Samuel Butman

Samuel Butman (April 30, 1788 – October 9, 1864) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine.

Late in life he entered the Maine State Senate, where he served as the chamber's president.

[1] His family moved to Dixmont in present-day Maine (then a region of Massachusetts) in 1805.

There his father, an American Revolutionary War veteran, worked as a farmer.

During the War of 1812, Butman served as captain of a militia company that participated in the ill-fated Battle of Hampden.