Andrew Jackson Montague

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Andrew Jackson Montague
Portrait by Harris & Ewing, c. 1913
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Virginia's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1913 – January 24, 1937
at-large: March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935
Preceded byJohn Lamb
Succeeded byDave E. Satterfield, Jr.
44th Governor of Virginia
In office
January 1, 1902 – February 1, 1906
LieutenantJoseph E. Willard
Preceded byJames Hoge Tyler
Succeeded byClaude A. Swanson
19th Attorney General of Virginia
In office
January 1, 1898 – January 1, 1902
GovernorJames Hoge Tyler
Preceded byRichard C. Scott
Succeeded byWilliam A. Anderson
United States Attorney for the
Western District of Virginia
In office
1893–1898
Appointed byGrover Cleveland
Preceded byWilliam E. Craig
Succeeded byThomas L. Alderson
Personal details
BornOctober 3, 1862
Campbell County, Virginia
DiedJanuary 24, 1937 (aged 74)
Urbanna, Virginia
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materRichmond College
University of Virginia
ProfessionPolitician, Lawyer

Andrew Jackson Montague (October 3, 1862 – January 24, 1937; nickname "Jack") was a Virginia lawyer and American politician. He served as the 44th governor of Virginia, from 1902 to 1906, and a Congressman from 1912 until his death in 1937. A Democrat, Montague was the first Virginia governor since the American Civil War not to have served in the Confederate military. Initially a Progressive, Governor Montague expanded the state capitol building, supported public education and the Good Roads Movement and opposed the Martin Organization. However, later as U.S. Congressman, he became a Conservative Democrat and supporter of the Byrd Organization.

Early life and education

State historical marker for Andrew Jackson Montague House, Danville, Virginia

The son of prominent Confederate and later state judge Robert Latane Montague, Andrew Jackson Montague was born in 1862 in Campbell County near Lynchburg, Virginia.[1] He was named after his father's youngest brother, a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute who died defending Richmond at the Battle of Gaines Mill months before during the American Civil War. After the war, his family returned to the Tidewater area; since their enslaved workers had been freed and many left, Montague worked on the family farm and attended schools in Middlesex County and Williamsburg.

After his father died in 1880, Montague left the farm and went to Richmond, Virginia.[2] He attended Richmond College (predecessor to the University of Richmond), where he gained a reputation as a skilled orator and debater. After several years as a private tutor, Montague began legal studies at the University of Virginia, graduating with a law degree in 1885.[1] He later received an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Brown University in 1905.

Career

After admission to the Virginia bar, Montague began his legal practice in Danville, while becoming increasing involved with the local Democratic party. In the presidential election campaign of 1892, Montague developed a relationship with Grover Cleveland, who then appointed Montague in 1893 as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia.[1] Montague held that position five years, until, in 1898, he was elected as the Attorney General of Virginia.[3]

Governor

While serving as attorney general, Montague became increasingly involved with the Virginia Progressive movement, which emphasized education reform and disfranchisement of black voters as a way to stem political corruption.[4] Positioning himself as the independent alternative to Senator Thomas S. Martin's political machine, Montague determined to make a run in the upcoming Virginia gubernatorial election. Running on the independent platform, Montague solidly defeated Martin's candidate, Claude A. Swanson, for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Virginia.[5]

Montague won 58.19% of the vote in the general election of 1901, easily defeating Republican John Hampton Hoge, as well as Prohibitionist O.C. Rucker, and Socialists Hugh Motter and John J. Quantz.[6] He became the first Virginia governor since the Civil War who had not served with the Confederate Army.[7]

Shortly after Montague's inauguration, and with his support, the Virginia Constitution of 1902 was enacted without a referendum. Its poll taxes and literacy tests effectively disenfranchised black and poor white voters.[4] Ironically,[according to whom?] the new Constitution created a smaller and more easily controlled electorate, thus strengthening the Martin machine.[5]

Thomas S. Martin, who defeated Montague in the critical 1905 Senate campaign

As governor, Montague enunciated a progressive agenda, and he made speeches throughout the state calling for progress toward "good schools" and "good roads". His efforts on behalf of schools resulted in some tangible progress, particularly in terms of increased local funding, longer terms and school consolidation. For roads, he pressed for the creation of a state highway commission, which officially came into being two months after he left office.[8] Montague also corresponded with progressives as varied as President Theodore Roosevelt, Clara Barton of the American Red Cross and Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute.[9] He championed the primary process as a more open way to select political party candidates, which helped lead to the primary system being adopted for the first time in 1905.[10] However, these accomplishments fell far short of Montague's legislative ambitions, for which he blamed a hostile legislature and the political machine run by his long-time foe, Senator Martin.[11]

In 1905, while still governor, Montague determined to make a run for the United States Senate against the incumbent Martin. Martin and Montague represented the two main factions within the Virginia Democratic party, and their contest would effectively determine which would control Virginia politics.[12] Martin responded to the challenge by publicly embracing Montague's main issues: good schools, good roads and the primary election process. Having minimized the differences between their positions and with a larger political organization,[13] Senator Martin handily[clarification needed] won re-election, leaving an embittered Montague to finish out his term as governor.[14]

Internationalist

After leaving office as governor, Montague served as the dean of Richmond College Law School for three years, before returning to the private practice of law in 1909.[3]

In July, 1906 Montague was among the American delegates at the Conference of American States meeting in Rio de Janeiro. He later was a delegate to the Third International Conference on Maritime Law at Brussels in 1909 and 1910, as well as a trustee of Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He would become president of the American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes in 1917, and serve as president of the American Peace Society (1920–1924). Montague was an "outspoken Anglophile" who was among a group of six Virginia congressmen consisting of himself as well as Patrick H. Drewry, S. Otis Bland, Joseph T. Deal, George C. Peery and Henry St. George Tucker III who spent much of the 1920s advocating closer relations between the United States and the United Kingdom.[15]

Congressman

Montague c. 1922

In 1912, Montague ran for the Richmond District seat in the United States House of Representatives. He defeated the Republican incumbent, and would retain for almost a quarter of a century.[16]

A supporter of President Woodrow Wilson's internationalist agenda, Montague lost influence when the Republicans took control of Congress in the 1920s. Despite this, and a failed bid to gain appointment to the Supreme Court, Montague was respected by his colleagues, even acquiring the nickname "Judge".[16] In 1926, he was selected by the House as one of the impeachment managers that served as the prosecution the impeachment trial of Judge George W. English.[3]

Personal life

He married Elizabeth Lyne Hoskins (1868 - 1951), daughter of a Middlesex county doctor, on December 11, 1889. They had two sons (one of whom died young, the other served heroically in World War I and became Brig. Gen. Robert Latane Montague Jr. (1897–1972)), as well as two daughters, Matilda Gay Montague Moore (1891–1988) and Janet Roy Montague Nunnally (1895–1977). Betsy Montague was very active in historic preservation in Alexandria, Virginia and in Williamsburg, and Gov. Montague corresponded with philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. who established Colonial Williamsburg. In 1934, the Montagues purchased Sandwich at Urbanna, Virginia.[17]

Death and legacy

Congressman Montague died in office on January 24, 1937, after winning a narrow election against his first significant (primary) opposition in twenty-five years.[18] He is interred in the family's section at the graveyard of Christ Church in Saluda, Virginia.

Electoral history

  • 1912; Montague was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 97.58% of the vote, defeating Independent Chase A. Haight and Socialist Labor H. Adolph Muller.
  • 1914; Montague was re-elected with 95.81% of the vote, defeating Socialist S.C. Weatherly and Socialist Labor Muller.
  • 1916; Montague was re-elected unopposed.
  • 1918; Montague was re-elected unopposed.
  • 1920; Montague was re-elected with 72.5% of the vote, defeating Republican Walker G. Decourcy, ColR (?) H.H. Price, Independent Republican John L. Grubbs, and Socialist Muller.
  • 1922; Montague was re-elected with 90.14% of the vote, defeating Republican Channing M. Ward.
  • 1924; Montague was re-elected with 99.97% of the vote, defeating Republican C.B. Jones.
  • 1926; Montague was re-elected unopposed.
  • 1928; Montague was re-elected with 75.89% of the vote, defeating Republican J.D. Peake and Independents James E. Maynard and Henry W. Anderson.
  • 1930; Montague was re-elected with 87.4% of the vote, defeating Independent Republican R. Houston Brett.
  • 1932; Montague was re-elected as part of the Democratic slate for Virginia at-large Congressional district.
  • 1934; Montague was re-elected with 80.45% of the vote, defeating Republican Roy C. Parks, Socialist Hilliard Bernstein, and Communist William H. Friend.
  • 1936; Montague was re-elected with 84.49% of the vote, defeating Republican Charles G. Wilson and Socialist Winston Dawson.

See also

William E. Larsen, Montague of Virginia, The Making of a Southern Progressive (Louisiana State University Press, 1965)

References

  1. ^ a b c Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Lewis historical publishing company. p. 10.
  2. ^ Larson, William (1982). Edward Younger (ed.). The Governors of Virginia, 1860–1978. University Press of Virginia. pp. 159–160. ISBN 0-8139-0920-1.
  3. ^ a b c "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: MONTAGUE, Andrew Jackson, (1862 - 1937)". United States Congress. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
  4. ^ a b Larson (1982) pp. 160–163
  5. ^ a b Heinemann, Ronald; Kolp, John; Parent Jr., Anthony; Shade, William (2007). Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia 1607–2007. University of Virginia Press. pp. 278–279. ISBN 978-0-8139-2609-4.
  6. ^ "Our Campaigns - VA Governor Race - Nov 05, 1901". Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  7. ^ Bellamy, Francis Rufus (1902). "Notable Figures in the Political Field". The Outlook. LXX (January–April, 1902). New York: The Outlook Company: 23. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
  8. ^ Larson (1982) pp. 164–165
  9. ^ November 9, 2011. There Ain't No Barbecue Like a “Montague Barbecue”
  10. ^ Moger, Allen (1968). Virginia: Bourbonism to Byrd, 1870–1925. University Press of Virginia. pp. 203–206. ISBN 0-8139-0182-0. OCLC 435376.
  11. ^ Moger (1968) pp. 207–208
  12. ^ Moger (1968) p. 206
  13. ^ Moger (1968) pp. 210–211
  14. ^ Larson (1982) p. 166
  15. ^ Governor Andrew Jackson Montague, Spokesman for the New Virginia by William E. Larsen University of Virginia, 1958
  16. ^ a b Larson (1982) p. 167
  17. ^ R. Latane Montague, IV (December 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Sandwich" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-27. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
  18. ^ Larson (1982) pp. 167-168
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