Thomas Harvey Butler Sr. (October 13, 1819 – May 20, 1889) was an American politician, soldier, attorney and engineer.

Listed as Butler in the official Tennessee Blue Book, Thomas Harvey Butler served as the fifteenth Secretary of State for the State of Tennessee from 1870 to 1873 under Governors Dewitt Clinton Senter and John Calvin Brown.

Isham Harris to the Commissary Office as a Captain[9] of the 25th Tennessee under Colonel Sidney S. Stanton[10] on September 27, 1861 and was honorably discharged by Gen. George G. Dibrell on March 7, 1862.

[19][20] Butler's work in the field of civil engineering involved road and highway construction, bridge building, and land surveying.

[29] Butler's second wife was Sarah Ann Holford (1834–1900), and they "were married 14 April 1853 and their issue are Lizzie Loucetta, John Franklin, Bowen Butler, George Grundy, Martha Jane, Dixie, Rosa Lee, Thomas Harvey, and James Wash, Sam Stone".