About Edward Hubert Butler, Jr.
Lived 1883 – 1956 (aged 72). Edward Hubert Butler, Jr. was an American newspaper editor, publisher, editor and journalist.
Edward Hubert Butler II (June 19, 1883 – February 19, 1956) was an American publisher and editor of The Buffalo Evening News (1914–1956) and president of radio station WBEN (1930–1956) and WBEN-TV (1948–1956).
Biography He was born on June 19, 1883, to Edward Hubert Butler Sr. in Buffalo, New York.
He attended Nichols and Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Yale University in 1907.
Butler married Kate M. Robinson (1885–1974) in 1909 and had two children, Edward Hubert Butler III (1915–1919) and Kate Robinson Wallis (m. 1921 Bruce E. Wallis).
Butler assumed the ownership of the Evening News and the family mansion upon the death of his father in 1914.
He died on February 19, 1956.
Legacy His wife Kate was publisher from 1971 until her death in 1974.
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American publisher
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Edward Hubert Butler, Jr. was born on 19 June 1883.
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Edward Hubert Butler, Jr. died on 19 February 1956.
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Edward Hubert Butler, Jr. was a newspaper editor, publisher, editor and journalist.
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