About Canada Butler
Lived 1821 – 1862 (aged 40–41). Canada Butler was an American politician.
Canada Butler (c. 1821 - December 12, 1862) was a state legislator in Alabama. He lived in Poplar Ridge, Alabama, in Madison County, Alabama. He was a Republican. He died “on duty” and is buried in Montgomery.
He was born about 1821 in Tennessee to Samuel and Margaret (née Layman) Butler.
He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1862.
He married Nancy Maples, and they had 7 children, of whom James Edward Butler was their eldest and Samuel Riley Butler their grandson.
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American politician
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Canada Butler was born in 1821 in Tennessee.
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Canada Butler died on 12 December 1862.
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Canada Butler was a politician.
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Canada Butler was American.
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