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Senate Years of Service: 1924-1926 Party: Republican
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Library of Congress |
BUTLER, William Morgan, a Senator from Massachusetts; born in New Bedford, Mass., January
29, 1861; attended the public schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1883; graduated from the law department of Boston University in 1884; practiced
law in New Bedford until 1895; member, State house of representatives
1890-1891; member, State senate 1892-1895, serving as president in 1894 and
1895; moved to Boston, Mass., in 1895 and continued the practice of law until
1912, when he engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods; member of the
commission to revise the statutes of Massachusetts 1896-1900; chairman of the
Republican National Committee in 1924; appointed on November 13, 1924, as a
Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Henry Cabot Lodge and served from November 13, 1924, to December 6, 1926,
when a successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for election to fill the
vacancy; chairman, Committee on Patents (Sixty-ninth Congress); resumed his
manufacturing interests; resided in Boston until his death there on March 29,
1937; interment in Forest Hills Cemetery.
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