1820 United States House Of Representatives Election In Louisiana
Louisiana elected its member July 3–5, 1820. See also * 1820 and 1821 United States House of Representatives elections * List of United States representatives from Louisiana 1820 Louisiana United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the Lower house, lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the United States Senate, Senate being ...

Thomas Butler (Louisiana Politician)
Thomas Butler (April 14, 1785 – August 7, 1847) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1818 to 1821 representing the state of Louisiana. He served one and a half terms as a Democratic-Republican. Butler was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was selected in a special election to finish the term of Thomas B. Robertson in 1818 and was re-elected the same year to the Sixteenth Congress. He was later a member of the Whig party and of the American Party. He died in St. Louis, Missouri. Butler ran for Governor of Louisiana in the 1824 election but placed last with a mere 3% of the vote. In 1828 Butler again ran unsuccessfully for governor, placing second behind fellow National Republican Pierre Derbigny Pierre Augustin Charles Bourguignon Derbigny (June 30, 1769 – October 6, 1829) was the sixth Governor of Louisiana. Born in 1769, at Laon, France, the eldest son of Augustin Bourguignon d'Herbigny who was President of the Directoire de l'Aisne .... ...
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