About Emmett Ethridge Butler
Lived 1908 – 1955 (aged 46–47). Emmett Ethridge Butler was an American physician.
Emmett Ethridge Butler (1908-1955) was a physician practicing in Gainesville, Georgia.
He was born in Jefferson and grew up in Macon. He was a graduate of Morehouse College. He received his M.D. from Meharry Medical College in 1934.
He was the first African-American to be appointed to the Gainesville Board of Education.
He died on May 5, 1955, of carcinoma of the stomach.
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