Early life Donald Nutter was born November 28, 1915, in
Lambert, Montana, the second of three sons born to Chesley E. Nutter and Anne Grant (Wood) Nutter. The family moved to
Sidney in 1918. Nutter attended the
North Dakota State School of Science in
Wahpeton for two years before transferring to
University of Montana in
Missoula in 1935. He left school after his father became ill to return to Sidney, where he entered public service in 1937 as the deputy clerk of the
Richland County District Court. He held that position for a year, then served for another year as the undersheriff of Richland County. After defeat as the incumbent seeking a third term, he served as the chairman of the Montana Republican Central Committee from 1958 to 1960. He secured the Republican gubernatorial nomination and was elected
governor in November 1960. During his tenure, state spending was reduced and new industrial developments were promoted. prior to being interred in the Sidney City Cemetery in Sidney, Montana. Elsewhere in Sidney, Nutter is remembered with a statue in Veterans Memorial Park and by the Donald G. Nutter Building, which is home to the Richland County Drivers Examiner and Probation & Parole. At the Montana State Capitol in Helena, a bronze plaque outside the south entrance to the statehouse remembers Nutter and the others lost in the 1962 air crash. ==Works==