Walter Halben Butler

Walter Halben Butler (February 13, 1852 - April 24, 1931) was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.

Born in Springboro, Pennsylvania, Butler moved to Minnesota in 1868 with his parents, who settled in Mankato, Blue Earth County.He attended public and private schools, and was graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1875.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Princeton, Wisconsin.He moved to Iowa in 1876 and taught school at La Porte City until 1878 and at Manchester until 1880.He moved to West Union, Iowa, in 1883 and became owner and publisher of the Fayette County Union.He served as superintendent of the tenth division, railway mail service, at St. Paul, Minnesota from 1885 to 1889.He returned to West Union, Iowa, and resumed his former newspaper pursuits.

Butler was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress.He moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1897 and to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1907.He engaged in the real estate and loan business and, later, in banking.He died in Kansas City, Missouri, April 24, 1931.He was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery.

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