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WILLIAM BUTLER

William Orlando Butler was an American soldier and politician. He was born in 1791 and died in 1880. He was an officer in the War of 1812. From 1839 until 1843 he was a Democratic Congressman from Kentucky, and in 1844 failed to be elected as Governor of Kentucky. During the Mexican War he served as a major-general, and was distinguished at the taking of Monterey in 1846. In 1848 he was unsuccessful as the Democratic candidate for Vice-President.
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