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See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
BUTLER, See also:BENJAMIN See also:FRANKLIN (1818-1893) , See also:American lawyer, soldier and politician, was See also:born in See also:Deerfield, New See also:Hampshire, on the 5th of See also:November 1818. He graduated at See also:Waterville (now See also:Colby) See also:College in 1838, was admitted to the See also:Massachusetts See also:bar in 1840, began practice at See also:Lowell, Massachusetts, and See also:early attained distinction as a lawyer, particularly in criminal cases. Entering politics as a Democrat, he first attracted See also:general See also:attention by his violent See also:campaign in Lowell in advocacy of the passage of a See also:law establishing a ten-See also:hour See also:day for labourers; he was a member of the Massachusetts See also:House of Representatives in 1853, and of the See also:state See also:senate in 1859, and was a delegate to the Democratic See also:national conventions from 1848 to 186o. In that of 186o at See also:Charleston he advocated the nomination of See also:Jefferson See also:Davis and opposed See also:Stephen A. See also:Douglas, and in the ensuing campaign he supported See also:Breckinridge.
After the See also:Baltimore See also:riot at the opening of the See also:Civil See also:War, Butler, as a brigadier-general in the state See also:militia, was sent by See also:Governor See also:John A. See also:Andrew, with a force of Massachusetts troops, to reopen communication between the See also:Union states and the Federal See also:capital. By his energetic and careful See also:work Butler achieved his purpose without fighting, and he was soon afterwards made See also:major-general, U.S.V. Whilst in command at Fortress See also:Monroe, he declined to return to their owners fugitive slaves who had come within his lines, on the ground that, as labourers for fortifications, &c., they were See also:contraband of war, thus originating the phrase " contraband " as applied to the negroes. In theconduct of See also:tactical operations Butler was almost uniformly unsuccessful, and his first See also:action at Big See also:Bethel, Va., was a humiliating defeat for the National arms. Later in 1861 he commanded an expeditionary force, which, in See also:conjunction with the See also:navy, took Forts Hatteras and See also:Clark, N.C. In 1862 he commanded the force which occupied New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans. In the See also:administration of that See also:city he showed See also:great firmness and severity. New Orleans was unusually healthy and orderly during the Butler regime. Many of his acts, however, gave great offence, particularly the seizure of $800,000 'which had been deposited in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of the Dutch See also:consul, and an See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, issued after some provocation, on May 15th, that if any woman should " insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the See also:United States, she shall be regarded and shall be held liable to be treated as a woman of the See also:town plying her avocation." This order provoked protests both in the See also:North and the See also:South, and also abroad, particularly in See also:England and See also:France, and it was doubtless the cause of his removal in See also:December 1862. On the 1st of See also:June he had executed one W. B. Mumford, who had torn down a United States See also:flag placed by See also:Farragut on the United States See also:mint; and for this See also:execution he was denounced (Dec. 1862) by See also:President Davis as " a felon deserving capital See also:punishment," who if captured should be reserved for execution. In the campaign of 1864 he was placed at the See also:head of the See also:Army of the See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James, which he commanded creditably in several battles. But his mismanagement of the expedition against Fort See also:Fisher, N.C., led to his recall by General See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant in December.
He was a Republican representative in See also:Congress from 1867 to 1879, except in 1875–1877. In Congress he was conspicuous as a See also:Radical Republican in Reconstruction legislation, and was one of the managers selected by the House to conduct the See also:impeachment, before the Senate, of President See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, opening the See also:case and taking the most prominent See also:part in it on his See also:side; he exercised a marked See also:influence over President Grant and was regarded as his spokesman in the House, and he was one of the foremost See also:advocates of the See also:payment in " See also:greenbacks " of the See also:government bonds. In 1871 he was a defeated See also:candidate for governor of Massachusetts, and also in 1879 when he ran on the Democratic and Greenback tickets, but in 1882 he was elected by the Democrats who got no other state offices. In 1883 he was defeated on renomination. As presidential nominee of the Greenback and See also:Anti-Monopolist parties, he polled 175,370 votes in 1884, when he had bitterly opposed the nomination by the Democratic party of Grover See also:Cleveland, to defeat whom he tried to " throw " his own votes in Massachusetts and New See also:York to the Republican candidate. His professional income as a lawyer was estimated at $1oo,000 per annum shortly before his See also:death at See also:Washington, D.C., on the rrth of See also:January 1893. He was an able but erratic See also:administrator and soldier, and a brilliant lawyer. As a politician he excited See also:bitter opposition, and was charged, apparently with See also:justice, with corruption and venality in conniving at and sharing the profits of illicit See also:trade with the Confederates carried on by his See also:brother at New Orleans and by his brother-in-law in the See also:department of See also:Virginia and North Carolina, while General Butler was in command.
See James See also:Parton, Butler in New Orleans (New York, 1863), which, however, deals inadequately with the charges brought against Butler; and The Autobiography and See also:Personal Reminiscences of Major-General B. F. Butler: Butler's See also:Book (New York, 1893), to be used with caution as regards facts.
End of Article: BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
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