page_title: Roderick R. Butler
section_title: Family and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Roderick R. Butler / Family and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: The Roderick Butler House in Mountain City, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Located at 309 N. Church Street, this house was built by Union Civil War veteran and U.S. Congressman Roderick Random Butler (1827–1902) sometime around 1870. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and today is a bed-and-breakfast.
context_page_description: Roderick Random Butler was an American politician who represented Tennessee's 1st district in the United States House of Representatives from 1867 to 1875, and again from 1887 to 1889. He also served several terms in the Tennessee state legislature, and briefly served as a state court judge. An opponent of secession, Butler represented Johnson County at the East Tennessee Convention in 1861, and afterward joined the Union Army.
context_section_description: Butler married Emeline Jane Donnelly, the daughter of a wealthy Taylorsville area farmer, in 1849. The couple had 11 children.  A grandson of Butler, Robert Reyburn Butler, represented an Oregon district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1928 to 1933.
  His private residence in Mountain City, the Butler House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. After the Civil War, the Johnson County community of Smith's Mill was renamed Butler in his honor.
caption: Roderick Butler's mansion in Mountain City, Tennessee
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