1912 United States presidential election in Montana America nominee union leader Eugene V. Debs. Wilson won Montana by a margin of 6.87 percent. 1912 United States presidential election in Montana The 1912 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 5, 1912. This was the first time that Arizona and New Mexico took part in a presidential election having been admitted to the Union earlier in the year. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. This election was a four-way contest. Montana voted for the Democratic nominee New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson over the Progressive
Admission to the Union formed in the Northwest Territory under either ordinance. In August, 1789, the ordinance was replaced by the Northwest Ordinance of 1789, in which the new Congress (under the present Constitution) reaffirmed the Ordinance with slight modifications. The territory itself remained in existence until 1803, when the southeastern portion of it was admitted to the Union as the State of Ohio, and the remainder was reorganized. While the articles of Confederation were in effect, the Congress considered various ordinances admitting particular new states into the Union, none of which were approved: At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, a proposal to include the