Arthur Clarkson Butts (August 23, 1848 – October 12, 1913) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from New York.
There, he was active in the movement to elect Louis J. Heintz Commissioner of Street Improvements for the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards, a consul for the Citizens Committee that urged passage of the People's Bill, and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Citizens' Local Improvement Party in 1891.
He served in the Assembly in 1893 (when he presented bills that provided for a uniform five-cents fare for passengers on both the Suburban and Manhattan elevated railways, appropriated $200,000 a year for five years to improve parks in the New York City Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards, created a State Board of Appropriations to learn what appropriations should and shouldn't be made, and involved devising real property and appointing referees)[4] and 1894 (when he again introduced a bill to provide for a uniform five-cents fare and introduced bills to abolish the Rapid Transit Commission and construct a new bridge over the Harlem River from First Avenue to Willis Avenue).
He was criticized for his reforms by lawyers who practiced before him, and fellow Magistrates held a meeting in protest of his refusal to recognize summons they issued.
[1] Their children were Dr. Arthur C. Jr., Mrs. Florence Human, and Susan H.[10] Butts died at his country home in Westbrook, Connecticut, on October 12, 1913.