Mounce G. Butler

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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.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3]

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