Butler Derrick

Butler Carson Derrick ( born September 30, 1936 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Between 1975 and 1995 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Butler Derrick attended the public schools in Mayesville and Florence in South Carolina. Between 1954 and 1958 he studied at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Georgia and its made ​​in 1965 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Edgefield.

Politically, Derrick joined the Democratic Party. Between 1969 and 1974 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. In the years 1972 and 1974 he was a delegate to the regional party days of the Democrats in South Carolina. In 1976, he exercised the same function at the Democratic National Convention in New York, on the Jimmy Carter was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1974 he was in the third constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded William Jennings Bryan Dorn took on 3 January 1975. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1995 ten contiguous legislatures. During this time, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, among others, in 1992. 1994 Derrick waived on a bid again. Today he is a partner in a large law firm in the capital Washington.