{{Short description|American politician (1798–1850)}} {{Redirect|Chester Butler|Welsh rugby league international|Chester Butler (rugby league)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Chester Pierce Butler | birth_date = {{birth date|1798|03|21}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1850|10|05|1798|03|21}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.}} | state1 = Pennsylvania | district1 = 11th | term_start1 = March 4, 1847 | term_end1 = October 5, 1850 | preceded1 = Owen D. Leib | succeeded1 = John Brisbin | office2 = Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives | term2 = 1832–1833<br>1838–1839<br>1840<br>1844 | party = Anti-Mason<br> Whig | alma_mater = Princeton College<br>Litchfield Law School | death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | image = Chester Pierce Butler.jpg }}
'''Chester Pierce Butler''' (March 21, 1798 – October 5, 1850) was an American politician who served as an Anti-Masonic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
== Early life and education == Chester P. Butler was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He attended Wilkes-Barre Academy and graduated from Princeton College in 1817. He served as trustee of Wilkes-Barre Academy from 1818 to 1838 and served as secretary. He studied law at Litchfield Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1820.
== Career == Butler operated a private legal practice in Wilkes-Barre. He was register and recorder of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, from 1821 to 1824. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1832 elected as an Anti-Mason, and again in 1838, 1839, and 1843 as a Whig.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chester Pierce Butler |url=https://archives.house.state.pa.us/people/member-biography?ID=8918 |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives}}</ref>
Butler was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served until his death in Philadelphia in 1850. He was interred in the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
==See also== *List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1790–1899)
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==Sources== {{CongBio|B001175}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/butler2.html The Political Graveyard]
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