Chester Pierce 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 1838 1839 1843
Personal details
Born	March 21, 1798 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Died	October 5, 1850 (aged 52)
Political party	Whig

Chester Pierce Butler (March 21, 1798 – October 5, 1850) was a 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 was 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, was admitted to the bar in 1820 and commenced 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, 1838, 1839, and again in 1843.

Butler was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served until his death in Philadelphia in 1850. Interment in Hollenbeck Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

Sources

• Chester Pierce Butler at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard