Ezra Butler

Infobox Governor
name= Ezra Butler


caption=
order=11^th
office= Governor of Vermont
term_start= 1826
term_end= 1828
lieutenant= Aaron Leland, Henry Olin
predecessor= Cornelius P. Van Ness
successor=Samuel C. Crafts
birth_date= birth date|1763|9|24|mf=y
birth_place= Lancaster, Massachusetts
death_date= death date and age|1838|7|12|1763|9|24|mf=y
death_place= Waterbury, Vermont
spouse=
profession= Lawyer / Judge / Politician
party= National Republican
footnotes=

Ezra Butler (born September 24, 1763) was a Governor and United States Representative from Vermont.

Butler was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts. In 1770 he moved with his parents to West Windsor, Vermont and engaged in agricultural pursuits in Claremont, New Hampshire. In 1785 as a veteran of the American Revolutionary War he studied law in and commenced practice in Waterbury, Vermont after he passed the bar. His political career got underway in 1794 when he was elected member of the Vermont House of Representatives, an office he held variously through 1808. He was the first judge of the Chittenden County Court 1803-1806 chief justice 1806-1811 and chief justice of Jefferson County 1812-1825 (excepting periods of congressional service). Butler was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1822. He was elected as a National Republican Governor of Vermont from 1826 until 1828. He died in Waterbury on July 12, 1838 and is buried in Waterbury Cemetery.

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