Thomas Lee Judge

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Thomas Lee Judge (October 12, 1934 - September 8, 2006) was an American politician.

Judge was born in Helena, Montana. Judge served in the Montana House of Representatives from 1961 to 1967, the state senate from 1967 to 1969, and as Lieutenant Governor of Montana from 1969 to 1973. Judge was elected Governor of Montana in 1972 and reelected in 1976, serving from 1973 to 1981. He was defeated for reelection in the 1980 Democratic Party primary by Lieutenant Governor Ted Schwinden.

He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Judge was the Democratic party nominee in the 1988 Montana gubernatorial race but lost in the general election to Republican Stan Stephens.

Judge died in Chandler, Arizona, at the age of seventy-one.

Preceded by Forrest H. Anderson

Governor of Montana 1973 – 1981

Succeeded by Ted Schwinden

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