Montana Presidential Items

Parties and individual vendors have produced and distributed items supporting the campaigns of presidential contenders since the early 19th century. These items have included ribbons, badges, pins, bandannas, posters, pamphlets, stickers and three dimensional items such as statuettes and dishes. The majority of these items are “national” with no regional flavor. I find items produced for more “local” distribution to be more interesting and more challenging to obtain. These are produced by “local” organizations for fundraising, conventions, candidate visits, and events or to tie a local candidate to a popular presidential candidate (coattails). Montana for its population has produced a relatively large number of these items. These have been the focus of my collecting for the last three decades. The items pictured on this site will focus on earlier items(before 1960) which tend to appear less frequently but there are a multitude of items produced in the last three decades often targeting the collector audience rather than the campaign. I will only present a few of these that are relatively uncommon and sought by collectors.

Grover Cleveland 1884, 1888 and 1892

Benjamin Harrison 1888 and 1892

William Mckinley 1896 and 1900

 

William Jennings Bryan 1896, 1900 and 1908

Trigate features Silver Republicans Hartman and Mantle

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Alton Parker 1904

William G Conrad Favorite son VP 1904

Theodore Roosevelt 1904 and 1912

       

 

              

William Taft 1908 and 1912

   

Lanstrum and Clay were delegates to the national convention

Charles Hughes 1916

 

Warren Harding 1920

Lafollette 1924

Alfred Smith 1928

  

Franklin Roosevelt 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944

Silver Dollar Club is 1934

       

Wendell Willkie 1940

  

Thomas Dewey 1944 and 1948

Harry Truman 1948

Dwight Eisenhower 1952 and 1956

Adali Stevenson 1952 and 1956

John Kennedy 1960

Richard Nixon 1960, 1968 and 1972

other pins exist but are part of state sets and are relatively common

Lyndon Johnson 1964

Modern Elections

Selection of some difficult pins from more recent elections

Montana Candidates on the National Stage

Presidential Hopeful 1924 and 1928

Burton Wheeler Vice-President Progressive Party 1924

  

Wheeler Presidential Hopeful 1940

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