Edward G. W. Butler

Edward George Washington Butler (February 22, 1800 – September 5, 1888) was an American landowner and military officer.

[4] Upon receiving his commission, he first served as a military land surveyor and then in an artillery unit.

This rejection caused a slow-burn political scandal and Gaines and Butler would likely both eventually have been discharged from the regular army as a result had Jackson not won the 1828 presidential election.

[10] Edward and Frances relocated scores of Mount Vernon slaves to their sugar plantation in the lower Mississippi River valley.

[12]: 426 His son Edward G. W. Butler Jr. was appointed Secretary of the American Legation in Berlin in 1856.