Thomas Butler (U. S. Representative)

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Thomas Butler (April 14, 1785August 7, 1847) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served one and a half terms as a Republican.

Butler was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was elected in a special election to finish the term of Thomas B. Robertson and was reelected to the Sixteenth Congress. He was later a member of the Whig party and of the American Party. He died in St. Louis.


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Preceded by
Thomas B. Robertson
United States Representative for the 1st Congressional District of Louisiana
1818—1821
Succeeded by
Edward Douglass White Sr.