{{Short description|American politician (1849–1917)}} {{use mdy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mounce Gore Butler | image = File:Mounce Gore Butler.jpg | state = Tennessee | district = 4th | term_start = March 4, 1905 | term_end = March 3, 1907 | preceded = Morgan C. Fitzpatrick | succeeded = Cordell Hull | birth_date = {{birth date text|May 11, 1849}} | death_date = {{death date and age|February 13, 1917|May 11, 1849}} | birth_place = Gainesboro, Tennessee | death_place = Gainesboro, Tennessee | citizenship = {{US}} | spouse = Nannie DeWitt Butler | profession = Attorney, politician, judge | party = Democratic | alma_mater = Cumberland University | nickname = | allegiance = | branch = | service_years = | rank = | unit = | commands = | battles = | awards = }} '''Mounce Gore Butler''' (May 11, 1849 – February 13, 1917) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 4th congressional district of Tennessee.
==Biography== Butler was born on May 11, 1849, in Gainesboro, Tennessee, in Jackson County, the son of Tennessee's 15th Secretary of State, Thomas H. Butler. Mounce Gore Butler attended the common schools, Old Philomath Academy, and the law department of Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He was admitted to the bar in 1871 and commenced practice in the area of Gainesboro.
==Career== Butler was a delegate to all Democratic state conventions from 1872 to 1916. From 1894 to 1902, he was the attorney general for the fifth judicial circuit of Tennessee.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mounce G. Butler|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001185|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=1 May 2013}}</ref>
Elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth Congress, Butler was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1906. He served from March 4, 1905, to March 3, 1907.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mounce G. Butler|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/mounce_butler/402127|publisher=Govtrack US Congress|accessdate=1 May 2013}}</ref> He resumed the practice of his profession in Gainesboro, Tennessee in Jackson County.
==Death== Butler died in Gainsboro on February 13, 1917. He is interred in Gainesboro Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mounce G. Butler|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/butler6.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=1 May 2013}}</ref>
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==External links== {{CongBio|B001185}} *{{Find a Grave|6910888}}
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