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	Benjamin Franklin Butler - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER (1818-1893), American lawyer, soldier and politician, was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, on the 5th of November 1818.
		At the time of the Baltimore riot which opened the Civil War, Butler, as a brigadier-general in the state militia, was sent by Governor John A. Andrew,with a force of Massachusetts troops, to reopen communication between the Union states and the Federal capital.
		In the conduct of tactical operations Butler was almost uniformly unsuccessful, and his first action at Big Bethel, Va., was a humiliating defeat for the National arms.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BUTLER_BENJAMIN_FRANKLIN.htm (490 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Butler (lawyer) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Benjamin Franklin Butler (December 17, 1795–November 8, 1858) was a lawyer, legislator and Attorney General of the United States.
		Butler was district attorney of Albany County from 1821 to 1824.
		Butler was a member of the New York state legislature from 1827 to 1833.
	www.msn988.info /en/Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_(lawyer).htm (305 words)

	Butler
		He was a politician, serving in the military, in a war, commanding an infamous Army, offending nearly all, and might - had he not considered it a joke - have become President of the United States.
		Major-General Benjamin Franklin Butler, in command of the Army of the James, was a former lawyer and Democratic politician.
		Butler was described as "plug-ugly" by some, overbearing by most, and a few people would even admit that the General was resourceful, flexible and had a quick mind.
	www.mindspring.com /~mtmitchell/Butler.html (926 words)

	Benjamin F. Butler - Likeness of New Hampshire War Heroes & Personages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Butler allied himself with the new Free Soil Party, "and on election day, November 10, 1851, the town of Lowell cast 8,000 votes in a district of 800 registered voters.....When the error was discovered the Whigs demanded a revote....." (Hearn op cit., p.
		Butler was colonel of the Lowell City Guard, however, so no militia showed up, and the meeting was such a success that Butler was carried on the shoulders of the multitude who came to hear him.
		Butler got four percent of the vote; but with the nation soon to be at war Butler battled with Massachusetts Governor Andrew and got permission to raise a state regiment which would help ensure order at Lincoln's inauguration.
	www.nh.gov /nhdhr/warheroes/butlerb.html (1145 words)

	Butler, Benjamin Franklin: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
		Benjamin Franklin Butler achieved prominence as a politician and military officer.
		Butler was born November 5, 1818, in Deer-field, New Hampshire.
		After six months, Butler was reassigned to the Eastern Virginia-North Carolina area and commanded the Army of the James in...
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/butler-benjamin-franklin-2 (182 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Butler - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Butler, Benjamin Franklin 1818-93, American politician and Union general in the Civil War, b.
		In May, 1864, as commander of the Army of the James, Butler was defeated by Beauregard at Drewry's Bluff and was bottled up at Bermuda Hundred until Grant crossed the James in June.
		A Samuel Johnson allusion in a letter to Benjamin Franklin explained and amplified.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-butlrb1818.html (497 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician) Summary
		Benjamin Franklin Butler (December 14, 1795 - November 8, 1858), lawyer and politician, was descended from Jonathan Butler, who settled at Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1724.
		History seems to have forgotten Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893), though he was one of the most colorful-and reviled--figures in American politics in his day.
		Benjamin Franklin Butler(November 5 1818 – January 11 1893) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as its governor.
	www.bookrags.com /Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_(politician) (155 words)

	AllRefer.com - Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1818–93, American politician and Union general in the Civil War (U.S. ...
		Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1818–93, American politician and Union general in the Civil War, U.S. History, Biographies
		Benjamin Franklin Butler 1818–93, American politician and Union general in the Civil War, b.
		Butler was (1877–79) an independent Greenbacker in Congress.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/ButlrB1818.html (486 words)

	BUTLER, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893) Guide to Research Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Letters written while Benjamin Franklin Butler was Governor of Massachusetts to a wide variety of correspondents including state and federal government officials, military officers, newspaper editors, railroad officials, leaders of local political organizations.
		In the letter, Benjamin Butler regarding the strong case; “I don’t think you are carrying out the contract in the strong case.
		The document reveals Benjamin Butler’s thinking on the subject, and the fine line he was forced to walk in dealing with slavery-related issues.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=B001174 (1841 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Butler remained at Annapolis, where his active nature found full employment in providing for, and forwarding the troops, which now began to pour into the city by thousands.
		General Butler's return home was a series of honorable welcomes from the cities and communities of the loyal States through which he passed, and he was presented, by Congress, with one of the captured swords of the rebel General Twiggs.
		The plan was partially and handsomely carried out by Butler and Kautz, the latter of whom entered the city and maintained a hand-to-hand fight for sometime; but the enterprise was finally rendered abortive by General Gillmore's declining, with the force at his command, to attack the rebel works.
	www.all-biographies.com /politicians/benjamin_franklin_butler.htm (4424 words)

	Green Mountain Civil War Round Table
		The title is somewhat misleading in that the biography begins with Benjamin Franklin Butler's ancestors and tells of his early education.
		It dwells on his career as a prominent Massachusetts lawyer and politician, is detailed in his military experiences through Baltimore, Annapolis, Fort Monroe, Hatteras Inlet, and, of course, elaborates on his Military Administration of New Orleans which is the main subject of the book.
		In 1863, Gen. Butler was at his home in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the euphemism of the day, awaiting orders; his 'wilderness' year.
	www.beerbritain.com /ButlerinNewOrleans.htm (830 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Butler
		American lawyer, soldier and politician, born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, on the 5th of November 1818.
		After the Baltimore riot at the opening of the Civil War, Butler, as a brigadier-general in the state militia, was sent by Governor John A. Andrew, with a force of Massachusetts troops, to reopen communication between the Union states and the Federal capital.
		In the conduct of tactical operations Butler was almost uniformly unsuccessful, and his first action at Big Bethel, Virginia, was a humiliating defeat for the National arms.
	www.nndb.com /people/171/000102862 (467 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Butler
		Ben Butler really didn’t care that he was a bad general; he was a good politician, and knew that he had to be a general to have the sort of post-war career he wanted.
		Butler made a vital decision: he refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, instead declaring runaways “contraband of war”, thus admitting there was a war and simultaneously making it about slavery rather than states’ rights.
		Butler simply ordered that any woman who insulted or showed contempt for U.S. personnel be treated as a prostitute.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/PeopleView.Cfm?PID=16 (937 words)

	Children's Literature Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Benjamin Franklin is one of the best known of America's founding fathers, but you might enjoy learning a bit more about his childhood.
		Benjamin Franklin is a person who lived his life to fullest in every possible way, and thanks to all of his hard work and the many different inventions and discoveries that he made, today's society still reaps many benefits.
		Franklin was convinced that lightning and electricity were the same when electricity flowed through the metal rod and the kite string into the brass key where it stopped.
	www.childrenslit.com /ft_franklin.html (7230 words)

	Farm School: A Benjamin Franklin Education
		Franklin's collection [of 4,276 volumes] was one of the largest private libraries in America at the time and took up the entire second floor of an addition he built on his Philadelphia home...
		When Franklin died in 1790, the books were scattered among a number of institutions and relatives.
		The audiobook version would be just the ticket to listen to while strolling about the Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World exhibition, which has moved on from its very successful stay at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, where it was the centerpiece of the city's tercentenary celebrations.
	farmschoolathome.blogspot.com /2006/05/benjamin-franklin-education.html (1244 words)

	Temple's Diary A Tale of Benjamin Franklin's Family
		Franklin and his wife are buried in the Christ Church Burial Ground, several blocks from the church.
		Benjamin and Deborah met when they were both around seventeen, shortly after he arrived in Philadelphia, a disheveled and penniless youth on the run from Boston.
		Benjamin was unwilling to marry the woman in question — don't ask me who she was — I don't know — but he wanted to take responsibility for the child.
	www.ushistory.org /franklin/temple/single.htm (20269 words)

	Benjamin Butler by Edward Augustus Brackett
		Union general Benjamin Franklin Butler was something of a novelty.
		An arch Democrat fighting a Republican war, Butler was a politician in military garb.
		Butler may have posed for it during one of his leaves from the army over the previous two years.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /leaders_butler.html (196 words)

	BUTLER, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Butler ancestry of Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler in America.
		Benjamin F. Butler, upon his bill to authorize the issue of a national currency, to assure its stability and elasticity, lessen the interest on the public debt, and reduce the rate of interest.
		Merrill, Louis T. General Benjamin F. Butler as a Radical Leader During the Administration of President Andrew Johnson.”; Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1937.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=B001174 (640 words)

	Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-93, American politician and Union general in the Civil War. The Columbia Encyclopedia, ...
		Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-93, American politician and Union general in the Civil War.
		Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818–93, American politician and Union general in the Civil War
		1818–93, American politician and Union general in the Civil War, b.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bu/ButlrB1818.html (402 words)

	Biography for: Benjamin Franklin Butler
		Butler was an American politician and Civil War general.
		As military governor of Baltimore in 1861 Butler arrested JW's patron, Walter Winans, and as military governor of New Orleans in 1862 he became a notorious target of Southern anger (and acquired the nickname 'Spoons').
		He was removed from his command in North Carolina in 1864 for general incompetence.
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Butl_BF.htm (81 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Benjamin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, in 1818.
		Before the war he was a lawyer and a politician.
		When his Union army occupied New Orleans, the citizens called him ''Beast Butler.'' After the war he was a Massachusetts congressman in the U. S House of Representatives.
	www.henry.k12.ga.us /pges/instruction/kid-pages/cw/butler.htm (105 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Butler Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		A brilliant lawyer from Massachusetts, Butler served in Congress for a number of years, but is best remembered for his Civil War leadership, and the enmity he earned at home and in Washington for his uncompromising views.
		He was the sixth child of a father from whom he inherited his adventurous streak: John Butler captained a company of dragoons during the War of 1812, and later became a privateer-and possibly a pirate--plying the Caribbean seas.
		As a boy, Butler was an eager student and avid reader.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/benjamin-franklin-butler (222 words)

	mybookshop, video and books on Benjamin Franklin.
		Benjamin Franklin and his circle;: A catalogue of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 11 through September 13, 1936
		Benjamin Franklin in Scotland and Ireland, 1759 and 1771, (Palestine exploration fund.
		Benjamin Franklin turns 300: a new coffee-table book explains why we still celebrate the life of the oldest, and most modern, of America's founding fathers...
	www.angelfire.com /biz7/mybookshop/store/bfrank.htm (9183 words)

	Sanborn's Accomplices in the Treasury (The Nation, April 9, 1874)
		The article focuses on various contracts signed by politician Benjamin Franklin Butler.
		It draws the attention of readers to the Sanborn amendment, which was put before the U.S. Congress.
		Reports of Sanborn invariably refer to his contracts of August and October 1872 as made with politicians George S. Boutwell and A. Richardson.
	www.thenation.com /archive/detail/14106067 (115 words)

	Butler, Benjamin Franklin - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Butler, Benjamin Franklin - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK or LOGIN
		The government, severely criticized both at home and abroad for his actions, finally removed him.
		In May, 1864, as commander of the Army of the James, Butler was defeated by Beauregard at Drewry's Bluff
	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=ButlrB1818 (465 words)

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