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Jim Courtney attended Boys Central High School, Carroll College and Montana State University. [4] Courtney was a history and journalism teacher at Butte High School. [5] Courtney served in the Montana House of Representatives [3] from 1977 to 1979. Jim Courtney died on September 23, 2023, at the age of 87. [6]
Martz was born July 28, 1943, in Big Timber, Montana, as Judith Helen Morstein. [2] [3] Her father was a miner and rancher, and her mother was, at various times, a cook, liquor-store clerk and motel maid. [4] Morstein graduated from Butte High School in 1961 and attended Eastern Montana College. [5]
Mike McGrath, Montana Attorney General (B) Mary MacLane, feminist author and "Wild Woman of Butte" [19] Mike Mansfield, U.S. senator from Montana, longest-serving Senate Majority Leader and former US Ambassador to Japan [20] Lee Mantle, United States Senator from Montana [21] Judy Martz, Olympic speed skater and Governor of Montana
Butte has one local daily, a weekly paper, as well as several papers from around the state. The Montana Standard is Butte's daily paper. It was founded in 1928 and is the result of The Butte Miner and the Anaconda Standard merging into one daily paper. [170] The Standard is owned by Lee Enterprises. The Butte Weekly is another local paper. [171]
Montana Resources, owned by the Washington Group, as of 2007, operates an open pit copper and molybdenum mine in Butte, and also recovers copper from the water in the Berkeley Pit. In 1980 the Berkeley Pit, the Clark Fork River and the smelter outside the town of Anaconda, MT were declared federal Superfund sites by the US EPA.
Milt graduated from Butte High School [2] in 1934. Popovich "Popo" was a prominent athlete at Butte High competing in football, basketball and track. He played on the 1932 and 1933 state championship basketball teams at Butte High. He also was on the 1933 track team when it took the state crown.
Clark yearned to be a statesman and used his newspaper, the Butte Miner, to push his political ambitions. At this time, Butte was one of the largest cities in the West. He became a hero in Helena, Montana, by campaigning for its selection as the state capital instead of Anaconda. This battle for the placement of the capital had subtle Irish vs ...
Moved to Montana from New Hampshire after finishing college; lived and worked in Helena, Butte, and then Glendive: Pioneer of women's rights in Montana; teacher; first woman to practice law in Montana and the first woman ever to plead a case before the U.S. Circuit Court; first woman to run for state Attorney General [191] George Horse-Capture