| LC control no. | n 85363511 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 |
| Variant(s) | Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893 Butler, Ben, 1818-1893 Butler, Benj. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 Butler, Mr. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 |
| See also | Massachusetts. Governor (1883-1884 : Butler) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 18181105 |
| Death date | 18930111 |
| Place of birth | Deerfield (N.H.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | Massachusetts. Governor United States. Army |
| Profession or occupation | Governors Generals Lawyers Legislators |
| Found in | His Address of Benjamin F. Butler ... 1879. LC in OCLC, 1-23-86 (hdg.: Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893; usage: Benj. F. Butler; Benjamin F. Butler; Ben Butler) William G. Langford, 1878?: p. 1 (Mr. Butler, from the Committee on the Judiciary ... House) Members of Congress since 1789, 1977 (Butler, Benjamin Franklin (grandfather of Butler Ames) (R Mass.) Nov. 5, 1818-Jan. 11, 1893; House 1867-75, 1877-79; Gov. 1883-84 (Greenback & Democrat)) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed January 6, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Butler, Benjamin Franklin; governor of Massachusetts, Civil War general, lawyer, legislator; born 05 November 1818 in Deerfield, New Hampshire, United States; as a Union general, was considered a maverick by the Lincoln administration; issued his infamous "Order No. 28" (1862); was instrumental in reforming labor laws for factory workers in New England (1850s); managed the prosecution's case during the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson (1868); was only one of two white men to show Frederick Douglass courtesy at the National Loyalist Convention in Philadelphia (1866); he and Douglass campaigned together (1872) on behalf of the incumbent president Ulysses S. Grant; died 11 January 1893 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States) |
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