Butler Ames

Butler Ames ( born August 22, 1871 in Lowell, Massachusetts, † November 6, 1954 in Tewksbury, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1913 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Butler Ames was the son of Adelbert Ames (1835-1933), a general in the army of the Union during the Civil War. His grandfather was Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893), who was also a Union General in the Civil War. He attended the common schools and Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter (New Hampshire). In 1894 he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was shortly thereafter as a lieutenant member of the United States Army. Then he studied until 1896 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the following years he worked in the electro- mechanical trades. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1896 he sat in the council of the city of Lowell. Between 1897 and 1899 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. During the Spanish- American War of 1898 Ames rose to lieutenant colonel and was employed in various capacities.

In the congressional elections of 1902, Ames was in the fifth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Shadrach Knox on March 4, 1903. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1913 five legislative sessions. In 1912 he gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Ames took his previous activities on again. He was in the following years President of the United States Cartridge Co. and CFO of Heinze Electrical Co. He was also a director of several other companies. Politically, he is no more have appeared. Butler Ames died on November 6, 1954 in Tewksbury.