Thomas Langford Butler

Thomas Langford Butler (April 10, 1789 – October 21, 1880) was an early 19th-century United States Army officer and Kentucky state legislator, serving in the Kentucky General Assembly in 1826 and 1847. He and several of his family members were closely associated with Andrew Jackson before and after the Battle of New Orleans. In 1859, he built the Butler-Turpin House at what is now General Butler State Resort Park in Kentucky.

Biography Butler was born April 10, 1789, at Lexington, Kentucky, He was the oldest son of the 10 children, five boys and five girls, including 1848 U.S. vice presidential candidate William O. Butler. In 1796, his family moved to Port William, Kentucky, now Carrollton, Kentucky. He studied business with Thomas Bodley, and "here he became the expert accountant and correct business man that distinguished him throughout his life." After the battle he and his brother William O. Butler were breveted major, Thomas L. Butler resigned as Jackson's aide-de-camp and was replaced by his younger brother W. O. Butler. After he resigned his commission in the army, he was appointed surveyor and inspector of the port of New Orleans by president James Madison, serving briefly.

He built what is known as the Butler–Turpin House in Carrollton, Kentucky, in 1859. The house is preserved as part of General Butler State Resort Park.

He died at age 91 in Louisville, Kentucky. He was buried at the Butler Family Cemetery along with his father Percival Butler and his brother William O. Butler.

Personal life In January 1811, he married his cousin Sarah Hawkins, "daughter of the eccentric Martin Hawkins, of Fayette". They had three children, all of whom pre-deceased him. His daughter Mary Ellen Butler married Philip Osbourne Turpin and had issue but she died of tuberculosis. Turpin was a farmer and also a Kentucky state legislator. Butler lived in old age with his son-in-law and grandchildren.