Colvin G. Butler

Colvin Garfield Butler was an American farmer, Presbyterian clergyman, and politician.
Butler was born in Perham, Otter Tail [County, Minnesota]. He went to the Perham elementary schools and graduated from the Kennedy Secondary School in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He went to the Park [Region Luther College], Hamline University, Presbyterian [Theological Seminary (Omaha, Nebraska)|Presbyterian Theological Seminary], in Omaha, Nebraska, and Buena [Vista University] in Sioux City, Iowa. Butler lived in Fergus Falls, Minnesota with his wife and family. He served in the Minnesota [House of Representatives] in 1939 and 1940 and in the Minnesota Senate from 1943 to 1950. Butler died at his home in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.