Walter Halben Butler

Half Walter Butler ( born February 13, 1852 in Springboro, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, † April 24, 1931 in Kansas City, Missouri ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1868, Walter Butler came with his parents to Mankato in Blue Earth County, Minnesota. There he attended public and private schools. After Butler studied until 1875 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1875 admitted to the bar he began in Princeton (Wisconsin ) to work in his new profession. 1876 ​​Butler moved to Iowa, where he first worked as a teacher until 1878 in La Porte City. In 1880 he moved to Manchester (Iowa) and 1883 to Western Union. He was owner and publisher of the newspaper " Fayette County Union ". Between 1885 and 1889 he was employed as a department manager at the Railway Mail Service in Saint Paul ( Minnesota). He then returned to West Union, Iowa, where he recorded his previous journalistic work.

Butler was a member of the Democratic Party and was founded in 1890 as their candidate in the fourth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1891, the succession of Republican Joseph Henry Sweney. Since he lost to Thomas Updegraff in the elections of 1892, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1893.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Walter Butler withdrew from politics. He was first employed on the Immobililienmarkt and later in banking. In 1897, he moved to Des Moines in 1907 to Kansas City in Missouri. He is also passed in 1931.