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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeRoderick Randum BUTLER
(1827-1902)
BUTLER, Roderick Randum,
(grandfather of Robert Reyburn Butler), a Representative from
Tennessee; born in Wytheville, Va., April 9, 1827; bound as an
apprentice and learned the tailor’s trade; moved to
Taylorsville (now Mountain City), Tenn.; attended night school;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice
in Taylorsville; lawyer, private practice; appointed postmaster of
Taylorsville by President Fillmore; major of the First Battalion of
Tennessee Militia; member of the Tennessee state senate, 1859-1863
and 1893-1901; during the Civil War served in the Union Army as
lieutenant colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer
Cavalry, November 5, 1863-April 25, 1864; delegate to the
Republican National Conventions, 1864, 1872 and 1876; delegate to
the Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1865; county judge
and judge of the first judicial circuit of Tennessee, 1865;
chairman of the first state Republican executive committee of
Tennessee; delegate to the Baltimore Border State Convention;
elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on
the Militia (Forty-third Congress); censured by the House of
Representatives on March 17, 1870, for corruption in regard to an
appointment to West Point; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to
the Forty-fourth Congress in 1874; president of the Republican
State conventions, 1869 and 1882; member of the Tennessee state
house of representatives, 1879-1885; elected to the Fiftieth
Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1888; resumed the practice of law; died in Mountain
City, Johnson County, Tenn., August 18, 1902; interment in Mountain
View Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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