DeWitt Clinton Butler Horace Butler Josiah W Butler Elizabeth H Butler Lydia J Butler Franklin I Butler Franklin Jenness Butler Wentworth S Butler Caroline L Butler Mary J Butler
Born in Pelham, New Hampshire, Butler attended the Londonderry and Atkinson academies and was instructed by private tutors. He graduated from Harvard University in 1803 and taught school in Virginia for three years. He then studied law with Clifton Claggett of Amherst and Governor Cabot of Virginia and was admitted to the bar of Virginia in 1807.[1]
Elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses, Butler served as United States Representative for the state of New Hampshire from March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1823.[2] In Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Seventeenth Congress). After leaving congressional service, he served as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Court of Common Pleas from 1825 to 1835.[3]
Death
Butler died in Deerfield on October 27, 1854 (age 74 years, 327 days). He is interred in Granite Cemetery, South Deerfield, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
Family life
Son of Nehemiah and Lyndia Wood, Butler married Hannah Jenness and they had ten children: DeWitt Clinton, Horace, Josiah W., Elizabeth H., Lydia J., Franklin I., Franklin Jenness, Wentworth S., Caroline L., and Mary J.[4]