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    Benjamin Butler

    American general and politician

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  1. Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was an American major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts.

  2. Mar 6, 2024 · A prominent Union officer, Major General Benjamin F. Butler also served as a United States Congressman and as Governor of Massachusetts after the American Civil War.

  3. Benjamin Butler became one of the most disliked generals of the war, upsetting many on both sides of the conflict. Benjamin Butler graduated from Colby College in Maine in 1838, and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1840, where he established a large criminal practice.

  4. Benjamin F. Butler was an American politician and army officer during the American Civil War (1861–65) who championed the rights of workers and black people. A prominent attorney at Lowell, Mass., Butler served two terms in the state legislature (1853, 1859), where he distinguished himself by.

  5. Aug 23, 2019 · Born in New Hampshire, Benjamin Franklin Butler served as a major general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Prior to his Civil War service he was a laywer and served in the Massachusetts state legislature.

  6. May 23, 2024 · Benjamin F. Butler was a controversial, self-aggrandizing, and colorful politician who served as a Union general during the American Civil War (1861–1865). A state senator in Massachusetts, Butler was a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention, where he briefly supported Jefferson Davis. Always popular, he was nevertheless dogged ...

  7. Jul 9, 2019 · Major General Benjamin Butler was a controversial general in the American Civil War who led forces in Virginia, Louisiana, and North Carolina.

  8. Dec 5, 2018 · Benjamin Butler, a lawyer, politician, and general, was one of the most controversial men of the American Civil War. He worked as a lawyer in Massachusetts for about 15 years before the war, acquiring friends as well as enemies.

  9. Benjamin Franklin Butler was an American major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts.

  10. Benjamin Butler summary: Benjamin Butler was the sixth child of John Butler who served in the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812 under Andrew Jackson.

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