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

Longtime Montana politician U.S. Rep. John Patrick "Pat" Williams, 87, of Missoula, died Wednesday. The former Democratic legislator, and the last Democrat Montana elected to the U.S. House of ...

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

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

Pat Williams, who safeguarded arts funding in Congress, dies at 87 The Montana Democrat served nine terms in the House, where he helped protect the National Endowment for the Arts during the ...

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 ...

Former Montana US Rep Pat Williams, who won a liberal- conservative showdown, dies at 87 Pat Williams, a New Deal-style Democrat who won Montana's great liberal-conservative showdown of 1992 to ...

Montana's longest serving congressman and former state legislator from Butte, Pat Williams, died Wednesday at age 87.