Chester Pierce Butler

Chester Pierce Butler ( born March 21, 1798 in Wilkes -Barre, Pennsylvania, † October 5, 1850 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1850 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Chester Butler attended the Wilkes-Barre Academy, whose curator, he was later to be 1818-1838. In 1817 he graduated from Princeton College. After a subsequent study of law at the Litchfield Law School in 1820 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Wilkes-Barre to work in this profession. Between 1821 and 1824 he served as register and recorder for the management of Luzerne County. In the years 1832, 1838, 1839 and 1843, he was elected to the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was a member of the founded in the 1830s Whig party.

In the congressional elections of 1846 was Butler in the eleventh electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Owen D. body on March 4, 1847. After a re-election, he could remain until his death on October 5, 1850 in Congress. At first, his deputies time was still influenced by the events of the Mexican-American War. After the discussions were over slavery in the foreground. In Butler's year of death the worked out by Henry Clay Compromise of 1850 was passed.