[2] Born in Emory, Texas, Montgomery moved to New Mexico after World War I.
He received a law degree from Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1927, and gained admission to the bar in New Mexico in 1931.
[2] Montgomery was elected to represent Santa Fe County in the New Mexico Senate from 1937 to 1941, and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1942, losing to James B.
His son, Seth D. Montgomery, became a justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.
[5] Montgomery retired to Albuquerque in 1983, and died there four years later, from kidney disease.