Ovide M. Lamontagne

Who is Ovide M. Lamontagne?

Ovide Marc Lamontagne serves as General Counsel of Americans United for Life, a pro-life public-interest law and policy organization. Lamontagne is a lawyer and a Republican politician who was his party's nominee for Governor of New Hampshire in 1996 and 2012. He also unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2010.

Lamontagne, who is of French Canadian extraction, was born and raised in Manchester. He graduated from Manchester's Trinity High School in 1975 before he took his undergraduate degree at The Catholic University of America, Class of 1979. He taught social studies at a high school level before attending the Wyoming College of Law, graduating with his Juris Doctor degree in 1985. He clerked for Judge James Emmett Barrett of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit before returning to Manchester in 1986. That year, he joined the Manchester law firm Devine Millimet.