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Butler County
Missouri

Butler County Political Parties

Democratic Party chairs in Butler County (incomplete!): Thomas D. Ferguson, as of 1903 — Carl C. Abington, as of 1916 — Sam M. Phillips, as of 1921 — W. H. Johnson, as of 1939 — S. W. Kraus, as of 1943 — Eli Sliger, as of 1945 — John S. Phillips, as of 1949 — V. H. Steward, as of 1963 — Bill Marvel, as of 1967

Republican Party chairs in Butler County (incomplete!): E. E. Whitworth, as of 1916 — Grover W. Dalton, as of 1928 — John A. Gloroid, as of 1930 — Edgar G. Hammons, as of 1934 — Randolph H. Weber, 1938-42 — Clyde Richardson, as of 1943 — E. E. Whitworth, as of 1949


Butler County Delegates
to National Party Conventions

Democratic National Conventions:
 BERJAYA  1912, Baltimore: Ernest A. Green
 BERJAYA  1916, St. Louis: Ernest Bacon
 BERJAYA  1924, New York: Mary Sutton
 BERJAYA  1940, Chicago: Clare Abington
 BERJAYA  1948, Philadelphia: Mabel T. Abington — W. S. Brandon
 BERJAYA  1952, Chicago: Mabel T. Abington
 BERJAYA  1956, Chicago: Jane Haworth
 BERJAYA  1960, Los Angeles: Jane Haworth
 BERJAYA  1996, Chicago: Phyllis Robertson
Republican National Conventions:
 BERJAYA  1884, Chicago: H. Byrd Duncan
 BERJAYA  1888, Chicago: H. Byrd Duncan
 BERJAYA  1896, St. Louis: M. E. Shelton
 BERJAYA  1912, Chicago: H. Byrd Duncan
 BERJAYA  1920, Chicago: Almon Ing
 BERJAYA  1924, Cleveland: W. L. McKree
 BERJAYA  1940, Philadelphia: Grover W. Dalton
 BERJAYA  1944, Chicago: Grover W. Dalton
 BERJAYA  1948, Philadelphia: Grover W. Dalton
 BERJAYA  1952, Chicago: Rex Henson
 BERJAYA  1960, Chicago: H. Kenneth Wangelin
 BERJAYA  1964, San Francisco: Bernard R. Wheetley
 BERJAYA  1976, Kansas City: Clifford Shipton
 BERJAYA  2004, New York: Karmen Foster
 BERJAYA  2008, St. Paul: Hardy Billington — Karmen Foster
 BERJAYA  2012, Tampa: Hardy Billington
 BERJAYA  2016, Cleveland: Hardy Billington — Todd Richardson

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