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Butler, John George

clergyman, orator, was born in 1826, in Cumberland, Md. In 1849 he accepted a call to the pastorate of the St. Paul English Lutheran church in Washington, D. C., in which city his ministry of over forty years has been spent. In 1867 he was elected chaplain of the house of representatives; and in 1886 he was chosen chaplain of the senate. He is widely known as a pulpit orator, a successful pastor and influential member of the general synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church.