David Butler (American politician)

David Butler (American politician)
David Butler
1st Governor of Nebraska
In office
1867–1871
Preceded by none
Succeeded by William H. James
Personal details
Born December 15, 1829
Died May 25, 1891
Political party Republican

David C. Butler (December 15, 1829 – May 25, 1891) was a U.S. political figure. He was the first Governor of Nebraska, serving from 1867 until 1871.[1] He was the first Governor of Nebraska after statehood and the only Nebraska Governor to date to be impeached.

Biography

Born near Linton, Indiana, as the eldest son of 10 children, Butler was nominated for a state senate seat in Indiana in 1856, but withdrew before the election. He moved three years later to Pawnee City, Nebraska, and engaged in trading cattle until his election to the Nebraska Territorial Legislature in 1861. He was elected as a state senator in 1863 and won the 1866 election to become Nebraska's first governor. During his second term (1869–1870), Butler moved the state's capital from Omaha to present-day Lincoln.

In the spring of 1871, soon after taking office for his third term, eleven articles of impeachment were brought against him. The first charged him with misuse of some $16,000 from the state school fund. Butler had allegedly made personal use of this money to purchase lots in the new city of Lincoln. He was suspended from office by the Supreme Court and subsequently tried by the State Senate. He was convicted on the first charge, although the remaining ten were dropped. The Supreme Court then removed him from office.

In 1877 the Legislature reviewed its action and adopted a resolution expunging the impeachment proceedings from the record. After ten years of retirement from public life, Butler was elected to the Nebraska State Senate on the Independent Ticket in 1882. Running on the Union Labor Ticket in 1888, he again sought the Governorship but was defeated. Following this defeat he retired to his home in Pawnee City, where he died on May 25, 1891.

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Political offices
Preceded by
None
Governor of Nebraska
1867 – 1871
Succeeded by
William H. James



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