Chester Pierce Butler
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 11th district
In office
March 4, 1847  October 5, 1850
Preceded byOwen D. Leib
Succeeded byJohn Brisbin
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
In office
1832
1838
1839
1843
Personal details
Born(1798-03-21)March 21, 1798
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedOctober 5, 1850(1850-10-05) (aged 52)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyWhig
Alma materPrinceton College
Litchfield Law School

Chester Pierce Butler (March 21, 1798 October 5, 1850) was an American politician who served as a 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, 1838, 1839, and again in 1843.

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 Hollenbeck Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

See also

Sources

  • United States Congress. "Chester P. Butler (id: B001175)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • The Political Graveyard
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.