David C. Butler (December 16, 1829 – May 5, 1891) was a U.S. political figure. He was the first governor of Nebraska, serving from 1867 until 1871.
Born near Linton, Indiana as the eldest son of 10 children, Butler was nominated for a state senate seat in Indiana in 1856, but withdrew before the election. He moved three years later to Pawnee City, Nebraska, and engaged in trading cattle until his election to the Nebraska territorial legislature in 1861. He was elected as a state senator in 1863, won the 1866 election to become Nebraska's first governor.
During his second term (1869-1870), Butler moved the state's capital from Omaha to present-day Lincoln.
In the spring of 1871, soon after taking office for his third term, eleven articles of impeachment were brought against him. The first charged him with misuse of some $16,000 from the state school fund. Butler had allegedly made personal use of this money to purchase lots in the new city of Lincoln. He was suspended from office by the Supreme Court and subsequently tried by the State Senate. He was convicted on the first charge, although the remaining ten were dropped. The Supreme Court then removed him from office.
Dr. David Butler (born 17 October 1924) is a Social Scientist and Psephologist.
His most important work is the Nuffield Election Studies of each United Kingdom General Election since 1945. Since 1974, these studies have been co-written with Dennis Kavanagh. He was an on-screen expert on the BBC's election coverage from the 1950 election to the 1979 election, and was a co-inventor of the swingometer.
He is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. His wife, Professor Marilyn Butler, is a former rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and was the first woman to head a previously all-male college.
David Butler (December 17, 1894 – June 14, 1979) was an American film director, actor, writer and producer.
He was born in San Francisco and died in Arcadia, California from congestive heart failure at the age of 85.
Son of players Adele Belgrade and Fred J. Butler.
A survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which happened when he was 11 years old. He said the quake shook the city so violently and for so long that he remembered his father saying, "I think this is the end. Get down and pray". He and his family escaped uninjured.
