He was elected as a Democrat, but he switched affiliation to the Republican Party on October 3, 2006.
On August 6, 2016, Montgomery and four others were inducted into the Ark-La-Tex Sports Museum of Champions at the Shreveport Convention Center.
Inducted with Montgomery are Ray Germany, a Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball All-American in 1959 and 1960 who resides in Haughton; Mickey Slaughter, a former Denver Broncos quarterback and Louisiana Tech football coach; hot air balloonist Bill Bussey, a dentist from Longview, Texas, and the professional golf caddie Freddie C. Burns Sr., an African-American from Shreveport, who for thirty-eight years was associated with Hal Sutton.
[1][2] Montgomery graduated from Provencal High School in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
He received a bachelors in 1959 and masters degree from Northwestern State College.