Born in what is now Nelson County, Virginia, Montgomery received a thorough English training.
He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Stanford, Kentucky.
Montgomery was again elected to the Sixteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Tunstall Quarles.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures (Seventeenth Congress).
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress