Butler Gilbert Noble (September 27, 1815 – October 25, 1890) was the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin under Governor Alexander Randall.

Biography

He was born in Geneva, New York. He moved to Wisconsin in 1850. He soon joined the

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. He served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, from Whitewater, Wisconsin, in 1858, and was elected lieutenant governor at the end of the next year, a position in which he served from 1860 until 1862. In 1864, he moved to New York City, where he held jobs first as a weigher in the customs house, then as a

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, then as chief clerk in the seizure room. He died in 1890, from a stroke, in Brooklyn.'Recent Deaths-Butler Gilbert Noble,' Boston Evening Transcript, October 27, 1890, pg. 4

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* * 1815 births 1890 deaths Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin 19th-century American politicians People from Whitewater, Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-WIAssembly-Republican-1810s-stub