Martin Butterfield
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Martin Butterfield (December 8, 1790 - August 6, 1866) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, he attended the common schools and moved to Palmyra, Wayne County, New York in 1828 and engaged in the hardware business and also in the manufacture of rope and cordage. He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848 and was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1861; he was chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. Butterfield declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1860 and resumed his former business pursuits. In 1866 he died in Palmyra; interment was in the Village Cemetery.
