serviceyears branch death_date allegiance birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place profession battles term_start spouse rank name resting_place predecessor birth_place party state district successor article_title
1814 -- 1820 united states navy 25 september 1850 united states of america 01 february 1790 march 4 , 1843 south carolina college fort gibson , indian territory doctor , indian agent war of 1812 march 4 , 1841 jane tweedy perry surgeon william butler van buren , arkansas waddy thompson , jr. edgefield district , south carolina whig south carolina 6th isaac e. holmes william butler -lrb- 1790 -- 1850 -rrb-

william butler -lrb- 1790 -- 1850 -rrb-

william butler -lrb- february 1 , 1790 -- september 25 , 1850 -rrb- was a united states representative from south carolina .
he was a son of william butler -lrb- 1759 -- 1821 -rrb- , brother of andrew butler , and father of matthew calbraith butler , all of whom served in the united states congress .
his brother pierce mason butler was governor of south carolina from 1836 to 1838 .
butler was born near the present town of saluda , south carolina .
he graduated from south carolina college at columbia , south carolina in 1810 .
he had studied medicine and was licensed to practice .
during the war of 1812 , he served as a united states navy surgeon at the battle of new orleans .
while stationed in rhode island in 1819 , he married jane tweedy perry .
she was a daughter of christopher raymond perry , and was a sister to oliver hazard perry and matthew calbraith perry .
butler served in the navy until june 6 , 1820 , when he resigned .
in 1825 he moved to greenville , south carolina where he began practice as a country doctor .
he was elected as a whig to the twenty-seventh congress -lrb- march 4 , 1841 -- march 4 , 1843 -rrb- .
he served as agent of the cherokee indians from may 29 , 1849 , until his death the following year in fort gibson , indian territory -lrb- now oklahoma -rrb- .
he was buried near van buren , arkansas .
