Donald Grant Nutter

Donald Grant Nutter (born November 28, 1915 in Lambert , Richland County , Montana , † January 5, 1962 in Wolf Creek , Montana) was an American politician and from 1961 to 1962 the 15th governor of the state of Montana.

Donald Nutter attended the North Dakota State School of Science in Wahpeton . In 1937 he was employed by the Richland County county council. From 1938 to 1939 he was deputy sheriff in the same district . During the Second World War he was a bomber pilot in the US Army Air Corps . For his achievements he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross .

After the war he studied at the University of North Dakota , the law and put there in 1954, his law degree from. Between 1951 and 1957, Nutter was a member of the Montana Senate ; from 1958 to 1960 he was chairman of the Republican Party at the state level. In November 1960 he was elected the new governor of Montana, where he prevailed with 55.1 percent of the vote against the Democrat Paul Cannon. Nutter took office on January 4, 1961. In his relatively short term in office, the governor cut government spending and encouraged industrial development.

Nutter was killed on January 25, 1962 in a plane crash near Wolf Creek. He was married to Maxine Trotter; the couple had a child.

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SURNAME	Nutter, Donald Grant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 28, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lambert , Montana
DATE OF DEATH	5th January 1962
Place of death	Wolf Creek , Montana