Mounce Gore Butler

Mounce Gore Butler (born May 11, 1849 in Gainesboro , Jackson County , Tennessee , †  February 13, 1917 there ) was an American politician . Between 1905 and 1907 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mounce Butler attended his home public schools and the Old Philomath Academy . After a subsequent law degree at Cumberland University in Lebanon and his admission as a lawyer in 1871, he began to work in Gainesboro in his new profession. Between 1894 and 1902 he was attorney general in the Fifth Judicial District of Tennessee.

Politically, Butler was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1872 and 1916 he was a delegate to all regional Democratic party conventions in Tennessee. In the congressional elections of 1904 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick on March 4, 1905 . Since he was not nominated for re-election by his party in 1906, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1907 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Butler worked again as a lawyer in Gainesboro, where he died on February 13, 1917.

Web links

• Mounce Gore Butler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Mounce Gore Butler in the database of Find a Grave (English)