Chester P. Butler Explained

Chester Pierce Butler
Birth Date:21 March 1798
State1:Pennsylvania
District1:11th
Term Start1:March 4, 1847
Term End1:October 5, 1850
Preceded1:Owen D. Leib
Succeeded1:John Brisbin
Office2:Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Term2:1832–1833
1838–1839
1840
1844
Party:Anti-Mason
Whig
Alma Mater:Princeton College
Litchfield Law School
Death Place:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Chester Pierce Butler (March 21, 1798  - October 5, 1850) was an American politician who served as an Anti-Masonic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Early life and education

Chester P. Butler was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He attended Wilkes-Barre Academy and graduated from Princeton College in 1817. He served as trustee of Wilkes-Barre Academy from 1818 to 1838 and served as secretary. He studied law at Litchfield Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1820.

Career

Butler operated a private legal practice in Wilkes-Barre. He was register and recorder of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, from 1821 to 1824. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1832 elected as an Anti-Mason, and again in 1838, 1839, and 1843 as a Whig.[1]

Butler was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served until his death in Philadelphia in 1850. He was interred in the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Chester Pierce Butler . 2024-08-14 . Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives.