Edward Hubert Butler II (June 19, 1883 – February 19, 1956) was an American publisher and editor of The Buffalo Evening News (1914–1956) and president of radio station WBEN (1930–1956) and WBEN-TV (1948–1956).
[1] He was born on June 19, 1883, to Edward Hubert Butler Sr. in Buffalo, New York.
[2] He attended Nichols and Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Yale University in 1907.
[3] Butler married Kate M. Robinson (1885–1974) in 1909 and had two children, Edward Hubert Butler III (1915–1919) and Kate Robinson Wallis (m. 1921 Bruce E.
[3] Butler assumed the ownership of the Evening News and the family mansion upon the death of his father in 1914.