John Driscoll (Montana politician)

John Brian Driscoll (born July 17, 1946) is an American writer and politician who served in the Montana House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979.

[1] Driscoll served in the Army National Guard for 28 years, including strategic intelligence missions in the West Indies and Africa.

[2][3][4] In 1978, at the age of 32, he ran for the United States Senate, but finished a distant third in the Democratic primary to Max Baucus and Paul G. Hatfield.

Eventually returning to Montana, Driscoll operated a small book-selling business out of his home in Helena.

In the 2014 election, he ran to succeed Steve Daines in Montana's at-large congressional district but lost the Democratic nomination to John Lewis.

Driscoll with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff September 2001