His liberal politics, inspired by the safety nets of the New Deal, were shaped in working-class mining country.

Raised in Butte, Williams was a husband, father, teacher, member of the National Guard, Montana legislator, and served 18 ...

Montana Viewpoint has appeared in weekly and online newspapers across Montana for over 30 years. Jim Elliott served sixteen ...

Pat Williams, a New Deal-style Democrat who won Montana's great liberal-conservative showdown of 1992 to become the state's ...

It is a rare honor to lie in state at the Montana State Capitol. This week, Montana’s longest consecutive-serving U.S. House ...

Longtime Montana politician U.S. Rep. John Patrick "Pat" Williams, 87, of Missoula, died Wednesday. The former Democratic ...

Family and friends in Butte say they will miss the wit and wisdom of Pat Williams, 87, a diehard Democrat who grew up here.

Pat Williams has died. He was Montana’s longest serving Congressman, serving from 1979 to 1997. He had a sense of justice and values which he defended proudly and vigorously, often in the face of ...

Williams, a Democrat, spent 18 years representing Montana in Congress, first the western district and then the entire state.

Pat Williams, a Democrat, spent 18 years representing Montana in Congress. No one from Montana has served more consecutive ...

Tom Lutey Pat Williams, Montana’s longest-serving member of the U.S. House, died Wednesday evening in a Missoula hospital. The Butte native, who was Montana’s last Democrat elected to the House to ...