Andrew Pickens Butler

U. S. Senator, South Carolina, 1846-1857

Born: November 19, 1796, Edgefield, South Carolina.

• Attended Doctor Waddell's Academy at Willington, Abbeville County, South Carolina
  
• South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia, South Carolina, graduate, 1817.
  
• Studied law, was admitted to the South Carolina bar, 1818, and practiced in Columbia, Edgefield, Lexington, Barnwell, and Newberry, South Carolina.
  
• Member of the South Carolina State House of Representatives.
  
• Served in the South Carolina State Senate, 1824-1833.
  
• Appointed an aide on the staff of South Carolina Governor Manning, December 1824, and as such attended General Lafayette on his visit to the South Carolina, March 1825.
  
• Appointed South Carolina Judge of the Session Court, 1833.
  
• Judge of the South Carolina State Court of Common Pleas, 1835-1846.
  
• Appointed and subsequently elected from South Carolina as a State Rights Democrat to the U. S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George McDuffie.
  
• Re-elected in 1848 and again in 1854, serving from December 4, 1846, until his death in 1857.

Died: May 25, 1857, Edgefield, South Carolina.
Buried: Big Creek Butler Churchyard, Edgefield, South Carolina.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)