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See also:VOORHEES, See also:DANIEL See also:WOLSEY (1827-1897) , See also:American lawyer and See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born in 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:county, See also:Ohio, on the 26th of See also:September 1827, of Dutch and Irish descent. During his See also:infancy his parents removed to See also:Fountain county, See also:Indiana, near Veedersburg. He graduated at Indiana See also:Asbury (now De Pauw) University, See also:Greencastle, Indiana, in 1849; was admitted to the See also:bar in 1850, and began to practise in See also:Covington, Indiana, whence in 1857 he removed to Terre Haute. In 1858-6o he was U.S. See also:district-See also:attorney for Indiana; in 1861-66 and in 1869-73 he was a Democratic representative in See also:Congress; and in 1897-97 he was a member of the U.S. See also:Senate. During the See also:Civil See also:War he seems to have been affiliated with the Knights of the See also:Golden Circle, but he was not so See also:radical as See also:Vallandigham and others. He was a member of the See also:committee on See also:finance throughout his service in the Senate, and his first speech in that See also:body was a See also:defence of the See also:free coinage of See also:silver and a plea for the preservation of the full legal See also:tender value of greenback currency, though in 1893 he voted to See also:repeal the silver See also:purchase clause of the See also:Sherman See also:Act. He had an active See also:part in bringing about the See also:building of the new Congressional Library. He was widely known as an effective See also:advocate, especially in See also:jury trials. In allusion to his unusual stature he was called " the Tall Sycamore of the See also:Wabash." He died in See also:Washington, D.C., on the loth of See also:April 1897.
Some of his speeches were published under the See also:title, See also:Forty Years of See also:Oratory (2 vols., See also:Indianapolis, Indiana, 1898), edited by his three sons and his daughter, Harriet C. Voorhees, and with a See also:biographical See also:sketch by T. B. See also:Long.
End of Article: VOORHEES, DANIEL WOLSEY (1827-1897)
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