The Butler-Belmont family is a family of politicians from the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

. * William Butler 1759–1821,

South Carolina )''Animis opibusque parati'' ( for, , Latin, Prepared in mind and resources, links=no) , anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind" , Former = Province of South Carolina , seat = Columbia , LargestCity = Charleston , LargestMetro = ...

State Representative 1787–1795, U.S. Representative from South Carolina 1801–1813. ** William Butler 1790–1850, U.S. Representative from South Carolina 1841–1843. Son of William Butler. **

Andrew Pickens Butler Andrew Pickens Butler (November 18, 1796May 25, 1857) was a United States senator from South Carolina who authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act with Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois. Biography Butler was a son of William Butler and Behethland ...

1796–1857, South Carolina State Representative, South Carolina State Senator 1824–1833, Judge in South Carolina 1835–1846, U.S. Senator from South Carolina 1846–1857. Son of William Butler. **

Pierce M. Butler Pierce Mason Butler (April 11, 1798August 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 Ch ...

1798–1847, Governor of South Carolina 1836–1838. Son of William Butler. ** Milledge Luke Bonham 1813–1890, U.S. Representative from South Carolina 1857–1860, Confederate Representative from South Carolina 1861–1862, Governor of South Carolina 1862–1864. First cousin once removed of William Butler. *** Matthew Butler 1836–1909, South Carolina State Representative 1860 1866, candidate for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina 1870, U.S. Senator from South Carolina 1877–1895. Son of William Butler. ***

James DeWolf Perry James DeWolf Perry (October 3, 1871 – March 20, 1947) was an American Episcopal clergyman and prelate. He was the 7th Bishop of Rhode Island (1911–1946) and the 18th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (1930–1937). Biography The ...

1815–1876, delegate to the Republican National Convention 1868. First cousin of Matthew Butler. *** August Belmont 1816–1890, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

1853–1854, U.S. Minister to Netherlands 1854–1857, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee 1860–1868, delegate to Democratic National Convention 1860 1864 1876. First cousin of Matthew Butler. *** M.L. Bonham, Adjutant General of South Carolina 1885–1890, Circuit Court Judge in South Carolina 1924–1930, Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court 1931–1940, Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court 1940. Son of Milledge Luke Bonham. ****

Perry Belmont Perry Belmont (December 28, 1851 – May 25, 1947) was an American politician and diplomat. He served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1881 to 1888. Early life and education Belmont was born on December 28, 1851, in New York C ...

1851–1947, U.S. Representative from New York 1881–1888, U.S. Minister to Spain 1888–1889, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1892 1896 1900 1904 1912. Son of August Belmont. ****

August Belmont Jr. August Belmont Jr. (February 18, 1853 – December 10, 1924) was an American financier. He financed the construction of the original New York City subway (1900–1904) and for many years headed the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, which ran ...

1853–1924, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1912. Son of August Belmont. **** Oliver Belmont 1958-1908, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1900, U.S. Representative from New York 1901–1903. Son of August Belmont. ****

Joseph C. Grew Joseph Clark Grew (May 27, 1880 – May 25, 1965) was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He is best known as the ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941 and as a high official in the State Department in Washington from 1944 to ...

(1880–1965), U.S. Minister to

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark ...

1920–1921, U.S. Minister to

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

1921–1924, U.S. Ambassador to

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

1927–1932, U.S. Ambassador to Japan 1932–1938. Nephew by marriage of August Belmont. *****

Jay Pierrepont Moffat Jay Pierrepont Moffat (January 7, 1896 – January 25, 1943) was an American diplomat, historian and statesman who, between 1917 and 1943, served the State Department in a variety of posts, including that of United States Ambassador to Canada ...

(1896–1943), U.S. Consul General in Sydney 1935–1937; U.S. Minister to Canada 1940–1943; U.S. Minister to

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

1941–1943. Son-in-law of Joseph C. Grew. ***** Cecil B. Lyon (1903–1993), U.S. Vice Consul in

Havana, Cuba Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

1931; U.S. Vice Consul in

Hong Kong, China Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

1932; U.S. Consul in Tianjin, China 1938; U.S. Ambassador to China 1956–1958; U.S. Ambassador to

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

1964–1967; U.S. Ambassador to the Maldive Islands 1965. Son-in-law of Joseph C. Grew. ******

Jay P. Moffat Jay Pierrepont "Peter" Moffat Jr. (January 17, 1932 – October 23, 2020) was an American diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Chad from 1983 to 1985. He was the first ambassador to the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in N'Djamena. H ...

(1932–2020), U.S. Ambassador to

Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...

1983–1985. Son of Jay Pierrepont Moffat. ******

William Tapley Bennett Jr. William Tapley Bennett Jr. (April 1, 1917 – November 29, 1994) was an American diplomat who served as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic during the 1965 civil war and who recommended that President Johnson intervene with United States troops ...

(1917–1994), U.S. Ambassador to the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...

1964–1966, U.S. Ambassador to

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

1966–1969. Nephew by marriage of Jay Pierrepont Moffat. NOTE: Milledge Luke Bonham was also cousin of U.S. Representative

Preston S. Brooks Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was an American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina, serving from 1853 until his resignation in July 18 ...

. Matthew Butler was also son-in-law of U.S. Representative

Francis W. Pickens Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805/1807January 25, 1869) was a political Democrat and Governor of South Carolina when that state became the first to secede from the United States. A cousin of US Senator John C. Calhoun, Pickens was born into the ...

. James DeWolf Perry was also great-grandson of U.S. Senator William Bradford and grandson of U.S. Senator

James De Wolf James DeWolf (March 18, 1764December 21, 1837) was a slave trader, a privateer during the War of 1812, and a state and national politician. He served as a state legislator for a total of nearly 25 years, and in the 1820s as a United States senat ...

. Jay Pierrepont Moffat was also great-grandnephew of New York City Mayor

Seth Low Seth Low (January 18, 1850 – September 17, 1916) was an American educator and political figure who served as the mayor of Brooklyn from 1881 to 1885, the president of Columbia University from 1890 to 1901, a diplomatic representative of t ...

, nephew of

Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...

State Representative

Seth Low Pierrepont Seth Low Pierrepont (1884–1956) was a United States diplomat and politician. Early life and education Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 25, 1884 to Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, a merchant, and Ellen Low, Pierrepont was one of six children. ...

, brother of New York Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, and brother-in-law of U.S. Ambassador John Campbell White.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Butler-Belmont Family Political families of the United States Belmont family *

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