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Montana governors tally spans French Spanish and American rule
A historical roll by J A Sanders traces 223 years of Montana leadership from the French era through Spanish governors and U S territorial and state officials. It names Sauvolle and Bienville among early rulers and notes the shifting capitals and jurisdictions across Louisiana, Idaho, Oregon and Dakota territories, ending with the 1864 organization of Montana Territory and its first leaders Sidney Edgerton and Meagher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Upper
Missouri
Gover
Rocky Mountains
Champoeg
Ore
Washington
Olympia
Idaho Territory
Lewiston
Idaho
Bannack
Virginia City
Deer Lodge
Last Chance
Fort Benton
Fort Union
Dakota Line
Fort Laramie
Wyoming
Virginia
William B. Daniels
Hosmer
Sanders
Louisiana
Louis XIV
Charles III
United States
Missoula
Nebraska
Oregon
Sanvelle
Sauvoi
France
Biloxi
Bienville
New Orleans
Spain
Louis XV
Savavelle
Bienvill
de Muys
la Motte Cadillac
de L’epiney
Boisbriant
Pierler
Marquis de Vaudrueil
Kerlerec
D’abbadie
Aubrey
Antonio de Ulloa
Havana
de Ulloa
Alexander O'Reilly
Cruel O'Reilly
Louis de Unzaga
Don Bernardo de Galvez
Hilavan Miro
Francois Louis Hector, Baron de Carondelet
Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos
Jose Maria Vidal
Casa Calvo
Juan Manuel de Salcedo
San Ildefonso
Laussat
Mississippi
Nile
America
New World
Pembina
Chicago
Secretary of the Treasury
John X. Bercher
Louisiana Territory
Paris
William C. C. Claiborne
Montana Territory
Indian Country
Missouri Territory
Nebraska Territory
Dakota Territory
Oregon Country
Oregon Territory
Washington Territory
Rockies
Amos Stoddard
Upper Louisiana
William Henry Harrison
Indiana Territory
District of Louisiana
Vincennes
Ind
Congress
Harrison
James Wilkinson
Joseph Brown
Frederick Bates
Meriwether Lewis
Benjamin Howard
William Clark
Willam Clark
St. Louis
Joshua Pilcher
Charles Kemble
D. D. Mitchell
William Jayne
Dakota
Yankton
John H. Shober
Helena
North
South Dakota
William H. Wallace
Williamb. Daniels
Provisional
Canada
John McLoughlin
Hudson Bay Company
David Hill
Alanson Beers
Joseph Gale
Clackamas
W. J. Bailey
Osborne Russel
P. G. Stewart
Joseph Lane
Knitzing Pritchett
John P. Gaines
Territory of
Isaac I. Stevens
C. H. Mason
Fayette McMullen
Cc. H. Mason
Richard D. Gholson
Henry M. McGill
Territorial
L. J. Turner
William Pickering
William Wallace
Territory
Sidney Edgerton
Thomas Francis Meagher
Green Clay Smith
James Tufts
James M. Ashley
Benjamin F. Potts
James EB. Callaway
James H. Mills
John Schuyler Crosby
Isaac D. McCutcheon
John S. Tooker
B. Platt Carpenter
Samuel T. Hauser
William B. Webb
Preston H. Leslie
Benjamin F. White
Wallace Street
Henry P. Torsey
John Coburn
T. F. Meagher
Catanovia
N. Y
Cincinnati Law School
Akron
Ohio
Western Reserve
Meagher
Holgerton
D. C
Stone
Edgerton
Kentucky