Charles C. Butler

Charles Cicero Butler (February 6, 1865 – November 16, 1946) was an attorney who began practicing law in 1891. Within one year he became a deputy district attorney and then was a district court judge. He served as a justice and the chief justice in the Colorado Supreme Court. Butler served as president of the Teller County and Denver Bar Associations and was vice president of the Colorado Bar Association.

Early life and education Charles Cicero Butler was born on February 6, 1865, to Washington Irving and Henrietta Comstock Butler in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father, born in New York, was a lawyer who lived in New York and Wisconsin. In 1868, he moved to New York City and practiced law until his death in 1885. His mother was born in Ohio. Butler was an only child. He worked in a bank. In 1887, he traveled to Gilpin County, Colorado, where he worked as a miner. He then moved to Denver, where he studied law under Robert Collier. The same year, he was admitted to the bar in Colorado.

He was a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from 1926 to 1936, (They were also said to have been married in 1911.)

He suffered a stroke and died on November 16, 1946, at St. Joseph Hospital in Denver. He was 81 years of age. He was buried at the Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.