1944 Montana gubernatorial election
Sam C. Ford Republican Sam C. Ford Republican The 1944 Montana gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1944.Incumbent Governor of Montana Sam C. Ford, who was first elected Governor in 1940, ran for re-election.He won the Republican primary and moved on to the general election, where he was opposed by Leif Erickson, a former Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court and the Democratic nominee.Although then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt comfortably won the state in that year's presidential election, Ford defeated Erickson by a wide margin to win his second and final term as governor.This Montana elections-related article is a stub.