Background
Thomas Belden Butler was born on August 22, 1806 in Wethersfield, Connecticut, the son of Frederick and Mary (Belden) Butler.
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A Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System, and of the Elements of Prognostication: By Which the Weather May Be ... Mind of the Country (Classic Reprint)
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Thomas Belden Butler
Edit ProfileEducation
When Thomas Butler's elementary schooling was completed, he decided to study medicine. For two years he attended the Yale Medical School, graduating in 1828.
Career
After the graduation from the Yale Medical School, he afterward settled in Norwalk, Connecticut (then a town of less than 4, 000 inhabitants). In 1835 Thomas Belden Butler determined to forsake medicine and essay the law. He thereupon studied in the office of Judge Clark Bissell of Norwalk, who later was to become a professor in the Yale Law School; and in 1837 he was admitted to the Fairfield County bar and began practise in Norwalk. Thaddeus Betts, Orrin S. Terry, and Josiah M. Carter were successively his partners.
For him, as for many another in those days, the law was a stepping-stone to a career in politics. In his case the career began in 1849 with an election as representative in the United States Congress, where he served one term. His later political services were in the General Assembly of his state.
No less than five times he was chosen from Norwalk to the state House of Representatives; and in 1848, 1852, and 1853 he was a member of the state Senate. It was not, however, in the legislature, but in the judiciary that he was to become best known.
In 1855 he was appointed by the General Assembly to the bench of the superior court and in 1861 to that of the supreme court of errors. Upon the death of Joel Hinman of Waterbury, chief justice of the supreme court, he was selected to fill the vacancy thus created; and he was chief justice for the remainder of his life. Butler found a hobby in examining weather phenomena.
He died in Norwalk, Connecticut, June 8, 1873. He was interred in Union Cemetery in Norwalk.
Achievements
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In 1848, Thomas Belden Butler was President pro tempore of the Connecticut Senate. He also had served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1832 to 1834, from 1837 to 1838, from 1843 to 1844, and from 1846 to 1847. After years of research, he published The Philosophy of the Weather, And a Guide to Its Changes (1856). In 1870 he reissued this compendium of weather-wisdom in a revised and enlarged form as A Concise, Analytical, and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System (Norwalk) and A Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System as God Made It (Hartford). These copious works have now only a historical interest. The Slave Question, a speech delivered by Butler in the House of Representatives on March 12, 1850--five days after Webster's great Senate speech on the Constitution and the Union, --was officially printed (Washington, 1850).
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A Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System, and of the Elements of Prognostication: By Which the Weather May Be ... Mind of the Country (Classic Reprint)
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A Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System, and of the Elements of Prognostication, by Which the Weather May Be Forecasted, Adapted to the Practical Mind of the Country
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A First Year in Canterbury Settlement, with Other Early Essays
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A Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System, and of the Elements of Prognostication: By Which the Weather May Be ... Mind of the Country (Classic Reprint)
Politics
He was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress and served one term.
Views
He was esteemed for his good mind in matters judicial; and as a "natural philosopher" he possessed considerable native ability.
Interests
Connections
He was married (March 14, 1831) to Mary Phillip Crosby.
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