Robert B. Mahone

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Robert Butler Mahone (October 1859-August 18, 1914) (better known as R. Butler Mahone) was appointed Consul of the United States at Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, across the U.S.-Mexico border from Laredo, Texas on January 22, 1898 by U.S. President William McKinley (1843-1901).

He was the son of Otelia Butler Mahone and former Confederate General and United States Senator William Mahone One of Otelia and Billy Mahone's 3 children to survice infancy, he had an older brother, William T. Mahone Jr. (1856-1927) and a younger sister, Otelia (née Mahone) McGill.

Robert Mahone's maternal grandfather, Dr. Robert Butler, of Smithfield in Isle of Wight County had been Treasurer of the State of Virginia when he died in 1853.

Robert Mahone had been assigned to his father as private secretary for a number of years and afterward was in the government service. He is buried in Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia.