Butler, Marion
journalist, United States senator, was born May 20, 1863, in Sampson county, N. C.
He was elected to the state senate in 1890; was the leader of the Alliance forces in that body and succeeded in bringing about a number of needed reforms. He was elected president of the state farmers' alliance in 1891, and reelected in 1892; was elected vice - president of the national Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union in 1893, and elected president of that organization in 1894. His paper, The Caucasian, has been removed to Raleigh, N. C., and has probably the largest circulation and is one of the most influential papers in the state. He was elected to the United States senate as a populist for term expiring March 3, 1901. BUTLER, MATTHEW CALBRAITHE, soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born March 8, 1836, near Greenville, S. C. He was elected to the legislature of South Carolina in 1860; entered the confederate service as captain of cavalry in the Hampton legion in June, 1861, and became a major-general through the regular grades, and lost his right leg at the battle of Brandy Station on the ninth of June, 1863. He was elected to the legislature of South Carolina in 1866; was a candidate for lieutenant-governor of South Carolina in 1870; received the democratic vote of the South Carolina legislature for United States senator in 1870; and was elected to the United States senate as a democrat; was admitted to his seat in 1877, and was re-elected in 1882 and again in 1889. and during 1885-87 was