Butler B. Hare
Butler Black Hare (* November 25, 1875 in Leesville, Edgefield County, South Carolina, † December 30, 1967 in Saluda, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1933, and again from 1939 to 1947, he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Butler Hare was born in 1875 on a farm in what is now Saluda County. He attended the common schools and afterwards until 1899, the Newberry College. Between 1901 and 1903 he worked as a teacher. In 1904 and 1905 he served on the staff of Congressman George W. Croft and Theodore G. Croft. From 1906 to 1908 Hare taught the subjects of history and economics at Leesville College. In the years 1908 and 1909 he worked for the Federal Labour Office ( Bureau of Labor ) in a study on women and child labor. Until 1913 he continued his own education with studies at the George Washington University in Washington DC continued. There he studied under law.
After his made in 1913 admitted to the bar he began in 1915 in Saluda to work in his new profession. Between 1911 and 1924 he also worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At the same time he himself was engaged in agriculture. Politically Hare was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1924, he was elected in the second district of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of James F. Byrnes on March 4, 1925. After three re- elections, he was able to complete 1933 four contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. From 1931 to 1933 he was chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs. Shortly before the end of his last term in Congress provisionally joined the 20th Amendment to the Constitution in force by the beginning of the terms of office of the Congress and the President has been brought forward to January. Thus, the time between the November elections and the beginning of the new legislature and the new term of office was shortened.
1932 Hare waived on a bid again. As a result, he went back to his private business. In 1938 he returned to the political stage when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives again in the third district of his state. There he broke on January 3, 1939, John C. Taylor. After three re- elections he could spend in Congress until January 3rd, 1947 four other legislative periods. In this time fell the Second World War and after its end the establishment of the United Nations and the Cold War began.
In 1946, Hare was not nominated by his party for another term in Congress. He then retired from politics and worked again as a lawyer as well as in agriculture. Butler Hare died on December 30, 1967 in Saluda and was also buried there. His son James (1918-1966) was of 1949-1951 also the third district of the State of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.