When and where was Benjamin Franklin Butler born?
Benjamin Franklin Butler was born on the 5th of November 1818 in Deerfield, New Hampshire. He grew up as the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler.
Benjamin Franklin Butler was born on the 5th of November 1818 in Deerfield, New Hampshire. He grew up as the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler.
Benjamin Butler commanded the first Union expedition to Ship Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast in December 1861. In May 1862 he led the force that captured New Orleans following the occupation by the Navy after the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip.
Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard nicknamed him Butler the Beast despite leaving his wife under Butler's personal care. This title followed incidents including spitting in officers' faces and pouring chamber pots full of human excrement on patrolling soldiers.
Butler became one of the managers prosecuting President Andrew Johnson before the Senate in early 1868. He served as lead prosecutor among House-appointed impeachment managers during the trial proceedings while Thaddeus Stevens was the principal guiding force behind the effort.
Butler wrote initial version of Civil Rights Act of 1871 also known as Ku Klux Klan Act. Along with Republican senator Charles Sumner Butler proposed Civil Rights Act of 1875 banning racial discrimination in public accommodations.