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ARTICLES RELATED TO Smedley Butler - Early life | | | |  Smedley Butler - Early life: Encyclopedia II - Smedley Butler - Early lifeButler was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the oldest in a family of three sons of Thomas Stalker and Maud (Darlington) Butler, both members of distinguished Quaker families. His father was a lawyer, judge, and for thirty-one years a Congressman. During his time in congress, Thomas S. Butler was chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee during the Harding and Coolidge administrations.
Butler was educated at the Friends' Graded High School at West Chester and later a ...
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| | | | Smedley Butler - Early life: Encyclopedia II - Smedley Butler - Military career In spite of his father's insistence that he remain in school, Smedley Butler dropped out when the United States declared war against Spain in 1898. Being only sixteen years old, Butler lied about his age to secure a second lieutenant's commission in the Marines.
"How old did ye say thou wast?" asked Thomas Butler, to which Smedley confessed that he had told the commandant that he was 18, born on April 20, 1880. "If ye is determined to go, thou shalt go," Thomas replied, "but don't add another year to your age, my ...
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| | | | Smedley Butler - Early life: Encyclopedia II - Smedley Butler - Military retirement and speaking career The death of his father removed a restraining influence on the Department. When the post of Commandant of the Marine Corps fell vacant in 1931, Butler failed to receive the appointment, although he was then the senior major general on the active list. At his own request,he retired from active duty on October 1 of that year.
Butler took up a lucrative career on the lecture circuit. In 1932, he ran for the U.S. Senate as a dry Republican in ...
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