"(November 5, 1818 -- January 11, 1893) Benjamin Franklin Butler was a(n) lawyer, public servant, general, manager of impeachment, governor, and American politician. Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire and moved to Lowell, Massachusetts in 1828. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He served as a member of the state house of representatives (1853), state senate (1859), as delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore (1860), was an unsuccessful candidate for governor as a republican, independent, and democrat (1871, 1872, 1878, and 1879), Governor (1882), and an unsuccessful candidate for President of the United States on the Greenback and Anti-Monopolist ticket (1884). Butler served in the Union Army (April 17, 1861) as a brigadier general and was promoted to major general (May 16, 1861). Benjamin was elected as a Republican to the 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, and 45th Congresses (March 4, 1867 - March 3, 1875 & March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1879). He was an unsuccessful candidate in the election of 1874 and declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1878. While on Congress he was appointed one of the managers by the House of Representatives to conduct impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson (1868), as chairman on the Committee on Revision of the Laws (42nd Congress), and on the Committee on the Judiciary (43rd Congress). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=B001174]"