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Perennial Libertarian Party candidate Michael C. Fellows, 59, of Missoula, was killed in a two-vehicle crash near Potomac on Monday night.

"We believe he was coming back from a political event," Missoula County Undersheriff Jason Johnson said Tuesday.

Fellows, a congressional candidate, participated in a Monday night forum hosted by the Seeley Lake Community Council.

Fellows has run for office every year since 1996, when he ran for Montana House. He ran six times for the U.S. House between 1998 and 2010; for Secretary of State in 2000, and for the Montana Supreme Court in 2012. He was unsuccessful every time.

Fellows, who chaired the Montana Libertarian party and was on the board of the Libertarian National Committee, wrote on his website that "government is simply force with a little mob rule thrown in."

"As the longest-serving active state chair of the Libertarian Party, he worked tirelessly to advocate the party's message for more than two decades, often on his own dime, on his own time," said a statement released by the Montana Libertarian Party. "... The word dedication doesn't even begin to describe Fellows’ contribution to and passion for spreading the message of liberty in Montana."