Pierce Mason Butler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American politician
Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1798
Place of Birth: Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 22-Dec-1846
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Pierce Mason Butler
- Pierce Mason Butler (April 11, 1798 – August 20, 1847) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the 56th Governor of South Carolina from 1836 to 1838.
- He was killed while serving as colonel of the Palmetto Regiment at the Battle of Churubusco, during the Mexican–American War. Born in Edgefield County, South Carolina, Butler was a son of William Butler (1759–1821) and a brother of Andrew Pickens Butler and William Butler, Jr., all of whom served in the United States Congress.
- He was educated by Moses Waddel at the Willington Academy in Willington, South Carolina. Butler was appointed a second lieutenant in the United States Army in 1818 and rose to the rank of captain before resigning his commission in 1829.
- Following his term as Governor of South Carolina, he became agent to the Cherokee at Fort Gibson (present day Muskogee County, Oklahoma), a post he held until 1846. Following his death in Mexico, Butler's body was returned to South Carolina for burial.
- He was first entombed at Trinity Episcopal Church, just across from the State House.
- In December 1853 he was reburied in the Butler Family Cemetery, in the graveyard of what is now Butler Methodist Church in Saluda County.
- Others buried in the plot are his father, Major General William Butler, his mother, Behethland Foote Moore Butler, a sister, five of his six brothers, Colonel Zachariah Smith Brooks, grandfather of Preston Brooks, and two children of his brother William, the only sibling not buried there.
- He is buried at Christ Episcopal Church in Greenville.
- Collectively they were four Colonels, one General, one Lt.
- Colonel, three Majors, and one Judge and US Senator.
- The General was a member of Congress, too.James C.
- Gardner, who served from 1954 to 1958 as the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, is a descendant of Pierce Mason Butler.
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