Pierce or Piers Butler may refer to: *

Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory (1539) also known as Red Piers (Irish ''Piers Ruadh''), was from the Polestown–– branch of the Butler family of Ireland. In the succession crisis at the death of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl ...

(c. 1467 – 26 August 1539), Anglo-Irish nobleman in the Peerage of Ireland *

Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye, otherwise Viscount Galmoy, (21 March 1652 – 18 June 1740) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman. He was descended from the 10th Earl of Ormond. He was the son of Edward Butler, 2nd Viscount Galmoye and Eleanor White ...

(1652–1740), Anglo-Irish nobleman in the Peerage of Ireland *

Pierce Butler, 4th Viscount Ikerrin Pierce Butler, 4th Viscount Ikerrin (c. 1677 – 1711), was an Irish peer, politician and professional soldier who rose to the rank of brigadier general under Queen Anne. He was outlawed as a Jacobite in 1690, when he was probably still in his ...

(c. 1677–1711), Irish peer, politician and soldier *

Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet of Cloughgrenan (a townland near Carlow), PC (Ire) (1670 – 17 April 1732) was an Irish politician and baronet. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet and his wife Jane Boyle, daughter of the ...

(1670–1732), Irish Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Carlow County *

Pierce Butler (American politician) Pierce Butler (July 11, 1744February 15, 1822) was an Irish-American South Carolina rice planter, slaveholder, politician, officer in the Revolutionary War, and Founding Father of the United States. He served as a state legislator, a member of ...

(1744–1822), U.S. Senator and Founding Father from South Carolina *

Pierce Butler (Kilkenny MP, born 1774) Pierce Butler (6 May 1774 – 18 August 1846) was an Irish politician in the United Kingdom House of Commons. Butler was the son of Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret and Lady Henrietta Butler. He married Anne March, daughter of Thomas Ma ...

(1774–1846), Irish Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons for Kilkenny *

Pierce Mason 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 ...

(1798–1847), American soldier and politician, Governor of South Carolina *Pierce Mease Butler (died 1867), American plantation owner, husband of actress

Fanny Kemble Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 180915 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry ...

, and proprietor of the Great Slave Auction, grandson of the senator *

Pierce Somerset Butler Pierce Somerset Butler (26 January 1801 – 28 July 1865) was an Irish politician in the United Kingdom House of Commons. He was the son of Hon. Pierce Butler and Anne March. He married Jessy Anne Bryan on 3 February 1835 in London at St Geor ...

(1801–1865), Irish Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons for Kilkenny, son of the previous MP *

Pierce Butler (judge) Pierce Butler (March 17, 1866 – November 16, 1939) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1939. He was a staunch conservative and was regarded as a part ...

(1866–1939), U.S. Supreme Court Justice * Pierce Butler (Irish politician, born 1922) (1922–1999), Irish Fine Gael Senator

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