Hugh A. Butler

Hugh Alfred Butler
United States Senator from Nebraska
In office January 3, 1941 – July 1, 1954
Preceded by	Edward R. Burke
Succeeded by	Samuel W. Reynolds
Personal details
Born	(1878-02-28)February 28, 1878 Missouri Valley, Iowa
Died	July 1, 1954(1954-07-01) (aged 76) Bethesda, Maryland
Political party	Republican

Hugh Alfred Butler (February 28, 1878 – July 1, 1954) was a Nebraska Republican politician.

He was born on a farm near Missouri Valley, Iowa on February 28, 1878. He graduated from Doane College at Crete, Nebraska in 1900. he became a construction engineer with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad from 1900 to 1908. He entered into politics by become a member of the city board of Curtis, Nebraska from 1908 to 1913 and becoming a member of the board of education of Omaha, Nebraska later on. Meanwhile, from 1908 to 1940 he worked in flour-milling and in the grain business.

He became a member of the Republican National Committee in 1936 and served until 1940 when he was elected to the United States Senate. He was reelected twice, in 1946 and 1952. he served as the chairman of the Committee on Public Lands in the Eightieth United States Congress (1947 to 1949) and the chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs in the Eighty-third United States Congress. A steadfast opponent of statehood for the Alaska Territory during most of his career in the Senate, he changed his mind during the last few months of his life.^[1] He died in office on the night of July 1, 1954, following a stroke that had occurred earlier in the day.

Robert B. Crosby, governor of Nebraska at the time of Butler's death, appointed Samuel Williams Reynolds to fill his seat.

References

1. "The Political Graveyard". Butler, Hugh Alfred. Retrieved January 11, 2006. 
2. "Congressional Bioguide". Butler, Hugh Alfred. Retrieved January 11, 2006. 

• This article incorporates facts obtained from: Lawrence Kestenbaum, The Political Graveyard 

• United States Congress. "Hugh A. Butler (id: B001177)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 

External links

• Hugh A. Butler papers at Nebraska State Historical Society

United States Senators from Nebraska
Class 1	Tipton Paddock Van Wyck Paddock Allen Hayward Allen Dietrich Burkett G. Hitchcock Howell Thompson Hunter Burke Butler Reynolds Hruska Zorinsky Karnes Kerrey Nelson Fischer
Class 2	Thayer P. Hitchcock Saunders Manderson Thurston Millard Brown Norris Wherry Seaton Griswold Bowring Abel Curtis Exon Hagel Johanns Sasse

Chairmen of the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Public Lands (1816–1921)	Morrow Williams Thomas Barton King Kane Poindexter Ewing Walker Smith Woodbridge Breese Felch Borland Dodge Stuart Johnson Harlan Pomeroy Sprague Oglesby McDonald Plumb Dolph Berry Dubois Hansbrough Nelson Smoot Chamberlain Myers Smoot
Public Lands and Surveys (1921–1947)	Smoot Lenroot Ladd Stanfield Nye Kendrick Wagner Adams Hatch
Interior and Insular Affairs (1947–1977)	Butler O'Mahoney Butler Cordon Murray Anderson Jackson
Energy and Natural Resources (1977–)	Jackson McClure Johnston F. Murkowski Bingaman F. Murkowski Bingaman Domenici Bingaman Wyden Landrieu L. Murkowski