John Walsh (Montana politician)

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John Edward Walsh (born November 3, 1960) is an American real estate agent, former politician, and former military officer who served as a United States Senator from Montana from 2014 to 2015 and as the 34th Lieutenant Governor of Montana from 2013 to 2014 under Governor Steve Bullock. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a colonel in the Army National Guard, the adjutant general of the Montana National Guard with a state commission as a brigadier general from 2008 to 2012. In October 2013, Walsh announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 2014 to succeed retiring Democratic incumbent Max Baucus. When Baucus resigned prior to the end of his term, Bullock appointed Walsh to fill Baucus's seat. In August 2014, he dropped out of the race after The New York Times reported he had plagiarized portions of a research paper he had written at the Army War College in 2007, resulting in the college revoking his Master's degree. He was succeeded in the Senate by Republican Steve...

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