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

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

He was a hard-nosed politician but he had such a soft center,” said Sheena Rice, a friend who hired on to Williams’ staff in ...

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

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

Pat Williams, Montana’s longest-serving congressman, was honored Wednesday as he was lying in state at the Capitol.

Williams, a Democrat, served 18 years in Congress and was Montana’s longest consecutive-serving U.S. House of Representatives ...

The Montana Democrat served nine terms in the House, where he helped protect the National Endowment for the Arts during the ...

Memorial plans for former Montana Congressman Pat Williams are set and open to the public. Williams passed away Wednesday.

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