---
type: Person
title: "Butch Gillespie"
description: "MT Senate District 9 — MT State Senate District 9"
role: "MT Senate District 9"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "MT"
district: "MT State Senate District 9"
represents: "us/states/mt/districts/senate/9"
tenure:
  start: "2019-01-07"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "7e894b6f-a416-4e38-9dc2-0924ab1f3703"
  office: "6059c40c-7f79-4106-bf0d-88c7c3ef4df4"
  tenure: "2f14e34d-0d55-4a5e-891f-7c5ce88fc704"
  jurisdiction: "fa588e61-d9b6-43eb-87ef-9768ec5bee64"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, mt]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Butch Gillespie

Current MT Senate District 9 (MT State Senate District 9).

Represents [MT State Senate District 9](/us/states/mt/districts/senate/9.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).