Benjamin Franklin Butler
1818–93
American lawyer, soldier, and politician. Practised law in Massachusetts, 1840–93. Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1853; of the Senate, 1859. Commander of Union troops during the American Civil War. Major-general of volunteers, 1861; military governor of New Orleans, 1862. Congressman, 1866–75 and 1878. Governor of Massachusetts, 1882–3.
Source
DAB.
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
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