William Moore Butt (1805–1888) was a politician in

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. Butt arrived in

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in 1851 from

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, where he had been an Inferior Court judge, and became a merchant.Garrett (1969) p.353 He served as a councilman in 1853. The next year he was elected the eighth mayor.Garrett (1969) p.372

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