamin F. White (Montana politician)}}

| {{dts|1889|04|09}}

| {{dts|1889|11|08}}

 

; Parties

{| class="sortable wikitable plainrowheaders"

|+ Secretaries of Montana Territory<ref>Owings 1956, p. 62-63.</ref><ref>Spence 1975, p. 234.</ref>

| 1

! scope="row"| {{sortname|Henry P.|Torsey}}

| {{dts|1864|06|22}}

| {{sortname|Abraham|Lincoln}}

|- valign="top"

| 2

| {{dts|1865|03|03}}

| {{sortname|Abraham|Lincoln}}

| 3

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Thomas Francis|Meagher}}

| | {{dts|1865|08|04}}

| {{sortname|Andrew|Johnson}}

| 4

!scope="row"| {{sortname|James|Tufts}}

| {{dts|1867|03|28}}

| {{sortname|Andrew|Johnson}}

| 5

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Wiley S.|Scribner|Wiley Scribner}}

| {{dts|1869|04|20}}

| {{sortname|Ulysses S.|Grant}}

| 6

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Addison Hiatt|Sanders}}

| {{dts|1870|07|19}}

| {{sortname|Ulysses S.|Grant}}

| 7

!scope="row"| {{sortname|James E.|Callaway}}

| {{dts|1871|01|27}}

| {{sortname|Ulysses S.|Grant}}

| 8

!scope="row"| {{sortname|James Hamilton|Mills}}

| {{dts|1877|05|10}}

| {{sortname|Rutherford B.|Hayes}}

| 9

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Isaac D.|McCutcheon}}

| {{dts|1882|05|28}}

| {{sortname|Chester A.|Arthur}}

| 10

!scope="row"| {{sortname|John S.|Tooker}}

| {{dts|1883}}

| {{sortname|Chester A.|Arthur}}

| 11

!scope="row"| {{sortname|William B.|Webb}}

| {{dts|1885|10|23}}

| {{sortname|Grover|Cleveland}}

| 12

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Louis A.|Walker}}

| {{dts|1889|04|15}}

| {{sortname|Benjamin|Harrison}}

 

; Parties

{| class="sortable wikitable plainrowheaders"

|+ Delegates to Congress from Montana Territory<ref>Owings 1956, p. 63.</ref>

| 1

! scope="row"| {{sortname|Samuel|McLean|Samuel McLean (congressman)}}

| {{dts|1865|01|06}}

| {{dts|1867|03|03}}

| 2

!scope="row"| {{sortname|James M.|Cavanaugh}}

| {{dts|1867|03|04}}

| {{dts|1871|03|03}}

| 3

!scope="row"| {{sortname|William H.|Clagett}}

| | {{dts|1871|03|04}}

| | {{dts|1873|03|03}}

| 4

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Martin|Maginnis}}

| {{dts|1873|03|04}}

| {{dts|1885|03|03}}

| 5

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Joseph|Toole}}

| {{dts|1885|03|04}}

| {{dts|1889|03|03}}

| 6

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Thomas H.|Carter}}

| {{dts|1889|03|04}}

| {{dts|1889|11|08}}

| [[51st United States Congress|51st]]

|}

 

==See also==

**[[Montana in the American Civil War]]

 

==Notes==

 

==References==

* {{cite book|last1=Leeson|first1=M. A.|title=History of Montana, 1739-1885|date=1885|publisher=Warner, Beers & 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 book|last1=Renne|first1=Roland R.|title=The Government and Administration of Montana|date=1958|publisher=Thomas Y. Crowell Company|location=New York}}

 

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