Walter Halben Butler

Walter Halben Butler (born February 13, 1852 in Springboro , Crawford County , Pennsylvania , †  April 24, 1931 in Kansas City , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1868, Walter Butler and his parents came to Mankato , Blue Earth County , Minnesota . There he attended public and private schools. Then Butler studied to 1875 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1875, he began to work in Princeton (Wisconsin) in his new profession. In 1876 Butler moved to Iowa, where he worked as a teacher in La Porte City until 1878 . In 1880 he moved to Manchester, Iowa and in 1883 to West Union . There he became the owner and publisher of the newspaper "Fayette County Union". Between 1885 and 1889 he was employed as a department manager at the railway post office in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He then returned to West Union, Iowa, where he resumed his previous journalistic work.

Butler was a member of the Democratic Party and was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in 1890 as its candidate in the fourth constituency of Iowa . There he took over on March 4, 1891, succeeding Republican Joseph Henry Sweney . Since he lost to Thomas Updegraff in the elections of 1892 , he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1893 .

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Walter Butler withdrew from politics. He initially worked in the real estate market and later in banking. In 1897 he moved to Des Moines and in 1907 to Kansas City, Missouri. He died there in 1931.

Web links

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

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