Josiah Butler

Josiah Butler (born December 4, 1779 in Pelham , Hillsborough County , New Hampshire , † October 27, 1854 in Deerfield , New Hampshire) was an American politician . Between 1817 and 1823 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Josiah Butler attended Londonderry Academy and Atkinson Academy . He also enjoyed a private education. He then studied until 1803 at Harvard University . For the next three years he worked as a teacher in Virginia . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, Butler began working in his new profession in Pelham in 1807. In 1809 he moved his residence and law firm to Deerfield. Between 1810 and 1813 Butler was sheriff in Rockingham County .

Butler was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In 1812 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . Between 1815 and 1816 he was an MP in the New Hampshire House of Representatives . In the 1816 congressional elections, which were held nationwide, Butler was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington for the first New Hampshire congress. There he took over from Bradbury Cilley of the Federalist Party on March 4, 1817 . After two re-elections, he was able to spend three legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1823. Between 1821 and 1823 he was chairman of the Agriculture Committee. During his tenure in Congress, the states of Mississippi , Illinois , Alabama , Maine, and Missouri were accepted into the union. The admission of the latter two states was the result of the Missouri Compromise negotiated by Henry Clay .

After serving in the US House of Representatives, Butler was an associate judge on the New Hampshire Court of Appeals. He held this office between 1825 and 1835. After that he did not hold any other higher offices.

Web links

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

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