Chester Pierce Butler (March 21, 1798 – October 5, 1850) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

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  • Chester Pierce Butler (March 21, 1798 – October 5, 1850) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Chester P. Butler was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He attended Wilkes-Barre Academy and was graduated from Princeton College in 1817. He served as trustee of Wilkes-Barre Academy from 1818 to 1838 and served as secretary. He studied law at Litchfield Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1820 and commenced practice in Wilkes-Barre. He was register and recorder of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, from 1821 to 1824. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1832, 1838, 1839, and again in 1843. Butler was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served until his death in Philadelphia in 1850. Interment in Hollenbeck Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. (en)
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  • Pennsylvania (en)
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  • 1847 - 1850 (en)
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  • Chester Pierce Butler (March 21, 1798 – October 5, 1850) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. (en)
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  • Chester Pierce Butler (en)
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