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Facts and Events
| Name[6] |
Capt. Thomas Butler, III |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][6] |
14 Apr 1785 |
Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation? |
1806 |
Cumberland County, PennsylvaniaBecame an attorney. |
| Immigration? |
1807 |
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| Marriage |
17 Aug 1813 |
Natchez, Adams County, Mississippito Ann Madeline Ellis |
| Occupation? |
From 1818 to 1821 |
LouisianaMember of U.S. Congress. |
| Census[7] |
1820 |
Adams County, Mississippi |
| Census[8] |
1830 |
West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana |
| Census[9] |
1840 |
West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana |
| Death[1] |
7 Aug 1847 |
St. Louis, Missouri |
| Burial[1] |
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Butler Cemetery, Cottage Plantation, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana |
Adams County, Mississippi, 1820 census:[7]
- Butler, Thos.
- (agriculture = 1)
- Males
- under 10 = 1
- 26-44 = 1
- Females
- under 10 = 1
- 16-25 = 1
- Slaves
- Males = 35
- Females = 44
West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1830 census:[7]
- Butler, Thomas
- Males
- 40-49 = 1
- Females
- under 5 = 1
- 5-9 = 2
- 30-39 = 1
- Slaves
- Males = 9
- Females = 10
West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1830 census:[7]
- Butler, Thomas
- (agriculture = 4)
- Males
- under 5 = 1
- 5-9 = 2
- 20-29 = 2
- 50-59 = 1
- Females
- 5-9 = 1
- 10-14 = 1
- 15-19 = 2
- 40-49 = 1
- Slaves
- Males = 10
- Females = 10
Bayou Sara, West Feliciana, Louisiana, United States
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Thomas Butler, in Find A Grave.
US Congressman. Born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he became an attorney in 1806, moved to Mississippi Territory in 1807 and was active in the militia as commander of a cavalry troop with the rank of Captain. In 1811 he moved to West Feliciana Parish. Butler owned cotton and sugar plantations, was appointed Parish Judge in 1812, and became Judge of the District Court in 1813. In 1818 he was the successful Democratic-Republican nominee for the US House of Representatives in a special election held to fill the vacancy created when Thomas B. Robertson resigned. Butler won election to a full term later in 1818 and served from November, 1818 to March, 1821. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1820 and served temporarily as Judge of the District Court in 1822 and again in 1840. He became a member of the Whig party when it was founded in the 1830s, and later joined the American (Know Nothing) party. He also served as President of the Louisiana College Board of Trustees and was a member of the Louisiana Historical Society. Butler continued to practice and manage his business interests until his death in St. Louis, Missouri. His St. Francisville plantation home, "The Cottage", still stands and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
- National Park Service. Cottage Plantation. (U.S. Department of the Interior).
- Dawes, Emma Louise McLin. Judge Thomas Butler of Louisiana: A Biographical Study of an Ante-bellum Jurist and Planter. (M.A. thesis, Louisiana State University, 1953. 103 p.).
Butler was an attorney, Congressman, and proprietor of The Cottage Plantation, West Feliciana Parish.
- Anne Butler. The Cottage Plantation one of Feliciana's earliest. (stfrancisville.blogspot.com).
- Thomas Butler (Louisiana politician), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Shaffer family notes (Milhado Lee Shaffer Sr his daughter, Margaret Minor Shaffer).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Adams, Mississippi, United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M33)
p. 8.
- ↑ West Feliciana, Louisiana, United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 233.
- ↑ West Feliciana, Louisiana, United States. 1840 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 209.
- United States. Congress (100th, 2nd Session : 1987-1989). Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989: the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First through the One Hundredth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1989, inclusive. (Washington [District of Columbia]: Government Printing Office, 1989).
Representative from Louisiana; born near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., April 14, 1785; attended the common schools and received a college education in Pittsburgh, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1806 and commenced practice at Pittsburgh, Pa.; moved to Mississippi Territory about 1807; admitted to the bar there in 1808; captain of a Cavalry troop in the Mississippi Territory Militia in 1810; purchased land in the parish of Feliciana, Orleans Territory and settled there in 1811; appointed parish judge December 14, 1812; appointed judge of the third district by Governor Claiborne of Louisiana March 4, 1813; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas B. Robertson; reelected to the Sixteenth Congress and served from November 16, 1818, to March 3, 1821; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1820; appointed special judge of the third judicial district in 1822 and again in 1840; member of the Whig Party and afterwards affiliated with the American Party; owing to ill health declined to be a candidate for Congress in 1844; owner of sugar and cotton plantations; president of the board of trustees of the Louisiana College, Jackson, La.; died in St. Louis, Mo., August 7, 1847; interment on his plantation, The Cottage, near St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La.
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