Background
The family business would later diversify into dairy, ranching, aviation, and Butler, his father and family would be instrumental in founding the village of Oak Brook, Illinois and the Oak Brook Polo Club.
producer development company executive
The family business would later diversify into dairy, ranching, aviation, and Butler, his father and family would be instrumental in founding the village of Oak Brook, Illinois and the Oak Brook Polo Club.
Student, University Colorado.
During his time as producer he was dubbed by the press as "the hippie millionaire". Other Broadway production credits include the play Lenny in 1971 and the musical Reggae in 1980. In the early 19th century, his ancestors Asa and Simon Butler were the first American paper makers to make paper for the United States. Congress.
In 1841, Julius Wales Butler moved the J.W. Butler Paper Company from the Fox river in Saint Charles, Il to State Street in Chicago, Illinois., the oldest family owned business in Chicago.
Butler and John F Kennedy socialized often in Hyannisport, Greenwich Village and in Newport, Rhode Island where they got fogged in on a sailing trip. Butler served as Special Advisor to then-Senator John F. Kennedy on the Middle East, Chancellor of the Lincoln Academy, Commissioner of the Portuguese of Chicago, President of the Organization of Economic Development in Illinois, Assistant to Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Junior., President of the Illinois Sports Council, and he was a Democratic Candidate in Du Page County for the State Senate.
In 1967, Butler was preparing to run for the United States Senate when he began to discuss the Vietnam War with a young student who worked as a gardener at his home. As a result of these discussions, Butler says, "I was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the popular "hawk" stand I had been taught as an axiom." Later that year in New York City on business related to Otto Kerner, Junior."s Commission about Civil Disorders, he saw an ad in the New York Times for at the Public Theater that featured a photo of five Indian chiefs.
Thinking the show was about Indians he bought a ticket.
Instead he saw what he described as "the strongest anti-war statement ever written" and decided to obtain rights to the show. opened on Broadway in April 1968 and became a huge success, running for 1,750 performances and spawning numerous other productions. By the time the Broadway production closed in 1972, Butler had overseen nine national productions and nineteen international productions. Around the time of his first association with, Butler became a political activist.
Before the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago he arranged a meeting between Chicago mayor Richard Daley and Abbie Hoffman.
Of the meeting Butler said "I told that the city should smother the Yippies with tender loving kindness. He decided to go a different way.
And what did we get? Richard Nixon." He held "Cause" meetings in Oak Brook, Illinois in the summer of 1969 with Tom Smothers, Peter Yarrow, and Black Panther Fred Hampton, among others Butler donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to left-leaning causes and was listed on Richard Nixon"s Enemies List.
President Illinois Sports Council. Member Oceanographic Institute, Chicago History Society, English Speaking Union, Chicago Natural History Museum, United States Polo Association (governor) Clubs: Racquet, Arts (Chicago). Oak Brook Polo (governor).
Racquet and Tennis, Explorers, Knickerbocker (New York City). Talisman Corinthian Yacht (Port Antonio) (vice commodore). Guards Polo (United Kingdom).