Sam C. Ford Republican Sam C. Ford Republican The 1944 Montana gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1944.

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 election is the first time that an incumbent Republican Governor of Montana was re-elected or won re-election.

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