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Butler, Andrew Pickens

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Nov. 19, 1796, in South Carolina. He became a member of the legislature when quite a young man; and in 1835 was appointed one of the judges of the general sessions of common pleas, which office he held until 1847, when he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States senate. He was subsequently elected and re-elected to the same position, and was in this office at the time of his death. He died May 25, 1857, near Edgefield, S. C.

BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 14, 1795, in Kinderhook, N. Y. In 1821 he was appointed district attorney for the city of Albany; in 1827 was elected to the state legislature; was attorney-general; and in 1836-37 officiated as secretary of war. In 1845 he was a presidential elector; and was subsequently twice appointed United States attorney for the southern district of New York. He died Nov. 8, 1858, in Paris, France. was