Daniel E. Button

Daniel E. Button
Daniel Evan Button
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 29th district
In office
January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971
Preceded by Leo W. O'Brien
Succeeded by Samuel S. Stratton
Personal details
Born November 1, 1917(1917-11-01)
Dunkirk, New York
Died May 7, 2009(2009-05-07) (aged 91)
Delmar, New York
Political party Republican Party
Alma mater University of Delaware
Columbia University

Daniel Evan Button (November 1, 1917 – March 7, 2009) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He died aged 91 at Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York.

Button was born in Dunkirk, New York. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1938 and received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1939. He wrote for the Wilmington,(Del.) Morning News and the Associated Press from 1943 until 1947, when he turned to public relations at the University of Delaware. He was assistant to the president of the State University of New York from 1952 until 1958. He was executive editor of the Albany Times-Union from 1960 until 1966. He was elected to Congress in 1966 as a Republican in a traditionally heavily Democratic district and served from January 3, 1967 until January 3, 1971. He unsuccessfully ran for re-election in 1970 as an outspoken critic of the Vietnam war. He was president of the national Arthritis Foundation (1971–75) and was editor of the national consumer magazine Science Digest (1976–80). He wrote a legislative study of John V. Lindsay (Random House 1965) and also published "Take City Hall" about Albany politics (2003). From 1994 to 2003 he was executive assistant to the president of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York State. He was a resident of Delmar, New York when he died.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Leo W. O'Brien
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 29th congressional district

1967–1971
Succeeded by
Samuel S. Stratton



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