Changes

==Background==

==Background==

A native of rural Roundup in Musselshell County in central [[Montana]], Milkovich is the fourth of six children of Mark Milkovich, Sr. (born 1922), a [[World War II]] veteran and a financial analyst, and the former Lura Belle Pearson (1927-2020), an educator turned western artist. Lura's father, Charles Warner Pearson, was also an artist and a friend of the famous western painter Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926). Her mother, John Milkovich's grandmother, Mary Cusick Pearson, was reportedly the first white woman to traverse the Lewis and Clark Caverns and as a court reporter introduced [[Mike Mansfield]] to the movers and shakers in Montana when the Democrat was running for [[U.S. Senator]]. Although Lura Milkovich, a native of Butte, Montana, studied at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago, she was mostly self-taught in her paintings, many focused on [[Native American]]s and [[cowboy]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=lura-belle-pearson-milkovich&pid=195103031|title=Lura Milkovikch obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=January 20, 2020|accessdate=January 21, 2020}}</ref>

A native of rural Roundup in Musselshell County in central [[Montana]], Milkovich is the fourth of six children of Mark Milkovich, Sr. (1922-2020), a [[World War II]] veteran and a financial analyst, and the former Lura Belle Pearson (1927-2020), an educator turned western artist. Lura's father, Charles Warner Pearson, was also an artist and a friend of the famous western painter Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926). Her mother, John Milkovich's grandmother, Mary Cusick Pearson, was reportedly the first white woman to traverse the Lewis and Clark Caverns and as a court reporter introduced [[Mike Mansfield]] to the movers and shakers in Montana when the Democrat was running for [[U.S. Senator]]. Although Lura Milkovich, a native of Butte, Montana, studied at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago, she was mostly self-taught in her paintings, many focused on [[Native American]]s and [[cowboy]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=lura-belle-pearson-milkovich&pid=195103031|title=Lura Milkovikch obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=January 20, 2020|accessdate=January 21, 2020}}</ref>

Young Milkovich worked on cattle ranches and in roofing and painting. He attended the [[University of Chicago]]. In 1979, he graduated from the University of Montana and thereafter the [[Louisiana State University]] Paul M. Hebert Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]], at which he worked on ''The Louisiana Law Review.'' He claims to have been committed to "working families" for more than a quarter century.<ref name=ballot>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/John_Milkovich|title=John Milkovich|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=November 22, 2015}}</ref>  

Young Milkovich worked on cattle ranches and in roofing and painting. He attended the [[University of Chicago]]. In 1979, he graduated from the University of Montana and thereafter the [[Louisiana State University]] Paul M. Hebert Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]], at which he worked on ''The Louisiana Law Review.'' He claims to have been committed to "working families" for more than a quarter century.<ref name=ballot>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/John_Milkovich|title=John Milkovich|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=November 22, 2015}}</ref>