page_title: Greg Gianforte
section_title: Tenure
hierarchical_section_title: Greg Gianforte / House of Representatives / Tenure
caption_attribution_description: English: US Representative Greg Gianforte (R-MT) talks issues of illegal drug interdiction with the Montana Highway Patrol, the Montana Department of Justice, and Montana Attorney General Tim Fox.
context_page_description: Gregory Richard Gianforte is an American businessman, engineer, author, and politician serving as the Representative for Montana's at-large congressional district since 2017. Gianforte and his wife founded RightNow Technologies, a customer relationship management software company which went public in 2004, before being acquired by Oracle in 2011. Gianforte is one of the few tech executives to be elected to political office in the United States. After Representative Darrell Issa left office in 2019, Gianforte became the wealthiest member of Congress, a distinction which he held until the January 2020 appointment of Kelly Loeffler to represent Georgia in the Senate. He is not running for re-election to the House of Representatives in 2020 and is instead running as the Republican nominee in the 2020 Montana gubernatorial election.
  In 2016, Gianforte ran for Governor of Montana as the Republican candidate, losing to incumbent Democratic Governor Steve Bullock. In May 2017, Gianforte defeated his Democratic opponent Rob Quist in a special election for Montana's at-large congressional seat to fill a vacancy created by the presidential cabinet secretary appointment of Ryan Zinke.
caption: Gianforte discusses illegal drug interdiction in October 2018 with the Montana Highway Patrol, the Montana Department of Justice, and Montana Attorney General Tim Fox.
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