Lee Metcalf

Lee Warren Metcalf was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. representative (1953–1961) and a U.S. senator (1961–1978) from Montana. He was the first of Montana's U.S. senators to be born in the state, and was permanent acting president pro tempore of the Senate, the only one to hold that position, from 1963 until his death in 1978.