Former Montana Gov. Ted Schwinden, a wheat farmer and Word War II veteran who gained national attention for keeping his home phone number listed during his two terms in office, has died
Ted Schwinden, a wheat farmer and Word War II veteran who gained national attention for keeping his home phone number listed during two terms as Montana's governor, has died. He was 98. Schwinden died Saturday in Phoenix at his daughter's home, son Dore Schwinden said Monday. The cause of death was “old age,' his son said: “He went to sleep in the afternoon and didn’t wake up.” Ted Schwinden was a Democrat who served as Montana’s 19th governor from 1981 and 1989.
Schwinden went to the University of Montana on the G.I Bill and received bachelor's and master's degrees. In the early 1950s the couple returned to the Wolf Point area to help on their family farms after Schwinden's father fell ill. He served on the local school board then in the state legislature, including as House minority whip in 1961, before becoming president of the Montana Grain Growers Association.
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Ted Schwinden, who served two terms as Montana governor, dies at age 98Former Montana Gov. Ted Schwinden, a wheat farmer and Word War II veteran who gained national attention for keeping his home phone number listed during his two terms in office, has died. The Democrat was 98. Schwinden died Saturday in Phoenix at his daughter’s home. His son Dore Schwinden said the cause of death was old age. Ted Schwinden was born on a farm in Wolf Point and served as a local school board member and state legislator before being elected Montana’s 19th governor. He served from 19
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