Biography:

Benjamin Franklin Butler was a lawyer, member US House of Representatives, and Governor of Massachusetts.  He was born in 1818 in Deerfield, New Hampshire and in 1838 graduated from Waterville College in Maine.  Butler served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1853 and later in 1859 in the State senate.  He became a representative in the US House of Representatives in 1867, and in 1868 served as one of the managers in the Senatorial impeachment hearings against President Andrew Johnson.  He served as Massachusetts Governor from 1883-1884 and died in Washington DC in 1893.