Chester P. Butler

Chester Pierce Butler
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 11th district
In office March 4, 1847 – October 5, 1850
Preceded by	Owen D. Leib
Succeeded by	John Brisbin
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
In office 1832–1833 1838–1839 1840 1844
Personal details
Born	(1798-03-21)March 21, 1798 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	October 5, 1850(1850-10-05) (aged 52) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party	Anti-Mason Whig
Alma mater	Princeton College Litchfield Law School

Chester Pierce Butler (March 21, 1798 – October 5, 1850) was an American politician who served as an Anti-Masonic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Chester P. Butler was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He attended Wilkes-Barre Academy and graduated from Princeton College in 1817. He served as trustee of Wilkes-Barre Academy from 1818 to 1838 and served as secretary. He studied law at Litchfield Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1820.

Butler operated a private legal practice in Wilkes-Barre. He was register and recorder of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, from 1821 to 1824. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1832 elected as an Anti-Mason, and again in 1838, 1839, and 1843 as a Whig.^[1]

Butler was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served until his death in Philadelphia in 1850. He was interred in the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)

• United States Congress. "Chester P. Butler (id: B001175)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• The Political Graveyard

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