Robert R. Butler

Infobox Congressman
name= Robert R. Butler


state= Oregon
district= 2nd
party= Republican
term= November 6 1928 – January 7 1933
preceded= Nicholas J. Sinnott
succeeded= Walter M. Pierce
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date of birth= September 24 1881
place of birth= Butler, Tennessee
date of death= January 7 1933
place of death=Washington, D.C.
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occupation=attorney

Robert Reyburn Butler (September 24, 1881 - January 7, 1933) was a U.S. Representative from Oregon, grandson of Roderick Randum Butler. He also served in the Oregon State Senate and as a state circuit court judge in Oregon.

Early life

Butler was born in Butler, Tennessee, where he attended the public schools and then Holly Springs College. [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001187 Robert R. Butler,] Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Accessed September 7 2007.] His parents were Rebecca C. Grayson and William P. Butler.Corning, Howard M. "Dictionary of Oregon History". Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956.] He graduated from Cumberland School of Law at in Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1903. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Mountain City, Tennessee. In 1906, Butler moved to Condon, Oregon, and resumed the practice of law. In 1911, Butler was married, with the marriage producing a single daughter.

Political career

In Oregon he served as mayor of Condon, before being appointed as circuit judge for the eleventh judicial district of Oregon and served from February 1909 until his retirement in January 1911. He held court for Sherman, Wheeler, and Gilliam counties in Eastern Oregon. In 1911, he moved to The Dalles, Oregon, and resumed the practice of law. He served as member of the Oregon State Senate twice, from 1913 to 1917, and again from 1925 to 1929.

Butler was elected on November 6, 1928, as a Republican to the Seventieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nicholas J. Sinnott and on the same day was elected to the Seventy-first Congress. Butler was re-elected to the Seventy-second Congress and served until his death, though he was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress. Robert Butler died in Washington, D.C., on January 7, 1933, and was interred in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, The Dalles.

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