William M. Butler

William M. Butler

William Morgan Butler (born January 29, 1861 in New Bedford , Massachusetts , †  March 29, 1937 in Boston , Massachusetts) was an American politician who represented the state of Massachusetts in the US Senate . He also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee , the party organization of the Republicans , from 1924 to 1928 .

After attending public schools in his hometown of New Bedford, William Butler studied law and was inducted into the Massachusetts Bar in 1883. He graduated from Boston University Law School in 1884 and then practiced in New Bedford until 1895.

From 1890 to 1891 Butler was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ; between 1892 and 1895 he sat in the State Senate , where he served as its president from 1894. In 1895 he moved to Boston, where he worked as a lawyer until 1912; then he switched to the manufacture of cotton products. From 1896 to 1900 he was a member of a commission to revise the state laws of Massachusetts.

In 1924 Butler succeeded John T. Adams as chairman of the Republican National Committee . On November 13 of the same year he was named US Senator for Massachusetts; he succeeded the late Henry Cabot Lodge in Washington, DC . Butler ran for the by-election two years later, but was defeated by the Democrat David I. Walsh and consequently had to leave Congress on December 6, 1926 . During his time as a senator, he chaired the patent committee, among other things. He gave the presidency of the Republicans in 1928 to the former US Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work .

Butler then withdrew from politics and went back to his business activities. He lived in Boston until his death in 1937.

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• William M. Butler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William M. Butler in the database of Find a Grave (English)