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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsBenjamin Franklin BUTLER
(1818-1893)
BUTLER, Benjamin Franklin,
(grandfather of Butler Ames and father-in-law of Adelbert Ames), a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Deerfield, N.H.,
November 5, 1818; moved with his mother to Lowell, Mass., in 1828;
attended high school and Exeter Academy, and was graduated from
Waterville College (now Colby College), Waterville, Maine, in 1838;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice
in Lowell, Mass.; member of the State house of representatives in
1853; served in the State senate in 1859; delegate to the
Democratic National Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore in
1860; entered the Union Army April 17, 1861, as a brigadier
general; promoted to major general May 16, 1861, and assigned to
the command of Fort Monroe and the Department of Eastern Virginia;
resigned November 30, 1865; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth
and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3,
1875); chairman, Committee on Revision of the Laws (Forty-second
Congress), Committee on the Judiciary (Forty-third Congress); one
of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1868
to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States; unsuccessful candidate for the
Republican nomination for Governor in 1871 and 1872 and for
reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress in 1874; elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); declined to be
a candidate for renomination; unsuccessful candidate for Governor
as an independent in 1878 and as a Democrat in 1879; elected
Governor in 1882 by the combined efforts of the Greenback and
Democratic Parties; unsuccessful candidate for President of the
United States on the Greenback and Anti-Monopolist ticket in 1884;
died while attending court in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1893;
interment in Hildreth Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
Bibliography
Butler, Benjamin F. Autobiography and Personal
Reminiscences. Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892; Nash, Howard P.
Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler,
1818-1893. 1969. Reprint, Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press, 1975; Trefousse, Hans L. Ben Butler: The South
Called Him Beast! 1957. Reprint, New York: Octagon Books,
1974.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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