Pierce Butler (justice)

Pierce Butler was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1939. He is notable for being the first Justice from Minnesota, and for being a Democrat appointed by a Republican president, Warren G. Harding.

Butler was born to Patrick and Mary Ann Butler, Catholic immigrants from County Wicklow, Ireland. Soon, the couple settled in Sciota, then Waterford, Dakota County, Minnesota. Their son Pierce Butler was the sixth of nine children born in a log cabin all but his sister would live to adulthood.

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