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==History== The [[Montana Legislature]] established Sheridan County in 1913 from portions of [[Dawson County, Montana|Dawson]] and [[Valley County, Montana|Valley]] Counties. It was named for [[American Civil War]] [[General officer|General]] [[Philip Sheridan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Montana Place Names Companion |url=http://mtplacenames.org/ |access-date=May 9, 2011 |website=Montana Place Names From Alzada to Zortman |publisher=Montana Historical Society Research Center}}</ref> In the 1920s and 1930s the county was a hotbed of [[Communism|communist]] organizing. The [[CPUSA]] managed to elect several town and county officials. At the [[1932 United States presidential election|1932 presidential election]] the communist candidate [[William Z. Foster]] got 576 votes (22%).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Communist Party votes by county |url=http://depts.washington.edu/moves/CP_map-votes.shtml |access-date=July 5, 2017 |website=depts.washington.edu}}</ref> International changes in communist organizing strategies, especially the move towards the [[popular front]], effectively ended communist presence in the area.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stoner McDonald |first=Verlaine |title=The Red Corner: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana |publisher=Montana Historical Society Press |year=2010}}</ref>
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